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this is a funny story the i have to go back and do some history so that you can understand where i am coming from.
dan babcock of wolverine michigan was raised a jw.
he stopped going to meetings in his early teens.. dan could never give up being a jw but at the same time he did not like all the rules that intruded into his personal life.. he would go to meetings when he got into trouble to smooth over everything with the borg.. at one point he stopped going all together and started to have his own personal meetings at his house and would conduct his own studys and talks.. dan died a couple of years ago.
I wish they were like hippocrates. Then they'd do no harm.
CG
holy christ, was that scarey!!
i had just left work shortly after 4:00pm on thursday, and we were in the elevators when suddenly everything went black!!
thank god there were only 4 of us in the elevator, but just the same, after about 10 minutes, we started getting scared and yelling for help (i work on the 15th floor).
I know this is kind of a stupid question, but I haven't seen the solution to it in any newspaper yet. What about the people that were stuck in elevators for hours and hadda go the bathroom? <blush>
CG
i was 28 when i got borganized....i wish i could remember the names of the sisters that studied with me....one of 'em's name is barbara, the other one was a pig...guess they're not that memorable....but the plano congregation had not been started when i first got baptised or it had *just* been started in 1973....my best sis friend was carolyn nelson, a six feet tall sis with two kids, harris and april....i was really dumb and married the first elder that asked me....it was a total flop of a marriage, his teenaged son caused all sorts of problems for us.....i "ran away" from it and went back to the "world" for a while....i suppose because they hadn't gotten the "worldliness" out of me very well at the time....when i returned, they publicly reproved me and we divorced....his name was bob repp....he was an elder in the white rock congregation....i can remember a few names...the farmers, steve scott and his lovely red-headed wife, but that's all i remember..... .
then i moved back down here with my older two children, where i was raised and later went back into the borganization....i moved to california in late 1988, got in an auto accident in late 1989, and everything went downhill from there, borganization-wise...i had seen so much cruelty from the platform....even a p.o.
who graphically and sneeringly described explicitly...the sights, sounds and smells of alleged sexual acts between two pioneers, as he disf'd the pioneer sister, while she sobbed her heart out in front of the congregation and only reproved the pioneer bro.....made me wanna hurl....the elders treated me like a meadow muffin the whole time i was in cal.
I shore am! Ive seen more of this state than my Texas! Bout gettin home in one piece.. well, that depends on if I meet up with a handsome Country Boy or not... <grin>
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i was 28 when i got borganized....i wish i could remember the names of the sisters that studied with me....one of 'em's name is barbara, the other one was a pig...guess they're not that memorable....but the plano congregation had not been started when i first got baptised or it had *just* been started in 1973....my best sis friend was carolyn nelson, a six feet tall sis with two kids, harris and april....i was really dumb and married the first elder that asked me....it was a total flop of a marriage, his teenaged son caused all sorts of problems for us.....i "ran away" from it and went back to the "world" for a while....i suppose because they hadn't gotten the "worldliness" out of me very well at the time....when i returned, they publicly reproved me and we divorced....his name was bob repp....he was an elder in the white rock congregation....i can remember a few names...the farmers, steve scott and his lovely red-headed wife, but that's all i remember..... .
then i moved back down here with my older two children, where i was raised and later went back into the borganization....i moved to california in late 1988, got in an auto accident in late 1989, and everything went downhill from there, borganization-wise...i had seen so much cruelty from the platform....even a p.o.
who graphically and sneeringly described explicitly...the sights, sounds and smells of alleged sexual acts between two pioneers, as he disf'd the pioneer sister, while she sobbed her heart out in front of the congregation and only reproved the pioneer bro.....made me wanna hurl....the elders treated me like a meadow muffin the whole time i was in cal.
Hey! Don't I know you? I once met a lady down in Beaumont and she had the *exact* same story as you do. Sure is a small world Country Girl
heya x-dubbers!
are any of you in the wlmington, nc area that might like to get together while i'm in town?
just leave me a pm, and i'll check back this evening!.
Heya X-Dubbers! Are any of you in the Wlmington, NC area that might like to get together while I'm in town? Just leave me a PM, and I'll check back this evening!
country girl
i believe that jehovah's witnesses have learned through mind-control that a "true" christian must "disown" all family and friends for the sake of the "truth".
if such disowning means leaving relationships with persons that no longer want to remain in the "truth", then that is the choice that they are making.
besides, if those that are shunned realize how much love their "brothers and sisters" really have for them, they might come around and get their lives saved after all!........any comments?
"Having no natural affection."
Does that bring something to mind? I'm an awfully awful apostate, and still I love my JW relatives. I'm not talking about merely tolerating them, I really do love them and try to have meaningful relationships with them. However, something seems really "off" about it, since they were raised in the same environment I was, and still they don't feel the ties of kinship I do. May be just me.. I dunno..<shrug>. There's no reason that they have to shun me, since I wasn't baptized but was raised in it. But they still, in a way, shun me, which is almost worse than declaring me dead. My Mom is a pioneer, and she doesn't hardly call at all..and that hurts since the rest of my family (the ones not JW) I am in contact with daily! So yes.. having no "natural affection" for your own blood counts right up there in my lists of wrongs..
CG
do you consider other posters here that you know since months to be strangers?
some people will say, "i don't really know you, i never saw you in person, so you're a stranger".
do you have to meet someone in person so that he or she isn't any more considered to be a stranger?.
I'm stranger than most.. so yes, I would consider that people should consider me a "stranger."
<evil laugh>
CG
i find myself finally becoming accustomed to the fact that i am single again.
i am no longer thinking in couple terms and i now cook to please only me.
it's fun and scary all at the same time.
<eyes pop out of head> Rowwwerrrrr-row row!
I'm married, but always looking (at menz bootays)! Hey! I'm not dead ya know!
CG
i keep an online journal every month on my website: http://mferguson76.com and thought i'd cut and paste june's issue since it has some jehovah's witness related remarks and some ideas from sarah vowell on her upbringing as a fundamentalist:.
volume 3 - issue 6 - june 2003 .
"i just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things, could be bad?".
I realized that the more you talk about reality to JW's, the more they are convinced they have the truth! No reality could be *that* joyous, *or* ugly.
CG