so we had our circuit assembly this past weekend, and it was the first one in my life that i told my wife i would not be attending.
we had a brief conversation on why, and she said well just go to this last one with me, and then when we can discuss what we learn and compare it to why you've been expressing your "new" feelings towards the wts.. i love my wife, and as much as i thought i was gonna hate it i decided to go.
now that i no longer want to be a jehovah's witness it really didnt bother me that nobody hardly talked to me despite me living in this same area for 4 1/2 years, everybody views me as spiritually weak because i dont go out in service, rarely attend meetings, dont comment, lesson is never underlined, so the "friends" never interact with me anyway and i'm use to it, actually that's the way i prefer it.
Billy... great info that would surprise
even the most dubbed of dubs to learn.....
trying to exit: KEEP TRYING
there is no way you can keep
up a façade of faithfullness to
an all-encompassing cult
and have anything remotely
resembling a genuine life....
best best best of luck to you
>> three times for emphasis ;-)
do you still have the desire to live forever on a paradise earth?.
to have some level of eternal consciousness?
well sure i WANT that... but i cannot waste this CERTAIN
life worrying about it based on a hope, a wish, or the
cultural mythology of an ancient nomadic desert population...
the wall street journal recently commissioned karen armstrong and richard dawkins to independently respond to the question "where does evolution leave god?".
their thoughts are here:.
http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052970203440104574405030643556324.html.
God is not dead. He was never alive in the first place.
could be the noo lite
the time left always seems to be reduced but it never runs out.. here is the program for the 2010 special assembly day.
the time left is reduced.
(1 corinthians 7:29).
the end TM is closer today than it was yesterday
but not nearly as close as it will be tomorrow.....
recent research involving mitochondrial dna traces human genetics through the mother.
human migration can be traced and time periods estimated.
a human family tree is developed.
science will eventually erode
the foundations of religion....
as for our ancestral "eve',
i am loving the fact that white
supremacists have african origins...
i'm just curious here.. as i am exiting currently and trying to find my new place (and belief system) in this world, i am wondering what the experience was like for other xjws.
did you go onto a new faith?
i'd love to read your responses.
hi guys...oompa here.
was i in rehab for alcohol addiction or jwd addiction!?!?
!......no computers or cellphones allowed so i have been awol awhile..... ya, i finally made my self sick enough on booze to realize i was really sick and tired of being sick and tired....so checked myself into rehab without any planning at all and while wife was out of town on a family retreat...it was a a very desperate moment in my life, and i was extremely physically and emotionally sick....i was so desperate i took zero time to reseach where to go, but called an old school friend who said rehab had saved his life and he made the calls and actually took me and helped me check in to the place he went to 5 years ago.
well, lets make our own club then!!!!!
that other lot can suck canal water....
i am in LOVE with my sobriety and i will
cheer you on with yours without a contract
or a down payment!!!!
(((((oompa)))))))
you da man!
a good friend and long-time elder just back from patterson, asked me what i thought is he most prevalent problem elders are facing today....told him i had no idea.... he said "pornography" by far the most vexing problem for them... hard to believe, no?.
wankers, the lot of them
!.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html.
when i expressed my doubts about my beliefs to my parents the other day, my mom said that 'no matter what people do, they are always searching for something.
if it's not this religion, which one will you go to?'.
she gave the example that practically since time began, people have been clinging to hope in some form or another, namely religion.
i feel the advances in scientific understanding
will eventually erode the foundations of religion
primitive cultures developed highly imaginative
concepts of supernatural dieties to try to cope
with events precipitated by natural phenomenon
as well as the mundane realities of "hey, he quit breathing"!
the legacy? "my god is better than your god" conflict
that has pock-marked the species development for
millenia...
it isnt easy for me to accept what i am realizing
as i have never "not believed" in a god... it is hard
to realize that ultimately we all have to hitch up
our big boy/ big girl panties and just deal with
the reality that THIS IS IT!
getting there, one new understanding at a time
and man is it motivation to get things done NOW!!
