man... talk about self-aggrandizing!
like was already said, if this deluded individual
TRULY has the charm of unfettered access to
the magic of her god, her priorities need adjusting!
to show you how dumb and shallow my congregation is a one of our "deeper" sisters claimed in field services that "jehovah answers all my prayers...like last week i wanted a new skirt and shoes for field service but only had $20 dollars....and would you believe i found them!!!
now i for one though well, why didn't you pray or the oil pipe in the mexican gulf to dry up...or food for the poor in haiti.
other pioneers tell of vegetables falling off trucks just when they had nothing for dinner???
man... talk about self-aggrandizing!
like was already said, if this deluded individual
TRULY has the charm of unfettered access to
the magic of her god, her priorities need adjusting!
i heard that many in my jw family are seriously crowing those words.. do witnesses have short memories or what??.
they sound more like false prophets to me.
they can't keep crying wolf..
the impending end!
always coming, never arriving....
so close we cannot even see it!!
they are enchanted by the incantation...
i have seen them go stepford, wide-eyed
and mechanical, reciting their mantra.....
the end! it is so close!
hope they figure out who keeps
hitting the snooze alarm
collecting money after every meeting.
i could never get someone to help, and i was always last to leave.
when i did finally have one person who would help, if i used them too often i got questions about why the two of us were always taking the contributions.
week after endless week of the
privilege of hosting congregation BS....
PLUS the fri AND sat service mtgs
10 years was 11 years too many!! ;-)
recently, in my area, a number of people have gotten caught looking to pay for sex from a call girl.
a catholic priest was one of the "johns" that got arrested.. i know there are some that argue that it is debasing.
still, for a million years, it's been going on and there are willing parties who want to engage in this activity.. if two consenting adults want to have sex with one another and are willing to pay and accept the services, is it a horrible thing, in your opinion?.
in general principle i have no issues with
prositution that involves a willing party
offering sex for cash, especially with regulations
geared toward health codes, personal safety,
and age requirements for both parties....
stickier wicket than the reductionist belief, tho,
that purchased sex will suddenly occur only
"between consenting adults" if prostitution
is "legalized"
nations that have tried to somehow
legitimize prostitution are finding
that human trafficking increases
and the sex-workers are still the
exploited pawns and pimps flourish
social workers and experts think decriminalization
for the sex-workers is a more practical approach,
leaving the pimps and the johns out in the cold
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/prostitution_legalize_or_not/
she was visiting for breakfast and we hadn't seen each other for over 2 years.
i have since stopped being a christian and have been exploring paganism.. i don't advertise this for fear of offending people and getting judged for it.. so, we sit down to breakfast that i cooked at my house, and she asks me to say the prayer!
i said that i'm not a christian.
next time you eat with her,
hopefully at her home.....
be prepared to pray!
i've been gone for a while but i kind of miss you guys and gals so i decided to see what was up.
for me i found out a few days ago that in my old congregation the gossip about me ( i was first shocked that there was any gossip about me) is that i have started my own cult and i have a few followers (ex jdubs) wow!
i fell on my ass!
don't let the @$$ hats get you down!
if there is nothing real going on for
which to condemn you, they will do
what the GB always does....
make something up and repeat it
until it sounds true
by the way, are contributions to
your cult tax deductible?
my rumor is that i "became" a lesbian
and left my husband to run off with
some woman
the source of that nonsense:
a car group stopped by to
"see how we were doing"
and there WAS a young woman
with us whom we were sheltering
BECAUSE WE HAD JUST REMOVED
HER FROM CURRENT JEOPARDY in
an abusive situation but we weren't
sharing that info with a bunch of
gossip-mongers.....
...is when people ask why i wasn't there.
usually i tell them, that i was sick, or not feeling well, which for the most part is true.
what is irritating is when someone presses it, especially someone you are closer with in the congregation.
what chapped me was the people who never
bothered to speak to you at the hall suddenly
thinking they were to be made privy to info that
might be of a highly personal nature.....
a genuine response of mine to said people:
what on earth makes you think i would have
THAT conversation with YOU?
talk about a conversation stopper.....
what was your reputation?
were you viewed as "mature", "worldly", or "exemplary"?
?.
i was told by an elder's wife,
he having been the original
company servant in that congro,
that we were considered assets
or maybe she said ass heads.... i dunno
sorry i have been very busy and forgot.
as promised.
friday afternoon.
it seriously makes me sick to my stomach to think
had i not had the window of opportunity to make
a break from the b0rg, i would be furiously trying
to scribble notes from the Talk © in order to commit
the BS to memory so i could try to convince others
that "the end", ever coming, never here, is NEAR!
thank YOU JWFreak, for the bother to share!
stay busy with your real life too!