ok, i hate to admit this but, im running out of ideas of things to do to the local jaydubs.
i mean yeah, knockin on their doors and showing up and taking books from the kh is fun and all, but kinda gettin stale.
my next big one is gonna be at the next memorial, where im gonna wear a big wool jacket and top hat as i chug the wine and eat the bread, then stand up and yell "praise the lord im healed!
Meh, the local congregation had enough crazies that hoarding literature, partaking at the memorial, and claiming miraculous healings would just blend in as typical nuttiness.
I'd suggest sending letters to the branch questioning doctrinal changes, signed using the names and return addresses of various congregation members.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/witnesses_knocking_on_bldg_sale_dgtqywmep5qqbensqrcocn?.
anyone keeping track of these sold brooklyn properties?
how many left there?
That's the Sands residence building and 5 factory buildings. Wow. They'll have very little left in Brooklyn after this.
this is the kind of thing that really burns me.. .
wtbts holds out an extreme double standard in regards to education.
most, if not all, of you know how they feel about obtaining an education past high school (in the u.s.).
I'm pretty sure that once I have my engineering degree, I won't be interested in wasting any of my time with Watchtower.
i was just remembering some jw's i was especially fond of who left the borg when i was active.
in my sincere dubbiness, i called or went to see them to beg them to reconsider because i loved them so much.
(i didn't want them to become bird food) i literally cried for them.
Just so you feel cared about...
"Please don't become bird food!"
"there is a symposium with a talk about "human apostates" that is very slanderous and defamatory and has the ex-jw blogosphere up in arms over it.".
if a person doesn't fit the description outlined in this talk, the talk isn't referring to you.. .
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"If a person doesn't fit the description outlined in this talk, the talk isn't referring to you."
Fortunately for me, I'm a Superhuman Apostate! So that rubbish isn't referring to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ukz5m-yo4&feature=youtu.be.
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cedars.
A contrast just dawned on me...
During the night of the memorial, bethel office made sure that certain duties weren't left unattended. So why is Tony pointing at some poor farmer in a distant country as an example? Why doesn't he have an example in bethel and say, "On the night of the memorial, EVERY BETHELITE leaves early for last minute invitations, preparing the KH, handling the meetings, staying late to visit and clean up. At bethel we don't worry about covering the security, and maintenance duties because we are fully confident that nothing would possibly go wrong in the few hours that the facilities would be left unattended." Quite the contrary, at bethel we would get off work an hour early, but for many of us, chaos followed. Schedules had to be worked around so that a bunch of different duties at bethel weren't left unattended and everyone made an appearance at a memorial service. It was clear to us bethelites that the mundane needs of the bethel home trumped any "spiritual activities" in the congregation.
So he points at this poor farmer and his chickens as an example, when Tony himself doesn't have to worry about a thing because he has an army of slaves to prepare his meals, clean his rooms, pay for all his travel expenses, and pick him up from the airport.
i think my mother has lost it.
i really do and i am in fear that she is literally losing touch with reality to some degree.. even my father is telling me that her responses to me are growing weirded:.
the scriptures tell us that we can be wrathful.......but don't sin.
"Even my father is telling me that her responses to me are growing weirded"
Sounds like she's ready to go completely off the rails.
im on my phone, so im really limited.
i came out to my family about my doubts and my sexuality.
shit hit the fan.
Thanks for letting us know you're okay. Good luck with college. Are their resources available to get professional counselling? Take advantage of all options for financial aid and don't be afraid to tell your story.
if you could pick anyone from jwn to meet in real life to meet and have dinner with, who would that be?
let's exclude all those who you are already friends with, who you know and love from jwn in real life.
so or me, that excludes my friend ann and also curious butterfly.
Laverite, I'm flattered that you'd pick me. Personally, I think my "most" choice would have to be dinner with Mouthy/Grace, but you're welcome to come along. Actually, I'd like it to be a big apostafest for her birthday with a crowd of us there. There would be alcohol . Once that took effect, we'd break out the karaoke. We'd all sing Tom Jones songs for Mouthy, but I do a better Engelbert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaVW2SLGfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypC5WxEGPSk
In reality, I've enjoyed lunch/dinner with several on the forum and found all of them interesting.
i managed to weasel out of friday, so no comments on the days program.
i'm sure it was marvellous.
i made it thru saturday's program in a fairly sociable mood, saying hello to a few folks we hadn't seen in years.
"he actually admitted that JW's had made mistakes in the past"
That's misleading. It would have been more correct to state, "Watchtower publications and talks contained false prophecies, which cased JWs to make poor decisions based on the erroneous information."
