shortly before i began fading i was in a car group when a person was telling me about a diet they were going to do.
they started mentioning all kinds of scriptures and completely misapplying them.
i know this person, and they have a history of doing this in the past, so i said "seriously, you shouldn't twist the scriptures like that.
In the next 30 seconds the big Gernam Shepherd from the next house comes around the corner. My buddy is now crouched on the hood of a Ford Pinto, the dog racing around barking at him, while I'm standing on the sidewalk trying to figure out if I should walk over and grab the dog's collar.
LOL. I almost fell over on that one.
and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.
so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.
all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.
loosie ~ If there is one thing I do in life, its not to blame God... I do not mess with him...
I have though had thoughts that ran through my head that there is probably something about it that we don't know about. He doesn't stop rapes, murders, etc... there could very well be a reason that we don't understand as of now...
1 told my husband that he can't be an MS with the type of hair cut he had. It was cut really, really short. Scuzzed.
Anyways, I found out and had a major problem with this because I happen to find bald/ scuzzed very, very sexy...
So, I told the Elders on him and then told my Dad. lol. I went and told him that I told my Dad on him and it was not a good idea to be on my Dad's bad side.
He hasn't said anything since...
i've been reading this forum for the past 5 years, today during christmas, my wonderful daughter "brooke" aka whyamihere finally got off her a$$ to show me how to post.. what next, you say?
who the hell knows, but i am here, while i finish my beer..... i lost my train of thought - yay for chistmas and that wonderful sweet necture that god created called southern comfort.. by the way, brooke is typing this, because i can't read while under the influence.. singing out to all my fellow apostates!.
remember this - jesus is god!.
I was scared the 1st time I posted (yesturday).
Thought either it was Gods direction or he was going to strike me dead... Haven't left the house yet...
i'm not into politics and don't put much stock in the government having anything to do with my happiness, but i decided it would be a new experience and why not.. i have to admit it felt good.
seeing democracy in action was great and as small as my 1 little vote is, it feels empowering to have a say..
Hi onesong!!!
Wow, all these things you can do if your not a JW... I've never even thought about that one...
and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.
so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.
all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.
Hi everyone ~ thanks for all your support!
To answer a few questions... I didn't become a pioneer for my husband to become a pioneer. I never really liked the idea of him becoming an MS to begin with, but I told him I could deal with that as long as he didn't become an elder... (This was before I even had doubts...) I just dealt with elders all of my life and they a lot of them reminded me of the 1st century scribes and pharissees. I felt like the 1st century elders were appointed by jeh and jesus didn't seem to thrilled with them, so just because your an elder now doesn't mean you will be accepted either. I felt like I didn't want to be married to a person who was supposed to judge the cong given what the bible has to say about judging... I just never felt really comfortable about it...
We were supposed to be a pioneer couple. Since the elders didn't approve us, he decided there was no way that he would pioneer then. He was really mad at them because of the way they spoke to him. He is a very gentle person and I had never seen him this mad. He then told the elder off. Wow, we were both mad for weeks. I got other elders involved and everything... Anyways, I tried to convince him to change his mind and pioneer with me but this was a done deal for him... I couldn't convince him to pioneer and he didn't want me pressuring him. So, I stopped. Honestly, he barely even goes out in service now...
and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.
so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.
all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.
Vinny ~ I must say, it's not necessarily that JW's are arogant for the WT Society's telling them to think that JW's are going to be the only one's that survive. If I was 5 or so yrs old and was terrorized by the thought, other JW's must be. I brought this to a PO's attention once that I thought it was the most self centered, arrogant idea for any JW to believe that they would be the only ones to survive. I said that it was practically sadistic. He tried to reason with me, but I just said if that was the case, then people blinded by satans eyes, through no fault of there own would then have to die for it. There is no way that I could bring my heart to believe that Jehovah would do that to people. I had no idea at the time the JW's actually taught that at one point... I think that he didn't want to tell me. There was nothing that he could say. I think a lot more JW's don't go along with that, they just don't say anything. I think some of them are really good people that love the religion but just either hate or don't know parts of it... I think the society is dishonest and misleading and manipulative. btw, I think the new light on that is "anyone studing can make it into the new system and anyone not getting an actual witness".
and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.
so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.
all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.
Vinny ~ Wow, i'm going to be going over your response a lot for the next few days.. Christianity is already worldwide... huh!
Oopma ~ What 1st questions are you referring to? Sorry, I couldn't figure it out...
wow.... I feel overwhelmed but more relieved then anything... I guess so many things I just put in the back of my mind just came flooding out and I feel 100 pounds lighter... But, as all of these things are coming out of me, I just keep thinking... What the heck just happened? This is my entire life, my entire being, everything that I have ever known, just about my every waking breath and thought, my entire world since the very day that I was borne...
and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.
so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.
all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.
Wow, I think I'm actually going to be sick...
I sit here crying to your responses about Matt.24:14. (preaching work)... Just made me think about what you said, "what good news"... that's a sickening thought...
My mom used to tell me that everyone who wasn't a jw would die at armagheddon... she used to tell me that my schoolmates (I think I was in the 1st grade) would come up to me screaming at me mad at me because I didn't do everything that I could to warn them and now they were going to die because I didn't warn them and beg and plead with them to come into the truth... For years this scared me to death.
When I was 4 or 5 years old I used to beg my grandmother to die because she wasn't a jw and wouldn't become one and I thought that since armagheddon was right around the corner and she would die. I loved her very much and thought the only way for her to get there was to die... I thought, ok, I won't see her for a little bit but then I will get to be with her forever...
This is the way I grew up. Looking at all these people thinking that they would all die... It's like, I just can't even breathe right now...
i'll never forget the assembly in madison, wi.
where some poor sap had to tell everyone that he had become addicted to porno on the net, but through much prayerful contemplation and after confessing to the elders he was able to come to "grips" with it.. good luck to that guy with ever getting a fine sister to marry him.. poor guy.
i really felt sorry for him.
when i was about 4 years old i got lost at the district convention. my parents found me in the lost and found department.
