JEWEL!! Thx alot:)
GUMBY!! LOL maybe I should change my name! But this is my real name so I have to live with my initials,LOL
DUSTRABBIT!! I just say AMEN!
MAYER 32!! Double LOL
i just got out from jw bye a d.f.
4 weeks ago after 44 years as an active jw.am i insane or why am i having that great feeling of freedom??
i am sitting here infront of the computer having a cold beer and just enjoying life.shouldnt i be crying and having a depression sitting here in tears over missing all my jw friends that now are vanished??.
JEWEL!! Thx alot:)
GUMBY!! LOL maybe I should change my name! But this is my real name so I have to live with my initials,LOL
DUSTRABBIT!! I just say AMEN!
MAYER 32!! Double LOL
i just got out from jw bye a d.f.
4 weeks ago after 44 years as an active jw.am i insane or why am i having that great feeling of freedom??
i am sitting here infront of the computer having a cold beer and just enjoying life.shouldnt i be crying and having a depression sitting here in tears over missing all my jw friends that now are vanished??.
Hi again! Sorry it did take some time for me to reply but I have been out for awhile.
Thx SALUD for preparing me Mentally and for your encourage!!
Thx RICK for your warmly welcoming!!
Thx MOMMY 1,I will ENJOY!!
Thx JST2LAWS!! I just did POP a beer for you (Well to be honest I opened 2 cans)
Thx PERFECTION SEEKER!! I must say that it cant be easy for you to be there,like in between. Either you are a "real JW" going out every month in the fieldservice,going to every meeting and also participate by giving comments at the meetings.Thats the natural way of living a JW life and if one break that pattern then one will easily get "marked".
I will try to come back to you about how to handle your family. By the way how is your father doing now? Is his health better nowdays?
Big Hugs to everyone from Kjell Hedblom
i just got out from jw bye a d.f.
4 weeks ago after 44 years as an active jw.am i insane or why am i having that great feeling of freedom??
i am sitting here infront of the computer having a cold beer and just enjoying life.shouldnt i be crying and having a depression sitting here in tears over missing all my jw friends that now are vanished??.
I just got out from JW bye a D.F. 4 weeks ago after 44 years as an active JW.Am I insane or why am I having that great feeling of Freedom?? I am sitting here infront of the computer having a cold beer and just enjoying life.Shouldnt I be crying and having a depression sitting here in tears over missing all my JW friends that now are vanished??
Why dont I miss the K.H.?? And the so called fellowship?? Shouldnt I be shaking in fear because now Jehovah will punish me in Armageddon??And when I walk on the street shouldnt I be the one looking down at the pavement when I meet my "old friends" from the congregation?? Why is it that I can look at them in the eyes,but they cant??
I have been a Regular Pioneer an Elder and sitting in committees judging brothers and sisters.Why is it that I still have bad conscience about that I have been part of D.F. others.Mostly I did not agree with the 2 others in the C but I had to surrender against 2 to 1. I remember in some cases that I did wrote a letter later to the D.F. telling that person that I was against a D.F. but I did have to "turn in the towel" because of the chairmans strong personality and mind.
My lovely wife is still a JW but hasnt attend any K.H. since my D.F. and I dont think she will ever go back (but if so that is her decision) anyway I am a lucky man to have her by my side.
What I dont understand is that I have such a great feeling inside myself that I never had before when my life was ruled by the Organization.
So what is wrong with me,anyone can tell me???? Or is this what you all out here have experienced?? PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!
Hugs to u all from Kjell Hedblom in Sweden
just an observation.
by looking at the active threads view, you can see that there are more people replying or posting than actually reading threads.
there are posts 4 or 5 pages back with only 10 readers and the threads coming to the top on the front page are pushing messages with half a dozen views down the list.
Anyway! Its summer in my country and I have aaaaaaloooooot of free time to spend!!So now I can read every post here nice and slowly grabing me a beer and just relax.Am I in heaven or am I just a free man nowdays?
just an observation.
by looking at the active threads view, you can see that there are more people replying or posting than actually reading threads.
there are posts 4 or 5 pages back with only 10 readers and the threads coming to the top on the front page are pushing messages with half a dozen views down the list.
Hmm,I thought it was the opposite way,more people reading and lurking than posting a replay!
i think it's time bethel got a new sign out front, one that really speaks volumes and is far more suitable to their "read god's word the bible daily.
i was thinking: .
oh what a web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
READ THE WATCHTOWER DAILY SO WE CAN KEEP CONTROL YOUR MIND ENTIRELY
i have just learned that there was another jw suicide in western washington (south king county) last weekend.
the man was a young adult, in good standing, married and doing well financially.
i can't reveal more, and this one didn't hit the news either.
Terrible!! What can I say:( When will they wake up in Brooklyn and start change their rules???? Probably never I am sad to say.
Hi! A late answer but I havnt been out on this board until resently.Well I live half the year in Thailand and the other in Sweden,does that count? (LOL) My wife is Thai but she is still a JW but I myself is D.F. since 4 weeks ago.
Anyway greetings from me and my family
why i stopped apologising for the watchtower society - part 1. .
in response to requests for information on why i stopped being an apologist for the organisation, i have decided to write the following article.
what is written is not meant to attack the beliefs of jws, but rather to show why i personally came to the conclusion that i could no longer support the organisation.
Hi Lisa!! Thx for making me feel heartly welcomed to the board:)
Well I hope someday I can tell everyone my story but it will be a long story.And because English isnt my natural language it will take me some while to print it down in swedish and then translate it in an English that everyone can understand.But I will probably do it in a couple of months or so when I feel I have the strenght to do it. I must say being out here reading and sometimes write answers start to fill me with strength.
Only the part when I was 13 years old and I was beaten and teased in the school every day is a long horrible story.Shortly I can tell that I EVERY TIME FOR SEVERAL MONTHS had to run out through a window in the school when the bell rang.Luckely we did live in a apartmenthouse only 100 meters from the school so I could hide in a foodcellar that did have a window.So when the bell rang again I could go back to school.My teacher and my parents wasnt aware of what was going on.
I was short in height and tiny and they liked to pick on me because I was a JW.Everytime the school served "bloodfood" I had to go home to eat.Nowdays this is no problems,u can choose something else to eat,but at that time u couldnt. I remember later on in life I always promised myself that this "Hell" I would never ever let my upcoming children go through.Well I stop here,its not that funny to think back of this that ofcource affected my life eversince.
Hugs to u Lisa from Kjell H
everyone remember a few years ago with the gb decided that the rank and file witness just wasn't bugging the hell out of enough people because no one was ever home saturday morning?
they came up with the brainstorming idea to approach people in parking lots!!!
(ya, that goes over reeeeeeeal well)......as if going to the person's home to tell them about their imminent death wasn't bad enough, now ya gotta tell them when they're out shopping!
Ha,ha,ha,ha! I just say there is ONLY ONE MARY! I think I laughed my pants off!!
Double Hugs from Kjell H