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i know its been awhile...i dont have to much to say right now.im at a loss for words..im dissfellowshipped now..the announcement will be in 2 weeks.i just need some support..
(((Shytears)))
You sweet thing, it seems like an eternity, but 18 is close! Get the best grades you can, you need your education. You can probably go to those cousins of yours once your parents have no legal control or claim on you anymore. Everyone is here for you.
They are trying to make you feel like you are somehow deficient/flawed/wrong, but it is not YOU, it is THEM! I sort of went through this same thing, you can and will rise above it & be happy, I promise!
i went to school with a couple of jehovahs witnesses and they were ok people.some of you lot on here just need to get over it - i don't understand that if you were so bored with it -why did you get into it in the first place ?
give it up - you made a mistake - get over it - or get therapy or something.. i used to go into school assemblies etc.
and church occasionally and i was bored stiff so i presume its not something peculiar to jehovahs witnesses halls.i wouldn't go back now but whats the point in whinging about it like you lot?
I think Pugwash WAS/IS a jw. why else would he be on here defending something he supposedly knows little about?
why oh why do people start political threads on an ex-jw board?
isn't there enough political forums elsewhere on the net?
virtually every thread about political matters finishes up being locked, usually because someone starts to flame.. both sides of the recent plethora of political threads are now accusing the other of making propaganda.
It turns me off, & makes me not get involved on this board. People feel passionate about their positions, but any kind of imbalance where a person continuously spouts their rhetoric, starts threads that appear to be about other topics, & is just talking AT everyone else, smacks of attempts to influence other people's thoughts. Politics is a topic that historically has pissed people off. When I come on this board & see certain individuals continuously do this, I wonder how it helps anyone get on with their lives, or get freedom from the borg. There is enough stress in everyone's lives, I wonder what joy this brings to anyone, & what togetherness it promotes.
Welcome Agent, I don't get here that often myself. there seem to be a whole lotta Texans on here though :)
happy b'day, g/friend!!
may all your wishes come true.....so be careful whatcha wish for...heheh
frannie b
do you think that you live your life mostly giving to others-----or, is it all about you?
I think you are talking about a BORE here, Min. People that dominate conversations, never allowing others to get a word in edgewise. People that hijack conversations & are masters at manipulating the conversation right back to THEM. Personally, I avoid them.
I prefer a few good friends to a bunch of hangers on that I can't count on.
metatron's post about the decline and fall of "the society" led me to want to post some snippets of my family's saga with "the truth".. my parents were taught witness doctrine by a man named jim jones.
he was threatened by mobs during wwii for being a witness and not being patriotic.
my parents met during wwii at an airplane factory before they were witnesses.
I would venture a guess that there are vastly different standards for the Williams sisters & for those that bring money or attention to the watchtower.
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i consider all who post here as my family.we have all been hurt in some way.my brother died today.. blueblades,who has six sisters left.mom,dad,one sister and two brothers died.i'm the only man in the family now.
So sorry Blue! Deepest sympathies :(
....i mean is it really healthy to be posting on this forum if you still hold pro-jw views?
is it really healthy to keep posting even though you may be anti-jw?
..... when does the crunch come to think enough is enough, i need to get a grip and move on with my life as a jw or exjw?
I have been acquainted with people on the web that use it to avoid real life. Some people cling to their phobias, as if it's part of their persona or something. Having a board of support 24/7 that will tell a person "there, there" every time they have a fear or bad experience is no substitute for real life. I think everyone should figure out who they really are & what they are interested in, & pursue it. Take classes, get a job, join a gym, volenteer, get some hobbies, read some books, learn how to navigate in the "real world". This cyber world is not the real world. It can get like a security blanket, a comfort zone. I believe there comes a time when it is holding some of us back.
Then there are just lazy, terminal time wasters that communicate thorough nothing but forwards, tired old jokes we have all seen a hundred times, rediculous urban legends, sappy poems about non-existant dead kids, and the like. Do they really think we haven't seen this crap a million times? They sit there, letting life go by. They miss all the weather, changes of seasons, fresh air & beauty there is to enjoy. They miss the ocean in their face & the roller coaster rides & the beauty of the moonlit night.
Not to mention the "isms" Christians, anti-governmentists, athiests, anyone obsessing about a certain belief or topic & repeatedly firing off SPAM trying to convert others to their dogma. What a bore!
Everyone, get out & enjoy life to the fullest!
http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=1494675
billy johnson is a jehovah's witness .
who says he takes kids to meetings to supervise them.. .
I just saw on the History Channel yesterday that a bunch of kids murdered in the Jim Jones mess were actually foster children placed with them by the state of California that they drug off to Guyana.
