did any of you start going to another hall if there were problems in your last congregation?
it happens a lot now.
when someone has an unresolved problem, they decide to go to a neighboring congregation..
Nope, My wife and I always stayed in one hall, we toughed out all the BS and backbiting that happened when a major problem happened.
But the downside to this was we s- l- o- w-l-y developed a major case of burnout.
After years of doing our best to support our local congregation, a long stretch of new crisises(is that a word) began to snowball together
and we quickly began to doubt why we kept trying to be supportive.
Flameout, and now we are both gone
everybody has heard of amway but few are joining.everyboby has heard of jehovah's witnesses but few are joining.both use deceptive tactics to recruit new members.. bob.
WOW,
My Dad was really into amway for several years back in the 70's, and then he progressed directly into becoming a JW with no problem.
what a messed up time that was, good grief !
i celebrated christmas for 17 years before my parents became jw's.. when we became witnesses my dad got rid of decades worth of christmas decorations.. my grandparents came over from austria during ww 2 and ornaments from their parents were hung on our tree.. the tradition went on up to the mid 70's,, we had many old ornaments that were just thrown out when the wt society thinking.
took over.. now that i am in my late 40's and have gone full circle, we will be celebrating the ho;lidays this year.. .
shopping at target last night i fully realized what my family has lost.
I celebrated Christmas for 17 years before my parents became JW's.
When we became witnesses my dad got rid of decades worth of Christmas decorations.
My grandparents came over from Austria during WW 2 and ornaments from their parents were hung on our tree.
The tradition went on up to the mid 70's,, we had many old ornaments that were just thrown out when the wt society thinking
took over.
Now that I am in my late 40's and have gone full circle, We will be celebrating the ho;lidays this year.
Shopping at Target last night I fully realized what my family has lost. Decades worth of memorable decorations were disposed of in
line with jw teachings.
I feel that a huge part of my youth is gone,with no chance of getting any of it back.
Yes, we could start over, but decades worth of those memories would have been nice, what a waste !
Did any one else have an awakening like this ?
why do people wear these things?.
don't these people know they make everyone else sick?
for those who wear perfume: please do not spray it directly onto yourself.
Those feminine hygeine spray smells take me back to the KH when I was a young person Akkk !
did anyone feel kind of perplexed as you read that title?
did it do a somersalt in your head while you tried to grab hold of the message it was supposed to convey?
when i read that some summers ago, my mind struggled to make sense of freedom while a jw.. i couldn't do it.
I would get the feeling such as when an acute case of the flu hits you like a hammer to the stomach.
Then a massive headache as I tried to grasp the concept,,, never worked.
saw a topic on dating earlier.
made me think of chaperones.
i always hated having someone with us when we went to do anything.
i ended up selling the two tickets and buying three to take a chaperone with us and the seats were horrible. the first seats i had were very close to the stage. the couple we sold the tickets to were in our congo and to this day, they still talk about how they were the best seats they ever had.
MY GOD MAN !
what the He** were you thinking at the time, and who did you go see ??
as i am new this may have been asked before.
but it is something i have been thinking about since i left the religion.. .
things i havent yet done but would like to do include:.
graduate from college
from the dec. 15 "let's take a swan dive off the temple mount in regard to employment" issue, page 28.
"teenagers have experienced opposition from unbelieving parents.
some have even been ordered out of the home, but they were taken in by kindly witnesses.
I know a witness who had his daughter leave the religion, and live on her own with nothing to do with jehovah!
The dad just cannot get his mind around the fact that he cannot even speak to his daughter.
Hopefully he will wake up in due time.
i was in a congregation once which had a large number of desperately poor people in it.
there was an elderly sister, she lived near me, a sweet woman, who became homeless because her ramshackled old house caught fire.
around that same time one of the overseers (imagine that using a slavery term), i forget if it was district or circuit overseer, came to town wanting a new rv/truck combo.
Great story, thank you for sharing it
i thought it would be good to discuss it to understand what caused some of us to exit suddenly, or some to exit gradually .. myself , i had been in 44 years , had mentally had doubts for years before exiting - but injustices by the elders and my doubts about the " generation " doctrine led me to exit suddenly one night before a meeting.
the elders pissed me off , i went to my seat, picked my books up and walked out - never going back.
so what is your story and reasons ?
I had doubts for two years, viewing all the hypocracy in the hall drove me to the edge.
But family ties and "friends" kept me hooked.
My Mom died in Sept of 08 and i was just morified by the complete lack of concern by my so-called friends.
A month later i wrote my DA letter and never looked back.
