well i figured i should give you all an update.
they will be dfing me soon for apostasy.
it is not a huge surprise and i am not afraid nor "shaking in my boots", however i will admit it is stressful right now.
Ray...I think your letter is powerful.
Here is my 2 cents - say more about the religion tearing you apart from your dear children. Talk about the incredible love and bond you have with them, how they are your entire world. Make the parents reading this letter shed tears for you and feel wrath for the religion.
Have not watched the video yet, will do that tonight.
Thank you for sharing with us.
gosh... i cannot believe i have been disfellowshipped for over a year!
its so surreal.
because of my ingrained belief that the jw organisation is the one and only true religion, i often think about everything that has happened quite often.
Happy Anniversary Timothy
happy labor day all!.
tell us what your plans are.
i am heading to the cu/csu game tomorrow (go cu) wish you were with us quendi.
Jeff T... Heading to the western slope to the Colorado River.
Stealth....
Instead of door to door will do some telephone witnessing instead, practice my next public talk. Oh and have some of the friends over to
study the watchtower lesson for Sunday and play Jenga.
My stomach lunged when I read that
give it women... .
today i added a new article to my blog addressing the watchtower mindset regarding woman, and particularly of married women.
pictures are telling!!!.
TD...
My impression is that a great many JW's of both genders are trapped in sexless marriages.
And the ones of us that were not in a sexless marriage wish we were. It is a total lose, lose in JW world.
happy labor day all!.
tell us what your plans are.
i am heading to the cu/csu game tomorrow (go cu) wish you were with us quendi.
BBQ sounds like fun! cleaning closets -Yikes
LongHairGal...I feel so stupid about engaging in such dumb activity too. It is so nice to be able to leave town and not worry if you will be stumbling someone because you won't be there for Saturday service or the Sunday meeting. Or worry that others may see you as a lover of pleasure.
http://www.examiner.com/article/jehovah-witness-knocking-on-the-same-doors-every-week.
this article also briefly questions whether it is really safe in the modern world to engage in this form of proselytizing.. it's certainly interesting to hear an outsider's perspective on the repetitive nature of the preaching work, even though jws would argue that this is an isolated case.. .
jehovah witness knocking on the same doors every week .
The Spanish man that lives across the street from me told me that when the English speaking witnesses come, he speaks only in Spanish, when the Spanish speaking witnesses come he pretends to not know Spanish.
happy labor day all!.
tell us what your plans are.
i am heading to the cu/csu game tomorrow (go cu) wish you were with us quendi.
Happy Labor Day All!
Tell us what your plans are.
I am heading to the CU/CSU game tomorrow (Go CU) Wish you were with us Quendi. Then heading out for 3 days of white water rafting.
So looking forward to shutting off the computer for a few days.
http://gawker.com/5936665/heres-what-happened-when-an-elderly-man-took-it-upon-himself-to-restore-a-painting-in-a-nearby-church.
"we admire people who have can-do, elbow-grease-type attitudes.
if something's broke, why not fix it?
This thread is just killing me, it is so funny! (And keeps getting funnier)
1. jehovah's witnesses interferance in my parents marriage leading to mother rejecting father who could not come at the teachings.. 2. my mother taking us 500km away from father to start a new life with a much older jw man just after armageddon didnt come in 75...for teaching us that he was evil and deserved to be killed by god.. 3. bullying at school for being a jw, resulting in only one friend all through school and learning little social interaction.
leading to leaving early with no education beyond year 10.. 4. marrying way to young for love?....
5. making me feel like a demon for being human.. 6. rejection by all friends and wife because i couldn't stick it.. 7. not going back to wife because of rejection, nervous breakdown by freeing wife and believing i was now doomed to die.. 8. almost leaving my childrens lives by both suicide and disapearing.. 9. wifes support by wt to force me out of their lives and for coaching her to do this.
So sorry Aussie! You have been through a lot.
The cult raped us all - some more than others.
the end of the month, that is, and someone apparently needs to get their hours in.... this resourceful jw (in the left side of the photo) set up shop for a few hours outside a local starbucks, with a wt and awake laid out on a table.
and i i don't think he talked to anyone the whole time he was out there (a few hours).. sure beats all that walking from door-to-door, which would likely result in a bunch of not-at-homes on a weekday: most people are at work.. (i approached him when entering, and asked him about the parable of faithful and "discreet" slave, and asked him what he thought the difference was between a parable and prophecy.
after getting a non-answer (that basically meant he didn't know), i wished him a good morning and went on my way.... .
Another unenthused JW - he could well be a member on this forum :)
