If the parents are so "dear" and are so wonderfully tuned in to their God, why are these men in NY threatening them with (while not immediate) "execution" if they talk to their kids?
What Crap
july 15th wt study edition (regular dumb edition, not the dumber one).
god's rest - have you entered into it?.
subheading, when someone we love leaves jehovah.
If the parents are so "dear" and are so wonderfully tuned in to their God, why are these men in NY threatening them with (while not immediate) "execution" if they talk to their kids?
What Crap
july 15th wt study edition (regular dumb edition, not the dumber one).
god's rest - have you entered into it?.
subheading, when someone we love leaves jehovah.
This absolutely infuriates me!
This is going to speak right to my exemplary christian parents who regularly associate with their 4 apostate and DF'ed kids. They are in their twilight years and love when we come over on the weekends. When my sister and I were there last weekend making dinner for them, my dad said "It is like an embarrassment of riches having both my daughters with me today." They will be so torn, probably cut us all off for awhile; spending their weekends crying about their lost children and wondering how life went so wrong.
The men that wrote those paragraphs are without a doubt F****** EVIL!!!!!
last friday, a woman i work with, who reminds me of scully from the x-files, asked me to hang out with her and her friends at a watering hole not that far from where we work.
she and her friends get off roughly an hour before i get off, and considering the amount of work i had on my desk at the time, and the amount of time i wasted on here, i knew it'd would be a while before i caught up with them.
so i told her i'll try, but i won't get off until roughly 6:30pm or later.
Get out there and live Misery! The Watchtower wants you to believe it will be one big wild drunken orgy - it is not. Go out and enjoy normal people's company.
once again , i couldn't resist sharing this wt study article from this issue.
it was just too good, or bad - depending on your perspective.
you will see the use of fear and guilt in this information - laying it on witnesses heavy as the title says " christian families - " keep ready " indicating armageddon is so close - so don't get wrapped up in materialism.. right from the get-go in the 1st paragraph fear tactics are used .
Most high school teachers spend time telling their students that they have the brains to go onto college and they should take advantage of the many scholarships that are out there. Next thing you know, the JW kids are bragging to their parents that they are gifted and are being offered a grandiose scholarship, the story is then an assembly part and then it is being printed as absolute truth.
when you were in the organization of jehovah's witnesses, did you shun legitimate courtship attempts from "worldly" men or women who were otherwise very desirable and suitable because they were non-believers?
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did you fancy them as well, but tried to get them to study and come into the organization in order to justify the relationship?.
I was madly in love with a boy in my Junior class. We secretly dated for awhile - I was sure he was the one and only. Well my parents up and moved to Colorado, with me in tow. He visited me once and then we lost track of each other. We connected on Facebook about a month ago (28 years have passed). He looks about 400 pounds, unshaven wearing some dirty sweaty baseball cap that says "No Sweat" on it. He looked like something straight off of Hee Haw (and not in a good way). I nearly lost my cookies when I saw the pictures of him.
by a pretty jw lady to the memorial.
hubby got the door but waited for me to come to the door (he was on the phone).
i listened to her introduction and held the memorial tract, then i handed it back and said quite firmly that i was not interested.
I received a tract in my door last Sunday. This is the first time that there has been any evidence of witnesses in my neighborhood in 3 years.
we are great friends now....but he wasn't much of a father growing up.. worked all the time...we went on few vacations....pretty much pussy whipped my my nazis jw mother.. he never did believe in the whole jw thing.
he just when along with it, for my mothers sake.. she never did respect him for not being a "spiritual head" and pretty much let us kids know about it.. i, like my mother became very self rightious and judgmental.. i wished now he had just came to me just once and said "keith maybe the jws are not the people you think they are.
" but he was to afraid of my mother to say that...even though he knew it to be true.i would have never believed him....back then....but it would have planted a seed.... .
EXWHYZEE...Thank you for some very good advice. I think I will put it in a card.
we are great friends now....but he wasn't much of a father growing up.. worked all the time...we went on few vacations....pretty much pussy whipped my my nazis jw mother.. he never did believe in the whole jw thing.
he just when along with it, for my mothers sake.. she never did respect him for not being a "spiritual head" and pretty much let us kids know about it.. i, like my mother became very self rightious and judgmental.. i wished now he had just came to me just once and said "keith maybe the jws are not the people you think they are.
" but he was to afraid of my mother to say that...even though he knew it to be true.i would have never believed him....back then....but it would have planted a seed.... .
Thank you curious butterfly for reviving this thread. Quite interesting to read about the different child, father relationships.
My father is close to a saint in my eyes. He is 80 years old and was raised as a JW - baptized in the 30's - married my 3rd generation JW mom in the 50's. They have been hard core JWs their entire life - never, EVER doubting that this is the only true organization of this earth. They raised 5 kids in a decent style even though my father only had an eigth grade education. He was always soft spoken and gentle (and often emotional) - hugged and kissed us kids and always told us how much he loved us. He made my sister and I (and mother)feel like the most beautiful, refined women in the world. He was the congregation overseer from the 50's until the 70's when the elder arrangement was brought in - He has been an elder ever since. He is too kind to cut me off even though I am disfellowshipped. We talk everyday - he always reminds me how special I am to him and Jehovah. He is getting quite frail and I will so miss him when he is gone.
i don't know whether this has ever been asked, so i apologize if i'm repeating.. what did you do at the last meeting you ever attended?
did you stay for the whole thing?
what made you realize that this was your last meeting, or did you not know it would be your last meeting??.
April 12, 2006. The Memorial and also my 20th wedding anniversary. My husband was giving the talk - I sat in the back row of the back room with my two daughters knowing this was the last one. I was tired of a marriage that centered around a religion and it's members. The 3 of us always came last - I was through with the marriage, the KH, the religion, the so called friends and the town. I walked out on it all that night.
... and wanted to disrupt sites like this one and activities of 'apostates' in general, what would i do?.
would i send apologists who were obviously on the side of the wts to spew out the typical wts message, ones that would be quickly labelled and disagreed with?
maybe ... it would get people riled up.
So very well said UNDERCOVER!