can anybody help me i was brouhgt up a jw i pioneered went to bethel was a ms gave public talks but left because i knew they are false in every way god is good he loves us crhist saved us but these people want to see all killed except the "govering body " and the 1st and 2nd class witnessses the heaven bound and the earth bound i have stayed away from god and other faiths for yrs as felt should not but i have read some stuff about russell and rutherford and this has made me along with what i have found out about 1975 see that i need help from those who know what it is like being brouhgt up in this evil lie i hope that god will direct someone to help me god bless
Yeah, the first step is to question anything anyone tells you, even the people on this board, and use those questions to find the answers that make sense to you.
I suggest you try to find the relationship between you and God, and despite what the WTBTS says, they are not a mandatory part of loving God.
because i was a born-in and raised in the wt, i was always told that we don't need holidays to tell us to give gifts to our children.
we give them gifts all year around.. did your parents ever make good on that promise?.
I didn't receive squat, my mother didn't even want me to live with her till the court said she'd have to pay 85% of the child support when they couldn't find my Dad anywhere and had to assume he made minimum wage.
And then when I moved in, they charged me rent, even though I was in highschool. And I had to buy my own clothes, and I had to pay for my own braces because I had messed up teeth and insisted on them. My teeth were super bad.
I could go on and on.
Oh and I was almost born in January, and my mom was pissed because the doctor promised her a tax deduction haha. It's always been about money with my parents. I swear they were probably thrilled not to have to participate in Bdays or Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I think my parents love me, they just put themselves first before their children.
part 1. http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ch9edugtjk.
part 2. http://youtube.com/watch?v=uu0br4yb400.
part 3. http://youtube.com/watch?v=odczzi0c5rw.
Wow, it's amazing how much of a twit they make the "wordly" girl to be. It just makes it so easy to see right from wrong when you pretend people are always like that.
And why did they put this drama in old times, when it's not based on a scripture, it's just some made up story. The whole thing amazes me, it's like Jesus was never a carpenter, he didn't waste time learning a skill, no, lets ignore that.
either describe what's "hot" to you or put a pic out so we can see.
I like my women tall, got so tired of dating short girls. I'm 6'4", and my wife is 6'.
But looks really only gets you past the first 10 minutes, after that, you better have some mental capacity or beat it. I can't tell you how many dates I went on, that I just dropped the girl off after dinner. No offense to most of the women on this board, clearly your all "thinkers" to some degree or another. But most girls I met when I was younger had no hobbies, no ambitions, no ideas of their own, and clearly no brains.
But my wife is awesome in every way shape and form, hence I married her.
alright, so i'm reading on this site, and i'm not 100% sure what it's about.
it appears to be a bunch of former jw people bashing everything they can get their hands on in relation to jw's.. .
i was brought up as a jw, but when i got older and started to think for myself, i began to realize that i didn't agree with their teachings.
thanks for those words Eliveleth, I'm going to have to say that your short story there is very inspiring. To think that you spent so much time doing something, and still had the fortitude to question yourself and seek answers to those questions, well it speaks volumes. I think as young people were all a bit rebellious, and it's in our nature to change and try to redefine ourselves. But to do it after such a long period of time inspires me to realize that at no point in my life will I ever be at the point that I can't really think hard about what I'm doing. Thanks again.
being here on this board and at times i wonder why i stay.
yeah, message boards are an interesting social atmosphere, especially depending on it's rules/moderator levels. And due to these things, it can cause unfortunate problems in the potential variance of content or focus.
If we could give someone an evil eye before they clicked the post button, the message board system would be perfect haha.
so you got through the grand boasting session somehow.
the one-towel rules, the endless quiet and keep moving signs, the snorefest, and the endless prayer are finally behind us.
usually, if there are children involved, life after becomes unbearable after a grand boasting session.
haha, yeah they were convinced my music was bad. They had some elders come over to talk to me, and I was basically sat at a table with four people grilling me about music. Being a teenager, I got pissed at all of them and told them they were crazy, there was nothing in the music and I can prove it.
At the time I was listening to mainly lyric free techno, so in all honestly, there wasn't anything in the music. No lyrics to corrupt me, it was about as pure of music as you can get. They had no ammo after I played it for them. Score 1 for the teenager. They all agreed they could find no fault in the music, but of course warned me to be careful.
The sad part is now that I look back, I really think they were just looking for fault in me, because in reality I was a really good kid. Compared to many others that is.
who is the last person you would ever want to be trapped in an elevator with?
for me - tom cruise.
Most likely my sister-in-law, but since you all don't realize that she's the most annoying person in human existance, i guess I can pick someone you do know. And that would be Tom Green, while I laughed at some of the stuff he did on T.V., he'd surely annoy the hell out of me in an elevator really fast.
i am now a reformed conspiracy theorist.
i have been wrong, i see it clearly now.. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, fired 3 bullets on november 22, 1963 wounding gov.
connally and killing president kennedy.
Tex, i'm not one to accept any conspiracy theory, for the same reason I left JW. Because the first thing I say is, who is this guy, where did he get this info, and just hold that thought while I go check this out.
I swear that conspiracy theories are like religion, people will hold onto them tooth and nail, despite convincing arguments.
But hey, the goverment aloud the media to dupe us into believing there was no stockpile of materials for WMD's in Iraq. They let their name get smeared all over the airwaves, and now look at it. 550 metric tons of uranimum shipped from Iraq to Canada, the U.S. kept it under wraps for fear the terrorists would center on trying to grab it up. Of course the media isn't being too loud on this, but a quick google search shows the report in several places last week.
So I don't take to conspiracy theories, but we all know the goverment can be shady when they want to be hehe.
i am in the area (neptune beach) checking things out.. .
purps.
ps isn't the beach awesome?
I'm in central florida, not as close to the beach, but about an hour. I think south florida is the problem area really, not so much central or North.
Hey purps, the florida beaches are nice, but I'd like to highly recommend some of the beaches in the carribean. Cozumel Mexico, or maybe St. Thomas. Cruises are amazingly cheap these days, and those beaches are straight out of the corona commercials.
