Posts by Hopscotch

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real fake friends

by diamondiiz in

i wondered how did your "best" jw friends react to when you told them you're leaving wts?.

after i found out all i needed to know i called up my old friend who i thought was a good friend but i knew he was a die hard dub and i told him to write down a book and read it.

i was refering to russell's thy kingdom come.

LouBelle I know that ache in the chest feeling very well. I was dropped like a hot potato by friends (even my so called 'best friend') and since January this year have been totally shunned by my family. The pain of the unfairness, injustice and stupidity of it all, not to mention the loneliness, does make you ache inside.

40 years of friendship and family wiped out just like that. Conditional love and friendship at it's best!

Anyway I am slowly making new 'real' friends and finding a new 'tribe' to be part of.

Hopscotch

PS - I'm not da'd or df'd, just dared to question then fade

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See you in Paradise

by Mattieu in

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i was looking through a relatives photo album last weekend and saw pictures of their trip to an international convention in asia in the early 1990s.

on the final day the local bro & sis were all holding placards with phrases such as see you in paradise.. that reminded me of the last international i went to in sydney about 5 years ago, same thing happened on the last day, similar placards with similar phrases.

there was also a lot of random hugging of bro & sis in international costumes.

Hopscotch

My mum put off getting medical attention for months because she didn't want anything to stop her and dad getting to that Sydney international convention you mentioned Mattieu. So even though she knew she was sick, her and dad travelled 600 miles there and 600 miles back on a bus to attend the convention. When they got back she finally made an appointment to see the Dr and the diagnosis was cancer. But by then it was too late. 13 months later she was dead. So in my opinion attending that damned convention could very well have cost my mother her life.

Hopscotch

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Graph from Dec 15 09 Wt on How to Apportion Your Time to Remain Joyful. Crazy....

by Hopscotch in

here is a scan from the dec 15 09 wt (study ed) with a graph of how a witness should apportion their time to remain joyful.. .

so according to this graph, to remain joyful a witness should spend 3 times as much of his waking hours in 'theocratic activities' as he should in secular work!

hopscotch.

Hopscotch

Here is a scan of the second page of this article. The paragraphs in the second column seem to me to be alluding to leaving your job if it does not leave you with enough time to keep up with all the 'theocratic activities' that you will bring you joy.

Hopscotch

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Graph from Dec 15 09 Wt on How to Apportion Your Time to Remain Joyful. Crazy....

by Hopscotch in

here is a scan from the dec 15 09 wt (study ed) with a graph of how a witness should apportion their time to remain joyful.. .

so according to this graph, to remain joyful a witness should spend 3 times as much of his waking hours in 'theocratic activities' as he should in secular work!

hopscotch.

Hopscotch

Here is a scan from the Dec 15 09 Wt (study ed) with a graph of how a witness should apportion their time to remain joyful.

So according to this graph, to remain joyful a witness should spend 3 times as much of his waking hours in 'theocratic activities' as he should in secular work!

Hopscotch

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We Want You Back

by Dune in

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friends

so i'm sitting at my desk at work when my cell phone rings.

i've been faded for over 3 years now and i'm way beyond the point where i didn't answer my phone and dreaded any knocks on my door.. anyway, i answer and it's an elder from my old congregation.

he went on about how he was pretty much going down his list of names of inactive/ and was wondering if he and another elder could come by for a visit.

Hopscotch

The crazy thing is Dune, they use the economic downturn and financial hardship thing to lure you back, and then once you're back in you're under compulsion to be "a cheerful giver" with contributions for the www, the CO's car fund and expenses, renovations to the KH if needed, etc, the expense of new meeting clothes, car costs getting back and forth to meetings and fs, not to mention all the literature you would have to purchase donate for to catch up on old the 'new light' that you have missed over the past 3 years!

Sounds like you'd be better off financially not going back!

Hopscotch

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Mere Children who are Disfellowshipped

by BabaYaga in

this was inspired by another thread, where freetosee told of a young witness baptised at the tender age of 9, and disfellowshipped at age 12!!!

the mind goes wild at what a 12-year-old should ever be disfellowshipped for.

how would a kid be so unrepentant they would deserve losing their family and friends?

Hopscotch

Makes you wonder if encouraging young baptism is another clever but disgusting ploy by the WTS to get and trap members. Get the kids baptised while they are still young enough to be eager to please mum and dad and the congregation but too young to have any idea of the long term consequences it entails.

Hopscotch - baptised at 15

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