a co-worker of mine whose family (2 daughters, wife) are jw's related a funny story yesterday.
his wife and daughters missed the friday portion of the convention last week in order to attend a wedding of a worldly relative.
at dinner she mentioned to him that she would go to the convention this friday to make up for the one she missed.. he then asked why and she said so she could get the information she missed.
As a child I spent hours imagining what it would be like to be spider man swinging and climbing all around the coliseum.
I also imagined cutting the wires of the giant scoreboard thingy hanging from the ceiling that was directly above the speaker. Sometimes I actually imagined saving the speaker…
As I got older and really got into the whole JW thing I really tried to pay attention. But often just started thinking about all the sister’s I wanted to bone instead.
i just witnessed my mother and step father put the end to a friendship my 9 year old sister had with a "worldly" person.
it was heartbreaking.
this is someone she has been friends with for a few years and all of a sudden it's a problem now?
That really sucks MrFreeze. I had so many potential close friends from school, but I was never allowed to see them outside of school. It was such a sham!
i feel a bit guilty.
people on this forum were very friendly and helpful to me when i was in the in-between phase between brainwashing and freedom.. i also got a lot of help and advice and sympathy when i was trying to get my wife out.. but when she did leave, i forgot all about you guys, and we got on with our lives, and have never been happier.
honestly, life is soooo damn good now, i worry i might have reached the peak and things will only get worse from here.. we are amazed at how much our children enjoy birthdays and christmas - how healthy, normal and fun these things are.
Love hearing success stories! Congrats to you and your wife!
And I am really happy to hear about your children being able to enjoy BDay's and just grow up without that JW crap. Good on you mate, good on you! :D
what about the responsibility of being an elder did you dislike the most?
i served from september 2003 - june 2006. there were two things that bugged me the most the first was i got sick of the bickering amongst the body.
we had 7 elders and in nearly every situation, big or small, there was some division that got personal.
What an interesting thread. I was never an elder, didn't even make it to MS. (I got reproved a few times :P)
But I greatly enjoyed reading this thread.
july 4th is my birth date...and no matter what i say, they insist on lighting off fireworks and throwing a parade !
lol .
as a kid it was always pretty depressing to have two things going on in one day that i couldn't participate in.
Oh and happy early birthday for the 4th!
july 4th is my birth date...and no matter what i say, they insist on lighting off fireworks and throwing a parade !
lol .
as a kid it was always pretty depressing to have two things going on in one day that i couldn't participate in.
LMAO that is actually a great story, and in the future I am sure you will be able to laugh about it a lot. My first birthday was when I was 25, it was shared with Ralphie who is 8 and also coupled with Thanksgiving. It was my first "family" thanksgiving.
I wen't down to NC to visit the people who became like family to me after I exited the JW's. There is a certain feeling of letdown with your first bday at such an age, I guess as AK says there not as big a deal as you think. As children growing up it seemed like such an effing sham that we didn't get birthdays and we probably built up how great they were in our heads. Don't get me wrong I LOVE LOVE LOVE celebrating my birthday and my friends birthday. But I remember feeling a bit let down my first BDay and I didn't know why.
Reading this I realize why now. Well congrats on having your first Bday, a bit awkward but a funny story. It gets easier and more comfortable every year :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrz4bepvye.
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Just curious Alice. No one is around to know your on a website full of "apostates". Do you get that tingly feeling when your on this website late at night?
You know that tingly feeling that Jehovah is watching you while you are on an "apostate" website. Yes the very god you are here defending is angry at you for being here. He is watching everything you do, he even knows everything your thinking.
*whipsers in Alice's ear* It's called Cognitive Dissonance
((((Alice)))) Your gonna make a grand "apostate" one day hun, I promise :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrz4bepvye.
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Your absolutly right alice. We ex-JW's just make up a bunch of lies because we're bitter. There is NO EVIDENCE at all.
I'm so sorry, please forgive me alice. Will Jehoober take me back?!?!
the picture of a train falling off a cliff at 1975.... and.
isn't there a photo of russell's tombstone in one of the early publications?
if so, what book was it, and does anyone have scan of it?.
I don't have either, wish I could help.
the definition of "pot meets kettle".
this is just to funny.
how is anyone supposed to take religion seriously, really.. .
Marked so I can watch it later. Youtube vids are blocked at my work.
