...that i love when fellow posters post pics that are pertinent to their comments/posts...when they are snarky and sarcastic lol.
i love a smartass.
you guys never cease to make me crack up.. examples: 3mozzies, falcon, outlaw, etc.... feel free to post links to snarky posts you've appreciated!.
...that I LOVE when fellow posters post pics that are pertinent to their comments/posts...when they are snarky and sarcastic lol. I love a smartass. You guys never cease to make me crack up.
Examples: 3Mozzies, Falcon, Outlaw, etc...
Feel free to post links to snarky posts you've appreciated!
so did the 'da society' give these dub internet savvies permission to start a forum?
because last i checked, the ole boys in their oversized brooklyn bunker didn't want their members on the internet unless it was to view their own official websites.
i thought maybe it was an apostate forum until i read their long winded, typically condescending jdub style membership guidelines:.
SMH I miss the days of MSN chat when they had their JWChat rooms... and Yahoo... It was pretty easy to get into those... I know... I used to get pissed at all the "apostates" coming in and disrupting us lmao...
well, it's that time of year again.
the memorial season is upon us and jws the world over are getting ready for the celebration which this year falls on 17 april.
for the first time since 1975, yours truly will not attend and i couldn't be happier.
This will be my first year in my entire life not attending...and I don't feel one ounce of guilt or shame for my decision. I should've bowed out last year, too...but alas, I wasn't strong enough in my own convictions to just say no. I'll happily stay home and watch some movies, order in some pizza or something, and just enjoy my "just another Sunday night".
i had a sister who was a tenant in my house and her car was leaking oil all over my newly paved driveway before she moved in i had a condition on the lease that said if her car leaked oil she couldnt park there and i told here after she moved in that she was being deceptive to me when she said her car didnt leak oil she was good friends with a lot of powerful elders in the hall and would you believe they asked to meet with me 3 elders in the back room of the library because they said i had called this sister a liar i got out of it only after i produced a copy of the lease and pictures of the oil mess if i hadnt of had pictures maybe i would of been dfd.
It wasn't a committe, but I had to go into the back room after the meeting...
I was staying at my parents' house when my sister-in-law came over. I was in my bedroom at the time, and didn't even realize that my parents had left. So it was just the two of us there(how scandalous!). It was at that moment that my other brother's wife happened to come by and saw that we were alone, unchaperoned
Makes me wonder what they'd say about me sleeping in the same bed as my best friend's brother... It was he & I alone with her daughter in the house. I was babysitting after her wedding and he slept there because I asked him to...I didn't want to be alone cause she lives in a nasty part of the city. So he stayed. He could've slept on the couch, yes. But he didn't have an alarm clock out there and had to get up early for work. So I just let him stay in my best friend's bed with me. No big deal. He stayed on his side, I stayed on my side. Besides, he's more like a brother to me than anything else lol. But guaranteed the elders would have a field day and I'd get DF'ed just on the principle that I was with a worldly guy in a bed overnight alone in the house except for a sleeping 3 yr old. *shaking my head* It's ridonkulous. Even the whole "opposite sex friends being alone together unchaperoned" rule is ludicrous. My ex's wife doesn't even want him talking to me on the phone about our kids! "It's inappropriate and shows no respect for Jehovah's arrangement". Please! Seems like Jehovah's arrangement is for anyone with a penis to keep away from anyone with a vagina unless they intend on marrying each other...and even then, another penis or vagina has to be present UNTIL they get married in order to prevent their penis and vagina from accidentally bumping into each other LMAO.
i had a sister who was a tenant in my house and her car was leaking oil all over my newly paved driveway before she moved in i had a condition on the lease that said if her car leaked oil she couldnt park there and i told here after she moved in that she was being deceptive to me when she said her car didnt leak oil she was good friends with a lot of powerful elders in the hall and would you believe they asked to meet with me 3 elders in the back room of the library because they said i had called this sister a liar i got out of it only after i produced a copy of the lease and pictures of the oil mess if i hadnt of had pictures maybe i would of been dfd.
This wasn't my experience, but someone else's and I did mention it in a nutshell on another thread...
Farmville on Facebook had a Christmas thing awhile back where you got a tree and people gave you presents, and the more presents you got, the bigger the tree got. You traded the presents in for items in the game, I think. ANYWAY, a few of the sisters in one of the local congregations had the trees and were exchanging gifts so they could get more FV stuff. The problem was that the trees themselves would not only get bigger, but sprout decorations as they grew! No big deal, it's pixels on a screen, right? So as not to stumble others, these sisters hid their trees on their farm...some hid them in a grove of other trees, some hid them behind the barn, etc. They wanted the FV items, but they didn't want anyone getting the wrong idea. Well, apparently, one of the other sisters didn't think it was such a little thing and reported the whole lot of them to the elders, who then dragged each of them into the back room separately and demanded to know why they were participating in Christmas activities. even after explaining themselves, they were still admonished about it. And then they all subsequently removed this "sister" from all of their friends lists.
I know of another brother who was out with friends who had a few drinks and was "feeling good"...not drunk, but a little buzzed. There were others who WERE drunk or were underaged brothers and were drinking. Someone reported this brother, who is middle-aged and single, for being "drunk". He explained that it wasn't only him drinking. He lost ALL of his privileges. The others got NOTHING except a small meeting and a "don't do that"... This poor guy had recently returned to the meetings and had gotten privileges, and then lost them over something so stupid...and while the others climbed the ladder (some becoming MS), he lost his privileges for 2 YEARS!! But bless his heart, he stuck in there even though it pissed him off, and eventually he got to handle mics again. *sigh* It's a goddamn culture club is what it is!
I myself have never been dragged into the back room for no reason... It's always been because I did something "scripturally wrong". However, of the things I've gotten pinched for, I've never been DF'ed.
im just curious about a couple things:.
1. most of you seem to be pretty satisfied that you left the the witness world but now that your gone what drives you now?
what makes you excited about life?
Good series of questions...I'll do my best!
1. What drives me now... I have a few things. First and foremost, my children. I want to be a person the can be proud of. I want them to see they don't have to fit into someone's mold of who they should be. I want them to be independent, thriving, and happy. I work to achieve that. Secondly, my wonderful man. Yes, he knows he comes second lol. But he is my perfect match in every way. Just opposite enough to keep things interesting, but similar enough to have a lot in common...I strive to be his rock, as he is mine. Lastly, my job. I enjoy it, and actually wish I worked MORE (I will be, once I move).
2. I don't consider myself an "avid" poster. I post when a topic interests me or when I see someone who is going through something similar to what I did needs a kind word or I feel maybe sharing some of my situation might help them to feel they are not alone. I most definitely have a life outside of the internet lol. A side note about Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the Watchtower Study: This is VERY HELPFUL to a lot of people. It shows the mind control tactics, the mental gymnastics, the bait & switch, the strawman arguments, and the general BS that the Society prints. If someone is at a meeting on a Sunday and happens on this site the day before or after, and the current Watchtower is being discussed, I can't help but think it would plant some seeds in their mind after reading Blondie's hard work. It's in an effort to help others, members, lurkers, or otherwise.
3. I refer to myself as an Agnostic Atheist. I cannot prove there isn't a power that created us. If there is, I don't believe it is intelligent, all-knowing, or even remotely interested in humankind. But, I'm leaning toward "No", unless otherwise proven. I do believe in the power of focused meditation (some will call it prayer, but I don't), I do believe in an "afterlife" of sorts, but I believe it will be scientifically explained at some point. As to WHY I question the existence of a creator and am leaning toward no? Because I haven't been given ANY proof to the contrary. The Bible is not proof, imo. A fiction novel can claim it is fact, but that doesn't make it so. The Bible claims itself is inspired...I'd ask it the same question I'd ask anyone... "Why should I believe YOU?"
i became a christain at the age of 9. not by going to a church or asking a preacher to baptize me, or anything like that.
i started reading my mother's king james bible cover to cover at the age of 8. my father was very abusive and when he was abusing me, i would close my eyes and pray.
i never hated my father, which is one good thing i got out of prayer.. when i turned 13 i became a lay preacher and traveled, on my own, preaching in any church that would let me.. when i was 15 i studied with the jws and was baptized after four months of study.. i was a zealous christain but not a zealous jw, according to them.
Beautifully put! I really have a hard time reading long threads (I have the attention span of...OOH SHINY!!!), but I found this flowed very naturally and was quite interesting. You put into words the sentiments I have felt for quite awhile now.
I have 2 copies of the bible so far. One is the NWT reference edition. The other is the NIV. I pull them both out once in awhile to make comparisons, but that's about the only use I have for them. Once in awhile, my BF will give me a passage to look up and read...and it's fun debating scripture with him. He's not a Christian, he's not anything, but he believes the bible as well as other "holy books" are worth reading because they may all be different in a lot of ways, not all 100% true or correct, but the truth lies in a combination of all of them. Not the whole "religion" thing, but the principles that lie within their pages. I tend to agree in some aspects. While the OT was bloody and violent and the Jews are known to be ridiculously superstitious, the NT teachings of Jesus are worth reading...even if he didn't exist. Like Aesop's fables. They aren't TRUE, but they have a good deal of value to them.
My problem is getting the WBTS interpretations out of my head and just reading the bible as a regular book. I find that watching documentaries on it's history and also on the history of the times that are written about in it's pages really helps with that. One I watched on Jesus was quite the eye-opener. It laid to rest the myth of the stable, the "no room at the inn" part, the misinterpretation of Joseph being a carpenter, etc. It was really fascinating.
PS TheLoveDoctor, you gots a PM...
Yeah okay... MAYBE when they were serving food, still... But now that the masses bring their own grub, there's no freakin' way. Especially since the assembly yesterday was ONE DAY!
http://www.seanet.com/~raines/review.html.
the society at the time believed that some demons or fallen angels were honest and could be saved and return to god's organization.
[6] angels and women, they believed, was channeled or "dictated" to the author by one such fallen angel who was honest and told the truth about pre-flood conditions on earth.
In the mid 1990s, my Mom told me I did bad things. When I asked her to tell me what the bad things were she replied snarkily,
"Well I don't know what they are. I just know you do them."
I think I now know where she got that from.
Her ass? My mom said similar...she also said Jehovah led her to look under my brother's mattress and she found his Cheech & Chong album...
