i've gone from being indifferent to becoming an full fledge non believer in anything much.
i guess i'm now a "no-hova" witness.
there's nothing about the wt or the bible for that matter that holds any importance in my life or death.
NoHovah, No problem!
ROFL! Awesome!
I've described myself as agnostic/Atheist for some time now. I don't believe in "a" god as much as I believe that "all things are god". I don't believe in some invisible sky daddy that I have to worship in order to keep from pissing him off. But I do believe in a "force" (not really Star Wars-ish, but scientific) or energy that is in everything. I think eventually, it will all be explained in a scientific manner.
during the announcements they stop to bring up an elder and he states " hairy mary is no longer a pioneer" (not a real name) in a tone very similar to a disfellowshipping.
i have heard it twice now but only from the hall my wife attends now.. anyone else hear of this?.
as she didn't have a penis
LMAO so true!!
I always thought that rule about not being alone with the opposite sex unless you were married to them to be ridiculous. I mean, we had our share of slutty sisters in the congregations, but the vast majority were tight-laced and wouldn't dream of doing something lewd with a brother.
What pisses me off is that they take this rule and apply it to EVERY area of life. So, while I am happy and content with my bf and wouldn't DREAM of EVER wanting my ex back, I must speak to his WIFE about my children and not him because it's "inappropriate for us to be talking to each other now because we are no longer married and he is a married man and (as far as he knows) I'm a single woman and it goes against Jehovah's arrangement"... Oh, you mean the arrangement set up by all those old codgers in Brooklyn who have probably never had a blow job in their lives and think that every man and every woman is just DYING to have sex with each other??
UGH
when you were a witness, did you ever think about being married to the same person for all eternity?
did it seem like a reality to you or was it sort of too out there to really comprehend, much like paradise and living forever is or even the concept of god having always existed ?.
i remember a sister in our congregation whose husband was unbelieving and the marriage was really bad.
This concept frightened me when I was married. "You mean I gotta be married to this asshole forever??" "Oh, but MB, he'll be perfect!!" "GREAT! So I'll be married forever to a PERFECT ASSHOLE! Is that supposed to make me feel better??"
It's times like this I'm so glad it was all a lie... kind of a "*phew* dodged THAT bullet!" moment.
we ways went on the menastry !.
this was always a waist of time on xmas day, but you know what we always has a full turkey dinner after getting back from the door knocking.. i live in the uk at the moment but will soon move to alberta in canada, what did your jw family do on xmas day did you have family over etc... .
this year we had nobody.
Nothing... At the most, some JW's would get together and watch a movie (either at home or at the theater) and have Chinese food. Other than that...I stewed over all the great stuff I WASN'T getting...
during the announcements they stop to bring up an elder and he states " hairy mary is no longer a pioneer" (not a real name) in a tone very similar to a disfellowshipping.
i have heard it twice now but only from the hall my wife attends now.. anyone else hear of this?.
Yes, they announced it in the congregations I went to. And it was in that somber "no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses" tone. Like not Pioneering anymore was signing your own death sentence at the Big A. What a crock of horse puckey.
the smurfs opened the new york stock exchange!.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/29/7196351-smurfs-open-the-new-york-stock-exchange.
It will be interesting to see how the WT interprets what is to come for the U.S and Britain since they have painted themselves into a corner by saying there will be no other world power.
Yeah I wonder this, too. But, as so many times before, the obedient little dubs will just go along with whatever bullshit excuse the GB comes up with and all will be well in Watchtowerland.
are baptized jehovah's witnesses allowed to go to a catholic priest's funeral?.
would elders allow this?
(without them being reproved)?.
I must say, they are nothing like what I have read them to be here on the website.
The vast majority of us here were, at one point, either baptized or associate with Jehovah's Witnesses in some form. I assure you, if anyone knows the ins and outs of the organization and the TRUTH behind the fake smiles and false sincerity, it's US!
The majority of the JW's teachings aren't Bible based, they take Jesus out of the equation and replace him with the Governing Body, which is NOT a Biblical institution. People die every day from refusing blood transfusions because they are brainwashed into believing that it's against God's commands. A world full of JWs?? NO THANK YOU! I'd rather die first.
how would one prove that, in a judicial committee, the wrongdoer is not allowed to have guests in the room (witnesses)?.
-sab.
The only way I can think of is a copy of that section of the elder's manual...
if you have never had the opportunity to go to a witnesses now for jesus convention hosted by former jehovah's witness joan cetnar, this may be your last chance.. after 33 years this very well could be the last year joan will host the convention.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqdddryv3hs.
Many obviously will not identify themselves, it only stands to reason that some ( NOT ALL ) are Watchtower operatives deliberately attempting to discredit anything that brings reproach to The Org.
How ironic that you would accuse us here of the very same thing YOU have been accused of by many other apostates. Hmmm... And you state it as if it were an original thought of your own design. *tsk tsk*
seriously, half day in (already had an argument with the wife this morning about individuality in the organization in which she conceded that a lot of it is based on looks) and this is already getting on my nerves.
i'll post a rebuttal based on my annotations later in the week but one thing i got to get off my mind: saying the feminist movement (women going to work instead of staying home) and the diversity laws (allowing for homosexuality - but also religious freedom, racial discrimination etc.
) caused a lot of the problems in our world right from the stage.. there are less people here than last year - about 500 less..
So glad I wasn't there this year...
