10 million dollars and your best friend dies in the next month of natural causes, orno money and your best friend outlives you, .
which would you choose, and why?.
would it make a difference if your best friend knew and wanted you to take the money?.
Isn't this the premise of a movie that's just out?
I pick #2.
As long as I don't die in the next month and I can marry some rich dude.
Hahaha! Just kidding about the rich dude.
If there's anything I've learned in this life : Money is not the most important.
I still pick #2.
i feel there are some weaknesses in the legal defenses that the watchtower society uses when enforcing shunning on former members.
one is that they claim that getting baptised makes someone a jehovah's witness and implies that they are willing to live by watchtower rules.
however, they don't use baptism as the criteria for counting their members.
"You records may indicate that I made a personal dedication to God. This was a private religious matter between my God and myself. Any attempt by you to modify that arrangement or use it imply that you have rights as part of a private agreement that you were never a party to will be viewed by me as a gross violation of my religious rights and result in legal consequences."
I REALLY LIKE THIS PART.
YES, I'M YELLING.
" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 411).
" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 413).
" (the watchtower july 15th 1963 issue, page 446).
For them, there is no distinction between someone who " pursues and persists in sin" and someone who just simply doesn't agree with their doctrines.
Just because you don't agree with their teachings, it doesn't mean you are an immoral person.
That's what pisses me off. They clearly are saying, "If you don't completely agree and go along with us, you are a sinner and deserving of destruction."
i am still a member of the jw's organization.
i have been puzzled over some of the teachings for many years but as i seemed to be the only one querying things among my local jw's i felt as if i was going crazy.
i was very relieved to find this site, a few months ago, full of evidence to back up my findings, and so much more.. i am so grateful to you all.. i do not want to leave the organization until i have planted some seeds in my family to open their eyes.
Hello!
From,
Palmtree
well my trusty washer has finally given up the ghost.
for two years now, ever since my daughters and four grandchildren all moved back in with me, it's been subjected to two or three loads daily.
last month when all the grandkids had the flu we were up to six or seven loads a day.
mamochan13: "But I really do wonder what the heck always happens to the socks?"
You know when you're walking downtown and see a lone dirty sock in the gutter? Or you stop at a rest stop while travelling and there's a sock by the side of the road?
Those are the ones that have escaped and have made their way to freedom.......
this is a post to tell you all here: that you have all made the most postive wonderfull differince in my life.
as a family, as a team you have set me free from a life of misery.
massive hugs all round and i wish you a wonderfull christmas and a fablous new year!.
I add my thanks to everyone here, as well.
Especially, jamiebowers. Because she was the first to reach out.
yesterday a brother called the house and asked for my husband.
i told him i'm sorry he is doing his study and i will not call him to the phone.
i told him we do not talk to each other and he would have to call him back around 11:30. he called back around 11:40 and sure sounded different then his first call.
I got a divorce because otherwise, I would've killed myself.
I waited until my kids were older and I waited as long as I could stand it. I wish I could've lasted a few more years, but I thought it was better for my kids to have an alive mother, than parents who were divorced.
It was the hardest thing I have ever done, leaving him.
To this day, he still intimidates and bullies me. I have a court injunction that the only communication he can have with me is through lawyers.
Some nights after I left, the only way I could sleep was to repeat to myself, "I am safe tonight. I have a place to sleep tonight. Tonight I am safe."
That was almost two years ago. Yes, it was the hardest thing I have ever done, but I haven't regretted it. I am a smart, funny, intelligent woman and I will never again wake up next to a man who doesn't worship the ground I walk on and think that he is lucky to be with me.
I still pray. I am praying for you tonight.
i was in the produce section of a local market, when i happened to overhear the following comment: "we celebrate christ's birth every day of the year, not just on christmas!
" i turned and knew the nature of the source of the comment immediately, judging by the polyester pantsuit and delusional "deer in headlights" look on her face.
her companion replied, "but i like celebrating christmas and don't see anything wrong with it.
I wonder if she will give her experience at one of this year's assembly's?
i pulled up into my drive with a trunk full of groceries....hoping to avoid the jw's next door.
too late, as i popped my trunk i hear behind me hello.. in general, i try to be nice, i let them introduce themselves and then let them know my mom is a current witness, i was raised one and i am out.. they dropped the witness stuff, and we introduced ourselves.
i always shake hands....as a woman shaking hands i can always tell a sincere man.
On some level, he recognised you as someone who "knows".
--that's a question i keep coming back to.
it's probably a "human nature" question more than anything else, but perhaps someone who was a full-fledged jw (unlike myself) can explain it.
virtually the entire jw belief system, even their name, revolves around their public ministry and this ministry is based on certain ideas and premises:.
Geez. Read our responses here. No wonder we were all depressed.
