OnTheWayOut summed it up perfectly:
"You are done. Enjoy your life."
I don't think it could be any better expressed.
this is a first timer posting.
heres my story which im hoping you guys can help me with, even if its just support ( i could sure use some!).
brought up in the truth, i spent 20+ years of my life having trauma after trauma in it.
OnTheWayOut summed it up perfectly:
"You are done. Enjoy your life."
I don't think it could be any better expressed.
i received this vomit-inducing email from a jw:.
i had the tonight show w/ conan o'brien playing in the background, at first i was shocked to hear what i heard, yet very happy to see what was being prominently displayed in public view for the entire world to see (as the show is syndicated internationally)!
yup, the study version of our dear watchtower with the words announcing jehovah's kingdom prominently on the front cover.
LOL hilarious! Pretty schocked that they had a study copy of the WT blown up for use. Wonder if the Brooklyn Bastards are going to sic their lawyer hounds on Conan...
other than feeling "love bombed" when you first started associating with the "brotherhood", did you experience the "love" in your years within the organization?.
if you felt truly loved, was it in reality, a "conditional love"?.
I knew some brothers and sisters that would step in front of a train for you and really acted like Christians in terms of helping those in need, taking care of their neighbors, etc - but these were very few and far between. Generally every hall I attended had its cliques, scandals, and gossippy backstabbing going on so that the few decent people there never really even got noticed.
i just heard mention on the news of jw's again pertaining to burial etc concerning mj.. i have heard and read more jw stuff in the media since his death than ever in the media.. why not just come out and make a statement where mj stood with the organization?.
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purps.
Why don't they make a statement and put to rest any of the public's confusion on his JW ties?
Because it makes too much sense. Come on now, we're talking about the people who believe they are woshiping an invisible dude in the sky by giving away magazines.
Poor Mando... sounds like he's just at the beginning of JWness. He's got a long way to go to escape what he's only begun to step into. /sigh
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8846563/jehovahs-witnesses-defenders-of-the-truth-kingdom-ministry-district-convention.
yiz.
"Theocratic Warfare" wow what an utter joke. How does occupying a seat twice a week at a KH, giving away magazines on random topics every Saturday morning, and lying to protect your ass even remotely resemble any type of warfare?
not 144k....only 18,000. the celestial masters believed that there was an upcoming apocalypse that would nearly destroy humanity.
only 18,000 adherents of the celestial master who had the right balance of qi would survive the disaster.
[16] these were the seed people that would repopulate the earth after the destruction.[17].
" If someone ejaculated too often, their life would be shortened." - Crap, I'm not gonna make it to 30 :-(
always wanted to use the "mind chokehold" on some elders....."okay brothers to conclude our meeting we will sing........aaaah....uhhhh.....can't breath....jehoo......arrr.
" or reach out towards the microphone and have it "levitate" into my hand, jedi style, and then say; {vader deep voice}"do not underestimate the power of the darkside...{deep breathing} or the "jedi mind trick"..."you don't need to see my service report...i'm not the brother your looking for....".
if satan gave me these powers i would hand over my pissy little soul for sure...i welcome the dark lord!
Sweet idea - I'd love to have the power to move objects with the force like Vader. I'd knock the brother's notes off the podium over and over again, pull the seat out from under some of the fat bro's and sisters. Man, it would be a blast.
my life has reached to a dead end...i'm stuck and there is no way out.
i was inactive for 6 years and i'm disfellowshiped for the past 3. i would never think that my life would have been in this terrible mess.. .
i wasn't planned to be disfellowshiped by my "wife" turned me in to the elders for apostasy 2 times!!!
My heart goes out to you mate. There are some very common elements between your story and mine. After being stuck in a loveless house with an utterly closed-minded JW wife things just exploded. We're not in the process of getting a divorce. I'm so sorry that you have to go through this, and can completely understand why you hate the WT so much.
does anyone know frome experience ... when does it end?.
the shunning.. after you have been reinstated and you think you are back to square 1 ... then it all goes south.. it's like you were still df'd.
don't post "what did i expect" sort of thing.
"By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves." - John 13:35
There's the loving, judgemental, clique-ish true Christian congregation at their best for you. Welcome back to the fold, now chalk up a ton of hours knocking on doors to give away magazines that no one wants, and parrot answers from the WT every week and maybe we'll like you again.