bemused? I'm not sure if anything is writen but it is implied as an EXJW I snickered when I read this post cuz that is the ridiculous stuff we were taught.
Great post made me realize how free I am now
FS
the governing body not only lies to it's members about their true history but also about life itself, worldly people and former members.. here are some of those lies that come to my mind.. .
"jw's are the happiest people on earth" -.
fact: depression, anxiety, fear of punishment, paranoia, is what jw's live with every day.
bemused? I'm not sure if anything is writen but it is implied as an EXJW I snickered when I read this post cuz that is the ridiculous stuff we were taught.
Great post made me realize how free I am now
FS
look at the recent videos that this bunch of old out of touch with reality governing body has spent time and money(corporation assets) on.
telling the deaf how disqusting jehovah finds looking at you masterbate(clearly a sign of some sort of childish magical thinking) and the one where they throw a little tots gift toy in the garbage because jehovah(corporation's sock puppet) don't like magic, making the the poor kid feel like he will shrivel up and die of old age like adam & eve did at 900+ years old, if he don't hurry up and get rid of that cheap plastic wizzard toy that might perhaps be demonized or something.. i'm telling you guy these guys are trapped into making bad decision because of this imaginary friend.
expect much more in the way of infantile decision making from these delusional individuals.
the first time I saw these i honestly thought they were a spoof picking on JW's
i just noticed that the movie noah has been officially rated pg-13 in the us.
now all of the jws who were waiting anxiously to see if they could go see it will flock to see the movie.
i have heard a couple jws say "i hope it isnt rated r so i can go see it".
I'm going to see it if just to remind myself how silly of a belief it is
it seems that in my neck of the woods there is no social interaction between jws outisde of fs and the kh.
the last get together was 3 summers ago.
other than that there is no bond.
I had a social congregation in NY but when they trippled the amount of Bethelites in the hall it started to get less. The Bethel rules became everyones rules. In WV small hall we always had "get togethers" but again it wasn't that hard to get less than 30 people together. Now I go to parties
click here: pit bull mauls 2 jehovah's witnesses - "it was biting her head, calves, stomach" - youtube what a horrifying thing to happen to these two women.
shana
I ignored all signs going d2d had some close calls. Most painful was getting rammed by a goat. Ouch
wow!
i've just realised i've reached 1000 posts on the board.. this is a personal milestone and so i think i should take a moment to reflect on the last 18 plus months.. in that time i have completely lost my faith in bible, in jw doctrine and in any kind of hope for a new world as described by the gb and believed by me for 40+ years.
i have stepped down as a ministerial servant after 20 years.
Good for you!! Lots of progress is such a short time. I hope you can reach your family. It can be a frustrating chalange.
Happy 1000th
FS
respectful_observer's thread on guy pierce's death,.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/277198/1/heard-a-rumor-guy-pierce-died-this-morning#.uyq-pv21x1n.
got me thinking.
Joel was my CO when I was in West Virginia. My ex-husband liked him. Figures.... Yes a self rightious hot head. His wife was sweet, bland not much gumption cried if her husband was late fear that he died and went to heaven. Their daughter last I knew is DF'ed they shun her. shock shock....
Oh the good old days
as i have mentioned before, i love photography, and specially a technique called hdr.
hdr stands for high dynamic range, and it means the ratio of the "lightness" of the lightest spot in the picture to the darkest.. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/high-dynamic-range_imaging.
nice job
there are so many directives for elders, pioneers, ministerial servants and "publishers", it is mind boggling!!!.
to fulfill all of their expectaions, you would have to be perfect!.
i must say, that i really don't know how some do it, every day, ever week....i wonder how long some of the elders that frequent this board will still push the flock like the watchtower says they must..
I don't think I truly understood the amount of rules I was under until I left. It was a gradual awakening. I had to learn how to think and what I thought was good or bad. To this day I'm still a work in progress, I'm OK with that. I am OK with not knowing the answers to everything. I never did but thought I did.
hello my fellow "apostates".
just wanted to say hi.
i'm still in the borg but mentally out.
Welcome :) we all leave at different speeds and reasons. It's a hard road but worth it :)