i've heard a little about this business, but i'm curious as to what you all think about it.
jw and exjw women - do you/did you believe it and abide by it?
jw and exjw men - do you still believe it?
I always viewed my marriage as an equal partnership, so if I run up debts, my wife is responsible for half of them !
Wobble, you'll be happy to know that the WTS half agrees with you. While the husband gets to make all the decisions, the wife is held equally accountable for the consequences even if she tried to resist the husband's choices.
i've been a lurker in this site for some time.
i am not a jehovah's witness, but was here because i wanted to know more about the organization, since i am in love with a jw woman.
she recently rejected me, on the grounds that "she would not risk her relationship with jehovah for someone who would die in (snap fingers)".
Nice to see you making use of the board, dgp! Some women just don't want a mate badly enough. My mother became a single JW at 38 years old. She wanted very badly to find a new husband, but there were no elligable men around and she wouldn't consider dating a non-JW. Now that she's out of the cult, she's free to date whomever she wants--but she's realized she doesn't want to. At this point in her life she's satisfied being single. There's a part of her that would enjoy some love and romance, but overall she feels like it's more hassle than fun.
Generally, the only reason witness women date non-witnesses is because they really want a mate but there are no JW men available to them. It's likely that either the woman you're interested in feels like she has other options, or she just isn't interested in finding a partner. In other words, it's not so much a rejection of you as it is a rejection of having a partner at all.
...it just isn't big enough!.
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Here's the stupidity in the "we're better because we don't pass a plate" argument: I end up putting MORE money in the damn box than I do on a plate. When I went to the UU church, I put in a couple of dollars to support the services. If I went every sunday, that would cost me $5-10 per month. This seems to be normal because I noticed everyone else doing the same thing. At the KH, I put $20 in the box once a month. My mother put in $50. And we are on the low end of the financial income scale. You can milk so much more money out of people with a box than a plate.
i don't know if this one was posted, but i thought you might want to see what kind of garbage they tell the young ones.. stop missing meetings, stop setting college and career goals.
run for jehovah:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8t6rkp5mq&feature=player_embedded#.
Gary, that was 10 years ago. They no longer have an exact date picked out, but they are still telling everyone that it's likely to happen any second now. And when you're young and don't realize the history, you buy into that mentality pretty easily.
i don't know if this one was posted, but i thought you might want to see what kind of garbage they tell the young ones.. stop missing meetings, stop setting college and career goals.
run for jehovah:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8t6rkp5mq&feature=player_embedded#.
Gary, the real reason is that college increases your thinking ability and too many people who learn to think quite being JWs. They're not stupid. They know what makes their numbers go down.
The individual reason is a little different. I didn't go to college because I believed that armageddon was imminent. It would most likely come while I was in college, and I would be wasting time getting an obsolete education instead of saving lives by preaching to people. That's why I dropped out of high school to pioneer. I wasn't good at many things, so I put all my effort into being a good JW. Good JWs are patted on the head for pioneering, not college.
i need some help /advice.......think i'm finally starting to go crazy..... .
within a year...we've come out of org and lost all our friends...... we get shunned by all along with family members .... we have moved house....... and my youngest son ,7yrs, had to be taken out of his school because he couldn't cope with the shunning of me and his dad....... and recently i lost my husband, and my kids have lost their dad....he walked out on us 6weeks ago.. .
my friends....fellow apostates, have been invaluable to me and have been there from the word go.....i love them all so much... but lately, after doing so well and coping admirably considering.........he texted me tonight to say that ....some of my friends "have more than one face and would have me believe they only have my best interests at heart all of the time.
If he knew that some of your friends were bad mouthing you behind your back, he would taunt you about it in detail. The very fact that he's not giving names or specifics proves he's making it up. I went through something similar as a JW. My ex-husband's best friend informed us that people were bad-mouthing us, me in particular, all over the kingdom hall, including elders. I tracked it down and it turned out the only person bad-mouthing and spreading rumors was him! That's how some JWs operate. Don't believe a word out of his lying mouth.
As always, Yknot's advice is excellent.
my wife is decorating the house for halloween as i am typing this.. we are not satisfied with just a pumpkin and some flying witch sticker on the door, no sir.
our house will be so scary when we're through, that even the jw's will be afraid to drive by it.. "don't go down that street" as br.
car captain admonishes everyone, "that house is not of this world, its a lurking place of demons!
High five, dissed.
Sylvia, have you tried Taco Bell's new black taco?
Ok, but only if I get to cop a feel while I'm at it.
(((((WCS grope )))))))
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the images within images are incredible, but the "sum of all the parts" is .... http://www.visionsfineart.com/ocampo/aa_index.html.
coco.
Very cool.
