it has been a good 8 years away from my area, a good 10 years + since i was regularly at meetings.
a good 12 years since i was hesitantly active.. it is a slow process but it does happen.
i now feel no connection to the belief system beyond memories.
We left in 2010 and it feels like alot of other ideas i used to have that I've changed my mind about. Since i wasn't raised with it the experience has now become like an episode on my life of possible answers. i've made my share of mistakes and held wrong ideas and now moved on. It's maybe easier w/o baggage like JW family, children and childhood history.
It's great to feel the mental freedom
i was expecting you, but not so early in the day.. i saw you walk up to my neighbor fred's house last week while i was out getting the newspaper, once again tossed into the bushes by a careless newspaper boy.
today, it's the usual routine of rising at dawn, fetching the paper from the bushes -- where else?
-- and settling into my comfy, tattered wing back with the first of several cups of coffee.
To everything turn turn turn there is a season turn turn turn and a time to every purpose under heaven
a time to embrace
a time to refrain from embracing
i was expecting you, but not so early in the day.. i saw you walk up to my neighbor fred's house last week while i was out getting the newspaper, once again tossed into the bushes by a careless newspaper boy.
today, it's the usual routine of rising at dawn, fetching the paper from the bushes -- where else?
-- and settling into my comfy, tattered wing back with the first of several cups of coffee.
a lady walks into harrods.
she looks around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it.
as she bends over to look more closely, she unexpectedly farts.very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone noticed her little woops and prays that a sales person was not anywhere near.as she turns around, her worst nightmare materializes in the form of a salesman standing right behind her good looking as well.cool as a cucumber, he displays all of the qualities one would expect of a professional in a store like harrods.he politely greets the lady with, good day, madam.
And so the generations pass like rhinos that are passing gas
the sheep believe their on the brink as prophecy begins to stink
dear fellow janitors/ex-janitors:.
after some nearly 60 years scrubbing away (i started early), whistling a happy tune, i'm turning in my mop and mop bucket.
my body has said, "no more!
CoCo you must always write
especially when the money's tight
your the grammar man for sure
and writing really is the cure
Take Care
i was looking at the archive of the books of the wts, and when i fall on the cover of this book of 1933, i can't empeach me to think, when i saw the nman in black, to think at the today's wts!.
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the goats are landing on the shore in fancy boats with drinks galore
the sheep are standing on the beach their little voices start to screech
look at the goats they laugh and dance and some are wearing real tight pants
but we know they are going to die when vicious angels fill the sky
this thought makes sheep feel really fine they want to watch as birdies dine
and so the generations pass like rhinos that are passing gas
the sheep believe their on the brink but prophecy just starts to stink
i met an aging, well, late sixties, pioneer sister a few days back, from a congregation four removes away, and a different circuit to my old congo.
i have known her since i was a kid.. i wasn't quite sure at first if she knew our "status" as we exchanged pleasantries, but it soon became clear she knew exactly our situation, that we walked away a few years ago.. she asked me about my views on life now, and listened respectfully, and said she appreciated my view, but a couple of questions that she threw at me, as in the thread title, showed that she was surprised that mrs phizzy and i had not gone off the rails after we left.. the mind control goes so very deep does it not ?
she was surprised that our marriage hadn't failed, and that we were now happy.. i wonder if she will ever make the connection that the jw org has lied to her about those of us who leave ?.
i guess 99.9 % of ex-jw's here could have predicted as much .
armageddon didn't happen in 1914. it didn't happen in 1925. it didn't happen in 1975. and it did not happen in 2014. since the wt society first predicted a world's end when their organization started in 1879 - 126 years have passed which according to any dictionary in any human language 126 years comprises of 4 separate generations each totaling 30 years each.
plus 6 years into a 5th generation.
Where has all the great crowd gone long time passing
where has all the great crowd gone long time ago
where has all the great crowd gone
gone to graveyards everyone
when will they ever learn when will they ever learn
ive not seen him on this new site--or do i need new specs.?
its usually hard to miss the old bugger
Outlaw
Have you seen the mutant spider dog?
not of your own accord would you slip away and leave this fragile and wounded man unattended.
i love you deeply, but, i admit, erratically.
my flaws are manifold.
I often read many men lamenting the fact that their wives won't leave the org but sometimes it's the wife that's ready to push the eject button at whatever cost. i wonder what they would do if their wife said I'm finished with them and then still breathing fire insists that they move thousands of miles away from the offending thing. Then she finally settles down when they start a new life in a new city where they don't know anyone.
