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miseryloveselders
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When did you stop supporting the WT with $$$ ??
by wobble ini stopped whilst still an active witness, just cancelled my direct debit and told myself i would put money in the box to cover things like literatrash and heat and light sometimes, and sometimes i did , but that dropped off.. the thing is, i cannot really pin down what my motive was at the time, i still thought then that it was god's org.. but i just stopped giving them money.
why ?
i dunno.. when and why did you stop giving them money ?.
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miseryloveselders
My husband gives a nice check every month. I never gave them a dime of my money,I had to buy food for my children. Tired of giving for CO new cars when my kids were wearing second hand clothes and we were just getting by with food and house payments. I know the CO gets a nice green handshake from my husband and yet I don't get a dime from his for food, clothes and other expenses. Just this week the CO's wife had a special list of foods she likes and he got a copy. This broad will only eat special foods like brown eggs (4.19 per dozen) special chicken not fried or BBQ, baby bottles of water, turkey, steak (must be soft) only apple juice or cranapple, frozen spinach, it goes on forever. She also put what she doesn't like on the list. Sure enough my husband purchased food for her, yet nothing for our house. THIS IS REALLY SICK. They need to give up off their rumps and get jobs. Why put this expense on other people. And get this they wanted enough food so that they would have plenty of leftovers.
Good post. Welcome to the board Tiffy. What you said is scriptural too when considering 2 Thessalonians 3. They don't care though, cuz they're getting the best of it.
I can't recall when I stopped contributing, but its one of the few anonymous ways of thumbing your nose at those vultures in Bethel.
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Evidently--Our Light of Truth (Heb. 11:1)
by sd-7 in(to the tune of that song 'do more--as the nazirites did').
1. evidence--how lacking it can be.
in explaining the truth sometimes!.
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miseryloveselders
The exclamation point makes it even more convincing.
evidently.
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miseryloveselders
Terry, you must have been a nightmare for the average householder LOL.
someone needs a hug . . .
You're probably right, I am cranky right now. Anymore I think love is the only emotion that can be used to take advantage of other people. Everything from sticking with this accursed religion due to the love of family, to women being pampered on Valentines Day. It really is a screwed up emotion, this love thing. Its a four lettered word, that should be in the same category of other four letter words.
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miseryloveselders
If you say so. Personally I think its overrated. It doesn't get you anything. Fear and hatred seem to be more effective.
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Update on my JC hearing...received the expected news
by SweetBabyCheezits inin case anyone's interested but unaware of my family's case up to this point, here's the original thread:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/198852/5/sbcheezits-judicial-hearing-my-epic-fail-repost-for-ie-users.
so the elders requested a follow-up meeting last week but we were unable to meet at their set time and told them as much.
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miseryloveselders
Northeast here, although it looks like Ireland or the UK outside. People with runny noses and bad perms everywhere.
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Update on my JC hearing...received the expected news
by SweetBabyCheezits inin case anyone's interested but unaware of my family's case up to this point, here's the original thread:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/198852/5/sbcheezits-judicial-hearing-my-epic-fail-repost-for-ie-users.
so the elders requested a follow-up meeting last week but we were unable to meet at their set time and told them as much.
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miseryloveselders
Misery, the wedding is this upcoming weekend. We will turn in our letters of appeal today, succesfully delaying the announcement until after the wedding. I'm thankful for that.
Ya know what, its gloomy and raining where I'm at today, but reading that just made my day!! You and your wife better go to that wedding and have a blast!! Enjoy yourselves, and have a beer and an extra slice of cake for me. That was truly some good news.
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Pissing On JWs That Are Geuninely Searching Here
by minimus ini just want to say something about witnesses who come here just to try to rebel rouse as opposed to jws that come here and are "searching" or are "active" members in the organization but are reading info on this site.. there's no reason to "beat down" witnesses just because they still go to meetings and we don't.
i've seen some insulting words against present elders and it's unnecessary and judgmental, in my honest opinion.
some jws like to spar with us on this board and it's a losing effort for them in reality.. who knows when or what will make someone actually leave the tentacles of the organization.
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miseryloveselders
I have to ask about the way you worded the above quote... do you still consider yourself a JW, even to yourself or to non-JWs? It's been my observation that even those that have to pretend to some degree because of family or whatever, they still manage to stop referring to themselves as a JW.
I think someone who has mentally freed themselves but has to put on appearances is not really a JW anymore. Sure, their number counts on the WT books, but if you're mentally free, no longer under their influence and are working to undermine the WT control on friends/family still in, you're a double agent. You're not really a JW...you're an ex-JW working on the inside.
Good question........being honest, I don't know anymore. UC are you playing old man mind games on me? LOL, I don't want to sound like I'm being evasive, but it really does depend on what day you ask me. IF you would have asked me this past weekend, I would have said no. Today though, I still consider myself a JW for the most part, I just don't acknowledge the Governing Body or a Faithful & Discreet Slave any longer. I've mentioned before, there's much I agree with coming out of WT Land. Just so happens to be the handful of issues I do have with them are biggies.
Sticking with the thread topic, I think to some degree some posters might get a little sensitive on here. Its a message board at the end of the day. I always liked what I heard an inmate say once, "if ain't worth killing over, it aint worth fighting or arguing over." I feel the same way. No reason to get overly sensitive by what people post here. At the same time, some posters call themselves dispensing tough love and while not as eloquent as TD or Leolia, their heart is in the right place. So if it comes off crude, we're all big boys and girls, we deal with it. The thought behind it is what counts.
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Pissing On JWs That Are Geuninely Searching Here
by minimus ini just want to say something about witnesses who come here just to try to rebel rouse as opposed to jws that come here and are "searching" or are "active" members in the organization but are reading info on this site.. there's no reason to "beat down" witnesses just because they still go to meetings and we don't.
i've seen some insulting words against present elders and it's unnecessary and judgmental, in my honest opinion.
some jws like to spar with us on this board and it's a losing effort for them in reality.. who knows when or what will make someone actually leave the tentacles of the organization.
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miseryloveselders
I feel so much hostility on this board as of late.........are we active JWs no longer wanted?
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If still "in", how do you feel when praying in front of a group despite being in doubt of your beliefs?
by Crisis of Conscience init happened to me this weekend.
i'm curently "active" and had some long time friends from a different congregation over for dinner.. we went through the formality of praying before the meal.
normally or rather lately i've been passing it off to someone else.
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miseryloveselders
too, am of the skirt wearing class so I don't get asked to pray in front of others much.
I don't say Amen at the hall to the GB/FDS worshiping prayers, but I do assent to decent prayers by a few of the brothers.
This is my take on it too. Most prayers on behalf of a group are neutral enough that all can usually say amen genuinely. I don't say amen when they mention the GB/FDS either. I'll say amen when a Boeing 747 lands in their building during their weekly meeting.