it is useless for you to contact me, i already know that according to the new update of the governing body, you can contact me.. but the problem is... you can only invite me to meetings, and at most say "hello" once i'm there.. i already know.. so, if you really want to know how i'm doing, even if it's irrelevant for the purposes of this contact, i'll tell you.. i am not well.
i'm depressed and full of psychotropic drugs.
of course, being isolated from everyone i knew and loved didn't help.. here's how i am.. and for a thousand reasons, there is no question of becoming an "associate" in the congregation again.. ergo, it's useless.. there's no point in contacting me, because that's the only goal.. it's not out of a rush of love.
What a heart rending letter.
I feel for you. So many of us can relate. It seems to be the thing that exjws who have moved on and up after leaving. Who have left young, healthy, full of ambition and thrived out in the world, are interviewed publicly everywhere.
Not so much those of us whose pain is such that we haven't. That's not so say our success stories don't feel pain because every damn one of us does and then some😡
You have my sincere best wishes and empathy for what you're going through.
while having my first strong black coffee of the day, i was thinking about what may be to come next as the org.
rapidly goes mainstream, and this is what i came up with :.
1) they will introduce for sunday, the after meeting fellowship, a time for just chatting but with the added bonus of coffee and snacks.
Phiz & NottyThey could get around the liability issue like schools do now....that you bring your own nibbles in, in order to congregate (and then everyone shares anyway 😂)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/former-jehovahs-witness-elder-to-stand-trial-accused-of-rape/103612422.
Maybe not in an appointed position "of power" at the time the incidents that have enough evidence to be taken to court took place, but you can bet your bottom dollar they started when he was an elder. Probably deleted him when complaints started piling up....
How sickening they get called homosexual rather than seen as victims. As Blues said it's all so sickeningly familiar.
let's be honest, there's a stigma to the name jehovah's witness.
if they are going more mainstream.
i imagine the first recommendation was a name change.
Stan Why did the org pay an outside consultancy (if true ) to show them where they have gone wrong ?.
we could have shown them-for free.
let's be honest, there's a stigma to the name jehovah's witness.
if they are going more mainstream.
i imagine the first recommendation was a name change.
Vidiot With what? Pensions and duct tape?
I tend to think the older ones who donated the bulk of the wealth Watchtower invested - and now lives off of the interest from - (mostly converts) have now passed away.
The boomer generation - born in elders & pioneers that dedicated their whole lives to the cause, failing to prepare for old age have very little to donate to the org. Believing the end would come they're barely scraping by themselves.
I've never understood the tattoo ban (at least in discreet areas)because it's not forbidden in the NT. If they were done prior to baptism it's acceptable, so it seems a bit unfair. Also they're always banging on about dress & grooming standards being acceptable within a person's local culture etc. I would have thought earrings and nose rings definitely fall within some cultural norms, India say?
I mean all the boys where I used to work wore earrings....and moustaches ...plaid shirts....501's....cowboy hats! (So many career choices in Soho🤔 lumberjacks, cowboys, sailors, mechanics! 😉😂😂)
so, i thought i'd start a thread about any beautiful photos of places you've been to, or just beautiful photos.. i'll go first .... .
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copyright: daniel burton.. this is bøur, a little village in the faeroe islands, population 74.. i've never been there but i'd love to visit one day.
TonusOH You didn't happen to summon an eldritch old god while you were there, did you?
No, but he takes his bed sheets down to the auld Bean Nighe to be washed, doon by the wee burn there...😉
(That's Slim summoning her up, down bottom left)
so, i thought i'd start a thread about any beautiful photos of places you've been to, or just beautiful photos.. i'll go first .... .
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copyright: daniel burton.. this is bøur, a little village in the faeroe islands, population 74.. i've never been there but i'd love to visit one day.
This is the view from my mother in laws in New zealand. Mount Taranaki.
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
Er....this might be a stupid question (or answer) but why doesn't someone just give the court his address? We know it don't we?
folks: regarding all the recent changes about dis-fellowshipping and time for re-instatement.
(and, even speaking to persons who are dis-fellowshpped.
) back in 1972, a new book was released at the summer district convention, that replaced the yellow-colored "lamp": book.
Scenic viewer I remember a Circuit Overseer asking that exact question in one of his talks, but his answer was different. What did he say? 'Someone else will be along to help that person.'
Oh brother! How can a so-called Christian not see the resemblance of his words to the behaviour of the priest and Levite in Jesus' parable of "the good Samaritan"??
I do remember the era of families being allowed to talk to DF relatives...only no spiritual association. That was the mid 70s. Then the rule about DA ones being enforced. I knew there was an 'apostate at Bethel' and learned the truth about Ray in the mid 2000s.
