it hard to believe------you don't have the truth.. sometimes, for many----it takes half of your life -- or more---to figure it out.
it was like swimming upstream with lead boots pulling you back in.
and the closer you got to the "real" truth----the further away you strayed from your intimate group.
I had a gut feeling something was not quite right for a long time. My waking up coincided with when high speed internet became available in our city.
I’ve taken the pimo route. I can play the game fairly well it seems. I’m happy now and that’s what counts. I do enough so the elders don’t harass me but not enough so they want me to do more.
who of those passed away jwd/jwn members, do we think of??.
oompah and the lady from australia, are there more??.
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JGnat is doing ok as far as I know. She just doesn’t post here anymore.
have you heard this?
in the country of guatemala, by presidential mandate, all religion meetings should be celebrated only on-line!.
generally speaking, i wonder how worlwide restrictions on religious activities because of the pandemia are affecting them ...and the borg in particular.
I don’t think many want to go back to meetings. Field service was a waste of gasoline and with the new privacy laws it was difficult to follow up on interest. Watch for Kingdom Hall for sale signs in a town near you.
well this is almost funny to me at this point.
i've been out since i was 19 and i'm now 65. i have uber jw cousins that of course now shun me big time.
funny how when my uber jw started declining in health all of a sudden they "needed" me and i had to help with her care blah blah after being shunned for years.. my mom passed away a couple of years ago and i sent out the death/memorial announcements to her friends far and near.
You’ve been out for 45 years and the jw rumour mill hasn’t sent her a memo yet?
with the passing minimus, we all may think about what this site has meant to us personally.
i lurked here for quite a few years before becoming active as a poster....still i consider what i have done to be very slight compared with others.
may minimus rest in peace and a big thank you to all that have helped me here over the years.. a new member that is a pimo elder (reservations) posted here about how he could wake people up while remaining a pimo elder.
Very true with Jws and any other abusive group.
Pay yourself first
a thread in honour of our departed friend minimus.
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Asking questions and allowing people to come to their own conclusions is the only way to convince people their thinking is flawed.
a few months back, one of my uncles who was an elder, asked the co, why jehovah would allow the door to door preaching work, to come to an abrupt end.
this was when my uncle was starting to have serious doubts about the organization.. the co told him to be patient, and hang in there, because the governing body was on top of things and in time would explain what is happening regarding the preaching work.. my uncle asked; “what do you mean?”.
co said; “focus on the wt study articles in the coming months” .
The tract work. Somebody in bethel ordered the wrong sized paper by mistake and they had to figure out a way to save face.
so picture this, you are suddenly withdrawing troops after 2 decades in a country and, well, its all gone to shit.. how do you ensure that your vulnerable citizens and allies can get out when the airport is surrounded and no one can get through?.
option 1: it's a trick question surely?
you don't get yourself into this mess in the first place - you withdraw the citizens first, not last, duh!.
It’s hard to believe but there is someone with a lower IQ than Justin Trudeau.
i’m reservations, pimo elder.
i’m in no position to leave the organisation, maybe some people will see that as weak or whatever, but we have to all go down our own path in life.. i would like to be able to wake people up in my congregation, how do you think best to do this?
any ideas?.
If you are in a position to have access to the congregation records shred them before you leave. Tell everyone that had “wrongdoing” in their file that their sins have been forgiven. That would make the next circuit overseers visit interesting.
i remember you weren’t supposed to picket or be involved in labour unrest.
is this still the jw policy?.
A union is a marketing board. The product collectively is labour. I see no difference than belonging to a coop.
