i started reading the book "who wrote the bible" by richard elliot friedman this week.
i'm a little over halfway through it today, and have found it to be quite informative and enlightening.
with every page i read, i realize again what a tiny jw bubble i have spent my life inside.. have you read this book?
Dagney - It's funny when you are a witness, you have to force yourself to believe that there are NO contradictions. Everything is perfect and it has to make sense. But when you back up and read it, it's so jumbled up and confusing. Matthew says one thing, Luke says another.
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question: when you awakened and discovered the truth about "da troof", what did you do with the www money in your service bag?.
i must confess: i took my apostate brother out to lunch and paid for it with my www stash.
i hadn't deposited my money in a long time, so there was about $30 in there.. .
cagefighter - hilarious! What about the hoagies...have they gone bad yet or did they freeze them?
Blondie - i rarely asked for donations either. One time a man agreed to read the magazines and said he would read them. i mentioned the donation arrangement and he threw it back at me and said "please leave". I told him he could have the magazines even with no donation, and he said "remember whose property you are on". So i left. That was a strange reaction I thought. Not sure why it triggered that response.
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I agree - Apocalypse Delayed is a fantastic book.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=12125926.
mistakes were made (but not by me) end class="storytitle" .
end class="captionwrap" end id="featuredcommentsmain12126640" cognitive dissonance: the engine of self-justification.
Looks like a good one..
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i cannot begin to tell you how grateful i am to you!
you reassured me while i was one of the walking wounded.
you know that line from the movie "shadowlands", when the student says to c.s.
Welcome. Glad to have you here.
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i have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.
i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.
(bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).
Snakes - we had almost all rural territory, so I never got to use the "4 people pair up and I will work alone" trick. That's a great one though.
question: when you awakened and discovered the truth about "da troof", what did you do with the www money in your service bag?.
i must confess: i took my apostate brother out to lunch and paid for it with my www stash.
i hadn't deposited my money in a long time, so there was about $30 in there.. .
Funny stuff. I quit donating money several years ago. I did the accounts and we always took in more than we needed, so I just quit. But I did always turn in donation money from the field.
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i started reading the book "who wrote the bible" by richard elliot friedman this week.
i'm a little over halfway through it today, and have found it to be quite informative and enlightening.
with every page i read, i realize again what a tiny jw bubble i have spent my life inside.. have you read this book?
dudeson - Yes, my brother has recommened that to me as an excellent book. It will be one of the next ones that I read. He has it on his bookshelf.
dgp - I agree. And yeah, that would be a pretty interesting bible study.
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i successfully skipped my very first district convention this weekend, after 25 years in the borg.
i spent the day with my disassociated parents - ate breakfast and lunch with them.
felt great.
OTWO - Hopefully the memorial 2010 was my last Jehovah's Witness indoctrination session that I will ever attend in my life.
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i have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.
i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.
(bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).
Sylvia - I never did this when I pioneered back in 1996 - 2000. Only when I burned out around 2005 or so. Then I hated service anyway. So I decided to only go to houses that would be nice.
As George McFly said on Back to the Future: "What if they say no? I just don't think I could take that kind of rejection."
LOL
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