" at the bottom of the image on the back of the invitation raises some eyebrows, but last night in the routine district convention article during the service meeting, i caught that one of the paragraphs mentioned that we would be encouraged to keep a copy of the tract in hand for a discussion during sunday's last talk.
my guess is, there is going to be some new revelation about what the "?
" represents, or some other fangled idea.
You all are HILARIOUS!!
It just very well might be worth a phone call to my still JW family to hear their guesses on the new Twinkle Toes explaination. How can they take this seriously?!
So happy that a Prosthetic Toe Prophecy isn't what is holding my llife in the balances...unbelievable!
Come to think of it, every prophecy they have invented is a prosthetic, never a part of the real thing
i have been df-ed for almost 9 years.
just out of curiosity, has anyone decided to find another religion or belief after being jw?
i struggle with my feelings, my mom and brother, aunt, cousins are all jw.
Hello anniegirl~
The beauty of it is that there is no need to feel pressure or urgent sense of fear to choose the 'right' way..
You can take your sweet time and discover who you really are and what you are truly drawn to. And no one can judge it , unless you let them.
Maybe we are always finding our ways to express a deep spiritual need inside, that need for what is beautiful and what brings humans together, a way to revere nature and all the awesomeness in the universe.
I call it a journey, this life. No one has all the answers. It's ok to be 'wrong' or a freak or change your mind. We can all help each other along the way. Go with your heart
There have been some excellent book recommendations here~Crisis of Conscience, Combatting Cult Mind Control and others that are absolutely priceless for people in our unique place to recover and help empty out the poison. But then I get what you are saying about what to fill yourself up with~ I say enjoy the day, love yourself..and love others. If you are looking for some peaceful words, I found some in a book called "The Four Agreements" by Miguel Ruiz. There is no one way, but I feel happier knowing that I share the planet with people like him~ The ways of nature and the Goddess are something to look into ;)
Amie
it was a beautiful, sunny day.
i was in the supermarket doing an early morning shop when i see an old friend of the family, a jw sister.. she asked me if i'd gone to the memorial and i told her no.
she said that the end is so close what with all the earthquakes and brother truthseeker, you need to come back to jehovah otherwise you will die and so will your children.
chickpea has a great way with words~
this kind of talk is their emotional defense mechanism. My parents also alluded to my imminent death at 'armageddon'. When we were having a discussion in which I expressed that I'll never be ok with something so unnatural as shunning your own child over difference in beliefs and world-views. I asked, are you really ok with this?
The response was: yes we are, it helps us to prepare for your eventual death at 'armageddon'. Surely meant to shock me 'to my senses'.
it seems now it's longer and longer between times that i come to visit this site...but there is a deep feeling inside that calls me to connect with others whose lives have been ravaged in some way by the religion.
this even a few years after leaving it all.. sometimes when it is quiet, i reflect on how it used to be..how i now live such a different life.
walking away from the religion...there are no words to describe the sense of personal freedom and strength that has followed.
Thanks! It's true! Always someone there! It feels good to know this. Just to know this inside that we are all here.
thank you randy for creating out of thin air the freeminds ministy reaching out to people damned and damaged by the watchtower.. you've been at it indefatigably and with little money for---what?
thirty+ years?
bravo!.
Yes! Thanks to the creator of the site absolutely.
Thanks to everyone here for sharing pieces of themselves. There is love here, and acceptance, and much to ponder. And ridiculously funny people that are warm, hearty medicine to a wound.
With my love,
Amie
it seems now it's longer and longer between times that i come to visit this site...but there is a deep feeling inside that calls me to connect with others whose lives have been ravaged in some way by the religion.
this even a few years after leaving it all.. sometimes when it is quiet, i reflect on how it used to be..how i now live such a different life.
walking away from the religion...there are no words to describe the sense of personal freedom and strength that has followed.
So glad to be able to come here and bring up the religion chat, and there is always someone there...
mrs picard and i have both got the week off, so we have decided to spend the day on the hollodeck.. breakfast in bed, followed by a long walk in the countryside.. not a cloud in view.. salad lunch in the garden ( some of our firsthome grown produce of the year), along with a generous glass of red wine.. then a siesta in the hamack.
its a double hamack, but mrs picard declined to join me, prefering reading her new novel.. i didnt sleep, but lazily watched the comings and goings of the birds nesting in the trees above my head, the insects, and the sunlight flickering through the leaves.. to top it all, mrs picard has offered to take me out to the restaurant this evening.. if there is a god, i'd like to publically thank him for this wonderful day, and present my excuses for not going out in field service for the last 15 years.. and, in the words of karen carpenter, in one of her songs:.
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Yes! Good livin' ! Beautiful! Enjoy it ~
it seems now it's longer and longer between times that i come to visit this site...but there is a deep feeling inside that calls me to connect with others whose lives have been ravaged in some way by the religion.
this even a few years after leaving it all.. sometimes when it is quiet, i reflect on how it used to be..how i now live such a different life.
walking away from the religion...there are no words to describe the sense of personal freedom and strength that has followed.
It seems now it's longer and longer between times that I come to visit this site...but there is a deep feeling inside that calls me to connect with others whose lives have been ravaged in some way by the religion. This even a few years after leaving it all.
Sometimes when it is quiet, I reflect on how it used to be..how I now live such a different life. Walking away from the religion...there are no words to describe the sense of personal freedom and strength that has followed. Exhilaration at getting to really know myself like never before comes rushing over like a fresh waterfall. There has been, and still I have tremendous pain at losing my entire family and life-long friends. There is nothing like being stripped of everything to show you who you really are...and I love who I really am
Hello to anyone out there who daily walks the journey ...and the religion becomes a distant little town we once lived in..
then i guess it's possible to get refriendinstated?.
-sab.
cute
the title pretty much says it all.. it's true that there are many classics that simply can't be topped but it doesn't stop people from trying anyway.
and what do ya know; occasionally someone does succeed.
here i will post at least one notable example.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9gf_sofbm&p=301f39587863d18d&playnext=1&index=3.
i'm still figuring out the copying , hope you can clicck onto the songs..
