Hi Odrade,
I'm just checking in here.....WOW.....I sent you a PM to answer your questions......let me know if you need anything else.....I can call you.....
sorry, don't know how much you're on here, or check your pm, kind of time-sensitive, and i know i'm being cryptic, sorry.
i sent you pm..
Hi Odrade,
I'm just checking in here.....WOW.....I sent you a PM to answer your questions......let me know if you need anything else.....I can call you.....
just wanted to introduce myself.... .
i am a secret fader but since reading this forum i feel i am alot more confident about telling my family/friends that i don t go to the meetings and inactive.. my hubby is also a fader with me...we kind of drifted after my first baby was born.
she is now 11.. it all started with my mom who started studying with my cousin when i was about 15. while she was studying i also started studying (i was about 16).
hi and welcome.....great people here
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i realized i was hi-jacking another thread so i thought i would start my own topic.. one of my favorite movie scenes is the "to tip or not to tip" scene in reservoir dogs.
i don't care for all the blood in tarantino movies but he is, without a doubt, a genius.. .
This is one of my all time favorite scenes.
LOVE IT...especially the unspoken relationship between the king and his queen
at her recent thread, changeling was asking us if there are more men than women leaving the org.
lets find out.. .
i am a male.
male
apologies if this is old news.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giol10a6fvw&feature=related.
Surreal.
I can't believe I used to give those talks.
That has got to be one of the lamest.....absolutely RIDICULOUS things I've ever listened to.
By the way...I drive a car, which was invented by Henry Ford.....therefore, we 'overlap'.......and are part of the same generation.
When they cameraman scans the crowd....its the same old thing......half the people are day dreaming......the other half are passionately taking notes......
This new 'generations' change is an epic teaching..... and the greater majority can't tell you anything about it. Nothing. Nada. The speaker himself sounds less than confident...... like he is trying hard to NOT mess it up.
i was a jehovah's witness for 10 long years and during that time i developed the opinion that most of the world knew what we believed, but chose to ignore it and go about doing their own thing.
then in the almost 18 years i have been out, i have come to understand that the outside world knows very little about jw's.
other than they don't take blood transfusions and do not celebrate holidays, most people have no idea what we believe and only think of them as another offbeat religion among many.. did anyone else think that the jw religion was more known than it actually is?.
The sad thing?
Outlaw is so correct.......that even JW's could care less about missing JW's......
i just finished all 3 days of the dc and, for what it's worth, wanted to get down some of the highlights i enjoyed.
i went with family and i only did it for them, and hope to never attend another assembly ever again.. .
the whole thing was pretty boring and uncomfortable due to the stadium style seating which doesn't favour my long legs and ac being blasted too high.. .
Wow gutted......I'm really sorry. I feel terrible for you.
This was the first DC that I missed. My family went..... it was hard and I too have been in a depression most of the weekend.
Its all very sad. I wish I had something encouraging to say..... but I've walked away...
another thread has set me off ...the one about anniversaries ...and i read an extract that blondie posted on there....suddenly i am soooo bl**dy furious...so indignant!!!!.
why did we allow a bunch of men to dictate to us not only what we believed, but even how we parented our kids,and then even how we spent our free time?????
how could we allow this stuff?????.
We must be on the same cycle Loz........
I've had a weird weekend myself.......just angry.....mad as hell. My family went to one day of the DC...... that always makes me ill.
i was a jehovah's witness for 10 long years and during that time i developed the opinion that most of the world knew what we believed, but chose to ignore it and go about doing their own thing.
then in the almost 18 years i have been out, i have come to understand that the outside world knows very little about jw's.
other than they don't take blood transfusions and do not celebrate holidays, most people have no idea what we believe and only think of them as another offbeat religion among many.. did anyone else think that the jw religion was more known than it actually is?.
I'm consistently surprised how little JW's know about JW's....
99% couldn't tell you anything about the Bible
99% couldn't tell you anything about the history of their faith
Its shocking, appalling and generally pisses me off
people, please don't be angry at me, but do you sometimes ask yourselves this question?
i do..
Will accept that you are in clear......CLEAR disobedience of the Bible as a JW? That JW's are nothing more than 'clashing cymbols? (1 Cor. 13)
That you're clearly going against the wishes of the 'founder' of JW's......er......Bible Students? (see Russell's will)
I appreciate your devotion...........but you continue to post without answering the many questions posed to you by several posters.
Jehovah's Witnesses do NOT follow the Bible. That should concern you.