good day all:.
while at work a couple days ago, i got a call that my grandma passed away.
she would've been 86 next week, but she still lived her life...so i'm getting emails ect from my home congregation from folks just checking up on me.
Grandmothers are the best! I share the pain you must feel at this time. It's a beautiful thing that she was able to live a full life.
*The comment about the resurrection was typical JW-speak for "I have no idea how to be a friend at this time so I'll just say something stupid...."
i remember being in high school hoping i would make it to see graduation sometimes even praying for it as i could feel the end was near.
but i graduated leaving behind prospects for school because i knew i needed to work hard in service to prove i deserved the real life.
i heard a talk at a convention that nearly guaranteed this system would be wrapping up soon and it scalded my mind with assurance that i was not sacrificing for anything.. i remember in the keynote address the speaker said we would only be back for another convention if god wanted.
Hi Sammy, you young thing! Best wishes on all you want to accomplish in your life!
I would say my biggest loss was the freedom and time to live everyday life the way I wanted to. Definitely, not an option when you're pursuing full-time service during your youth.
hello, lately in our local newspaper i've noticed a weekly column that is written by a current elder.
when i left 6 years ago he was the po.
and for some added background info , if he saw someone who was df'ed or "spiritually weak" he would go out of his way, and do his best to avoid them.
"Now that the stage is set, enjoy the hypocrisy !"
LOL. Hypocrisy indeed.
JWs have such a hard time recognizing who they really are as people.
my jw friend of 20 years, the first one i ever met, the one who got me into jwism in the first place, unfriended me from facebook without explanation.
other jws who have unfriended me at least called me names (apostate) and told me they were unfriending me, but they were no loss.
but someone who's been your friend since you were 13...and no explanation...i'd think 20 years- 20 years!
We haven't been shunned in overt ways...yet. But getting the side eye and hearing the gossiping/rumors inflicts a very painful sting.
Hang in there.
my name is jack harper, tech49.
new here, been lurking for many months now.
a brief history:.
Hey Jack.
just wanting to post an experience by a former bethelite.
the first part was just published with the other two coming overt the next couple of weeks.
click the link.
Mr. CC remembers the parties involved. I can't seem to place them at the moment. The adultery scandals at bethel were always a lot of fun.
does anyone know where i can find this?
is there a pdf version of it anywhere to be found?.
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Man, that brochure was from the devil himself. What a bunch of youth/fun-robbing garbage in those pages.
the noolite in the july study rag, is that all the annointed will be in heaven when armageddy starts.. they already proved from the scriptures that there is not going to be a rapture of annointed.
(as a study pointed out they would "never" go back to a teaching they had disproved with the babble).
since mark sanderson is about 48, is in beth hell and receives the very best of health care, we can count on him living until at least 70 - 80. unless he dies of cancer or obesity or an accident.
"Armaggedy" ...roflmao
Seriously though, that is a cryin' shame.
a real dwelling for the faithful.
dwelling for his name people today?
8, 9. in what ways did jehovah prove to be a. real dwelling for jacob, and what can we learn.
Are they still babbling on about nothing?
leaving the witnesses was for me a result of asking myself distubing questions, which infomed me " mike its not what you think, its how you think" and as a result iam what was a dub but is a dub no more .so here i am hete today !!.
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Good for you.
