this fading business is hard!
there really is no come and go freely in this aweful religion (prison) as i'm finding out more and more.
i missed a couple of meetings and now i was asked a couple of days ago if i was a available for a sheparding calltm in a few weeks; i told them i'd get back to them.
All you need to say to them is, "Thanks but I'm fine. If I need your assistance I will gladly let you know."
If they don't drop it, tell them point blank, hey, is there something someone said about me that I'm being accused of? Because if not, leave me alone." You may be marked as someone that has a bad attitude, but what are they going to do? DF you because you don't need their so-called "help"?
ok where i live in the pacific northwest in january of this year this elder from the hall called a special meeting and gave everyone some papers that he had gotten from some government place on what to put in an emergency bag to grab in case you have to flee your home in seconds.
i thought it was just my husbands hall being all strange and stupid over this.
one older sister said that the elder told everyone they needed three bottles of water for 14 days that is 42 bottles of water plus whatever other stuff they put in there not sure if she got that right because 42 bottles of water is a lot of weight.
BoB (Bug Out Bags as normal people call them) are always advisable to have around. You of course can be the extremists and go overboard on your stocks, but to have a bag with essentials to survive for 3-5 days self-sufficiently, is a good thing.
Remember that in a SHTF (shit hit the fan) situation, do not rely on cell phones to work or being able to get gas easily. The congestion the network receives in a disaster will disable the communications for hours to weeks/months depending on the level and type of disaster. If it is a threat to national security type disaster like 9/11 the government can and will shut down certain levels of communications.
However, if this is done in a Armageddon hype type thing, then I would be very critical of their reasons for being prepared. Loonies and fanatics are not some of the people I want to run into in a SHTF situation!
well, tonight is the reject jesus party.
as most of us are well aware.. however, most of us are not as aware that they are rejecting someone else that is more practical today.
you see, there is a goddess called astaroth, grand-daughter of beelzebub.
It's funny that Ashtar = Esther = Easter. A book of the bible named after a pagan goddess. With all of the credible information out there and accessible, it really shows the information control the organization is excerising.
are you disfellowshipped, disassociated, active, inactive???
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Inactive. Proud of it too. They won't have the pleasure in DF'ing me and I won't DA as that would cave to their rules and I do want to be able to talk to my family, even if they semi-shun me as I am inactive.
i've published part one of a three part series about the menlo park kh scandal.
http://ex-jw.com/menlo-park-elder-tells-all-1.
this has been a tough one for me.. the original federal case was dismissed in january.
Ooops!
Forgot to add that the body of elders that was restructered sent a letter to the branch questioning the reason as to the overhaul of the body. I know several on that body and a couple of them were ones to question the mistreatment.
So yes, this is all part of the lockdown and squeeze.
i've published part one of a three part series about the menlo park kh scandal.
http://ex-jw.com/menlo-park-elder-tells-all-1.
this has been a tough one for me.. the original federal case was dismissed in january.
I haven't posted in a while, over a year probably. But what I can say is that the rumors going around are starting to be based on fact.
An old hall I used to attend just had the whole elder body restructered. The CoBOE left, the Service Overseer DF'd, brought in an elder from a neighboring congo to be the interim CoBOE until the replacement arrives from the regional branch! I would copy and paste an email from my mother who still attends, but that would be giving out way too much detail and information.
The society is clamping down and wielding a larger stick, in fact, they've upgraded to a large baseball bat.
Indeed, "the beatings will continue until morale improves". We've only started to see the beginning.
as 2011 will be drawing to a close in less than four weeks from now, we thought it would be a good opportunity to have one final push for responses at the global online survey.. the survey, unless you were unaware, can be found at www.jwsurvey.org.
some of you might be interested in a brief review of how the survey is doing as things stand.
here are the results as of the end of november:.
Done!
so i'm sure someone's already noticed this by now, but i just want to post this because... well, why not?.
i can't help but get that eery feeling that i'm at an assembly when listening to this video of harold camping talking about the rapture- the similarities are stunning, to me.
in other news, obviously the rapture never happened- can't wait to see how this plays out for him and his cult following in the next few days and weeks.
what a nutcase. sounds all too familiar to talks you hear a assemblies/conventions. not a great speaker!
this isn't exactly what i believe because i'm always changing my mind, but i kinda think this type of idea sounds interesting.
some bits stollen from elsewhere and other bits mixed with my own original thought.... the universe doesn't really exist, it's all in the mind of god.
well not strictly true, god doesn't have a mind as such; the universe and everything in it including us is all part of god.
Read much of the Kybalion? Sounds a bit like what Hermeticists believe. "The All" is in the all, we are all part of god's "imagination" and in the end we all get absorbed within him or "The All".
Or something like that.
Nothing new, just new to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbo3qhka2ni.
i would ve taken an ak47 and mowed those people down to protect the brothers.
i can disagree all i want but violence isn t the answer..
Other than a bunch of people dressed up, I see no proof that they are JDubs... But I don't understand whatever language that is being spoken so... meh... I saw this passed around email and a naive JW friend I still have on FB posted this. I don't condone the actions of these people, but I guess the dubs are loving the video.
Persecution must mean they have the true religion right? ...
