...but i miss my kitties and i miss my lil niece!
once i decided not to 'return' to the org, and let my parents know - they began to shun me.
broke my heart at first, but it is what it is.
What i used to hate in the cong i attended was that whenever
a parent would shun their own child for the child being disfellowshiped,
that parent was held up to be a martyr, they would be constantly told
their showing their child love by showing no natural affection for them
crazy bastards!
I thought they couldn't join any fraternity.
to be a JW is much like dropping out of life.
i saw the thread about being tired of one's job...and it got me thinking.
while there are things about my job that i'm not particularly fond of (like the paperwork) i have to say i really have nothing to complain about... here are a few reasons why...some of the fun stuff.... as part of my job i attend csi meetings (construction specifications institute) we have monthly dinner meetings, usually at maggiano's in boston.
last month we had a special event and toured the new shalin liu center for chamber music in rockport, ma it was designed by one of the firms i call on.... sits on the water...fabulous site.
ok coffee black,
I'm jealous, ok i said it, I'm jealous
i remember in the 70's my friends mom started partaking of the emblems.
she said she had developed a preoccupation with heaven and of wanting to know everything she could about jehovah and could hardly go a minute without reading the literature or the bible...even while on the toilet.
her formerly "opposing" husband had recently studied and gotten baptized.
“buying the stairway to heaven” means all the wealth that goes into organized religion and this makes the song writer “wonder” about ulterior motives that may be associated with religion.
I think that's a pretty good assumption. You got more from the lyrics than i did.
I honestly didn't know where to start.
i hear quite a bit of criticism about jehovah's witnesses enforcing 1 corinthians 5:9-13. while jehovah's witnesses have a formal system of maintaining the organization's core values; egocentric, self-worshiping secularists have an informal system of rejecting those of whom they have nothing in common with.
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-390-religion.aspx.
most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies governed by causal laws, the world we perceive with our senses and can study by rational methods.
if everything the JW's teach make sense
then why do you get on websites like these
when your told not too, if found out you could be in trouble
what is your reasoning for going against the rules of the society?
and according to their rules, this is a no no
i myself think that a person should be able to look up what they want
their conscious should be their guide, but with the WT society to be here is using independent thinking
and that's not allowed
i remember asking a uber dub i was on the fs with " if you were the hh would you want to know more after listening to your presentation?
" she addmitted that no, she wouldn't have wanted to listen further.. so basicly the fs is really quite useless?
the jws doing it mostly have neither the skills nor interest to make a hh want to listen.
Now wait a minute Galileo,
I was a convert, when they tried to dumb me down , and tell me independant
thinking was not allowed, that was enough for me, and i don't consider myself
mentally unstable at all. but i do find that the longer one is exposed to this group the more harm it's
likely to cause to one's mental stability.
i hear quite a bit of criticism about jehovah's witnesses enforcing 1 corinthians 5:9-13. while jehovah's witnesses have a formal system of maintaining the organization's core values; egocentric, self-worshiping secularists have an informal system of rejecting those of whom they have nothing in common with.
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-390-religion.aspx.
most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies governed by causal laws, the world we perceive with our senses and can study by rational methods.
"I view them as a high-control group, and as such, not truly conducive to good mental health."
Amen palmtree!!
i hear quite a bit of criticism about jehovah's witnesses enforcing 1 corinthians 5:9-13. while jehovah's witnesses have a formal system of maintaining the organization's core values; egocentric, self-worshiping secularists have an informal system of rejecting those of whom they have nothing in common with.
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-390-religion.aspx.
most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies governed by causal laws, the world we perceive with our senses and can study by rational methods.
" the decisions people make have an effect on their overall well being."
Rachel , those words you have just written are so true, no one on this thread would argue with you on that.
"You weren't always indignant toward Jehovah's Witnesses if you used to be one. Some decision you made evidently changed the way you perceive the organization."
yes rachel, that decision was to keep my damn sanity . According to Acts 15: 28, 29
God does not put more on us than we can bare, when you need mind altering drugs,
it's more than you can bare.
i hear quite a bit of criticism about jehovah's witnesses enforcing 1 corinthians 5:9-13. while jehovah's witnesses have a formal system of maintaining the organization's core values; egocentric, self-worshiping secularists have an informal system of rejecting those of whom they have nothing in common with.
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-390-religion.aspx.
most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies governed by causal laws, the world we perceive with our senses and can study by rational methods.
Raniia, +Rachel, + Alice = TRINITY
Yes she's a believer.
i just googled kingdom halls in stockton ca and it appears there are several.
anyone go to any of these halls?
i was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about the witnesses in this area.
"Unfortunately, because I disassociated,"
losing family is unfortunate
disassociating yourself from lies should not be considered unfortunate
it's should be viewed as enlightening
