hey guys !
i've stopped believing the watchtower crap a few years ago.
i achieved this on my own, despite being raised as one.
Cookiemaster (or, Cookiemeister, perhaps): Welcome to this forum. If people give you dirty looks because of your own individual choice to attend college, well, then that's THEIR problem, not yours. As a radio talk-show host here in the California area once said. "Deal with it." Enjoy those cookies!
Titch
after waking up and wanting to get out of this nightmare, the word apostate is really bothering me.
if i quitely become inactive, fade away will i just be looked at as "always weak".
i want to scream out how big a fool i was.. and now telling my poor young daughter how wrong i was to bring her up as a jw.
I dont think that I look like a member of the so-called "evil slave class". Anyway, thinking about the term "apostate", Ive thought about some other, different nomenclatures, if a label is to be used. How about "Transformationist". That's right, I have---and you have---made a "transformation"---from one bellief structure, belief system---to a different belief structure or belief system. Thus, a "Transformationist.". Or, how about this: A Consciencioius Objector. If you are a person, whose conscience no longer allows you, permits you, to abide by the belief system of the Witnesses, then you are a Consciencious Objector. Your own conscience objects to the teachings of the JWs. So, those are two ways of thinking of yourself, if you want to use a "label." Best Regards, everyone. :0
Titch
how many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.
the venue was lancaster park.
if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.
I was at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. And, Zoos, who knows, our paths could have crossed at some time while there.
Yep, I've read about that elsewhere. It reminds me of what a local TV station in the Southern California area reported on a few years ago. Apparently, a stupid prank that local junior-high or middle school boys were doing to other boys. They would come up, unexpectly, to another boy, and punch him---hard---in the gonads. And, all the while fiilming it for putting on YouTube later on, the kid , the victim of the stupid prank,would double over in pain on the ground. That prank went too far in one instance---a kid had to have one testicle removed, so much damage was done. So, local medical professionals were urging, pleading with kids to put a stop to this dumb, asinine prank. Not good, not good...
Titch
the nov 2013 km contains an article that is ridiculous in its level of minutae.. they focus on the word "because".
they tell jws to use the word "because" when explaining why they're at the homeowner's door.
writing department, you wrote an article on the use of the word "because"?
"I am here because I'm trying to earn a few more 'brownie points' with God."
Titch
http://truthseekerdaily.com/2013/11/the-single-most-mind-altering-photograph-humanity-has-ever-taken/.
i hope this comes up - if not you can copy and paste.
very humbling and eye-opening to see ourselves in this perspective - how arrogant, self-righteous and oblivious we are as a species.
Yes, indeed, the "Pale Blue Dot." It puts thins into perspective, doesn't it? I mean, before you begin thinking that your own polictical, or economic , or religious system is so superior to others, watch that video, and think about the words of Carl Sagan, that are in that video. We are, after all is taken into cvonsideration, such a small, insignificant planet in the vast blackness of the Universe/Cosmos. Best Regards, eveyone
Titch.
finally, i've found the reason why some men become homosexuals.. the 1976 book "your youth: getting the best of it" explains it here in great detail.... .
Interesting that that same book never touched on the subject of why Lesbians become Lesbians.
Titch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3qezbvn1be.
Well, no, not really. I've seen a few TV interviews with him in the past. And, I DO respect his tenacity in life, and his ability to enjoy it despite his unfortunate disabilities But, the only thing that it does for me is to confirm my belief that one's life, one's existence,on this planet, is all just one big "crap shoot" a huge "roll of the dice". Nothing more, nothing less. Best Regards to one and all. And, Happy Festivus Season.
Titch.
so what is your story?
who did you leave behind?.
we got some this in a previous thread, but i am always interested in hearing more about you all.. .
My story is fairly simple. Born-in, but started the "fade" in the late 80s. This came about as a result of coming to the full, complete realization that I simply had no "spritual hunger", no "spiritual needs, no spiritual cravings, or yearnings", that needed to be satiated by ANY kind of religious belief system. And, I do mean ANY kind. After fading and leaving, I didn't search for spiritual enlightenment in any kind of religioius belief system. I guess that I didn't inherit the so-called "God gene" that some scientists think that some people have. Oh, well, it happens. Best Regards, everyone.
Titch
i'm on it every couple of days and it's usually to see pics of my grandkids or to get the 411 onwhat's going on..
Yep, I am. I check it once per day.
Titch
