Partying with the green fairy, are we?
V665
good evening jwn!!...
as most of you know i live in a forest,in the mountains..at night there is very little light pollution... so the sky is one big theatre screen... i see shooting stars,northern lights,satellites,planes on a destination..it`s all very beautiful... tonight was different... .
tonight there was something in the sky that defied anything i`ve ever seen... it had multiple aircraft lights but not like regular airplane lights..it wasn`t a helicopter... it could go straight up or down... move in one direction then head in another..it could do all kinds of weird stuff... sometimes it just hovered..then start doing all these weird maneuvers... regular aircraft is going somewhere,it`s headed in a direction..not this thing... i watched a regular airplane pass it... .
that growing up in a family that physically abusive and later j.w.elders that sexually abused her and other young girls in the congo might be why marriage no.4 is on the rocks for omeone near and dear to us?sigh.
frist day 10/5/2010:.
have six left in the box....should i smoke them up and start fresh tomorrow?
or chunk them out now?
...lets just say the witnesses are correct in their assertion that the gb are not prophets and subsequently are not under deuteronomy's definition of a false prophet.. this begs a question for me.. when, in god's entire scheme throughout the bible, did he run things without a prophet?
when did he run things with leaders who didn't speak for him?.
-sab.
@OUTLAW
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Bird house... *gasp!* on top of their head... HAHAHA! Too funny!
v665
shepherding = spying on, interrogating, hassling.
encourage = hassle, pester.
evidently = no logical segue, so we just assume it.
Worldy (person) = Anyone who refuses to buy into WT$ bullshit
(Christian) Meetings = Soul sapping waste of 2> hrs
V665
of the congregation i spent my life in i would say a good 75% had nervous breakdowns at some point.
and often there was never really a obivous reason for it.
well not that we jw's could understand at the time.. even the queen bee's/ elderettes were not immune to this.. what about you?.
The term "nervous breakdown" covers so many different things that it is virtually meaningless. It is not used in any of the current clinical mental-health literature.
Perhaps the term has no scientific meaning but it's still applicable to real life. It means somone had to be hospitalized because life has become unbearable, regardless of the specific cause.
V665
i find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.
do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?
with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?
Drawing from my own personal experience, I knew practically nothing about what went on during that year. I was only 3 yrs old at the time. Maybe my mom knows but I wouldn't be surprised if she was kept in the dark; she was only studying at the time. I'm afraid to ask what she remembers...
V665
i am not gonna lie, i know i did somewhat, and here's my story of it.. .
i remember my mom and her girl-friend (yes, she was bi-sexual, her gf was a lesbian.
) and my mom's gf..um..let's call her jill (not her real name) was very..well, not very but was somewhat strict almost over everything, i remember i couldn't evfen watch that 70's show!
It's all water under the bridge to me. I don't care anymore. I don't see the point of regretting the past, because you can't change it...
V665
of the congregation i spent my life in i would say a good 75% had nervous breakdowns at some point.
and often there was never really a obivous reason for it.
well not that we jw's could understand at the time.. even the queen bee's/ elderettes were not immune to this.. what about you?.
Its the steady diet of negativity over world conditions, the constant agonizing over Biblical details that can't be proven, trying to stay one step ahead of the organization so your peers will think well of you and you will be a good example to the entire world; coupled with the denial of ones inner voice over these things that eventually pushes these poor well meaning souls over the edge and keeps them there. The stable ones are those who have become experts at vanquishing any trace of their authentic selves so that they no longer question anything and begin forcing others to do the same.
That's one of the best, most clear-cut explanations I've heard yet. exwhyzee!
many people for one reason or other have quit going to the kingdom hall me included!
i dont object to the people for they are clean well dressed human beings, i object to the way a prefabricated doctorine is distributed, useing hugh amounts of books magazines and media to attempt to study the bible,i feel obligated to say i agree with that method and under pressure to promote it, theirfore i stoped going because pretending to agree with this method and rendering lip service to it in order to keep from being disfellowshiped is a lie,and liers go to the lake of fire, .
so now that we have left the hall were do we go?