Posts by GrandmaJones

it took a while for me to get this hard feelings out of my system....yup....i'm 18 and i'm on my last year of high school...this year i'm taking it online i don't mind it's ok..i do miss the people at school..as u know my parents r jw and i'm one too...i am very active and i do it all for my parents and to avoid confllict but recenlty i just don't like some of bans no what u can and can't do...i'm behind on school beacuse i reg pio...i'm a active person...i really want to leave this reglion beacuse one i can't visit my family grandparents and cousins in europe beacuse they "worldly"....this for me is bs...so stupid....it's my family... if i do leave the jw it's not like i'm going to do drugs and drink or smoke...my goals r to be in the olympics and to start snowboard cross...i'm going to join a snowboard club next season....i don't care anymore about what people think...it's not like i'm doing something bad..it's something that will bring me joy....today my mom was questioning me like crazy about my new jw friend that i ski with....there was a friend of a friend last year that i hang out once with he was a so called good exmaple but he quit the jw and started drinking and smoking so...yup he's dumb...now my mom is like questioning every i associate with..i hardly have any friends and my life sucks..i want to make it better by snowboard more...i'm allowed to go every secound day as long as i prepair for the crappy propangda meetings....ya...support is hard when my parents don't support my dreams but when i do get in the olympics u have only myself to thank beacuse every time i pratice i have bad snowboard days and good i feel like crying at the mountain my heart breaks i want to be faster and better...i want to be the best.. i told my mom i want to be the best snowboarder out there for snowboard cross and she was like humble yourself and all this jw crap...i just don't know how to put it into words.....it's like a backworkd train...i tried to a last attemt at this jw by trying to join a foriegn group...but it failed bad and that was like the straw that broke my back...years of holding my back of trainnign and being active is making me to go crazy ....it's hard i'm just trying to get my pain out when u fall on your snowborad u have to encorage your self u have to train your self u have to push yourself..i wish i could start life all over agian...the war in my country runid a large part and now this....when ur younger u don't know better and this relgion seems good but when u age and watch the olympics like i do and then watch it live...i got a job at the vanoc thing so i was there...it's a different experience to race ....my country did not do so well and i wish i could represent them and get a gold medal....u know it would make my life better....and bring hope to tons of people facing the same story as me....i was a jw from when i was 10 so i kindof miss chirstmas and holidays but i don't care anymore.....my dad came home talk latter.

GrandmaJones

Welcome! It is good to have you on "board". Gee, that's a simply terrible pun.

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Women can't face the audience from platform? Is this in writing?

by InterestedOne in

i just read the thread about women & men waking up etc.

and saw a post saying women can't face the audience from the platform.

i thought, hmm yeah, now that i think about it, they're always looking sideways, like toward the other woman in the role-playing, or if they're being interviewed, they look toward the guy at the podium.

GrandmaJones

I have seen sisters face the audience. Recently a sister did her talk pretending to be on the phone. She was alone on the stage, facing the audience, speaking into the phone. Someone in the audience pretended to be the other person, (with a mic) Has anyone else seen this kind of thing? It's not the first time here.

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How and when was the New Testament Compiled?

by ProdigalSon in

early christian writings.. .

let alone "inspired by god?

church councils) this is what i mean by spiritual osmosis.. there are other early lists of new testament books that.

GrandmaJones

marking

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What is it with all the men waking up but the wives stay in? Why is it the opposite for me?

by Cadellin in

this is something i've thought about for a while now.

it seems like the same story on this board over and over--the husband, who also might be an elder, ms, etc.--starts having doubts and researching, aka miseryloveselders and franklin massey and others.

he starts to smell the coffee and realizes that this organization isn't what it claims to be.

GrandmaJones

I don't know why we are assuming that more men wake up than women. Perhaps many women don't need the reinforcment of apostate boards such as these. I find it difficult to believe that women don't "get it", but the men come to their senses. Frankly, most men I know just aren't that smart. Particularly JW men.

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spoke to an old ex-jw friend , damaged goods ?

by man in black in

when i was a witness i was good friends with a recently baptized guy who was always trying to reach out to help, run the microphones, work behind the counter with the literature, attendant at the assemblies, etc.. the big problem here was that he is a police office, has been one for over 30 years, so the org.

would not allow him to do anything exept clean the toilets during assemblies .

his wife and him divoriced ten years ago and he was df'ed.

GrandmaJones

I don't care at all if anyone attends my funeral. Hey, if I am lucky like my aunt, I'll enjoy good health and old age. Everyone she knew well was long dead when she passed away. I hope that happens for me!

I certainly don't want any witness funeral. No more propaganda....

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Getting upset with children who cannot sit through the meetings.

by life is to short in

ok this thought came to me the other day.

i was thinking of the co who told me that he liked to see parents spank their children for not sitting still during the meetings.. i remember how hard it was to sit through two hours when i was four or five years old.

it was like forever.. i was thinking of comparing the hours that we have been alive to how long two hours is for a child.

GrandmaJones

I think it is unreasonable to expect small children to still quietly still and pretend to be listening to information that is way over their heads. You really can't compare it to school where the information is directed to them at an appropriate grade level. It's child abuse to then spank them for not behaving in the way an elder or a co wants. By the way, I think that Co is still around, or perhaps others just like him. One of my friends left the hall after witnessing such a thing. She was recently baptized, and she never came back.

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when you were in, could you imagine yourself in the new system?

by breathing in

jw
friends

i never could, like some others described, i could never ever see myself there, i just couldnt imagine it at all,.

i wonder if that was a sign that deep down i didnt believe it?.

GrandmaJones

Oh yes, I could. I have a really good imagination...

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Did you do very early morning field service?

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

in my old congregation, there was a group of dubs who started field service at 4am - yes, that's 4 o'clock in the morning.

i went with them on a few occasions.. to be ready, you'd have to be up at least 3:30am to get washed and dressed and maybe get a bite to eat.. at 4am, our designated driver would show up along with a couple of sleepy eyed jws trying to "get their time in.

" many times we'd go pick up a jw only to find they forgot about service and overslept.. .

GrandmaJones

I never liked going out in service. I hardly ever did it. I hated getting up early to go to the hall. I frequently changed congregations just to have a Sunday afternoon meeting.