i get the google alerts for the jws and below is from one of the obits it sent out regarding a sister that was 76 years old when she died:.
joan attended beauty school and was a certified nurses assistant at the manor nursing home.
she was a member of the cowlitz congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
Supporting and encouraging young girls in good worth ethics, helping them be more self reliant are definately ideas based on the devil. Also.... teaching girls to read... nothing good can come of any of it!
pbrow
ps... we have tons of leftover do se do's if anyone is interested!!
having recently had an "awakening" - not from reading awake .... i realize i can not preach doctrines i do not believe anymore .
but i do not want the elders to start following my every move, because i also have plans to check other christian denominations.. so i am thinking, should i chat for an hour or two with an old visit and report the hours, should i tell the elders i have some doubts and i do not want to preach for now or should i just stop reporting and avoid the elders attempts to talk to me?
what do you think is the best sollution to get away with this?
GTFO!
Live your life in the best way you know how.
pbrow
quick backstory:raised a jw, ms, reg pioneer, international need greater work.
i have been da for 2 years, divorced, ex and my son live 6 hours away near walkill ny.. my sons first talk is coming up, in august.
he is 7 years old.
Good on you to go brother... You support him, that is the message you are sending.
Now you need to move back closer to your son or your chance of loosing him is very great. I lived several states away from my children because of work for two years when my two children were that age. That is when I made the decision my job is not worth losing my kids. If he is giving a talk already, without your positive influence he will be baptised shortly after and that is where the difficulties will start.
It may be difficult to get back but your son absolutely NEEDS you close to provide a normal life for him.
pbrow
Is that real or photoshopped??
pbrow
hey guys n gals, sorry its been such a long time since i've posted.
lately i've been very busy balancing between my school work and cult activities.
since i've been doing pretty well "spiritually"(enough field-circus hours, attending meetings, underlining my literatrash, reading, praying and serving as the mic-master) my coordinator grabbed me to the side after a meeting and talked to me for twenty minutes straight congratulating me about how good i am doing.. then he paused for a good five seconds and got all serious.. then he proceeded to tell me that the young ones in the hall aren't doing too well.
Nitty.. i would not go so far as to say he is a coward. He is young. Hell, i wish I had the stones to contemplate leaving when I was still living at home. I would say he is inexperienced at worst.... not a bad thing at all. He is coming here for advice so good for him.
Get out bro.... you have little (relatively speaking of course) to lose. If you get out now you will never regret it! Dont allow your mother to shun you and sorry to say it but your friends are not really your friends if they shun you. Good luck... NUKE THEM!
pbrow
hey guys n gals, sorry its been such a long time since i've posted.
lately i've been very busy balancing between my school work and cult activities.
since i've been doing pretty well "spiritually"(enough field-circus hours, attending meetings, underlining my literatrash, reading, praying and serving as the mic-master) my coordinator grabbed me to the side after a meeting and talked to me for twenty minutes straight congratulating me about how good i am doing.. then he paused for a good five seconds and got all serious.. then he proceeded to tell me that the young ones in the hall aren't doing too well.
yondaime...
Hit them with the nuke!!!! If not even most people just up and left... it would be huge! Every single person who just up and leaves helps out the younger ones. The organization stays strong because people just stay in and do not rock the boat. ROCK THE FUCKING BOAT!!
Nuke the shit out of them brother!
pbrow
my husband is awake,yay!
we haven't been to meeting since february, although we attended the memorial.
when jws have called us we say we are amazing, everything is awesome much to their shock.
Meet with them.... Make it a huge knock down drag out fight... do not apologize for anything or hide anything in reference to your comments about college. Tell them under no circumstances would you ever discourage a child from attending college. Then when you are formally/informally marked because of encouraging children to go to college talk with these close friends you care about in regards to the reason you are now being harassed by the elders and GTFO !!!
FREEDOM!! Get some.
pbrow
you can't see electricity or hear it or feel it.
well, there are sparks and lightning bolts and heating elements and the light and heat of filaments.
and somehow, it lights up neon in a tube.
I think Richard Dawkins said it best .....
"Science works..... Bitches"
pbrow
ps... if you "believe" in science that is..
for the past three years, my husband and i have been watching these sermons by remarkable worldwide speakers.
the biblical truths we have learnt from their presentations, in such a short period of time most definitely tip the scales compared to the truth the jw.org led me to believe i had for over 20 plus years of my life.
thanks to these videos, we have now found the truth and the truth is jesus christ (john 14:6).
Hey truthseeker... Which bible/holy book makes no difference. God is certainly a man and he hates gays very much.
What floors me is that if a tribal herdsman from the middle east wrote a book today and said it was the word of thorallahovahzuess... (and managed to get it published) it would be mocked by the jesus lovers (and rightfully so) but because the bible has been magically printed in our own beloved english we believe it has superpowers.
pbrow
i was thinking of starting a topic on thoughts that go through your mind while attending meetings.... right now i am at the meeting and thinking ... we study about jesus's courage to stand by rightness and truth, about him getting in conflict with religious leaders who thought of themselves as experts of the law, jesus understood truth and god differently of them and he had the courage to speak out!.
so we study this, but after that we draw the concluzion that courage is to go preaching and identify yourself as a witness .... well, this in not what i understand from jesus's courage!.
When you realize that it is forbidden.... not constrained or discouraged but actually forbidden, I think your options are very limited if you are trying to reach your full potential. You need to get out. If you have kids in this organization you must actively, not passively work against it. If you have "friends" or family in and are afraid of losing those relationships then leaving is something only you can decide on.
All of us have had friends and family that we literally in one day just lost. As much as people still in think that they have true friendships, they are kidding themselves. It is not easy but it is completely worth it. I do not have to pretend I like the meetings or have to bite my tongue if I see a jw in passing. I am free to be me... in all my tobacco chewing bearded glory.
Good luck, The journey is worth it no matter how long it takes!
pbrow
