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Elder Missing 24 hours...

by sleepingbeauty in

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a brother i know of was made up as an elder only some mere 6 weeks ago.

out the blue he has gone total awol and has now been missing over 24 hours.

i wonder if the stress of becoming an elder at 27 yrs old got to him !!!

sleepingbeauty

The Prodgical Son has returned home ... Let the Spanish Inquisition Commence .... :z

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Elder Missing 24 hours...

by sleepingbeauty in

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a brother i know of was made up as an elder only some mere 6 weeks ago.

out the blue he has gone total awol and has now been missing over 24 hours.

i wonder if the stress of becoming an elder at 27 yrs old got to him !!!

Theres been a few crossed wires on here, so to set the record straight as far as I know he's not near any cliffs... (Phew) He just went to a meeting, didnt turn up & was reported as a missing person. 24 hrs later through number plate recognition he was spotted 150 miles away. He's now been missing over 3 days... Clearly as a recently appointed elder he's got some thinking he wants to do!!!

I think what a shame it will be when he finally faces the music. The displays of Christian Love will all come to nothing & become One Big Joke, as they turn the other cheek & shun him.... One minute he's the fine christian man and they all go rallying around looking for him. The next minute he's a Reprobate.... Get away from us you worker of lawlessness !

What is ridiculous is this 26 year old is a man. He has a mind of his own to choose to do as he pleases. Yet if & when he returns he WILL feel obligated to explain himself like he is a child....

The manipulation, control & possessiveness towards him has no abounds...

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The Empty Cupboard

by compound complex in

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for dear snowbird and any others who occasion upon strange fiction [?

] .... [inspired by six feet under].

ruthann awoke to the soft pad, pad padding of snowflakes falling en masse, gauzily observable, outside her curtainless bedroom window.

sleepingbeauty

OMG snowbird 22110 posts by you. Awesome !!!

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Networking with Jehovahs Witnesses or people who are bible studieing

by flowerpower123 in

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i am a 32 old woman live in the netherlands.

like to make friends all over the world...brothers and sisters.

always nice when you come to holland , or when i come to your country.

sleepingbeauty

Hello Sister,

I am sure you will meet some Truth Loving Friends here :)

Welcome xx

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hey.......Hello

by Snowboarder in

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hey what's up everone?

i'm new to here.

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.

sleepingbeauty

Welcome Snowboarder.

Keep hold of your Olympic dream & dont let them take it away. Work out how your can stand on your 2 feet financially, and move out. There is no way they will leave you alone to make your own decisions whilst you are under there roof. Get out, Stay out & realise you've had a lucky escape.

What ever you do, dont lose sight of your dreams and end up wasting all your years to JWdom. I lost 22 years, & I really wish I could turn back the clock.

Big Hugs because your going to need it :)

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Elder Missing 24 hours...

by sleepingbeauty in

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friends

a brother i know of was made up as an elder only some mere 6 weeks ago.

out the blue he has gone total awol and has now been missing over 24 hours.

i wonder if the stress of becoming an elder at 27 yrs old got to him !!!

sleepingbeauty

I know Gayle.. I was kinda hoping that he was one of those lurking on this site? If he is lurking I hope he has come to a satisfactory conclusion that there is life after JWdom ! Tee Hee

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Belief in the Afterlife - where do you sit on the scale?

by jgnat in

i am three-quarters through the book, the time paradox: the new psychology of time that will change your lifeby philip zimbardo and john boyd.

it is taking longer than usual because i am earnestly applying the exercises as they appear in the book.

which means i have to be ready to change my habits...but enough about me.. zimbardo's argument throughout the book is that a person's time perspective deeply impacts their choices and their ability to be happy.

sleepingbeauty

Well the trouble with thinking we will have an afterlife is the belief that we go with the mental faculties we have today. This to me is illogical. We would suffer eternally the mental flaws inherited through our parents & there parents before them...

I cant see that were reincarnated either, so I dont hold out any hope there either ... Anyway hope is an assured expectation of the things to come !!! As theres no assurance theres no hope !!!! - God I hate that JW biblical expression !!!!

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I swear some JWs don't believe in forgiving and forgetting. It's like a tattooed scarlet letter.

by miseryloveselders in

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my dad ticked me off the other night, to the point i had to hang up.

i didn't abruptly hang up, but rather i told him i had company.

we were discussing a sister at my hall who did something years ago.

sleepingbeauty

You ever have to deal with individuals or families in the congregation who held onto grudges over petty issues from years ago? Or even though you've been reinstated, some in the congregation still treat you like damaged goods? How did it feel?

I was left feeling totally crap and nothing I did was ever good enough. I was made to feel the I had sinned against the Holy Spirit & that there was no forgiveness for sins left.... I suffered with this burden for years & years, then I woke up and was FREE @ LAST !!!!

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