i'm not sure why this memory popped up, and i was wondering if any others, when they were still active jw had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization?
at the time it was 1993, and my husband and i were still newlyweds.
once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time.
In our area there was Jewelway multilevel marketing and some of the elders were involed. I remember a sister that joined but her unbelieving husband threatened the brother to get her money returned.
I knew an ex-district overseer was into Melaleuca...
so i got married a few weeks ago, living a great life now with my husband, he was definitely the perfect guy for me :) but anyways, we are going to work on slowly fading, going to meetings once a week or every two weeks, and then in a few months move to a hall where nobody knows our families and the elders hardly know each other, and fade out a lot more.
but an elder asked for our address, which we didn’t feel comfortable giving him, because we don’t want any unexpected visits to “shepard” us, when we miss a few meetings, because they already text us when we miss 2 meetings in a row, which we had just gotten back from our honeymoon 🙄 so we “accidentally” gave him the wrong apartment number.
so if they ever come pokin around they will be lost, and if they call or text us we will just have an excuse for not replying.
In my case it was simple: I stopped going to the meetings. I didn't get a phonecall or a visit for a year...despite my wife continued meeting attendance. I would occasionally get the "so and so says hello" when my wife returned from the hall. Then two elders came to my door after they heard I was in a car accident (b.s excuse since it was a minor fender bender). I kept them at the door and didn't let them open their bibles. I told them I needed to be left alone and that I knew the way to the Kingdom Hall. That was it. Now we have moved to a new town, my wife goes to the meetings and the local elders have stayed away.
my father in law (robert stillman) killed himself in 1993. after the "new light" came out in 1981 we could no longer have limited contact with dis-fellowedshipped persons.
after years of being shunned by his only family he blow his brains out with a 38 special.
at the time of his death, the only thing bob was doing that wasn’t in line with the society’s rules and regulations was smoking.
I agree with OTWO. I faded away 9 years ago and I moved 3 hours away from the old congregation. My wife and most of my family are in so I remain on the congregation's "radar". This means that I have to respect their rules and refrain from doing something reprehensible in their view. It forces me to hide things from my wife like sending or receiving birthday gifts to my disassociated daughter, or keeping my "apostate" opinion to myself. My wife often talks about the nice people at the Kingdom Hall, hoping that I take some interest in them, while I do everything in my power to stay away to avoid drawing interest from a "well-intentioned" elder who could feel compelled to help me back into the fold. As you can see, there's a cost to my freedom from the cult but I keep hoping that on day my family will realize how much better life can be out of the F.O.G.
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
Some flatearthers believe in the pacman effect where when reaching the edge of the earth you automatically reappear on the opposite side, just like when you played pacman on your old TV...this is not a joke!
it has been reported that many of the older publications are being dumped.
the watchtower bible and truck society have a long list of books, pamphlets and brochures that are no longer available either in print or in their data base on their web sight.
of course the reason is that this books have a lot of old information that is incorrect, false prophecies, flip flops and a lot of "new light" that became old light.
I guess I was ahead of the game when I trashed all my WT publications 9 years ago. My JW wife didn't put up a fight to save the volumes after I told her the old books were the reason I no longer believed in the WT's ever changing "truth".
today feb.18 2019 is the smiddy`s 58th wedding anniversary..
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Smiddy3!
in the image you can see what jw wrote about how galileo was treated by the catholic church.
now they are disfelloshipping me because i believe the earth is flat.
is this coherent?.
At a flat earther convention they used the Pacman effect to explain why one doesn't fall off the edge of the earth...like when Pacman reappears at the left side of the screen after going off the right side...
i love soul , r @ b and funk.
one of my favorite songs is al green’s let’s stay together.
i love the philly sound and tom jones still has it!.
My interest for music started in the 60's with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Supertramp...and although I am not a Bon Jovi fan the song "It's my life" reflects my view on life. Being Canadian I like The Tragically Hip, Neil Young, Blue Rodeo...
a pomo n a pimo.
grt witnessing going on.. pimo mulling over to be or not to be.. thought this was funny.. possibly the real face of the wtbs members.. .
peace.
In the summer I see them set up in the middle of an isolated park adjacent to a beach parking lot. They are in the opposite direction from where people walk to go to the beach. I have spoken with them several times and they know I am inactive. Sometimes they're so busy on their phone they don't see me ride my bike past them...I suspect that some mornings I am the only person they speak to.
... unlike the rest of humanity, you looked forward to mondays because it was a day off from a meeting..
If you believe you succeeded in life because of the "training" you received at the kingdom hall.
If you believe the food on your table or the roof over your head is a blessing from god.
