i was a twenty y/old when i converted to the jw religion and was a problem drinker and i was a chain smoker .when i was baptized at a circuit assembly a year later , my conversion and change in lifestyle was given as an example of the effectiveness of incidental witnessing to the audience.. so i can point to the 2 positives becoming a jw .. 1.i gave up smoking.
2.i gave up drinking for a while ,but because i still had association with my wife`s and my family who were not jw`s ,i learnt to control my social drinking when i started again.. and i have been a responsible drinker ever since ,even though i left the religion 29 years ago.. the negative points of being a jw in my 32 years of being one ?
are far too great to list here .. love to hear your thoughts..
Jan.
I know. I go to Evensong most Sundays at Peterborough Cathedral. They installed a Canon this week so there was a few more than the usual bunch that I've got ton know.
I know Tamworth, it's quite a distance from here but you never know when I'll take you up on that.
what is the harm or downside of being pimo?.
i get all the good things about being in the cong, good social life lots of invites to bbqs and meals out.
lots of interesting gossip 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Sounds like a load of bollox to me.
.......a disabled black, non-binary, homosexual, transsexual, environmentalist vegan?
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all bases need to be covered.
I don't care, I won't watch it anyway. I find it boring.
Dr Who? Chibnall finished it off. Not sure if RTD can save it now.
hi everyone i’m a pimo elder ex bethelite and pioneer who has been having doubts for many years.
as of late i’ve come to have even more doubts mainly due to the gb pushing the vaccines and acting like salesman for big pharma companies .
i will never take these vaccines even if it meant i couldn’t go to the hall as was previously said but the gb have done a big u turn on this now.
I like many many like all the good things about being in the congregation
Now I know you're trolling us!
not according to this verse:.
(mark 3:28, 29) truly i say to you that all things will be forgiven the sons of men, no matter what sins they commit and what blasphemies they speak.
but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit has no forgiveness forever but is guilty of everlasting sin.”.
Armageddon will be the worst thing ever to hit this earth in the history of man.
I disagree. I think they mean Boy Bands will be the worst thing.
how far do we get away from 1914 before they have a new light and admit it was all wrong?.
they cling to the old theory of the 77 week prophecy from the wrong date that jerusalem was destroyed .
with the overlapping generations nonsense still we are getting too far away from 1914. what will they say if we get to the 2030s and they still cling to 1914?.
How far do we get away from 1914
Until the 'overlapping(tm)' stops.
forbid the universe for the mass suicide of many.
but with the no blood policy, the constant call to be loyal to the org no matter how looney it seems, just very dangerous to any normal thinking person.
or just crazy stupidity?.
Do you find Watchtower as Looney as Jim Jones?
It's not an easy comparison. I don't think there's a scale of 'looney' to refer to.
Jim Jones ended it fairly quickly-ish. The JW's are dragging it out.
I don't think the Jobots will ever have a mass suicide. Their lives are a mental suicide though.
the latest video release 4/4/22 (lesson 44 'don't give up') in the comic series of caleb & sophia just got weirder.
the plot is about caleb & sophia preaching door to door, caleb with his father and sophia with her mother.
it shows each of them having doors slammed on them four times.
namey - You thought that getting someone you know from school at the door was bad? Try getting one of your teachers at the door.
Both happened to me.
I felt like a right wally.
i just realized that i was 39 years old when i joined this discussion board.
i remember the morning conversations that always brought me laughter, and i think there were only a but about 9 or 10 regulars back then!
i will now turn 57 years old in a few months.
Punkofnice, GREAT video and song
Just to show how sad I am. When I was first in Toronto, I visited City Hall (or whatever they call it), where the Moving pictures album cover was shot. It smelled of pee. I also saw a bloke having a pee in the bushes down the steps.
Other than that, I love Toronto. We bought ice poles from where Kim's Convenience is filmed outside. Cabbage town I think they call it.
i sent my disassociation letter two days ago!
i couldn't stand it anymore!
so many lies, the exploitation of sincere people, the ridiculous amount of rules and all this protection of pedophiles, plus the life of gb as if they were wealthy dictators!
My wife was (and still is) quite moved by my decision because she has been a JW for her entire life. It's hard. It messed up with all she has been taught even though she has also started to see some light
Wait for the ricochet.
You could be in for a really rough ride from here on in.
