A helpful suggestion - instead of changing your number - just contact your cell phone company and have their number blocked so you will not see anything from them anymore - instant relief.
Sorry for your frustrations.
i have not posted for a while and have actually not been on for a while but i have had to post cus i am just livid!!!.
me and my husband and 2 children stopped going nearly a year ago after numerous issues, and basic doubts.
while we were in the cong i had an 'incident' with a brother who claimed to love me and wanted to leave his wife for me.
A helpful suggestion - instead of changing your number - just contact your cell phone company and have their number blocked so you will not see anything from them anymore - instant relief.
Sorry for your frustrations.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
A very sincere question and one I have not put to much thought into- yet. I am new in my disbelief. Wanting to believe something never made it true for me.
my wife mentioned our circuit assembly was this weekend, she looked at me and i let out a chuckle and said "the kids are too sick right?
" (they weren't) but it was what she wanted to hear, an excuse from me to blow it off.
it got us thinking about how they were kind of tolerable when we were younger.. meals with ice cream, lots of volunteering to get you out of your seat.. there was more room at past assemblies.
Mouthy - that is fantastic ! LOL
I never forget one year, we walked to the McDonalds down the street from the convention site and there was a car covered in leaflets and flyers that said " Help for gay Jehovah's Witnesses !" and I was shocked ! I remember all those things and not a thing said on the podium....rather telling.
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just found this today on reedit.
pretty funny .
HATED SATURDAY SERVICE ( which is so ironic since I love saturday now).
I remember being an extremely awckward teenager with a gigantic zit on my lip and wishing a hoping against all odds that my parents would show some compassion and let me stay home - just that once. I was always such a dutiful daughter, couldn't they give me one saturday to hide my zit riddled face at home? Afterall I did look like I got punched in the lip ! Nope...
I think I hid my face in my hair all morning.
my wife mentioned our circuit assembly was this weekend, she looked at me and i let out a chuckle and said "the kids are too sick right?
" (they weren't) but it was what she wanted to hear, an excuse from me to blow it off.
it got us thinking about how they were kind of tolerable when we were younger.. meals with ice cream, lots of volunteering to get you out of your seat.. there was more room at past assemblies.
Assemblies were a mixed bag. You looked forward to them as JW because then you would get to see people in other congregations, and when your entire world is limited to the 80 or so people in your hall - THAT was an exciting thing. You got to wear your favorite dresses, and walk around finding friends. I remember telling my parents that I needed to being my binoculars so I could see the stage better and I spend the better part of the afternoon scanning all the people in the seats. Our assembly was at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and I spend hours staring at the ceiling looking at all the flags.
On the down side - they were hideously boring. I once for repremanded by my mom for writing everything the speaker said in my note book - - just so I would NOT fall asleep.
I remember the protestors we had some years at the assembly and I though that was the most interesting thing I had ever seen.
Chocolate chip cookies and milk......so hungry now ! Everything looks good !
while searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
I just finished watching both of these episodes and thoroughly enjoyed them.
I especially enjoyed the quote by Steven Weinberg "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil: but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."
it was my granddaughter, bailey's third birthday yesterday.
her bd party was last saturday.
just look at these faces.
What a great way to start the morning - so precious !
while searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
I enjoyed reading the God Delusion - I watched the first episode and I was reminded of a documentary I saw once called Jesus Camp, which was down right scary.
I had someone ask me what my hobbies were once, and I could only think of one ! I run a lot. I was so embarrassed that I had no other hobbies off the top of my head, that when I went home and purposefully thought about what I enjoyed doing and had to make a mental note to persue those interests !
-running
-reading
-cooking
Obviously, I am still looking to expand my list! This thread has given me some new ideas....