I have the same sister that comes by on a regular basis (one time a week). Her visits haven't been any more or less urgent, just the same old rederick from the hall. She also brings me the latest mags but they don't contain anything ground shaking in them at least to me.
Igot2bme
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Is there a new "full court press" to bring back "lost ones"?
by tenyearsafter ini ask the question because all of a sudden i am getting bombarded by my mother and other family members to "take my wife's hand and run back to jehovah before it is too late"!!
i am getting e-mail with screen shots of the un website (http://www.un.org/en/peace) stating "peace and security", being told that this could likely be the last memorial celebrated and that the door to the ark will be closing soon.
has anyone else been seeing an up-tick in these "prodigal son" appeals from jw friends and family?
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I have a question...
by Igot2bme ini have been contemplating this and i don't know if this has been covered or not.
i have been thinking that if the facts of things were disclosed to me from the get go such as the wts being associated with the un, or the wts blood guilt in connection with malawi, or various other things that i feel were kept from me and countless others in the religion you would think that you could have some kind of recourse when daing like bing able to overturn your baptism over on the grounds of false or misleading information or withholding valuable information.
i know that i wouldn't took the plunge into baptism if i would have known then what i know now!.
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Igot2bme
Well and the reason I have posed this question is because I am thinking serously about DAing myself not because I wanted to pursue a bad course or because of something I have done that was deemed inappropriate. I blame it on my strong sense of justice, but I faded because I found untruths associated with the Org. I wholeheartedly believed my religion was not blood guilty, because of the blood guilt that is on the Watchtowers hands I feel god is not with them. I know that life is not fair, but to shun someone for the wrongdoings perpetrated by the Org is morally sick and twisted.
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I have a question...
by Igot2bme ini have been contemplating this and i don't know if this has been covered or not.
i have been thinking that if the facts of things were disclosed to me from the get go such as the wts being associated with the un, or the wts blood guilt in connection with malawi, or various other things that i feel were kept from me and countless others in the religion you would think that you could have some kind of recourse when daing like bing able to overturn your baptism over on the grounds of false or misleading information or withholding valuable information.
i know that i wouldn't took the plunge into baptism if i would have known then what i know now!.
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Igot2bme
That is where I have to disagree. It is my right to know. I and many other gave years to a religion who called themselves the truth. If they are not being truthful and not disclosing the info to us they in turn I feel make my baptism completly null and void.
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I have a question...
by Igot2bme ini have been contemplating this and i don't know if this has been covered or not.
i have been thinking that if the facts of things were disclosed to me from the get go such as the wts being associated with the un, or the wts blood guilt in connection with malawi, or various other things that i feel were kept from me and countless others in the religion you would think that you could have some kind of recourse when daing like bing able to overturn your baptism over on the grounds of false or misleading information or withholding valuable information.
i know that i wouldn't took the plunge into baptism if i would have known then what i know now!.
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Igot2bme
I have been contemplating this and I don't know if this has been covered or not. I have been thinking that if the facts of things were disclosed to me from the get go such as the WTS being associated with the UN, or the WTS blood guilt in connection with Malawi, or various other things that I feel were kept from me and countless others in the religion you would think that you could have some kind of recourse when DAing like bing able to overturn your baptism over on the grounds of false or misleading information or withholding valuable information. I know that I wouldn't took the plunge into baptism if I would have known then what I know now!
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Adultery A Gift From Jehovah! i
by Was New Boy inback when i was a jw and an attendent at the km.
i was looking at everyone sitting there at the meetings.
it was amazing when i realized that the majority of married couples that where sitting there had either mean married to someone else before, or had sex with other people before they had got into the "tooth.
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Igot2bme
....How many sex partners have you had in or out of the "Borg?"
I was baptised shortly after getting married and have been faithful for 23 years to my husband. Before him, about 17-20. I am not sure the exact number......
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God's Slow to Anger
by charlie brown jr. inremember the story of the ark of the covenant on the wagon and it started to fall and one of the men grabbed it so as not to have it fall on the ground and it's contents spill on the ground...... what happened...oh yeah jah stuck him dead!!
for touching it.... i remember the wts saying it was disrespectful to have it on a wagon..... so much for slow to anger lol!.
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Igot2bme
I like the part about how Jehovah struck the Ashdodites with hemorrhoids and rodent infestations for having the ark.
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God's Slow to Anger
by charlie brown jr. inremember the story of the ark of the covenant on the wagon and it started to fall and one of the men grabbed it so as not to have it fall on the ground and it's contents spill on the ground...... what happened...oh yeah jah stuck him dead!!
for touching it.... i remember the wts saying it was disrespectful to have it on a wagon..... so much for slow to anger lol!.
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Igot2bme
Mad Sweeney-God doesn't like it when you touch his junk.
LOL!!!!!!
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Good talk with mum and dad
by boyzone inshe's 77 and both mum and dad have been witnesses for nearly 30 years.
they've been pretty hardline in their time but just recently things have changed.
today, to my joy, mum wanted to celebrate her birthday so i bought her a big bunch of flowers and a box of chocolates (yeah i know, not very imaginative) and intend to take them out to lunch tomorrow when i've got more time.
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Igot2bme
I am happy for you and your parents. It just goes to show there is hope that the blinders can come off no matter how long a persons been in.
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Hiding from witnesses
by Igot2bme intoday a group of sisters from a different hall came to my house today.
they were out in full force placing memorial invitations.
instead of answering the door, i felt compelled to pretend to be not home and waited for them to leave.
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Igot2bme
Thank you for all your comments. In lue of all the things that I have learned about the organization, I chose not to speak to others that are of the faith for fear of speaking of said things that I have discovered. All and all I feel very betrayed by the organization in that I don't feel that all was disclosed to me when I studied. I as well all other members are discouraged to question the beliefs and to be good little sheep. I feel for those that are out going door to door, I know that they are doing it out of sincerity. The organization takes advantage of such sincerity.
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What drove you? Love or Fear?
by fade_away inthis has probably been discussed here before, but i'm new so sue me.. i think the religion of jehovah's witnesses has been an amazing but tragic social experiment proving that the mind is most vulnerable to brainwashing when it's in an unhealthy state.
it seems to attract the bipolar, schizophrenic, depressive, and the paranoid.
it preys on negative emotions like sorrow and fear.
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Igot2bme
Mostly fear for me.