have been in the austin area for a little over a week in the midst of trying to start over.
i was df'd recently after being in the truth my entire life.
everyone has abandoned me, and i am lost out here.
And it's hello from him me . . . also from the other side of the planet.
I remember those who were rumored to be apostate and they just disappeared off the face of the earth never to be heard from again.
Here we are! . . . and we aren't such a bad lot really.
Take your time and don't be too anxious. There is life after WT . . . and that's not so bad either.
i know some of the fuss about the newly revamped jw.org has died down, but i wanted to write a blog article by way of a "review" all the same.
i felt it was important to highlight the dishonesty and evasiveness of the information on the new website, particularly in the "faqs" section.
hopefully, if people decide to research "jw.org" on google, eventually my article might rise to the top and give people a more balanced perspective.. here is the link.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/the-new-jw-org-watchtowers-attempt-to-tame-the-internet.
Good stuff Cedars . . . you write a good blog.
I believe the Society is hopelessly naive in its internet strategy, and has misjudged how avidly video material is swallowed up and used by the online community.
Maybe it feeds the persecution complex . . . the online world is in Satans control after all. I hope their strategy doesn't change . . . it's great publicity for their kookiness, and a right royal laugh at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_xiho8btyo.
it's great to see that the deaf community receiving some objective reaction in sign language to crazy jw beliefs.
cedars.
I can see the reaction is not favourable . . .
But it leaves me wishing I could read sign.
for those who may be interested in things geological .
just an update on seismic activity here in christchurch.
what's below is the seismometer drum for the last 24 hrs .
September 4th 2010 . . . 4.30 am. It's a day I will never forget.
At that time a shallow 7.1 mag quake, 30 kms away, shook my house for 50 secs.
It's exactly 2 years since that say. Over 11,000 aftershocks have followed with nearly 60 at 5.0 or more.
It's been quite a ride.
Just thought I'd mark the day.
this is no joke folks, these sob's are going after us all right now!!
get mad!!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstydla.
A 'mere' idiot ranks higher than a total one?
reading a thread from just a few months ago, made me realise that a lot of people who used to be regular contributors here no longer do so.. i know that people have always moved on, as the anger and hurt get less, as the wt mind-set totally disappears, we feel the need to come here less and less, but because of the intelligence, insight, wit and wisdom of these people, the board is somewhat impoverished each time one of these moves on.. this is a plea to all who post now, and some who still read but don't post, please do not leave us entirely, the contributions on here are literally life-saving for many.
it is easy to get dangerously suicidal when the whole wt pack of cards falls down for you.. please do not become a stranger to us !.
Looks to me like people come and go. That's the great thing about this place. You are free to come and go.
Agreed.
Really . . . the speed with which members come and go . . . are both measures of the success of JWN.
this weekend was the convention for the southern san francisco bay area.
it was held at the santa clara convention center in the silicon valley http://www.santaclara.org/conventioncenter/ which is an improvement over the old s.f.
cow palace which is still used..just not as much.
They've got their heads so far up their arses it's become self-parody.
WTS has become a complete joke . . . all we need is a punchline.
reading a thread from just a few months ago, made me realise that a lot of people who used to be regular contributors here no longer do so.. i know that people have always moved on, as the anger and hurt get less, as the wt mind-set totally disappears, we feel the need to come here less and less, but because of the intelligence, insight, wit and wisdom of these people, the board is somewhat impoverished each time one of these moves on.. this is a plea to all who post now, and some who still read but don't post, please do not leave us entirely, the contributions on here are literally life-saving for many.
it is easy to get dangerously suicidal when the whole wt pack of cards falls down for you.. please do not become a stranger to us !.
Sobering post Lois . . .
It is for you that this place exists . . . make yourself at home.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-09-02/breast-milk-bank-donors/57535706/1.
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If there's money in it . . . they will set up collection devices in the women's loos at the convention sites, with a scriptural truth printed on it to encourage generous giving.
we are not going to have a political propaganda copy-and-paste-fest on this site.. we're also not going to have inflamatory insults posted targeting either side.. please take the hint ....
And laugh about the instanity of the human condition. Now THAT is funny!
Yeah it is . . . and some of them are going to live forever.
