i found an awake!
magazine tucked in my door when i came home from work last night.
i guess weve been away from the kh long enough for only a handful of them to know where we live.
To forgetmenot:
Hee hee...have to admit it's a time waster, but it does relax me at the end of the day. And some days I just have a real hard time getting relaxed, if you know what I mean. Especially with the dubbies leaving things in my door when I'm not home.
Mrs R
i was just wondering the age of most people on this forum.
i am only 18. i was just wondering if there is anyone else out there who posts and is so young.
or how old you were when you (1) left/faded from the jw organization, (2) how old you started posting here, and how old you are now.
Grandfather was a witness, and one uncle. My uncle would come by the house after a meeting and say that they took the last count for Armageddon and we weren't there to be counted. I think I was 8 when an older couple in the hall, 'anointed' they were, started picking us up for meetings. Was 10 when my oldest brother invited a pioneer couple to study with us. Started giving talks in the Theocratic School when I was 11. Baptized at 14. My dad reactivated (he had been inactive since high school) and was quickly appointed as an elder.
Started having serious doubts about 10 years ago, but kept them to myself. Emotionally left the Witnesses about 5 years ago, and have been fading away since. Stopped publishing 5 years ago. Haven't been inside the KH for 2 1/2 years.
Found this forum a couple of years ago but only lurked, was too afraid to post. Finally started posting November of last year. Love this place. I am 44.
Mrs Rocky
it's that time again!
time for the watchtower to beg for contributions!.
the nov. 1 wt has the usual article with a great big grey box covering two pages.
To JustLittleOldMe: This is a regular, annual article - we call it the Christmas charity drive. WT has posted an article every November, can't remember for how many years. We looked a while ago and I've forgotten how many years, but it has been quite some time.
Mrs R
after dinner with trotafox tonight i drove home through ft lauderdale on a1a.
i had forgotten how much i love this stretch of road.
just driving it with all the people out and the clubs on your left, live music, people dancing and having fun, and then 30 ft or so to your right is the great atlantic ocean.
Thanks for such an excellent post. I'm sending the link to the youngest Rockette. She struggles with self-esteem daily. Now that she is living in a dorm at college she has to deal with all the social stuff she never had before. It's a bit overwhelming. But you touched on so many of the same emotions she has experienced. Can't thank you enough for all you and your family have done for me and my family. You are all terrific for sharing your pain and growth with us. We have received more encouragement from knowing you such a short time compared with the many years we should have been receiving encouragement from our supposed brothers and sisters in the organization.
Mrs R
another avenue of service that the borg always tries to shove down the mouths of youth/single peeps is that of going to m.t.s.
(ministerial training school).
if bethel isn't your cup of tea, then m.t.s.
We had one stay with us for a week. But he was older, in his early 40s. Was very down to earth, again a free thinker. Helped our family through a tough spot during that week - long story, had to do with a death in the family, JW v non JW family members and the memorial service. Anyway, he was cool, not arrogant. But maybe that's because of his age and had been around the Borg for a long time. Had a wonderful conversation with him about a guy he knew who wrote the society about something he had researched. They told him to keep it under wraps until the GB released it in the magazines. The guy couldn't keep it to himself and started talking in the congregation. They DF'd him. A year or so later the WT changed whatever they taught to what this guy had researched. The visiting MTS brother wondered why this guy wasn't reinstated and how bogus the whole ordeal was. He even bought beer to eat with our pizza on the last day of his visit. Often wonder what happened to him. We weren't the kind to keep in touch with the priveleged.
Mrs R
do you remember your "last door"?.
it suddenly occured to me today that i had never thought about the last door that i knocked on out in field service.
honestly, i don't remember it.
Don't remember the last door, but remember the conversation I had with the congregation secretary when he wanted me to turn in a field service report the first month I decided not to report. He was just sure I must have talked about Jehovah to someone during the month, and couldn't I please report at least one hour. Told him, yep I did talk about Jehovah during the month, probably at work, but I didn't pay attention to how much time...and that I would be a liar if I reported anything, it just wouldn't be honest. He never bothered me again - it was 8 months after that when I quit going to meetings cold turkey. How can you go to people's doors when you no longer believe this is God's organization? I just didn't have the heart to invite people to the Hall when there was so much hypocrisy and absence of true love. You are so right TR about conversations you have with people once they know you no longer are part of Dubdumb. Wonderful conversations! beautiful people! not wicked or evil like we were taught. Mrs R
school, got baptized, and started working the midnight shift, i went out in service
everyday with the morning group
i loved it because going out enabled me to get to know the friends
Field service was always frustrating. Weekdays I usually ended up always in the same car group, either with Rocky's mom and sister-in-law, or with the moms with small children. Saturdays were either, again with my own family and mother-in-law, or me the only adult with 4 or 5 children under the age of 12. As for TMS parts, growing up my dad was the school overseer. My sis and I had to be ready to fill in at a moments notice. We were groomed to be public speakers from an early age and probably could have done a better job than most. Did we want to? No way! I was in the TMS for 30 years before I quit giving talks, rather cold turkey. Don't miss it a bit. But as for the young brother/elders not being able to make car groups, etc. - they just can't multi-task very well. Wonder if that is a gender specific thing? My best memories of service were going to the houses that were designated as 'do not calls.' The elders didn't like going to those for the annual 'do you still want to be on the list' call. So they sent Rocky - he's not afraid of too much. And usually he knew who these people were and they were friendly to him. We usually had very good visits, altho not necessarily pushing the WT agenda. But I'm with you Ven - oh the memories (don't miss it at all!)
Mrs R
i found an awake!
magazine tucked in my door when i came home from work last night.
i guess weve been away from the kh long enough for only a handful of them to know where we live.
It's okay Tzu - i toggle back and forth between the forum and a game I am addicted to. It's easy to just skim looking for main points and miss some of the details. Just glad you're here.
Mrs R
i found an awake!
magazine tucked in my door when i came home from work last night.
i guess weve been away from the kh long enough for only a handful of them to know where we live.
Tzu - that was Lin that has the two dogs and the rifle. Don't have a dog but do have the gun, but as much as I strongly dislike the WT, I don't think individual JWs are necessarily mailicious. I believe most rank and file keep doing what they are told without question because they don't know how to think for themselves. One of the first reactions to betrayal is anger. Anger can, but not always, beget violence. But as you grow and heal you realize violence isn't the answer. Rocky and I prefer messing with their heads.
And yes, Tzu, I know the ones coming to the door have my eternal salvation in mind. After all I was a publisher for over 30 years myself. So again, another reason why I couldn't bring myself to shoot one of them. They are just misguided.
Mrs R
i found an awake!
magazine tucked in my door when i came home from work last night.
i guess weve been away from the kh long enough for only a handful of them to know where we live.
Nope - not current. August 22. I already have the October 8. But then I think I must be on someone's perpetually 'not at home' list. Not a bad place to be.
Mrs R
