hi your screen name says it all LIFE IS TO SHORT to waste on W.T guilt trips
Nam-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo
they still give my husband km for me.
i truly do not know why so i was flipping through the july one and it made me so mad, another example of us not doing enough.. "nelena, who is 19 years old and lives in bulgaria, had two desires-to be baptized and to auxiliary pioneer.
however, she suffers from hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, which for the moment is incurable.
hi your screen name says it all LIFE IS TO SHORT to waste on W.T guilt trips
Nam-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo
mr falcons thread on jw partys made me think about my new family's get togethers.. once or twice a year, we have a get together/picnic ( around 40 or 50 mostly family ).. we drink quite a bit of wine/ pernod ( our wives or 'sometimes husbands) drive home ).
i have never heard crude talk.
people sware a bit, but in an amusing kind of way.
j-l-p.....the `"strong" in the congregation dont associate with the weak in the "congreation"
Nan-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo
the day i was born into a cult was at baptisam.....sadly thats the day my freedom was kissed goodbye.
(sincere and faithful as i was).
the early belivers in christ were thrown to lions rather than renounce their sincerity and faith.
hi leavingwt....yes i also as a J W, was sincere: Sincerely Wrong.
Iam now a sincere athiest, but open to be found sincerley wrong again .
NAM-MYO-HOR-REN-GE-KYO
the day i was born into a cult was at baptisam.....sadly thats the day my freedom was kissed goodbye.
(sincere and faithful as i was).
the early belivers in christ were thrown to lions rather than renounce their sincerity and faith.
What ever AG.....l guess we both like our convictions undiluted...like my bourbon.Have a glass on me.
myo-hor-en-ge-kyo.
the day i was born into a cult was at baptisam.....sadly thats the day my freedom was kissed goodbye.
(sincere and faithful as i was).
the early belivers in christ were thrown to lions rather than renounce their sincerity and faith.
My dearest Aguest
Sadly INTEGRITY in faith is subjective because it relys on the values of the person doing the testing.
Hence my post faith and sincerity
Harmony to you AG. love.myohorengekyo
i had a conversation with a friend previously mentioned on this forum.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/206541/1/dinner-with-one-of-my-best-and-most-liberal-jw-friends.
we were speaking about a mutual friend who was disfellowshipped, and i mentioned that i missed them and wondered if they were okay because it wasn't like disfellowshipped people were dead to us...and he immediately responded "oh yes they are!".
this is really out of his character to say.
It has been my exsperience that this is not the thinking of the faithful witnesses i new....I say this in defence of the faithful and dedicated witnesses that prooved better friends (with there courageouse smile in the street) than my ex friends rebel witnesses, who ignored me as dead to them after my escape.
nam-myo-hor-ren-ge-kyo
........ and of course, that should come as no big surprise considering phillip and nancy garrido were jehovah's witnesses either before, or quite possibly at the time they abducted & kidnapped jaycee and stole her life away for 18 years.
i will share some excerpts from jaycee dugard's new book " a stolen life " and see if you also identify similar mind control tactics garrido used on jaycee that the wt society uses on 7 million members.. notice this quote from jaycee about schools and education , " i, however, have mixed feelings about high school.
on the one hand, for eighteen years i had been taught ( by garrido ) that schools are bad and kids learn bad things there and peer pressure can ruin a child's life forever ; but when i consider who i heard all this stuff from, a kidnapper, rapist, pedophile, narcissistic, pervert, i can only come to one conclusion.
Iam new here, but flipper you start and keep alive a great post.
Sizemik what you write is ovbiouse now you articulate it.
nam-myo-hor-en-ge-kyo
the day i was born into a cult was at baptisam.....sadly thats the day my freedom was kissed goodbye.
(sincere and faithful as i was).
the early belivers in christ were thrown to lions rather than renounce their sincerity and faith.
The day i was born into a cult was at baptisam.....sadly thats the day my freedom was kissed goodbye. (sincere and faithful as i was)
The early belivers in christ were thrown to lions rather than renounce their sincerity and faith. (sincere and faithful as they were)
Do we need our version of sincerity and faith? ......or can we let our fealings show outside of our sincerity and faith?
Nam-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo
god to me would be as refreshing as a cold beer on a summers day.. today iam an atheist.
iam no longer a beliver in other peoples idea of god.
yet iam thirsty to find a god.
Aguest
With an allowance of 10 posts a day its difficult to debate. Lets just say i envy you for having left the witnesses, and found something real to you.
Myo
When i was at school in England we had the cane for teenagers.
On a programme iam watching on culture channel the woman of a African tribe are whipped by the men and left with terrible scars.
Thankfully in England attitudes to both smacking and shouting at your children are changing and i beleive this change is reflective with young witness parents.
myo