i just got this link passed on to me.
unbelievable....i have been looking for some support and validation of my assumptions for a while.
there certainly is a lot to contemplate here.. my story is too long to tell in the amount of time of have before my flight.
Welcome ((((Sprocket)))!
Amazing how it feels like you lose 50 lbs off your shoulders once you're out. You'll find many supportive people here. It's bailed me out many times I've been at my lowest....just from reading that i'm not alone.
Again, welcome.
Di
do you keep falling asleep during meetings and assemblies?
long and boring home studies?
> here's a way to change all of that.. > > .
OMG ROTFLMAO - I HAVEN'T LAUGHED THIS HARD IN WEEKS!!!!!
THANKS, Openminded, I ONLY WISH I HAD MORE PEOPLE I COULD EMAIL THIS TO!
man.
i work in downtown fort worth, texas, and i went out for lunch today (benigan's to be exact).
when i finished my lunch and was walking back to my office...lo and behold....witnesses ....with their little blue tags.....everywhere!.
Yes, it's the convention. ugh...and it's at the Tarrant County Convention Center. My favorites are, however, the ones that take their name badges off and think they'll blend in with the NORMAL people! lol! heheee....
So...anybody wanna organize some apostate fun in front of the convention center w/me? heheheheee.....
man.
i work in downtown fort worth, texas, and i went out for lunch today (benigan's to be exact).
when i finished my lunch and was walking back to my office...lo and behold....witnesses ....with their little blue tags.....everywhere!.
Man. I work in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, and i went out for lunch today (Benigan's to be exact). When I finished my lunch and was walking back to my office...lo and behold....WITNESSES ....WITH THEIR LITTLE BLUE TAGS.....EVERYWHERE!
i hate this time of year. at least i can be grateful that it's only on Fridays that they'll disrupt downtown. In the old days, it started on WEDNESDAYS.
i did take the opportunity to LOUDLY explain to my friends (making sure my most offensive words would coincide with another JW group walking by) that these were the herds on their lunch break from their all-day brainwashing sessions.
Hey. Noticed something different this year. Witnesses have set up an "information table" in the local hotel lobby....where you can walk up and get free literature (eeek....watchtowers!) and sign up for more information. Are others doing this too? They didn't do this while i was a witness. I almost walked up to the table thinking it was a good-ol' apostates table, till i saw the banner saying "Would you like to live in paradise?"
ugh. there goes my lunch.
Di
as of 1 pm today barb anderson was notified that she has been disfellowshipped in writing by the judicial committee in her congregation.
barb was df in absentia at a second hearing that was declared after she successfully defended herself against charges in the first hearing.
home office came back with further instructions to make it stick the second time around.
HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH, BARBARA! and SIT ON THE FRONT ROW THE DAY THEY "ANNOUNCE" THIS DECISION! AND THEN TALK TO WHOMEVER YOU WANT ON THE WAY OUT!
creeps.
Thank you for having the tenacity and courage to do what I only wish I'd had! Keep making them accountable! Make them give you a reason! They don't have one and their witchhunt only makes them show their true colors.
not only did i have the fortune of being raised a dub, but i also live in the heart of mormonism, good old slc.
my wife went to lds church today and says she is going to start going every week.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghh.
thanks for all the advise and information on the mormons....I specifically asked if they disfellowshipped or ex-communicated people and was told they don't.
and that planet thing....damn...that's way out there.
Think I'll stay with my standard attendance to the non-denom church on Sundays.
not only did i have the fortune of being raised a dub, but i also live in the heart of mormonism, good old slc.
my wife went to lds church today and says she is going to start going every week.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghh.
PLEASE PLEASE....if anyone has any addt'l info on Mormon's ...i'd like to know. My sister-in-law has been "working" on me in a way to visit her LDS church. I've listened to a few programs on the BYU channel and am afraid to admit it sounds appealing.
Advice?
this is the deal: i'm disfed as of 1981. i've known the shunning thing all these years.
i have devout jw siblings and my parents are jws but not active or unreasonably devout.
my father is 80 and my mother is 77. my mother has metastatic breast cancer and is currently receiving treatment.. .
M-
Sorry to read about your dilemma. But you have no reason to feel like a shit....sounds like your sister's tears were just crocodile tears to lay on the guilt....something witnesses are really good at.
If she really cared, she would have been involved for longer than just 6 weeks and wouldn't rip a loved caretaker away your parents in such a manner.
She sounds like a greedy bitch to me. Sorry if that's blunt...but siblings like that piss me off. I too have family like that. Great with guilt trips and manipulation. ugh!
if your first response was bless you then great you have broken the jw cult mentality,and you probally are either agnostic or just not sure of which way you are going.. if your response was god bless you then you also have broken the jw cult mentality,and are still a believer in a god.. if you had no response then you are still polluted by the brainwashing of the dubs.. i hope you passed the test !!
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what if the response is..."Gazhuntheight" (sp?)
had this emailed to me the other day... the best church bulletin bloopers.........thank god for church ladies with typewriters.
these sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or.
were announced in church services:.
ok ok... i've got one. we ROLLED laughing when this one happened.
Back in the day when we used to SELL the magazines,,,a fairly new brother was asked to say the concluding prayer one night at the book study. He nervously said his prayer and concluded it with..."and we ask these things, Jehovah, for the contribution of $.10"
