most people here have never met you.
we converse, discuss, argue, laugh, agree, question, share our lives..... quite often, you kind of get to know what a person is like.
some people, we tend to gravitate to and others, we shy away from.. how do you think you come across to other people?
How do you think you come across to other people? Are you, in "real life" just like you are here?
I don't know. I'm close with my kids. I have more in the way of friendship with women than men. I think it's probably like listening to yourself on a tape you sound different from what you thinkyou sound like.
Are you easy to get along with?
Well I think so but I've never had a lot of dinner invitations.
is it based on gullibility, naivete, the ability to suspend all logic and reason in order to hold onto fantasized "realities" of a paradise earth where all humanity will be perfect, where all wars and violence will cease?
is it a personal preponderance to the extreme-- whether it be in judgmentalism, cruelty, rigidity, negativity, and/ or righteousness that lends itself to extreme closemindedness and shortsightedness?.
how do you define it for yourself?
How do you define it for yourself?
I don't.
I'm not sure that there is one specific to being a JW. However I do think that I have found being honest was difficult. To honestly say how I felt about the assembly or the talk or the publication or how I felt about christmas or sex.
What characteristics are you working hard to let go of in order to overcome your JW past?
I'm not.
When i was a witness I was pretty relaxed about things and after I left home I was much more me. I felt at times there was hypocrisy and this would bother me especially if I felt it was on the part of the elder body.
i think i would say " you can not change others you can only change your self" .
if you cant think of anything what is the next number in this sequence?.
what do these sums have in common?.
I should have listened to myself more and others less
''well there's one thing you got ta ask yourself punk....you felling lucky...well do ya punk".....clint eastwood dirty harry.. "it's life jim but not as we know it" capt kirk star treck..
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it. (Fistful of Dollars 1964. IMBd Quotes)
on the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.
or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.
in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.
work for pixar or just paint
it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.
i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.
i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!
I don't think there was a final WTF moment. I don't think I was ever really an organization sort of witness. It was more to do with God. I had no aspirations to do anything at the hall and generally disliked the meetings and field service although I pioneered.
When I was growing up there was always a lot of conversation in house regarding the truth and a couple of times I remember my father going on about things that had changed, one being the baptism.
I never intended to leave and thought that things would be explained in time. A Watchtower article had made me see things differently and I my autopilot adjusted my life for me meaning less meeting attendance and no field service and I had to discuss my feelings with my friends that brought the elders round.
Since I left I was totally surprised once talking to an elder about Christ and John 1. and more recently I was shocked when I spoke to an elder and we couldn't agree on basic things that I had understood as a witness. So maybe that was my final moment.
I kind of figured it out, the reasons how and why I left, since I've been posting here. Or at least made more sense of it.
how many people, shown in this 1914 grade three school picture, do you think may still be alive ?.
birch school.
group iii.
I know a lady who is 102
i've noted a few people aluding to a rumour that there will be a "big announcement"(tm) that will "shock some"(tm) later this year, probably around agm time.. in the interests of pointless speculation, what might this be?
i am sure we can all think of some outlandish possibilities but i am interested in what could have some possibility of actually happening.. for example,.
- sisters able to do some aspects of ms roles.. - regional conventions (nee.
Their closing the doors on the ark
did you loath them?
did you feel it was a "privilege" to have the elders care deeply about your spiritual well being?
if you were an elder or ministerial servant, did you enjoy going to the homes of the sheep?.
my mother would usually phone to let me know she was coming round but not the elders.
how educated are you?
and how great is your vocabularly ect ....?.
do you think ir right to judge people by how intelligent/ educated they are and how much vocabulary they use???.
I wanted my children to be well educated and they are.
