I have been inactive for about a year and a half. My fiancee is not a witness. The wedding is not at a church...it will be held at a historical site. A workmate of my will proabably be the officiant, she is not at all religious.
lostinthought
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Wedding question
by lostinthought incan a witness get in trouble for attending an inactive family members wedding?
just wondering because i am getting married this summer and my mom tried to blackmail me by saying she and other family members would attend but only if i returned to the meeting.
i told her i am not going back to the meetings.
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Wedding question
by lostinthought incan a witness get in trouble for attending an inactive family members wedding?
just wondering because i am getting married this summer and my mom tried to blackmail me by saying she and other family members would attend but only if i returned to the meeting.
i told her i am not going back to the meetings.
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lostinthought
Can a witness get in “trouble” for attending an inactive family member’s wedding? Just wondering because I am getting married this summer and my mom tried to blackmail me by saying she and other family members would attend but only if I returned to the meeting. I told her I am NOT going back to the meetings. I have been preparing myself mentally with the idea that my family won’t be attending but I really can’t see my mother missing the wedding…
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How many born ins actually stay?
by lostinthought ini was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization.
i think i have read it before on here but i can't really remember what it was.
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Thanks everyone. I basically am a born in. My mother started going to meetings as long as I can remember. Witnessess converted her father when she was in her 20's , eventually my gradndmother became a witness. This lead to most of my mother and most of her brothers and sisters becoming withnessess (there are 8 of them in total). That being said, most of my aunts and uncles along with cousins are witnessess. I am the only one out of my cousins and sibligins that has faded (with the exception of my uncles step son who is also an apostate). Nobody has been dfed to my knowledge. I would have thought that with as many cousins that I have that were born in more should be out satistically.
This is brought about because of a phone call I had with my mother last night. In the past before my fade, at the begining of the doubting phase, we use to talk about how wrong the religion was. She didn't think I had the balls to actually leave. But I did, so now she's all upset and I beleive that a lot of it has to do with the perception of other people. It looks good that all of her children are in "the truth". Anyway, she wanted to know if I was still going to marry my "wordly" financee. I said yes, she then pereceded to try and minipulate me by saying "if you go back to the meeting we will come to the wedding, if not..." I told her I didn't care, there is no way I'm returning. She ended the call with "well do whar YOU want"... whatever. Sorry about the rant.
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How many born ins actually stay?
by lostinthought ini was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization.
i think i have read it before on here but i can't really remember what it was.
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lostinthought
I was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization. I think I have read it before on here but I can't really remember what it was.
Thanks,
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lostinthought
Poor thing has dementia now. I use to work in the infirmary, all she would say over and over again was "soon to be destroyed".
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WT buys more property in NY
by Gypsy Sam ini did a search and didn't see this news on here yet.. i like how the 2015 completion date for ny now says 2016, yet there has never been time for college.. .
http://t.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20140513/biz/405130321/-1/news&template=tabletart .
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lostinthought
it is true that there are a lot oj Jews in this area. The Jews have a large area around here called kyras joel, actually the witnessess sold their old assembly hall to the Jews. Jews are also expanding to many areas in this part of ny.
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Blah...
by lostinthought ini've been felling blah lately, it may be the weather (never ending winter).
but wathever, i've got a never ending headache and i'm into looking onto jw stuff again.
i have not posted here in a while because i did not need to, now i feel i need to again, mabe to be reassured that what i'm doing is ok, to get a little encouragement from my ex witness buddies on this site...i haven't been to a meeting since this summer and i really don't plan on going to the memoral but i think i feel guilty about it....
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I've been felling blah lately, it may be the weather (never ending winter). But wathever, I've got a never ending headache and I'm into looking onto JW stuff again. I have not posted here in a while because I did not need to, now I feel I need to again, mabe to be reassured that what I'm doing is ok, to get a little encouragement from my ex witness buddies on this site...I haven't been to a meeting since this summer and I really don't plan on going to the memoral but I think I feel guilty about it...
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News article: Watchtower buys former motel
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20140322/biz/403220306 watchtower buys former motelgroup may also purchase site in tuxedo the former hampton inn on route 300 will provide housing for volunteers working on the watchtowers new headquarters being built in goshen.steve borland/times herald-record.
by james walshtimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 03/22/14town of newburgh the watchtower tract and bible society closed friday on the purchase of the hampton inn on route 300.. watchtower spokesman richard devine said the building will be used to provide housing for short-term volunteers working on the organization's world headquarters, which is under construction in warwick.. the sale price wasn't disclosed.. another property, sterling forest apartments in a rural area of the town of tuxedo, may also be purchased by watchtower.
that would provide housing for long-term volunteer construction workers at the headquarters.. "we talked to the owner there," devine said of the apartments, "but we're still investigating that.
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They'll just use the place for now, fix it up then sell it for a higher price in the future...new reality show "flip the hotel"...and they used volunteer labor to do it all!
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How do you feel about Common Core education?
by nonjwspouse inespecially if you are a teacher, how did you learn about it to begin with?
was there a common core rep doing a slick presentation?.
how do those of you with kids on school feel about, among others, things such as the deemphasis on the great works of literature ?.
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lostinthought
http://livingisnotboring.blogspot.com/2013/10/education-is-not-same-anymore.html?m=1
I teach middle school, these are my thoughts on the common core
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I don't care...
by lostinthought infirst of all, i haven't been to a meeting since this summer.
i actually had a better plan for fading but of number of things happened where i decided it was best to go "cold turkey" (one of the biggest things that caused my exit was that an elder at my last shepparding call who said he thought i was suicidal when i really have no attention of killing myself).
so when the phone calls, emails and texts started coming, ive been ignoring them all, except those from my family.
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lostinthought
It's not that they care that much about me either, but it's only been a couple of months so I guess I'm technically not incative. p.s. I love you guys