Good for you Shelia!! I wish I could have seen the looks on their faces as you were reading.
We will have to get together Soon!!
i knocked on the locked door of the appeal hearing last night after they had dismissed bill and told the six elders that i had something to say to them and told them it was summed up it a letter i had written.i then asked them if i could read it to them and they could have their own copy when i was finished.they said that would be fine.. here it is.
governing body,.
25 columbia heights.
Good for you Shelia!! I wish I could have seen the looks on their faces as you were reading.
We will have to get together Soon!!
a reunion perhaps, a party, a beautiful view shared with an equally stunning partner, what was ever, the happiest moment in your life?
how did you find this emotion, exactly what did it feel like, can you remember and perhaps share your sentiments here with the rest of us?
please take us there with you.. celtic mark - cornwall uk.
The umbilical cord had wrapped around the neck of my 3rd son during labor before he was born. When he was born,he wasn't breathing, the doctor layed him on my chest and took care of the cord and he was lifeless and not breathing.Then the doctor layed him in a warmer and began CPR and had one of the nurses tapping his feet and the doctor kept saying "Come on little guy,we're not going to lose you". It seemed like hours that I laid there helpless to do anything,then all of a sudden the baby started crying. That definitely was the best moment in my life. Andrew is 8 now and is a perfectly healthy little boy, still my baby
lets hear it.
beer, mixed drink, spirits.
my stats:.
Beer: Corona
Mixed: Italian Margarita (regular Rita with a shot of Amaretto, sugar rim instead of salt)
Spirits: Mas tequila!
my daughter and i, fun-loving apostates that we are, have some terms we use regarding the wt organization and other cults.
i would like my fellow posters here to tell us their terms, buzz words, etc., to add to our list: to get the ball rolling, two of our favorites are:.
cookie-cutter theology.
Kingdom Cult was always one of my favorites
i'm tired as hell today.
yesterday, i typed up a flyer saying how jehovah's witnesses' protect pedophiles, and how many who have spoken out trying to protect children from wt policy have been excommunicated from the church.
i didn't want to make it too long, but i ended by saying "how would you feel if on saturday morning, a knock comes to the door and your 6 year old runs to open it.
Good for you!!! Hope it upsets the JW in your area and puts the JW's lurking on this board on alert that it might be their neighborhood next!
one of the most interesting things that i have noticed about being a witness is the awe that is given to bethelites.
it seems that if you are a bethelite, you are accorded special privleges in congregations.
you are honored when you visit a hall.
I attended the Port Jervis N.Y congregation and the Bethelites there were from the farm and most all of them were great guys. We had little kids and they always helped out and always stayed out at our house on the weekends. We didn't treat them any different than anybody else. The first time we had them out to our house, we were a young couple then...we sat on milk crates and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. One of the guys did make an awesome Margarita though!
this is gonna take a while so bear with me .... i dunno where to start.
well i'm still a jw, still going to meetings etc although you do feel pretty bad sitting there knowing you'd like to be any place else.
like i've read from so many of you i've been the perfect jw kid excellent meeting attendence, good field service blah blah all that crap.
My best to you Alpha, you are not much older than my son and I hate to see the bonds the borg has on young people. The right solution will come, you have headed in the right direction coming here, many wise souls inhabit this board. Good Luck to You!!
*laughing just thinking about it*.
did anybody out there lie on their service reports that they maintained the 'national average' when in reality you got .005 hours of service in any given month?
i magically always used to always get "10" hours out in service, while nobody ever saw me at the groups, no one ever caught on, or seemed not to -- maybe they just didn't give a shit.. i always lied so i could keep my microphone 'privelidges' -- that being, the privelidge to walk around at the back of the hall giving my deflated ass a break from those awful chairs they had.
Always got at least 4 hours a month for our family study....yeah right!!
Ummm...winsome, it's Bill Bowen not Bill Bowens.
I have known Bill Bowen personally for several years and he knows what liars the wts are, he is aware of there backstabbing and there double talk, he is one of the most intelligent gentleman I have had the pleasure of meeting and personally the df'ing probably doesn't matter. He lost faith in the org along time ago. But now the society has made it virtually impossile for the silentlambs to contact him without fear of punishment.He is fighting for the innocent ones and is df'd while the child molesters are going door to door--- what's wrong with this picture?
so how many here were pioneers?
ha ha ha.
i used up my teenage years pioneering, good thing i didn't go to college or university i could be well educated and in a good job.poo.
I pioneered for 2 years 91,92 I think. I hated it, I remember spending long , hot days in the summer trapped with an overloaded car of whiners.My spiritually weak husband was supporting me by staying at the house with 1 of our children, we had 3.
We had a lot of rural territory that kept us out and driving around alot,heck we even made drive-by return visits...anybody remember them? Why stop when you can clearly discern from the road that no one is home:) I attended pioneer school in 92. I see one of the guys I went to pioneer school with, my "service buddy" at the local Lowes all the time, he always starts to smile and then quickly bows his head and walks on...how sad, he is still stuck in.