Posts by lilbluekitty

one of the ways the governing body justified its existence is saying that there was a governing body over 1st century christians based out of jerusalem.

now i know they dont have any real proof of this, in fact evidence is the opposite of this, but lets say for arguments sake there was a gb in the 1st century.

lilbluekitty

Wait, where is this "new" light? LIke was it in one of the magazines or in a convention or what? Just in case one of them asks me.

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kingdom melodies (MALADIES!!) from brown songbook that sound like church hymns

by lilbluekitty in

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i was looking up christmas music and remembered that last year when we went to a christmas mass (i am not catholic btw) that some of the hymns sounded eerily like jw songs.

probably their songs that jws stole the tunes of.

does anyone have any songs, esp.

I was looking up Christmas music and remembered that last year when we went to a Christmas mass (I am not Catholic btw) that some of the hymns sounded eerily like JW songs. Probably their songs that JWs stole the tunes of. Does anyone have any songs, esp. from the brown songbook that sounded a LOT like other "pagan" songs? I know there was one that sounded Hawaiian and one that sounded like the Looney Tunes song too but I haven't listened (nor do I want to, I'll get them in my head!!) to in awhile that sound like other songs, espescially old church songs.

I was of the brown "Sing Praises To Jerhohver" songbook so no green or pink or whatever, I never knew those.

Thanks, it would be amusing to me. :)

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Recent "New Light"?

by lilbluekitty in

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so i've been away from anything witness-y for a number of months...what "new light" are they talking about now?

anything or is it all the same doom and gloom?

i haven't talked to my mom in awhile and when we do talk we don't talk about jw stuff much except for her bragging about rbc stuff.. what news is there?

lilbluekitty

So I've been away from anything Witness-y for a number of months...what "new light" are they talking about now? Anything or is it all the same doom and gloom? I haven't talked to my mom in awhile and when we do talk we don't talk about JW stuff much except for her bragging about RBC stuff.

What news is there? Any new scandals, new FDS crap? Are they claiming they're above Jesus yet? Pffft. Fill me in, I love a gag-fest once in awhile.

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do you remember the Last assembly you attended?

by crystlew123 in

i dont remember the date.

or the year or if it was a district or circuit.

what i do remember is that we rode up with a car full of other female witnesses.

lilbluekitty

I don't remember the exact date but I'm guessing it was last year or the year before? I think it was spring of last year possibly but since I live in South TX who can tell? It always feels like summer here. Anyway, I rode with this very odd sister and her son and her Bible student who was only in her early teens. (Now that I'm out I can't stand that they study with children, it's so abhorrent to me because children can be so easily swayed.) Anyway the sister was very weird and her van was always quite dirty, most pioneers cars are, if you remember. I stepped out of the van at the assembly parking lot and noticed a huge wad of pink gum stuck to my shoe!! I was sitting in the front and the woman had offered me gum but I only chew spearmint. I don't know if it was her or her son but someone must've spit the gum out onto the floor of the car. I was so mad and kept trying to scrape it off all day. I remember walking around and taking pictures of the old literature they had behind glass and just thinking how weird everything was and how no one talked to me. During the assembly I probably only wrote 3 pages of notes (I used to fill at least half a notebook with notes before!) and in the end started doodling and conjugating French verbs or making random lists of things. Then I was distracted by the girl sitting 2 seats down from me who was a cutter and seemed to be proudly displaying her many scars and fresh cuts on her arms and I was thouroughly disturbed because her mother didn't seem to care one bit! After that, the next assembly that came up I skipped and soon after just stopped going to meetings altogether in July 2011. The whole thing was just disgusting. The people were obviously mentally ill and no one noticed because they all were like that, everyone was either emaciated or morbidly obese and hardly anyone would talk to me no matter how friendly I was. I only walked around with one girl and I didn't understand half of what she said except I knew she didn't want to be there. The fact that I could have been at home in my pjs for the weekend watching movies kept going through my head when I already had heard all this crap my whole life. I honestly don't know what the theme was and couldn't care less. I decided why should I keep going if I hated it?

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help a noob

by fakesmile in

i dont type much and i must have overlooked the intro thread so ill start with a joke.

a witness walks into a biker bar and proclaims that the owner of the demonic bike painted with skulls is has pissed god off.

that is about where the story ends.

lilbluekitty

Welcome :)

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Jehovah protects Jehovah's Witnesses !!! Have you heard this?

by Balaamsass in

new story on my google alerts today.

one more real life experience to counter what i have heard old jws, assembly parts and c.o.s spout for years.. jws kidnapped and beheaded;.

abu bandit with p6-m bounty nabbed in basilan.

lilbluekitty

If Jehovah only saves JWs, then why does he keep saving me? I'm a Christian now! LOL.

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How have you fared since leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses?

by God_Delusion in

howdy guys and gals!.

personally, my life has been fantastic.

it's like a massive weight has been lifted off of me, especially when it comes to having to go to the meetings.

lilbluekitty

My life now, though still a work-in-progress is going quite well for the most part, considering the fact that with the exception of 4 or so members of my family, all now shun me and my uncle is harassing my sister (who also left just recently!) and me. I stopped going to meetings back in July, it will be a year in a week or two(!), started researching JW history and flip-flopping doctrines in October, going to church in November, joined my church in March (or so) and got baptized in my church in April. Non-spiritual news aside I got my ears pierced and got my hair cut quite short right after I stopped going to meetings, started learning to play the ukulele and now I have a job after not having one for nearly 8 years. I've grown much closer to my husband and his family and am making friends for pretty much the first time in my life. I'm considering going back to college soon and learning to drive (if I can get over the fear of it!) and advancing my career. It stinks that most of my family has either treated me so badly or outright shuns me but I'm actually happier now that they aren't constantly beating me down now and i can live my life mostly in peace. I love the freedom of being able to believe what I want and researching the things I believe without fear. I can live without fear now and I feel so much closer to God as well. I truly believe he helped me get out from the Watchtower's mental prison. :)

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A question specially for ladies ...

by Dudu in

did you change the way you dress after leaving the wt?.

lilbluekitty

I definitely have an aversion to wearing skirts, even short skirts at times. I just feel so "witnessy" wearing them. I do dress rather nice at work but always pants, tasteful makeup but definitely more than I used to wear, comfy shoes and colorful blouses.

For casual I almost always wear dark jeans, sneakers, and funky teeshirts. I wear cross necklaces from time to time and I mostly only dress up for Christmas and Easter. I wore spider earrings this past Halloween, that was fun :)

I look different now though to the JWs who still bug me at my door from time to time...I chopped my hair right around the time I stopped attending meetings so it's now a feminine pixie, got my ears pierced and have funkier glasse. I used to have really long hair and dress rather conservatively. Now I just LOOOVE wearing jeans and such to church...I live in TX so everyone is super casual around here compared to up north.

I love the freedom I have!!!

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Reduction of Announcements

by wisdomfrombelow in

starting the week of september 3rd they will cease having local announcement as part of the service meeting.

is there going to be a much reduction of the letters sent to the congregation?

will everyone be expected to read the bulletin board to know what is going on?

lilbluekitty

Less individuality=MORE ROBOTS