i just ran across this video and enjoyed it a lot.
i hope you guys do too..... i can still remember the fake-ass elders scrambling trying to get everyone to show up for service and put on a big face...lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=royjqnqrcc0&feature=related.
The kindest CO I've ever had was forced to quit after only about 2 years in the circuit work. His wife (also very sweet) came down with cancer and he had a nervous breakdown. He was about 40, raised as a JW and full of empathy. Of course, his nerves couldn't stand dealing with the particularly horrid elders in our circuit. We were his first and last. I'd love to hear someday that they left the Borg.
It figures. There are 2 kinds of people: The ones who GET ulcers and the ones who GIVE them.
since finding out the truth about the truth myself and having successfully extricated myself and my parents about the jw's, i find myself with a new dilema that being they still believe the bible as a literal book for their salvation as i has read all of thomas paines works and how the bible is not very good for the human family, as they are of advancing years would it be inappropriate to shatter their illusions of some kind of paradise and let them flounder in a moral precipice and wonder what their lives have been about.
on the flip side once their time has come how would i feel for not telling them their false views.
at the moment i am in the deist point of view, with a tendency of the agnostic, it is quite a dilema!.
Totally agree with the others . What is the point when a parent has only a few years or less. My 93 year old mother was not expected to live out the month at this time last year. Instead, she continually got better and now attends all the meetings. Thankfully, I don't have to take her-she lives in another town. She actually looks foreward to those meetings. They make her think she is insuring her eternal salvation as well as giving her the social interaction she craves. If I told her TTATT she not only wouldn't believe me but she would die broken-hearted that I was going to be eternally destroyed. How does that help anyone???
some men probably got off on the power/ego trip being a male jw gets you, but i never cared for it.
i'm an introvert, and was an especially awkward one at that haveing been reaised in social isolation, so it was about the strangest feeling in the world when as a newly-baptized teenager (back in the day) i started to pioneer.
i was about as green as you could get in every way but i was told i had to take the lead in the service meetings and the car group.
I had to tell my hubby today that we are no longer jws and he is no longer my head. We are now offically partners. (good thing he agreed)
program 2011 - 2012. theme: 'let god's will take place' - matt.
6:10. morning session.
9:40 music.
Why do so many come come from assemblys and say, "that was the best assembly EVER!"??????? That is basically the same program I've heard all my life.
my poor wife went to get those big ol' injections in her spine on thursday and right after she said she would like to go see her dad.
so i dropped her off.
she said that his stupid pioneer wife was there and was mad that she showed up.
i feel for you TOTH, It's hard to take insults from anyone, but especially from jerks who have absolutely no room to talk! Like you I'm dealing with family who are badmouthing me to others. It hurts.
sd-7 texted me today.
his wife is in labor, has had some complications and is having an emergency c-section.
he asked me to spread the word to the folks on jwn.
awwwww, a cute little SD7 baby. Hope all goes well for the family.
had pancakes with tree blood (my favorite!).
sipping coffee, going to the mountains today.
ah, life is good.
BTW, Shamus, can I have some of your pancakes? I don't feel like getting up from my warm bed and making breakfast.
had pancakes with tree blood (my favorite!).
sipping coffee, going to the mountains today.
ah, life is good.
Sipping my morning coffee eating fine dark chocolate watching a good movie.....In my pjs. Yeah. I reeeeeaaaaaly miss those meetings!
right this minute you already have an answer in place inside your own head that you absolutely hold to be true.. because of your "invisible" headscarf and veil your actions, your acceptance, your loyalty is driven by your submission to unchallenged ideas.
nature is filled with winners and losers .. winners rule, dominate, lead, conquer, devour and hold sway.. losers submit, obey, follow, surrender, die or knuckle under.. .
animals establish territory and defend their turf.
When i was a JW I didn't mind being in "submission" because I didn't have a bully for a husband. I expected to be taken care of as the "weaker vessel" and played it to the hilt. There are many variables to the idea of submission. For example, we are ALL in submission to gravity- like it or not. We are in submission to the governments we live in. To some extent, we are even in submission to the things that make us human. Like death, sleep, eating, etc. etc. Try to rebel and see if it works.
OPRESSION is different. Opression takes things to an unhealthy, undesirable, level.In this case, the headscarf is worse than the alternative.
i can't think of anything i'd voluntarily give up..
Anchovies
