Yeah.. my only regret is that I didn't leave sooner.
ofcmad
i left almost nine years ago at age 18; my only real regret was that i was good friends with a young brother and i never said goodbye to him, or even let him know that i was planning to leave (had to leave my parents' home secretly while they were at the meeting one sunday; they had such a hold over me that i could never have stood up to them and told them beforehand).
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i have no other regrets about leaving; i'm am now happily agnostic and so thankful that i found the strength to break free.. anyone have any similar regrets?
Yeah.. my only regret is that I didn't leave sooner.
ofcmad
LOL - SixofNine
By the way..
Speaking of JW's and blood cards.. I was working a car wreck.. and a rubbernecker came by. Well the rubbernecker failed to stop and struck a vehicle in front of him. When he got out, he was cursing and swearing like a sailor. Anyhoo.. I ask him for his driver's license. I was telling him at this point to calm down. I then noticed the lovely red and white no blood card. I started laughing. He asked why I was laughing. Of course, due to professional standards, I couldn't tell him the REAL reason why. So I told him that I was laughing because I had to write up two reports instead of one because he wasn't paying attention. A citation was written. LOL
What should I say when he sees all my JW books?
1. you wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest and down the other.
2. you made baby chocolate cakes in your holly hobbie easy bake oven.
you washed them down with the snoopy snow cone machine.
Let me add a couple:
colorforms
Wonder woman
Big Wheels
Chips - *I was in love with John*
Garfield everything
Transformers - More then meets the eye...
Burger King's paper king hats
McDonald Happy meals came in paper boxes with cool toys
99 red ballons
A single pony tail on the side of the head
Leg Warmers!
Rainbow Brite
Sasson Jeans
Tab cola
Weekly Readers
Smokey the Bear and Hooty the Owl (ya know.. the pollution owl..Give a Hoot don't pollute! Never be a dirty bird..in the *something* or in the Woods..Help Keep America looking good..)
(edited to add more to the list)
from "just jws" site http://communities.msn.co.uk/justjws/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&id_message=476&lastmodified=4675361990416533398.
firstly may i state i have not visited or am aware of the site you visited, but if i may offer a reply.
we have ones who were former child abusers as we have ones who were former murderers etc etc, we do monitor these ones for the safety of our congregations and to uphold jehovah's clean standards.
xander-
TRUE DAT!!
when i was a dub growing up, i remember the nightmares..... repeated, and frequent.... the terrible feeling of dreaming that "armageddon" had come, and that destruction was happening all around me.. when i woke up, i would lie perfectly still, and do nothing.
not even a muscle twitch, and just "listen" for a familiar sound, to tell me i was indeed still alive, and still on the planet.. and the fear those dreams put in me, i can still remember 25-30 years later.. how many of you, growing up in, or even coming in as adults had a similar experience?.
learn about the wtbts and the u.n.. ** http://www.geocities.com/plowbitch69 **
Same here-
Dreams that armageddon had occurred and thinking I was waking up in the "New System".
My parents used to take magazines, wrap them in tinfoil and stick them in the ciderblocks in our basement. This was incase the US would say that reading WT material was outlawed. Of course, NOW I see that as crazy.. and now I wonder why they never hid the Bible. I would figure that would be more important.
ofcmad
hello all...been lurking between puppy grooms...just had to post this one!.
my daughter and x-hubby (inactive jw for many years) went to dinner the other night at grannies( hard nosed jw) and was told that the wtbs says that jw's can no longer have tubal ligations.
the reasoning was it interferes with the "natural order" of things.
In the case of sterilization, such as by a vasectomy, the decision is one of personal conscience, since this is not directly mentioned in the Bible. “Each one will carry his own load.” (Galatians 6:5)
LOLOLOL...
I guess that is taking the scriptures literally.
Unfortunately they don't talk about the right to hold that load back..lollolol
from "just jws" site http://communities.msn.co.uk/justjws/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&id_message=476&lastmodified=4675361990416533398.
firstly may i state i have not visited or am aware of the site you visited, but if i may offer a reply.
we have ones who were former child abusers as we have ones who were former murderers etc etc, we do monitor these ones for the safety of our congregations and to uphold jehovah's clean standards.
They dub-el speak..
There is no such thing as a FORMER pedophile.
ofcmad
i am a full blown practising black satanic magician and ex-jw who is out to crush jehovah's empire and bring it to its knees.
i am seeking similar like minded persons for the gathering together of a magical order of the darkest kind.
respond only if you dare.
Hey Nimrod -- (which you are)
When I get to heaven, and you to hell, tell me how it is.
does christ's ramsom cater for extraterestials?
during his three days death he visited the spirits in prison who came to earth during noah's day, as in jude 1. the word angel is an old english word for 'angle' which means 'the keepers of the angles' and are also extra-terrestials, hence aliens.
in the bible book of genesis 11:7 god said "let 'us go down' to confuse their languages".
Nimrod --
Stick around long enough and you'll have your fair share of pokes and prods...
BTW, most scholars cannot say with any certainty what the message was to the angels because the Bible DOESN'T say what the message was. It just said a message.
Ask any mormon or JW, they would know what the message was.
ofcmad