if you grow up speaking english and you move to mexico you don't automatically speak spanish, know customs, understand currency, possess skills.
for self-support or have any special insight into latino mindset.. .
why would you expect leaving jehovah's witnesses would leave you any less ill-equipped to navigate the real world?.
It's still affecting me. In ways I'm aware of and I'm sure in many ways I've yet to discover.
Intolerance.
Defensiveness.
Passive Agressiveness.
Suspicous of others with truly good intentions.
The list goes on... working on it. Maybe it's just that I'm psychotic and nothing to do with the WT, lol.
lurkers.... check your calendars... october 2, 2014 is only 500 days away.... look for illogical nu-lite from the wt in publications and conventions that will attempt to explain this away.. they've already bought themselves some time by splitting a "generation" into 2 overlapping generations... still, they have a lot of explaining to do... this should get really interesting... stay tuned.... .
I remember years ago telling my brother-in-law that the next convention I go to will be in 2014. He laughed (despite himself). Honestly, I don't think I'm going to go.
damn!
how can you go around telling people that!
?.
"I was a good kid. I wouldn't do you no harm. I was a nice kid. With a nice paper route".
damn!
how can you go around telling people that!
?.
"God loves me more than you".
I've thought for a long time that this is what it boils down to. This idea. It's so rude! The height of it is that people are than offended that you find this offensive.
The reason why God loves me more? Does it really matter? Saying it to anybody makes them pissed off. In the case of Jehovah's Witnesses they then can feel justified in their persecution complex. How absolutely delightful!
i am new here and briefly want to introduce myself.. my name is michel and i am from the netherlands.
became baptized when i was 14, started pioneering when i got 18 and i've been ms for a number of years.
i married another pioneer and after a while we joined a foreign language congregation.
Hi Michel, I am also a noob, lol. For what it's worth... nice to meet you! Thanks for the introduction.
how many judicial cases did you serve on, in how many years as an elder?
feel free to talk about the cases too..
Thanks for the information.
...also...
Late 60's, eh?
Man, the future seems bright sometimes!
this has been the sentiment of a few i know who have been full jws for decades.
they say the love is not there like it used to be, and it's become less personal.. anyone heard similar comments from oldies?.
we know the 'truth' ain't the truth in the first place, but i have a feeling there may be a lot of older ones hanging on just because it's all they've ever known, and it the alternative, that there is no paradise around the corner like they've always been taught us unthinkable..
I haven't been to a meeting since 2001 with any sincerity.
I remember reading on here a few months ago the picnics and the like 'discouraged'. Would somebody care to elaborate? How is this done? KM? It wasn't going this way at all when I left... hospitality, etc.. was a virtue.
so we had the woman version.
let it rip guys - what type of woman makes you just want to get her know her better - the one that makes you take that risk and walk on over to start a conversation?.
Something that's not mention yet... and that the experts think mattersis an hourglass shape. Even though the size may vary considerably the ratio is considered attractive to men. It is to me.
Also, I have found that I find a woman becomes actually more physically attractive after getting to know and like her. It also goes the other way.... somebody I deemed very attracive at the outset goes down in my estimation when I view them as an airhead. Not trying to be harsh.
women gained some ground this week when the nypd said they will no longer arrest women who choose to go topless (like the guys) in public.. http://www.policy.com/articles/42359/topless-women-in-public-not-breaking-the-law-says-nypd.
san francisco and fremont california have had the annual naked bike ride and solstice festivals for a few years now..
I definately would be all for this if it wasn't for a certain image of old girls at the Lillith Fair emblazoned on my mind.
That was years ago.
Emblazoned.
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Severe blunt force trauma to the cranium causing a dramatic change in personality and substantial memory loss.
