i was thinking about this at a close friend memorial.
service the other day.
i was thinking, my 66 years here.
Actually, and I never got this, JW's are so proud of their accomplishments in the Supreme Courts of various lands to tolerate their craziness.
It's Satan's system you dicks! Why are you so proud of that?
Secondly, it's not a feather in your cap that you are such a test of a free society to make it's government ask itself ... 'Are we really willing to let freedom for citizens mean being this dumb? I guess we have to.'
the list of photos is long, some are very arrogant like "you go to church and say your a christian, that's like saying i have a motorcyle in my garage and that makes me a evil knivel!!
" what is the common thread of all these photos, head out to the site and see if you find anything funny.
my funny bone is not working, might be for you?
JW humour is cheezy, cheezy, cheezy, gay, vomit inducing garbage?
Yes, I concur.
Eg: 'What did the beaver say to the tree? .... Nice knawing ya.' People who tell a joke like this to another human being deserve to have their genitals smacked (and not in a good way).
i was thinking about this at a close friend memorial.
service the other day.
i was thinking, my 66 years here.
It is depressing to contemplate. I try to stop myself from thinking about what could have been but still do it. But, yeah, always compare yourself to yourself. That goes for everything... comparing myself to others is a recipe for depression.
His list of accomplishments puts him in a top percentile... did he have children? (I'm only asking as it relates to time).
both my wife and i were talking about some of the good times we had when we were jw`s ......and we did have good times socialising ,going out for meals ,hotels ,/ wedding functions /,with groups on barbequres /,camping at national parks , and beaches ,/enjoying fellowship at one anothers house on many an occassion ,/video nights / thearter nights with who we thought were good freinds ,our children grew up with their children and vice versa .i was a ms my wife was a people person who liked to entertain at home and many people responded to that.and i would say that apart from the first 5 years of our involvement and discarding the last few years of our leaving their was at least 20 + years of our relationship with our brothers and sisters who we considered our intimate freinds.. once you leave the religion they dont want to know you ,i tried a couple of times with no response.. whatever happened to trying to get you going again ?
(not that we ever would but they dont know that )and no neither of us were disfellowshipped.
i just think it`s a pity that in their veiw freindship is conditional on staying with the organization.
It's a painful thing when delusions are torn asunder. Conditional relationships exposed for what they are, etc.
Reality check! Needed, but painful.
i had a good friend with a lot of common interests but he was in a congregation about 40 miles away.
we did a lot together with both of our families.
until we had a local needs part about association with ones not in our own congregation.
Wow, if that's true it got even more ridiculous after I left, or wasn't mentioned here(?)
I know we were supposed to attend meetings in our assigned area or you looked like you had a real attitude problem. As for friendships outside the cong... never heard anything like that. Wow, it's even worse than I remembered.
i have recently been having a feeling of guilt for having escaped the w.t while so many friends and family remain trapped.. has anyone else ever had similar feelings?.
No, I don't feel guilty.
Firstly, as was mentioned, it's a lie. I don't feel guilty about not believing in Santa Claus anymore either.
Secondly, people that go to the KH are getting something out of it... having some need met. This is nothing to do with me.
Thirdly, Edit: [...]
/evil laughter
jws sure love urban myths.
the jws have their own collection built up over many years, part of their own unique worldwide jw culture.
i've come across the same ones in america that i've heard in australia, and they pass from legend to myth and finally reality as quoted from the platform.
Garage sales. Second hand demonic items bought by accident. After this happens all kinds of strange things get misplaced, etc... until the offending item is removed and everybody masturbates in relief.
sooner7nc - Jesus F'in Christ! I spilled coffee everywhere! Bravo I say!
No probs! It's what I'm here for... 'Thanks everybody... I'm here all week!'
there are times when we manage to step outside of our own identities, perspectives and world view, and look at ourselves, our situations or certain lived experiences almost as an outsider.
sociologists call it seeing the strange in the familiar.
an anthropologist by the name of miner wrote a fascinating piece involving this very concept (see http://www.ohio.edu/people/thompsoc/body.html).
In a sociology class we had to join a group and then write about it.
hhmmm.. just before I left there was a young woman at the Kingdom Hall who was consipicously interested for no reason. Was there for maybe two weeks. Attractive, and was going to be a lawyer, or doctor, or ... something more than undergraduate. I'm now wondering if we were zoo exhibits for this kind of study, lol.
have you ever wondered, why do i feel this way?
are the feelings we have our own or are they being influenced by satan?.
You sound more lovesick than demonized.
jws sure love urban myths.
the jws have their own collection built up over many years, part of their own unique worldwide jw culture.
i've come across the same ones in america that i've heard in australia, and they pass from legend to myth and finally reality as quoted from the platform.
Ear tickling at it's finest!
