hey guys.. i have a question.
i noticed that when i go online i'll hit a couple of news websites, maybe check my email, but eventually i always seem to find my way to some sort of jw related site.
yeah, i know, that's not a question...hold on, i'm getting to it.... is there a time when an ex-jw should become an ex-ex-jw?
While I'm totally 'deprogramed' myself, I hang around sites like this, as I want to help and support others who need and ask for help as many did for me when I was coming out.
I don't spend much time trying to talk JW's out of the Organization, but I do want to support those are new and have questions.
Outaservice (for good)
has there been any change in who owns the kingdom halls?.
last i knew it was the watchtower who owned them all, but the pubs had to pay the rent and mortgage.
are any or all of the halls in the names of local elders?
Now, let me see if I got this straight....
1. The congregations donate their labor to build the hall!
2. They borrow the money from the Society which they actually contributed!
3. The Society charges them interest on the money!
4. When the loan is paid off, The Society owns the building?
And they're worried about the crooked TV Evangelists?
Outaservice
so, rumors have emerged that the watchtower society is worried about elders in europe.
offering "internal statistics" about the organization?.
you might wonder why this seems so important to them.. i think i may be able to offer a reason for their sudden concern - money!.
Dear Brothers,
We don't pass any collection plates, but please leave us the farm!
Sincerely,
The Society
ive sent this in again as i dont think it showed up when i tried.. well ive been out for about 4 years now, and have heklped 7 other people to leave.. last week i finally got my mom to read franz and penton.
she is not going back to the hall again!.
thanks to many but most notably simon and farkel who helped me.
I've mentioned this before.........my mom told me if I did not get out of the Witnesses, she was going to quit talking to me!
My mom got me out!
Outaservice (formally known as InService)
while we all know that the jehovah's witnesses are found throughout the world, someone once told me that in other countries the governing body does not carry the weight that they do in the united states.. do you living in germany, france, uk, australia, etc.
feel that was the case?
to me, it seemed that such persons as the australians were such a 'gutsy' independent, wild west sort of culture that would question authority more so than say a u.s. witness.. is this primarily thought of as an american religion by others?.
While we all know that the Jehovah's Witnesses are found throughout the world, someone once told me that in other countries the Governing Body does not carry the weight that they do in the United States.
Do you living in Germany, France, UK, Australia, etc. feel that was the case? To me, it seemed that such persons as the Australians were such a 'gutsy' independent, Wild West sort of culture that would question authority more so than say a U.S. Witness.
Is this primarily thought of as an American religion by others?
Outaservice
someone said this to me today ... .
"love is not a feeling, its an act of will".
i had never thought that through before.
It isn't the 'cough' that carries you off, it's the 'coffin' they carry you off in!
Outaservice (who has the day off but should have gone to work)
folks,.
well, i'm done with the whole witness thing.
i've had my catharsis and have noticed the jws slowly fading from my consciousness.
Quit 'Beating around the bush' Bradley, just tell us how you feel!
Congratulations,
Outaservice
the cable service is showing each saturday old sid and marty kroft childern programs fromt the 1970s.
rember the "land of the lost"?
saw an episode with the green lizard men, the sleestaks!.
Pictures looked like the inside of the Kingdom Hall I used to attend.
Outaservice
recently my brothers and i located my aging mom in a care facility.
(she's 85 years old) i'm the only apostate one of the bunch.
there's my two twin bro's, my baby bro, and my next younger bro.
Hope your mother adapts well and you planted a seed in one of your brothers to cause him to think.
OnInOne
have any of you thought of going to college since you left the jw's?
now that its not forbidden and you are free to do what you want .... it should not matter how old you are.
i know...... you think: i am 35 or 40 or 52, go to college?
If I was to go to college I would try to get a degree in 'Pharmacy'. In demand, and pays well!
I did go to Penn State years ago, or maybe it was 'State Pen' , I can't remember!
A lot of JW's went to the school of 'Hard Knocks'!
Outaservice
