this urban legend/anecdote was on the facebook page of a jw who is a facebook friend of mine.
it's kind of long but tell us what you think....it was all i could do to stop myself from making a snarky comment.
a young couple very much wanted to have a family, but his wife could not conceive, so they decided to adopt a baby.
I knew of an old JW couple whose only son died in Vietnam who adopted/fostered 2 teenage sisters.
They set about terrorizing the parents and burn quite a large sum of money the parents had.
They were eventually returned some how. Never heard that experience at an assembly.
my short list; lynard skynard, beach boys, carole king, yes, doobie brothers, rod stewart, ringo starr.. all star band, styx, gordon lightfoot, moody blues.
can you tell i like the older stuff?.
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
U2
Crowded House
Eurythmics
George Michael
Elton John
Michael Jackson
Robbie Williams
Boni Jovi
Diana Ross
Pet Shop Boys
Inxs
and many more I can't remember. Michael Jackson was the best followed by Cyndi Lauper.
hello, this is my first post and the first time i have told my entire story, albeit abridged, to anyone.
it will be a long story, sorry.. my grandparents were brought up with different religious backgrounds but converted to bible students around the depression era.
later, my grandfather met my grandmother through the congregation and got married until his death, having a marriage that lasted over four decades.
Hi,
I'm also gay, born in and never baptised left on my 21st birthday and about to have my 10th anniversary with my partner in Jan.
It does get better. My teenage years like most gay JW kids was hell. It was such a relief to get out into the real world.
There is a gayexjw support group on Facebook with over 500 members here. http://www.facebook.com/groups/37475079005/
and also A Common Bond http://www.gayxjw.org/
Brad
i see it posted that many are 'waking up' etc.
but the religion is still growing!
many enjoy the kool-aid.
I think they lie about their figures. I've lived at this address for over 12 months and never seen a witness around here.
what are your favorite urban legends that you heard as a jw?.
here's mine:.
a brother, through his work, was asked to give a speech to the united nations.
Well there was the story of this talking snake who got a naked woman to eat some fruit.
And the one about the guy with super human powers who lost it all after he got a haircut.
And there was this one about a guy who built this really big boat....
i really do not understand how any can be athiests from thinking real hard about it.
how can you think everything on this earth just happened?.
from my understanding, to be athiest, this is pretty much how it goes.
You believe a talking snake made a naked woman eat some fruit 6000 years ago but those scientific fact are just wrong. mmm
Now which sounds sillier.
hi guys!
well the caca hit the fan!
a friend asked me why i am leaving the org and i told her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=230VadxFFok
Cause you're free
To do what you want to do
You've got to live your life
Do what you want to do.
whassup guys.
i've spent most of my web time over the last 2 years at another site full of ex-jdubs...i'd say about 50 people post there on occasion...many of that number regularly.. what struck me from the beginning, as i got to know the people posting there was...how many were now atheists...non-believers in god...the bible...pretty much anything they once held sacred as jw's!.
i dare say...90 some % do not consider themselves christian now!.
Charlie's comment is 11 years old I doubt he's still around.
If god was real he could of at least commanded people to wash their hands after a crap it would have saved
millions of lives. Strange how he forgot to mention it.
a friend or mine posted this on facebook (it has made the rounds on the net).. i didn't have the heart to tell her that this looks like a fairly typical letter from a jw to a disfellowshipped letter, often for things that would blow a normal person's mind (holidays, politics, marriage outside the cult, etc).. .
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My mother said my coming out to her was the same as me dying.
She also said I was better off committing suicide than being gay as I would be resurrected a perfectly straight man apparently.
Stupid cult.
here is an email that my grandmother sent me yesterday.. .
shawn, it's very difficult & sad to come to this decision, but because of your attitude towards the truth & us personally (thinking that we are stupid) we're going to treat you as a disfellowshipped person from now on.
actually, you're worse than them because usually they know they have not kept their oath to jehovah & don't speak abusively of the organization and don't turn apostate.
| Main Entry: | unconditional love |
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