i stopped at a coffee shop yesterday and coming out was a pod of jws in the service.
i hadknown several of them.
the gal driving is the daughter of a jw who was a very close friend of mine who lives out of the area now.
The CO probably will mention you in the final talk Sunday.
"Jehovah blessed our ministry in many ways this week. Yes even during one of our coffee breaks, we encountered one of our Lord's 'little sheep' who had strayed away. She was told of our glorious new kingdomhall and invited to attend our meeting today. Hopefully she is hear right now benefiting from our program."
excuse me while I go vomit.
...while i was on the couch drinking coffee and surfing jwd..;-) it was an elder and ms, trying to 'encourage' us to be a little more regular.
(i told him i'm fine, i get enough fiber in my diet...haha ok dumb joke).
i chatted with them for a few, exchanged some pleasantries, told them i've been havining some "medical" issues lately and that i appreciated their concern.
LOL! I live out of the territory so all I get is a text message! Plus if anyone steps on my property they have a big ass dog running their way real fast and if he doesnt bite but if you don't know him he is intimidating enough to make you jump back in the car fast.
after almost 2 years of being wrongfully disfellowshipped and over a year after finding this site....i am starting to read crisis of conscience.
i will not lie....i am a bit nervous as to what information i will find in the book.
i have a strong feeling that i will end up crying through most of it as i will start to see the truth about the "truth".
I'm on page 100 of CoC. I have to hide it from my JW housekeeper. Which means I hide it from myself and forget to go read it. But it has been interesting so far.
is he on this board?
does anyone know the reason he left?
what denomination is his church?.
Did he do the pizza parties for you too Charlie Brown?
for those who want to keep up with the "pure language", i found out this week that at the most recent elder's school, they were told that the announcements should no longer include the following:.
1. name of public talk and speaker for sunday.
2. synopsis of all the parts that are coming up on the rest of the service meeting.
The announcements are to allow time for REPROOF/DISFELLOWSHIPPING. The rest is just filler.
this forum tends to get me thinking about things from the past and then roll my eyes.. i was recalling a particular pharasee in the congregation who used to love showing everyone how "smart" he was.. when i would go over the questions with someone, we would fly through them because it was usually with kids who were raised as jw's and could answer then in their sleep.
(besides the fact it was an "open book" quiz.).
well, mr pharasee used to always make it into a marathon session and take 2-3 hours to go over one section of the questions with someone.. he could take a simple question like "what is god's name?
Is that assembly hall stage from the video literally a three ring circus?!?
you don't see me posting very often, but i do read the site frequently.
my husband (who is an urban planner) came across a "blurb" in an engineering magazine.
i have a scan of the blurb, but have no idea how to post.
Maybe now they can afford to build some KH's in the third world countries that can't afford them.
dave inspired me with his story of his week at bethel.
the fish in the pond outside the e building at the watchtower farm would eat out of your hand, very cool.
the fall colors of the mountains with the morning sunshine on them outside the dining hall at the farm were spectacular.
When I left, people asked why I would ever leave the closest thing we have to Paradise in this imperfect world. If Bethel is Paradise, I'd look for alternatives.
is he on this board?
does anyone know the reason he left?
what denomination is his church?.
Kinda bumping this to see if anyone knows if its true. He was one of the kindest, most down to earth CO's that ever existed.
so can we get a directory going of who wrote various kingdom melodies songs?
i know frank kavelin (who has happily since left the cult) had a hand in writing "make the truth your own," and "make sure of the more important things.
" but who were some of the writers that penned the rest of the tunes?.
The harshest and most unloving C.O. I ever met, Alonzo Hawkins, claimed to have written a few. I didn't care enough to ask which ones.
