so some special pioneers in our cong thought it would be awesome to spice up our boring country town lives with a witness fancy dress party!!
wow what could go wrong?
it was 1993 well one pioneer wanted to out do every one so he turned up in drag as a ballerina in full bad make up...some had costumes with guns swords knives...i mean a cowboy does not have a watchtower in his holster!
This Thread reminded me of a JW Fancy Dress party Mrs Phizzy and I went to in the early '80's.We were told to come dressed as though it was the 1960's, so Mrs Phizzy and I went all Flower Power Hippy, I had on a genuine Indian kaftan that had appeared on the Brit '60s music show " Ready Steady Go !", a Hippy hat with a flower in it, Mrs Phizzy had on a hippy floral dress.
As we walked in the Hostess looked at our garb and said " Peace on you!" , I replied " You probably will later !"
i ran across this short essay and thought it was worth passing along.
trauma is not your fault, but healing is your responsibility.
what happened to you was not your fault.. it was not something you asked for, it was not something you deserved.. what happened to you was not fair.. you were merely collateral damage on someone else’s warpath, an innocent bystander who got wrecked out of proximity.. we are all traumatized by life, some of us from egregious wrongdoings, others by unprocessed pain and sidelined emotions.
It certainly is our responsibility to self-heal, and it is the only way forward to a free and happy life. It takes effort, something as JW's we were not required to do, we had our thinking done for us, we had our conscience formed by others, we thought that "Holy Spirit" would do all the work.
It took me a few years of researching, not only the errors of the JW org, but how to heal myself. I was helped by an excellent Therapist, because shortly before leaving I fell in to suicidal depression, but I had to work at the techniques she taught me, a wonderful woman by the way, who had previously treated a number of JW's.
Do not be a Slacker ! you have everything to gain by putting in real effort.
today was a beautiful day and so, decided to drive by my old town with my wife.
at some point, she asked me to stop talking about jws to which i said: i'm talking about were i lived, what i did and who i knew.
its just that all of it was jws!
I don't feel any need to deny my Jobo past. from the time I left I was aware of the need to eradicate Jobo thinking, and the feelings that certain things brought up in me which were due to the "teaching" , which was basically Mind Control, I needed to identify that I was being triggered, and to approach whatever it was in a new way.
I learned to get rid of any fear of our LGBT+++ friends, to no longer fear Demons, Satan etc, Armageddon etc etc, but most importantly of all, that lingering distrust of "worldly" people.
I am now emotionally free from all that nonsense, and of course mentally free in the sense that I see how very wrong it all was.
My Jobo past was as though I had lived in a nasty, twisted Authoritarian Country, and now I live in a pleasant Country, where I am free to think and say what I think to be right, and, chief of all, I am free to be the Real Me !
jimmy saville not being exposed until after he died.
(too well connected with royalty & establishment figures?).
the charities comission "enquiry" into the abuse by jw's resulted in nothing more than a telling-off for the "charity".. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (https://www.iicsa.org.uk) has so far been a damp squib.. the muslim paedophile gangs in england were tacitly approved of by police & social services.
Prince Andrew.........
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-sexual-abuse-wales-17700382 .
An honest and courageous man, who has my utmost respect for going public on this important issue. Love to you John !
the link below reveals all the recent planning applications submitted by the organisation/corporation.. https://planning.chelmsford.gov.uk/planning/planning-documents?sdescription=19/02091/rem.
This wonderful project to fulfil the needs of Jehovah's wonderfully expanding org seems to be taking a bloody long time ! maybe those "needs" are not so pressing.
But they may now need to speed things up, as no doubt leaving the E.U will mean their existing Properties may well go down in value !
i just got back from field service.
i haven’t been out in a few months so now we don’t keep any written records and we don’t know which houses are do not calls.
i also noticed i was the only one with a book bag.
Simon said " At one point I naively thought that pioneers were hardcore, dedicated and zealous ... I realized a lot of them were just lazy frauds, who didn't want to work"
Two of us called on a lovely guy and his Mrs. They invited us in for tea and cakes, we spoke a bit about the Bible etc, and then the lady said " So and So calls on us, I think he is one of yours" ( a local Regular Pioneer), so we said " I guess he has told you all about the Bible then ?" she replied " Oh no, never mentioned it, he just calls in for tea and cakes". Ha Ha !!
ancient 'outlaw temple' discovered in israel.
the famous first temple was not alone.. a bird's-eye view of the temple, taken at the end of the 2013 excavation season.. (image: © p. partouche/skyview).
image 1 of 6. one of the two human-shaped figurines.
Just another piece of Archaeological proof that the Bible is not accurate, or truthful, when it deals with History.
regarding prophecies, i can’t name one thing jws have been correct about.
as a matter of fact nothing stands out to me that shows the witnesses have the truth..
" Smoking is bad for you. Yay."
But it took the Holy Spirit over a decade to catch up with what the Surgeon General of the USA had said about smoking. Damn slow that H.S !
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6040662/.
as her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.. i saw the trailer for this a long time ago and its subject matter immediately got me interested.
it has just been added the netflix catalogue here in australia and i am looking forward to finally watching it.. please, if you've seen it, no spoilers!.
I have read the book, not seen the Movie. I have also read the comments of the book's Author, he was not setting out to expose the JW belief system as the rubbish that it is, that is our job, he wrote a Novel. But, a Novel based upon a real Case, and he sticks much to the facts of the Case, but of course dramatises the lives of the protagonists.
The sad truth about the real boy in the story/case, is that eventually he went back to the JW's, and died for lack of a Blood Transfusion.
