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after all the jokes and satire on this website about jw's only being able to amount to window washers and house cleaners, the cover page of "how to enjoy your work" showing a window washer and cleaner in the back ground.
i almost wonder if some awakened, still-in, from this site is part of the writing department or illustrations and put that in there as an inside joke for us?.
My observation is that these are not older people. Flash forward 30 years or so and see if you're happy or even able to do menial labor. I suspect not. But I forgot that the new system will be here by then and you won't have to worry about your future.
For those of us who've been around a while this is the core of disillusionment with false teachings.
was it necessary for god to kill all innocent firstborn children?
no other way out for the almighty god?.
Let's see;
Jehovah hardened Pharoah's heart to keep the Israelites enslaved......then punished him for doing so. If the story is real, and that is a big IF, then Jehovah is an a#$hat!
lol they keep saying that this is truly satans system and all that crap.how people in the world are so judgemental and crazy.. anyone else getting sick of this?.
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@Yondhaime. Worldly people are judgemental and crazy. This from Dubs. That's funny
i'm into the 7th year of a successful fade.
when i'm at the market i still see some of my former "friends" trying to avoid eye contact.
although i'm not df'd i may as well be in their eyes.
@Honesty put into words one of our biggest concerns. Someone will have something to say about my daughter's hair style or my son's tattoo. (Celtic Cross)
Maybe they'll be so offended that they'll drop a dime on us to the local Nazi's. Maybe it will be an all out shouting match. It is all those loose ends.
i'm into the 7th year of a successful fade.
when i'm at the market i still see some of my former "friends" trying to avoid eye contact.
although i'm not df'd i may as well be in their eyes.
I'm into the 7th year of a successful fade. When I'm at the market I still see some of my former "friends" trying to avoid eye contact. Although I'm not DF'd I may as well be in their eyes. That's okay with me, I've moved on from that. And I really don't want to talk to them either.
What is hard is dealing with extended family. We live on opposite sides of the country so we don't see each other often, maybe every couple of years. My mother-in-law knows we are inactive and has tried to guilt my wife into going back. Thankfully, DW is never going back.
So we're thinking of paying mom-in-law and sisters and brothers a visit and the funny thing is that none of us (wife, daughter and son) really want to go. Its cringeworthy to hear the "spiritual" talk. To be asked what's "wrong," after all something must be "wrong" if we're inactive. And maybe the hardest part is spending the money and making the effort to travel when its pretty obvious that there is no longer any real connection there.
I am labeling this phenomenon Reverse Disfellowshipping. This occurs when it's so uncomfortable to be with friends or family that you ( the inactive or DF'd person) deliberately try to avoid any contact with them.
Thanks again WT for yet another emotionally crippling side effect of your toxic religion.
i was listning to a song by ian dury " what a waste" such perfect and apt lyrics to explain my witness life.... anybody got any songs that explain there watchtower existence?.
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Wish you were here. Pink Floyd
"Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
so i'm having lunch as this pretty popular cafe,sitting at the bar enjoying a stella artois.. out of the corner of my eye i catch two well dressed ladies asking the bartender if the manager is available.
the bartender tells the ladies that the manager is not in.
the ladies proceed to tell the bartender that they are doing a community service.........you know the rest.. the bartender takes the magazines i'm sure to just get rid of them.
So I'm having lunch as this pretty popular cafe,sitting at the bar enjoying a Stella Artois.
Out of the corner of my eye I catch two well dressed ladies asking the bartender if the manager is available. The bartender tells the ladies that the manager is not in. The ladies proceed to tell the bartender that they are doing a community service.........you know the rest.
The bartender takes the magazines I'm sure to just get rid of them. Then they turn to me and ask if I'd like to read something that will make my life better.
I look directly at the bartender and ask him, "Can I just enjoy my lunch minus the cult recruitment?"
He looks at the wits and says, "You better leave." Which they did in a hurry. How desparate can you be? Really? Bothering people in a restaurant?
The bartender took the mags and threw them out.
hopefully it will make them think.. .
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eden.
Sir Paul looks pretty good for a 72 year old billionaire.
so sorry, why is it that if i brush the keyboard the wrong way it posts an unfinished rant?.
thanks in advance for reading my drivel.. .
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So today I've been thinking of the phrase, "Thanks in Advance."
Usually this wording came at the end of some correspondence from the Society regarding an organizational change. As in, "Thanks in advance for following this new procedure that has been put in place to bilk the publisher's out of more money."
What irritates me most is that this phraseology assumes that the reader will do what is asked without thought or question, thus placing the writer of said phrase in a superior position.
out of the blue, my wife told me that after this week's service meeting on friday (co visit) she is not going to anymore meetings during the week at night.
only sunday (am) meetings.
she explained that it is difficult and not safe for her to drive after dark (vision issues: i have the same problem so i couldn't help her if i wanted to).
I know.............Make it Family Worship Night!
