i have started this, then restarted it, and it still sucks to even write this out - but my younger sister passed away unexpectedly last saturday (on my birthday).
i am going through all the grieving emotions, but there is more to the story that i could never and would never talk about to anyone that didn't understand the jw rhetoric.
so...here i am.. my sister has had borderline personality disorder (bpd) for as long as i can remember.
I only have one suggestion.
You wrote a letter to all of us here....You should write a letter to your sister, even though she is gone.
You should write another letter to your niece and your parents also.
Pour your heart out to them all...Tell them how you feel.
Will it do any good? Maybe.... I think so. Plus there is something powerful about putting it all on paper.
Plus they will never be able to say. "They didn't know how you felt about your sister passing."
Namaste my friend
the 2019 report is out:.
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_publication/29/syr19_e.pdf.
the “average publisher” figure for individual countries has made a comeback!
A decrease of 3.2% in kingdom halls is good! If they maintain this same rate of 3.2% decrease over the next 35...... years there wont be be any Kingdom halls left!!!
i was just wondering this morning about all the kingdom halls and branches being sold to "babylon the great" and other businesses.
every single kingdom hall and bethel branch that has been sold was "dedicated to jehovah" by the watchtower corporation.
a special meeting with a guest speaker gives a talk and then offers a prayer dedicating the building to yhwh.
Since Jehovah is as real as Baal.....what difference does it make?
i received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
I'm sure Don is in Heaven along with Billions of other people.
And like millions of other JoHos who have made the transition life to death is he surprised!
i have a wife that i would say is a social witness.
i have never once had a meaningful discussion about the bible or even seen her read the damn thing.
she puts up a pretty facade of being a good witness but isn’t really a religious person.
My father (long dead) who knew it was all bull shit, said nothing to me growing up.
I hate him for that. Sure I could have blew it all off and still grew up a Nazis Jehovah Witness (which is what I did). In which case he could have said "I tried to warn you"
But it never happened. My mother ended up running the whole show until she died/killed herself.
So my advise is talk to your son and never stop talking to him. This religion is deadly do not let your wife march him into it.
New Boy
the great cycles of our life.. everything is moving and with the moving comes change...everything changes.
another cycle is over.
beginnings and endings.
The great cycles of our life.
Everything is moving and with the moving comes change...everything changes. Another cycle is over.
Beginnings and endings.
How truly precious this life is, yet we are truly dust in the wind.
Tell the people around you how much you love them....and give them that one gift this season that the Jehovah's Witnesses can't seem to give their family and friends and that gift is the gift of unconditional love.
Namaste my friends
in the us there is a bill in the house of representatives to decriminalize prostitution.
what do you think about that?.
Well, it is the oldest business in the world.
Plus it's the only business that you can sell it... but still have it.
hello forum.
my aunt, flyinghighnow, has passed away.
i don't know if you remember her, but she was a long time member.
Yes she joined this site about the same time....
A great contributor.
I'm sure she truly is Flying High Now!
2020 the society will continue to have financial problems with massive pay outs because of their lack of protecting their young people from a religion that harbors thousands of pedophiles.
thus this and other religions that has an 1800's mentality will continue to lose their young people.
with the religion's lies easily found on the internet the smart ones will continue to leave in droves.
I mean John Lennon of course!!!!!
ewart chitty was appointed as secretary-treasurer , which position he held until his appointment to the governing body in november 1974.. when in brooklyn, chitty seems to have preferred younger men as roommates.
the actual charge brought to the gb against chitty was made by a former roommate and involved some sort of inappropriate conduct.
the gb concluded that chitty had homosexual tendencies, and asked him to resign.. a rare photo of chitty in happier days.
Greenless and the cover up is all mentioned in my book.
