Posts by princecharmant

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So tired of life

by LouBelle in

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i am so tired of waking up without hope.

so tired of fighting one more day...i just want it to end as painless as possible.

i truly don't have the willpower or strength anymore..

On a more practical side, how about the Board coming together to send her an airticket to visit someone on the Board, or putting together some financial assistance to help her go through these rough times?

Her job isn't helping (irregular salary payment, crappy work environment); she's not happy where she lives (she did complain about some man threatening her); before now, she was out her job and was barely hanging on. There is just enough a body can take.

Could there be someone in South Africa - or even southern Africa (which covers many countries) who could host her for some time until she finds her feet?

Sorry Loubelle if this is not the sort of thing you would appreciate. If so, forgive me.

pc

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Why so much sickness!

by Julia Orwell in

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i never met such a physically and mentally ill group of people outside jws except for at the local hospital or old folks' home.

from chronic fatigue to fibromyalgia to depression to arthritis to kids lacking lustre to heart problems to cancer, bipolar to every co and his wife having food intolerances.... are jehovah's witnesses the most ailing group?

what is your observation?.

princecharmant

Really?

What pathology did you suffer from?

pc

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Spiritually frustrated!!

by Julia Orwell in

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i want to practice christianity but i feel i can't just yet as i'll be 'outed' before i'm ready.

the spy network will report me to the elders, and that's it, i'm gone before i'm ready.

and before my husband is ready.. can one feel spiritually frustrated?

princecharmant

Julia,

I would really give it some time. Try and savour the time you now have. Talking from my own perspective, I did not find - and have still not found - any church association fulfilling. There are far too many things that remind me of where I'd been and why I would no longer want to get back there. Christianity you can practice by following some of the basics that Jesus laid down - for instance fellow feeling, love for others, etc. If eventually doing so in a loose associative framework works for you, the gap period would at least have given you some time to search without being in too much of a hurry.

Best of luck.

pc

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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!

by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

i am an inactive jw.

i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.

i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.

princecharmant

It is not up to you, Lord/Lady *lost*, to decree where I read what and what comments I make where. You smart because you are told it's time to move away from this wreck? Then forget it, pile more crap on it. It is your right to which your ancestors fought and sacrificed their lives for, for your good and the greater good of humanity.

What grandstanding!

Re-read what I wrote before your outburst. Every war ends around a table. AAWA and JWN can co-exist respectfully. There seems to be much ego tripping in both communities at this point.

So *lost*, I shall read what I read and write what I write.

Best regards,

pc

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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!

by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

i am an inactive jw.

i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.

i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.

princecharmant

*lost*,

Continuously heaping more crap on the wreck makes it uglier. I believe people have spoken enough and vented on the whole AAWA thing. Perhaps it is time to bury the dead, heal the wounds and rebuild the community. The more the harping here, the slower that is likely to happen.

pc

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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!

by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

i am an inactive jw.

i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.

i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.

princecharmant

Slimboyfat,

More like a dog chasing its tail? Great reasoning!!

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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!

by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

i am an inactive jw.

i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.

i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.

princecharmant

This thread has given every visiting JW and half-hearted lurkers a straight ticket back to the KH.

pc

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Governing Body Hates Higher Education Because It Destroys Their Delusion

by frankiespeakin in

in an effort to keep their delusion alive it is only natural for them hate something that lifts the vails of their delusion and lay it barren.

their hate is transfered to the faithful rank and file and manifested in their forbidding it to the young who will surely see the ignorance of their delusion.

narcissistic delusions of divine appointment are resisted at the expense of the young.. they hate higher education to the same extent they hate psychiatry because both tread on their delusion and identify it in clear terms..

princecharmant

Just to say that the part about not being appointed because one has a university degree isn't applicable everywhere.

I was made a MS then an elder many years after having a master's degree. No, I didn't "convert"; I am a "born-in".

pc

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The CO 'encourages' Julia to meet with THREE elders- the latest episode in the best-selling drama, The Fade of Julia Orwell.

by Julia Orwell in

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it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.

it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.

hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.

princecharmant

Bring the narrative to an end somehow, JO. You seem to be acting out a script that gives you the kicks, but your stories are getting a bit boring.

pc

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First mention of "new light" may appear in July 15, 2013 Watchtower

by cedars in

a trusted source informs me that the "new light" about the faithful slave is to make its first printed appearance in the july 15th watchtower, which should be available for download online three weeks from now, on around april 15th.. i'm led to believe that the references to the new understanding are made in such a manner as to suggest the "new light" isn't that new at all, which suggests to me that little or no effort is being made to explain the doctrinal connotations.

my source and i are hoping to get a key paragraph posted at the earliest opportunity.

watch this space!.

princecharmant

Fact is, this board and its readers are far more interested in "new light" than the average JW. The believing JW does not care one way or the other what "refinements" or changes are made in the teaching. As far as he/she reads it off the pages of the Watch Tower, it is revealed truth. The matter ends there. Very few take any time to assimilate the impact of the changes made or the contradictions between such changes and "old light".

Neither this "change" nor any others to come will cause any fundamental shift in minds bought to the WT cause.

pc