Posts by joyfulfader

10

Married to jws, give me stength

by marriedtoajw in

jw
friends

my 23 year old son gave his first talk last year.

he met a catholic girl shortly after that, his girlfriend now, and got a part time job and stopped going to meetings.

hasn't been to one in almost a year.

joyfulfader

I switched to antennae TV (40 channels) and Netflix. Initial investment of $35 for antennae and I pay $7.99/mo for Netflix. So $8/ month for plenty of options tv wise. Walmart has a great family cell program that is waaaaaaay less expensive and you can keep whatever carrier you have and have a smart phone. Internet can be as little as $40 per month if you use the companies against one another. No reason at all to spend $350 on those "luxuries". I now use my savings to go back to school and hope to have my Master's in Forensics Nursing in 4 years.

Its a difficult cycle to break but it CAN be done. Mine was a choice, not a necessity. I just got tired of throwing my money away. Calculate how much each episode of your favorite TV program costs and see if it's worth it.

10

best blonde joke ever

by JeffT in

my wife (a blonde) told this one to our son and i yesterday, knowing we'd find it really funny.. .

a blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.

the blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver's license.

joyfulfader

I'm blonde and love a good blonde joke!

2

The chive..random facts has JW's on one slide. False predictions

by goingthruthemotions in

lolololololololo!!!!!!!!.

one of my favorite websites is www.thechive.com ( i am sure it get more visitors than the borg site.).

anyways.. they have an article that is listed as random fact's.

joyfulfader

comments at the end focus on that one and they r in an uproar over the statement being lie lies lies....lost lost lost is what they are

13

Oh my God, I knew it!!!

by Crazyguy in

jw
friends

i am a big fan of the group 30 seconds to mars, and whats amazing is many of their songs seem to have a anti cult theme like "huricane" "up in the air" and others.

so after i watched a video of the song huricane, so i could see the lyrics i googled to see if they, the lead singer jared leto and his brother shannon, were former jw's and yes they were.

crazy small world!!!!.

joyfulfader

Not finding a shred of substantiation.

44

How Often Do You Come To JWN? How Often Do You Post?

by minimus in

jw
friends

do you check this site, daily?.

do you post very much?.

.

joyfulfader

I am with cultBgone. Sometimes I go several weeks without even looking. Other times I check in daily to see if there is anything new I should be aware of so I can be on alert with my parents. Never been a big poster. Lots of anger in the beginning...now...it's not my focus. I avoid the bashing threads because they dredge up old feelings. I am not even known as being an ex JW in my new community. Doesn't matter as much as the days go by. I am just a regular person with a personal belief system. It's why I stay out of the state of my growing up years. Life is moving on :)

9

Even my 6-year old son can recognize TRASH when he sees it. He threw a NWT into the public garbage can! Yay!

by Faithful Witness in

we were out walking in a small michigan community this weekend.

we came across a "free lending library" on the street corner.

the sign said, "take a book, leave a book, or do both!

joyfulfader

While I totally agree that the NWT is a JW fabrication, I hope you left some books in return for taking it and then tossed the book in private. Books in general should be respected and if someone saw a bible being tossed in the garbage (even if the NWT is a man made, self serving interpretation that no one should base their life on) they most definitely wouldn't understand the motive behind it and may see it as the desecration of a holy book. I understand the motive but just know how sensitive some are to the disposal of a "sacred" book even if we know it's been rewritten to align with JW thinking...I have disposed of mine...in private.

25

...I DON`T LOOK GOOD NAKED ANYMORE...

by OUTLAW in

.. this song was just sent to me... it`s funny!...

.. "i don't look good naked anymore" .....the snake oil willie band.

click the link below:.

joyfulfader

Sorry you deal with those things DD...your circumstances do not indicate to me that you are a d-bag.

15

Where is the "worship" at the KH? Maybe I missed it.

by BU2B in

worship (verb).

show reverence and adoration for (a deity); honor with religious rites.. .

i was just thinking about the two meetings a week.

joyfulfader

There were some songs from the old song book that made me feel like I was worshipping. Fortunately I left not long after the release of the dreadful new songbook and was not subjected to those horrible compositions for very long. I remember standing there with no one singing because the melody and word combinations were impossible. I read music very well and would try, but the arrangements are so awkward and unmeaningful....they destroyed many songs that I had a fondness for.

34

The insensitivity and opportunistic nature of witness at the 9/11 site !

by stuckinarut2 in

i saw an online post with pictures of all the witnessing carts all around the 9/11 site during the anniversary of the tragedy.... im appalled at how opportunistic they are, and how they prey on people in a mourning and vulnerable state!.

apparantly they boast of: "there are 65 carts, with 200 witnesses manning the area... and so far 15 new studies started!".

.

joyfulfader

I am proud to say I was never religiously opportunistic under tragic circumstances. I NEVER did cemetary witnessing even if I was the lone dissident and needed to get 90 hours in the last week of August. I suppose having the carts is better than having 1000 witnesses swarming the crowds of mourners. At least there is the choice to approach.

43

How old were you when baptized?

by Coded Logic in

i was baptized at the age of 11. like most of us, my commitment wasnt to honor god but rather i was gang pressed into the service of the wtbts.

and, at such a young age, it was impossible for me to appreciate the enormity of my actions.

honestly, how could i possibly have known any better?

joyfulfader

16. I was the then PO's daughter and I had procrastinated enough. No one ever studied a single book with me. I just did it. Crownsville, MD...the old one. I don't remember ever having a "love for Jehovah", just a fear of losing my friends and dying at Armageddon which I truly believed in. I thought baptism would protect me. Weird.