if you considered going back to the hall after posting here for a while, would you hesistate telling us?
new light:
Just read your post - everything's cool As background info to my post, my mother has had two strokes and a heart attack in the past year. If going to the occasional meeting keeps her content with whatever little time she has left, I have no problem accompanying her. I know exactly what the score is with the WTS and have no intention of getting suckered back in.
"wrong side of the bed" - I sure know what that feels like also .
if you considered going back to the hall after posting here for a while, would you hesistate telling us?
I find it truly sickening that people who post frequently on this site would ever consider going back. Shame on you!! You know the whole religion is a lie, some of you have hundreds of posts, yet you consider going back. What is wrong with you? Obviously, this is not a decision based on reason, but on sentimentality and weakness. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves and stand up for truth!
You need to get over yourself.
I will undoubtedly go back to the KH, probably the next time I go will be for the Memorial. I will bring mum, and if she decides she's up to going to other meetings once in awhile I will bring her.
I may also return to another congregation for awhile because it's part of my long-term plan on fading. My eyes are wide open, I am quite intelligent, and it is a decision based on reason.
Whether or not you like it or agree with it I could care less.
dear forum:.
just a question i've had for years now.
i opened up the newest watchtower that my mother gave me (the one with the memorial observance on the front) and in one of the articles it mentions an internet site as a reference!!!
it is a well known fact that if the WTS does not receive contributions equal too or greater than the value of the literature that is picked up, they will send the congregation a letter stating that they will not receive any more literature until the "books are settled".
Really? I learn more from this board than I ever did during all my ____ years as a faithful dub.
How could I have been so stupid for so long ??...............
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isn't he trapped in the borg?
what do you know about his membership?
I saw parts of the interview on the web, and there is no mention of the WTS.
My dub "friend" here at work who knows practically everyone at Brooklyn Bethel, including GB members, was all praise for Prince "He's so clean cut, such a nice looking man" I said, smirking, that it would have been a golden opportunity to spread the good news. I mean, isn't that what Jehovah wants: a nationwide audience ready to hear whatever Prince wants to say.
Well, she said that he was told not to mention anything religious on air like that. Apparently the big wigs at Brooklyn are afraid of another Michael Jackson fiasco. If Prince starts reverting back to his natural self and is still considered a JW, that's not good public relations for the Watchtower Society. So he's been muzzled.
so when my dear old mum, who is well into her 80's, is no longer able to care for herself, what then?.
well, i guess we could build a granny-annexe and take care of her.
trouble is, i'm disfellowshipped, so i wonder how the local elders would react to that one.. same with my kid brother, he's an outcast too.. hmm.
Right now I'm caring for my mother, in my home. Of course I'm technically still in "good standing" (but probably going downhill fast the more I tell off every elder that calls here). There are a few dubs who have helped me out and who I encourage to visit and come by whenever they can. Mum feels good about their visits.
I've told the P.O. and other elders that they are to call first before dropping by. I won't have them in my home, they've been of no help and only make mum feel guilty.
I intend to keep control of her visitors and callers. She doesn't need extra stress and the hypocritical, back-stabbing higher-ups of dubdom. The kind-hearted ones of the rank and file, I have no problem with.
http://benavery.co.uk/scriptures_pdf.html
study articles downloadable in pdf and word format
here's another one, scriptures, "upbuilding" information for the "brothers". Yech.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-bb14extramar14,0,7446169.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
west lantana widow struggles to live on meager social security
by sam tranum.
So sad, so typical of the callousness routinely displayed in the borg. How many other older or infirm ones are going through the same struggles and loneliness, simply because they sincerely thought they were serving God, only to get shafted by the old boys in Brooklyn.
earlier a thread emerged, as they do so often, on whether or not god existed.
i stated that he does, unequivocally and without doubt.
i refused to preface the statement with the phrase "i believe".
Little Toe:
If you don't have that relationship in the first place, how can you expect to get "stuff"???
How can you have a relationship in the first place with someone/something who never speaks to you, answers you, or manifests him/her/itself in any way to you?
It's like saying to someone "I'll help you if you're my friend, but I'll never talk to you or in any way make it possible for you to be my friend." Hmm, I don't think so.
started last week sunday, sorry for the delay in posting.. the downside is that it's only 3 days a week.
but i'm still continuing to look for a better job.. my landlord moved me to a studio apt which is 300 dollars a month with still all utilties paid.
it's an ok apt, not too shabby.
Good to hear, Yizuman. Please keep us posted.
All the best,
Ac
on my recent new path to spirituality it struck me how much we can all learn from the animals, birds and plants that surround us.
our puppy is now 8 months old and has brought immense joy into the house for everyone (that's her on my lap in the photograph).
rosie, the puppy, takes us as we are and returns her love tenfold.
You're absolutely right Dansk. I've read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and the Tao of Pooh. What you posted is very similar to the messages in those two books. We need to get out of our minds and just live in the moment.
Easier said than done!
(I've checked on-line for the two books you recommended and the Buddha's Way is available second-hand (good condition), so I will be ordering it. Thanks.
