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i hope you are all well and enjoying your saturday!.
it's really great seeing so many newbies, congratulations to each and everyone of you.
and welcome.. in any case, my question is the one i put in the title :.
Done: section A pages 1-20
Starting: section A pages 21-30
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Welcome to you both. Wonderful to have you here.
Great idea for the briefcase. Top class exit!
It made me think of an article I read recently and how it might have been great to pull off the same stunt with your briefcase.
Two artists sent a package to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an embassy and embedded it with a live webcam so they could trace the whole journey of the package.
(This is the link to the original article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058597 )
Wouldn't it be neat for someone to do the same as you did, but embed a hidden live webcam in it and give us all the link on JWN so we can watch and hear the elders' reaction when they see the briefcase, and also see what happens to it all.
Takers anyone?
ink void's latest based on pink floyd's classic wish you were here.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctsap8mmop0.
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Really, really good
so as some of you already may know, i have stopped going to meetings for good and have nothing to do with wbts anymore...did not write a letter of disassociation because i dont believe an organization should spiritually execute me for rejecting men's tradition and false doctrine...some of you may recall i spoke to my wife and are in good terms, even though she's still an active jw.
my parents are both active jw's...when i visited them yesterday, they clearly did not expect me to tell them i had left the "org"...to my huge surprise, after i explained to them i had found ttatt (truth about the truth) and gave compelling evidence of my reasoning, and using the scriptures, they totally sided with me...i was dumbfounded...one of my parents even brought up ray franz and his book coc....i was like wtf??.
they told me all of these years they never had the guts to say anything about the hypocrisy in this org and they were glad that i as their son was able to step up and believe what is right and what is on the bible...they re-assured their love to me and they were happy i had found happiness in jesus christ and the need to have a personal relationship with him and not through a man made organization.... i totally did not expect this response from my parents...but it just leaves me to think that there are thousands of active jw's out there feeling the same way and don't have the courage to step up to the org...still don't know what they are going to do, but i got the feeling they will do the same eventually and move on from the wbts.... have a great week everyone.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very, very happy for you, and would love to have my parents on board, but on the other hand aren't you even slightly ***** they never breathed a word to you and let you live a lie and waste your youth? Amid the joy and relief I would be fuming mad at them.
Congratulations all the same, I hope one day I will have the opportunity to write the same post.
i hope you are all well and enjoying your saturday!.
it's really great seeing so many newbies, congratulations to each and everyone of you.
and welcome.. in any case, my question is the one i put in the title :.
Yes, I heard of a situation where people would come into a congregation and just disappear. Many of them. I guess that's what we would now call a faders' paradise!
the fire was burning within me to say something so i mustered up the courage and did it.. .
we were for lunch after the meeting sitting at the same table as a pioneer sister, her unbaptized publisher bible study, and the bible study's teenage son.
the pioneer was telling the unbaptised publisher about how no one from sodom and gomorrah would get a resurrection because they were killed directly by god's judgment.. this is where i had heard enough.
A JC because you encouraged someone to do research in the WT publications...
That will be a great one to tell people about!
im amazed how going witnessing sisters who knew me for decades would sit only in the back seat on the way to the hall...to avoid any sex at the traffic lights!!!
and chaperons 1840's style are needed because two witnesses alone for 10 minutes would go at it like animals even after all the training watchtower articles and talks being jahs clean org.
and all..
...especially if it's a small cramped one
(Sorry, didn't see elevator in the OP)
im amazed how going witnessing sisters who knew me for decades would sit only in the back seat on the way to the hall...to avoid any sex at the traffic lights!!!
and chaperons 1840's style are needed because two witnesses alone for 10 minutes would go at it like animals even after all the training watchtower articles and talks being jahs clean org.
and all..
Not to mention being alone in an elevator with someone of the opposite sex...
The horror of it! All sorts of things could happen...
...what if it got stuck...
if you could get all willing participants on this board together in one area for a party, and told them to bring favorite music, food, movies, and dressed in certain fashion, all of which has been discouraged or outright banned either by the wts or by their flunkies (do, co, elders, busybodies in the hall, etc.
), what would you bring?.
i would bring:.
It looks like a Sparlock cake has yet to be made. Hmm...
So here's some inspiration:
A little small for us lot, but colours and figurine nice. (Looks a bit like Moses LOL)
Could put a big WatchTower on top of a big with Sparlock at the top waving his thing.
Looks like a WT cake has never been made either, so some more inspiration:
Not forgetting the jangly bits - the dragon, the scrolls, and these:
Aren't they great?
if you could get all willing participants on this board together in one area for a party, and told them to bring favorite music, food, movies, and dressed in certain fashion, all of which has been discouraged or outright banned either by the wts or by their flunkies (do, co, elders, busybodies in the hall, etc.
), what would you bring?.
i would bring:.
Oh yes! A great big gigantic communal birthday cake! With lots of candles (one each) and sparklers!
And why not go all out and make it a 3D Sparlock cake to celebrate all our birthdays (but not life-size as that wouldn't be very big)
Let the party begin!