i've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.
you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!
what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.
At a point of lonely desperation I asked God for direction, and he gave it to me by having certain people pass thorough my life, almost daily, who offered good advice, which led me to where I am now. A new church (an intelligent reasonable one), and a new extended family. You might choose to go all secular, but if not, pray for direction.
and I am really, really happy for you and your wife!! Your life is going to get so much better and more interesting and FREE.
as i wrote in a previous post i have recently written a da letter to the elders and haven't heard anything in the way of an announcement, phone call, or visit since.
i called the elder the letter was personally written to yesterday and left a vm to call me back which he did this morning.
he said they did get it but were meaning to call me and possibly meet with me to try and see if there was anything they could do to encourage me because they of course find this very sad.
Xkhanx, yes! Jw kids may be the only kids in the world who actually like weekdays better than weekends :/. I know I preferred going to school to knocking on doors and sitting through meetings. Weekends were the worst. they steal every bit of pleasure they can steal from you. Any free day you have, you feel guilty if you don't go out in service and do the most agonizing thing you can possibly do with your time!!
now I say, thank god for weekends!!!
as for us on the forums....I came back cuz I was curious about how the witnesses were handling 1914 these days, since it's been over a hundred years. I stayed because I saw that there's lots of people who need support, and I could have really used it myself when I was leaving as well. Plus it's fun to socialize with other ex jws.
i do believe it is written somewhere in jw literature .
"there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.
fever, fracture or funeral.
everything else is a sorry excuse.
Lol omg, biggest hypochondriacs in the world!!!! And whatever disease was recently covered in an Awake article, they had it!!!
i went to all the meetings, always, even if I had just had a baby, unless I was really sick, which didn't include having a cold. i never liked the meetings. But for some reason I never let myself skip them! Probably because of my huge guilt complex. But I haven't been to one in years, and I miss NOtHING about them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3zp9fiyiq.
film witnesses of jehovah .
note 37:35 .
This makes me so angry.
angry my family is still in this ridiculous scam. angry this ridiculous scam kept me from living the life I was born to live.
I wish c.t. Russell had never been born.
i do believe it is written somewhere in jw literature .
we all know the wts abandons and invents beliefs faster than apple can churn out new shiny stuff.
but have they ever abandoned a belief and later picked it up again?.
i remember many years ago we had one of those post-district-assembly review parts (part of the service meeting) where they were discussing some "new light".. there was some confusion about which was the "new" and which was the "old" and a semi-discussion ensued with people commenting.
i do believe it is written somewhere in jw literature .
http://ajwrb.org/science/blood-transfusion-letter-of-understanding.
"every parent among jehovahs witnesses worried about how local watchtower appointed elders will respond to letting their child have blood transfusion without opposing it should download this letter of understanding and be ready to hand a copy to them.
then ask those elders to leave them (the parents) and doctors alone to concentrate on the childs best interests.".
Hrm, Marvin maybe they were concerned you were somehow going to contest the document and make it more difficult for them to protect children by causing legal issues. Did they know you were not a witness?
That document is intriguing. I wish it was in place in every hospital worldwide.
http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/inquest-concludes-dad-died-margate-night-went/story-26272711-detail/story.html.
this story makes me ill with rage.
this man's crime?
