i have always wanted to do that.. nothing special.
in fact, i have learned i'm not very good at it.
i have many talents.
Blondie I can't imagine them writing that these days. Approval of snowmen, which is associated with christmas?? Approval of skiing? A costly activity done when you could be preaching? Quoting a song associated with christmas??
Come to think of it I'm pretty sure you could find some historical indication that snowmen are pagan if you looked hard enough. :D
i have always wanted to do that.. nothing special.
in fact, i have learned i'm not very good at it.
i have many talents.
I was in the grocery store when they started playing 'have yourself a merry little Christmas.' I started bawling.
This part:
here we are as in olden days
happy golden days of yore
faithful friends who are dear to us
gather near to us
once more
i started thinking of my 'worldly' grandparents. They were so sweet. They must have been so lonely, wishing they could share christmas with us. And now that I've left the religion, they are gone. I never got to have those olden days with them.
I hate my parents' damn extremist religion. It still makes me cry in public, years after I've left it.
yeah, we've got to try to make up for it. I make sure my kids always get to have themselves a merry little Christmas.
Zoos im happy for you and your Christmas lights. And don't worry, I'm definitely the lamest OPer here, with two original posts. TWO.
didn't take too long for the minions to join the smurfs as being satanic in the minds of some jw's.
whadda-bunch-of-bull-hukey-puckiesi!.
this showed up on jw facebook timelines today.. .
I remember a JW post about the movie Avatar too...blue people oooohh must be demons!
But minions!?! Really?? Fine. Let them be miserable and avoid the adorable minions. The ironic thing is, of course, they don't know of their own Masonic connections and don't think of themselves as a secret society...but think everything else is.
i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.
could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?
perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.
I am not lonely. I love my church and the community there, I have many friends in many walks of life, I have old friends who also left the religion, and we have found eachother again (thank you facebook!), I also have my husband and kids.
But my birth family is pretty much gone to me. As long as we are apart, I miss them and have that frustration. Coming here sort of relieves that. I can keep up with what they are hearing and doing even tho we talk hardly ever.
I like hearing about other people's experiences here. It's so strange, because it's often like reading my own. This is only possible in a cult...that someone's mental processes can be so similar. Also it's fun to reminisce with people here. We went through such similar childhoods and experiences.
I like giving support to people who are just starting to act on their doubts. It was an awful time for me. Unfortunately I didn't try to find places like this, then. I was too scared, I suppose. I came here several years later to research current practices of disfellowshipping and the current view on 1914. Stayed mainly because so many people are so desperate, trying to get out. I want to be a voice for them so they know it can work out and to not give up.
i war reading an interesting research article about charles taze russell and all of his financial dealings.
this caught my eye:.
charles taze russell and the watchtower society were in deep business distress after the "busted" october 1914 prophecy failure, and particularly after the "busted" october 1915 prophecy failure.
Good points, joe and sir.
I think the way they have it set up, some new member of the governing body would have to be that person. It would have to be some benign seeming leader type who had secret ambitions.
They are really ripe for it.
But also, the way they now manipulate people, maybe we wouldn't see a 75% drop off. There wasn't the same mentality back then. It wasn't really 'you must follow only us, or you DIE and Jehovah will HATE you' as it is now.
i war reading an interesting research article about charles taze russell and all of his financial dealings.
this caught my eye:.
charles taze russell and the watchtower society were in deep business distress after the "busted" october 1914 prophecy failure, and particularly after the "busted" october 1915 prophecy failure.
my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.
our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.
he hung himself.
hello my dear friends :).
i am here once again because you guys are pretty much the most awesome peeps ever.. i have a new dilemma that i'd like your opinions on.
as most of you know, i'm an agnostic.
d. trump or h. clinton and why.. i would vote for gun slinging trump..
i find it interesting that the other night they announced that literature is not to be left indiscriminately.
they said to only leave literature if the householder engages you in conversation.
it used to be that they would try to get any literature into every hand of every person.
