a couple of days ago, i told the girl i study with that i didn't want to be part of the study anymore.
this is the second time i've hold her this but the first time, i didn't make it clear.
when i told her the first time, she stop coming for a week or two then she randomly showed up.
Your family sounds very hospitable and very good natured. But do not let anyone of your family be sucked into this mess of a religion. Encourage them to take a firm stand that they don't agree with it. There are other places to go that will not take control of and ruin your lives. Be kind to the witnesses, they are good people usually. Let them down easily. But firmly!!
p.s. Congrats on being the courageous one!!
saturday, september 19th, 2015: .
earlier today snugglebunny posted a pic of today's "daily text" which is based on a paragraph from the november 15th, 2013 article.
that magazine contains the now infamous maxim: .
At my last meeting, (and I had been fading for a long time previous) we were studying the watchtower and I raised my hand to read one of my favorite scriptures. Romans 8:38 Neither death, nor life, nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Sorry, I only have my new King James version nearby.)
i read it really passionately, and then was really irritated when someone made the follow up comment 'this scripture brings out' (it's always 'brings out') 'that nothing can separate us from Jehovah!'
brainwashed numbskulls.
....charles taze russell's mom and dad didn't have sex back on that night in june of 1851.... weird that a married couple getting horny could affect so many lives 164 years later.. just a random friday thought.
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Apostrate thanks for noticing my username :). I think of it more like 'faded, done, and away' since I've already faded. No more pretending from me at all, ever again. whew! i like to be a really authentic person, so fading was soooooo difficult it almost drove me crazy.
Im sorry you had a dysfunctional family. I hope you've been able to surround yourself with healthy relationships now. My parents and brother treat me as almost disassociated, since I barely made it out without being disassociated and they know my position on doctrine and their policies. I hear about family emergencies and not much more. I don't like being the black sheep of the family, I always tried to make everyone happy and be a good girl, but eventually you have to live your own life according to what you want and feel is right. So that is my status, and will stay until the WT gets a heck of a lot more liberal. I'm not holding my breath. Breathing deeply, enjoying the freedom. But yeah, it does hurt to be cut off. I'm very sorry about your close friend. It's not fair that this religion separates people because of personal beliefs. It's not right.
hi, i m new here and not so good in english, but ive give it a try and hope you understand.. .
the whole idea of the overlapped generation is not only illogical, there are also serious errors in reasoning and how to interpret the scripture.. .
the only "scriptural argument" that the governing body has managed to bring in this matter is exodus 1: 6 where they say that a "generation" can be stretched to cover a longer period than usually meant by a "generation".
you can't make it make sense no matter what language you are speaking!
theyre scratching in the dirt, desperately trying to produce vegetation where there is no seed, hoping their own false prophesies are somehow true.
Welcome, freewheeling.
....charles taze russell's mom and dad didn't have sex back on that night in june of 1851.... weird that a married couple getting horny could affect so many lives 164 years later.. just a random friday thought.
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....charles taze russell's mom and dad didn't have sex back on that night in june of 1851.... weird that a married couple getting horny could affect so many lives 164 years later.. just a random friday thought.
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Tresdecu, I often think the same sort of thoughts. If only!! If only russell became a naturalist a la john Muir instead of 'theologian', if only my mother hadn't been at home that day the brother knocked on her door...life would have been so different for millions of us. Most for the way way better, probably a few for the worse.
(maybe if you were a kid in a ghetto and joined a gang instead of going out in service, it would be worse for you...i don't know, but I heard a quote from the wayans brothers once that suggested growing up witness was better than growing up in the ghetto not witness...but still, why not go baptist instead, and get to go to college??)
let's pretend this might happen.
im not asking what it will mean for the jdubs or for the organization, but what will it mean for you---- if one day you wake up and the watchtower drops the 1914 doctrine.. (you know at some point they have to, but probably not our lifetime).
if you are disfellowshipped or disassociated and have been shunned by your parents, by your children, by you spouse or ex-husband/wife, for years or even less, will you call your relatives and ask/tell them;.
a question for those still attending i guess but are all these new jw.telemuppet.org broadcasts advertised to the the rank and file or is it more of a background thing?.
i'm wondering because i just can't believe my 70 year old die-hard jw mum would ever see them if she wasn't sat down in front of a screen and someone clicked 'play' for her.
i really want her to see the wizards behind the curtain.
Ah sir82, so it's like keeping up with reading the convention releases, and reading new watchtower and awake mags.
I used to be embarrassed whenever a sister was gushing about some experience she read in an issue and she would ask me 'wasn't it wonderful???' And I would be like 'I haven't read it.'
as i am newly awoken, i am daily having epiphanies & revelations now.
i've been casually wondering to myself since the propagandist broadcast about the name "jehovah" if it would be more proper to call him "yahweh" to myself.
well tonight the answer suddenly came to me: it doesn't matter.
Yes!
I remember those epiphany waking up days fondly.
last night i ran into a former elder friend, he is in his late 70s.
he asked how i was doing and i asked how he was doing.
then out of the blue he tells me; .
Thanks siar2.
hey what's going on with these 'dislikes' ?? Usually there's some consistency with how many pluses or minuses for each point of view...these seem to be all over the place. Is something glitching or do people really feel that strongly about john's story.
