i don't know how to paste images from my smartphone but take a look on page 11 from today's watchtower (study edition) september 15, 2012.... .
is it just me or does jesus look like mitt romney???.
haha i have to read so i have no more time to talk but please let me know what you think!
I got the pic from the online version of the mag. Didn't cut anything.
The PDF version has a bunch of images blended together on the right side of the page. The one above the will ferrell pic shows a family walking on a beach. In the online version the images are separated.
to v and all the other "uberpostates" who have gone to great lengths to inform the public about the cult that is the jehovah's witnesses, i take today to say thanks to you all.. v's jw commentsfreemindsjwfactsjwsurveymarvin shilmer's blogspotim sure there are many others.. thanks guys!.
Love that movie!
i have wrote six pages so far it seems the more i write the more i have to say .i have many mixed thoughts its frustrating to have to go this.
i wish i could just fade but that is not possable.
how long were your letters?.
My DA letter was only two sentences. Honestly, I didn't care what they thought of me, and I just wanted them to leave me the heck alone.
i don't know how to paste images from my smartphone but take a look on page 11 from today's watchtower (study edition) september 15, 2012.... .
is it just me or does jesus look like mitt romney???.
haha i have to read so i have no more time to talk but please let me know what you think!
Is it the Jesus handing over the scepter?
If so, he looks like a cross between Mitt Romney and Will Ferrell.
for me it was rather painful.
it was like pressing your nose against the candy store window, knowing that you can look, but you cannot partake.
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Oh god, high school! There were only two JW kids in a school of 1200, so I stuck out like a sore thumb with my long skirts (my father insisted I wear skirts at least 3 days a week) and my nonparticipation in everything. The other JW kid was a bad example type who didn't want the JW label, so he avoided me.
Heeding the admonition to avoid "bad association" and especially boys, I wrapped myself in a protective "ice princess" demeanor as I walked through the halls. I did have a few friends, although I did not see them outside of school, but most of the time I walked through the corridors saying over and over in my head, "It doesn't matter what they think of you. It only matters what Jehovah thinks of you."
I did get laughed at, whispered about, pointed at, and since I took myself very seriously it all hurt terribly. My parents were not available to me as confidants, so I was lucky when a JW girl a year younger than me started in my sophomore year. At least she and I could talk.
I had anxiety attacks all the time and a knot in my stomach every second of the day. I was a smart kid, and my teachers put pressure on me to take the college-prep courses instead of business courses, so I was constantly having to defend "my" decision.
The whole experience was torture.
And at the end I never got to attend my graduation because we were at a stoopid district convention.
entire family, 20 others die in fatal accidenttragedy struck weekend in akwa ibom state as a man, his wife and all their children, as well as more than 20 others, all members of the jehovahs witness church, perished in a fatal road accident which occurred, friday, along the utu etim ekpo road in etim ekpo local government area of the state.. forty other members of the church sustained varying degrees of injuries following in the crash which occurred on their way to the jehovahs witness annual convention ground in ikot ekpene local government area of the state.. thisdays gathered that more than 70 members of the church had hired a lorry to convey them from ukanafun local government area to ikot ekpene for the annual district convention which began on friday and billed to end today (sunday) but the journey ended half way with many members of the church dying on the road in the accident.. eyewitnesses alleged that the driver of the lorry conveying the church members to the venue of the convention lost control of the vehicle when he got to utu etim ekpo, the junction opposite the local government secretariat, and hit the stone used to construct the roundabout, thus resulting in the lorry somersaulting, leaving many of its passengers and others wounded.. the corpses and those injured in the accident were said to have been taken to neighbouring hospitals and mortuaries.. one of the eyewitnesses, mr. friday john, said the people who died may have been more than what was seen because a whole family including parents and their children were all trapped in the accident.. we were all here discussing when suddenly the lorry appeared and was looking like the driver had lost control of it.
then the lorry drove straight and hit the stone and somersaulted into the gutter.. many people died, more than 18. in fact, we couldnt count the number because there were many corpses, including husband, wife and children and they were all taken to the mortuary in various hospitals near etim ekpo here, john explained.. in another narration, a secondary school teacher in eka uruk eshiet etim ekpo, mr. ndipmo nkanta, said the lorry boarded by the deceased and the injured passengers was not meant for passengers but goods only.. he blamed the accident on poverty , arguing that if there was a better alternative, such casualties wouldnt have been recorded, especially as they were going to worship god.. the public relations officer of the federal road safety corps, frsc, in the state, mr. godsgift uwen, blamed the incident on over-speeding and overloading by the driver of the lorry.. he said the lorry was not supposed to carry any passenger as it was a meant for goods only but the driver stubbornly used it as a passengers vehicle, which led to the sad incident.. he advised against rush and drunken driving, especially in the yuletide, noting that these are some of the major causes of accidents on the roads..
Very sad.
service group.
if your group overseer has.
5 although the congregation book study.
Oh jeepers, I can remember hosting the bookstudy group on Tuesdays and then the field service group on Saturdays. Racing to get dinner over with and the dishes done in time, making sure you didn't cook something that would smell up the house. Dusting and vacuuming twice a week. Arranging chairs and then taking them down. What a chore privilege that was!
All the same, that was my favorite meeting because you did develop some intimacy within the group. Why did they abolish it?
Scottleblog: The Odd Life of Jehovah's Witnesses
a study was recently conducted with sheep outfitted with transmitters.
a "predator" was circling the flock and the researchers found that the sheep tended to shove the weaker ones to the outer fringes and the stronger ones went to the center.
real nice.... boy, i could have used that while i was giving public talks!
My ex-husband was an amazing shepherd as an elder. He made visits on the members of our bookstudy group on a regular basis, and it was purely to encourage them, not to take them to task about their numbers. They loved the individual attention. As Blondie mentioned, he burned out. None of the other elders supported him and actually belittled his efforts. He's still a JW, but I don't know if he's ever "reached out" again.
well it's been about 8 months since my final wake up.
as some may remember for my intro thread, i panicked and was way too aggressive at first with telling my wife all about this scam we're a part of.
she freaked, thinking satan had me for sure.
All I can say is take it slowly. It took me years from my initial doubts to the day I walked away - probably 9 or 10 years. It sped up toward the end, and I was barely active for the last two years. One thing that helped me immensely was having a friend who wasn't afraid of being a heretic, and we both aired our grievances to each other in weekly sessions. Seriously - being able to rant about what was bothering me was my ticket out. Otherwise, it was all bottled up inside of me with a Leave-it-in-Jehovah's-hands stopper.
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Dammitall! Now I have that stupid song in my head.
I'll try to replace it with the Todd Rundgren song.
