crazy, those fellows at jw.org pr news.
they publish their urben legends!!
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/world/saved-from-suicide/.
Wow, that's quite an experience, cobaltcupcake . But your mother ended becoming a JW too, didn't she?
Yup. Can't tell you why she accepted it, but she became the most active of all of us.
But, with my father, resistance was futile. After we had attended a few meetings I asked him one day, "What if I don't want to become a Witness?" He said, "Well, you'll have to anyway." For all I know, Mom may have met with the same answer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2ltdktyhe.
I have a problem with his "we never graduated from High School", nobody I know was told to quit high school to pursue Kingdom activities.
I was in high school in the mid-1970s, and I can tell you right now that it was the "in" thing to quit high school to go pioneering. Almost everyone in my peer group quit school and took night school courses. In fact, many in the congregation questioned my parents about why I continued to go to high school. (I was taking a two-year course in secretarial office practice and needed to finish it.)
My brother combined his junior and senior years together and graduated early.
i've been mentally out for about two years now.
i am in my 30s and i don't live at home, am not married or anything like that.
i was visiting my mom this past week, i tell you the women has a 6th sense if she weren't a jw shed be a psychic.
Lostinthought - Whatever your mom's motives, the cat's out of the bag with an inevitable result - you'll be out, one way or another. I'm sorry you weren't able to fade on your own terms.
Here's a hug. 
greetings everyone.. just wanted to say hello to everyone, being a new member from western europe.. some may know me from another forum (eden, from e-jehovas-witnesses.com), but most don't, so this is my little intro.. male, in my early 40's.
still an active member in good standing of a jehovah's witnesses congregation in my country, and honestly not planning to change that status, despite my unorthodox beliefs.
sometime i will elaborate the reason why i don't feel i must leave.
Welcome Eden!
Beyond the doctrinal issues, what do you think of the two-witness policy that protects pedophiles in the congregation? Have you read about the Candace Conti case?
i,am watching the rose bowl parade, and the wife.
call me to the front of the house.
a couple knocking on doors at 10 oclock in the morning.
My father was always dragging us out in the ministry on holidays. I ha-a-a-a-ted it.
My recent blog post dealt with that subject.
i may be late on this, but i was just thinking yesterday about how witnesses justify shunning.
mainly the scripture in 1 corinthians that says to stop mixing in company with anyone called a brother who engages in various sins.
therefore if someone was to write a letter stating that they no longer wish to be known as a jehovahs witness, what justification do they use for shunning that person?
crazy, those fellows at jw.org pr news.
they publish their urben legends!!
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/world/saved-from-suicide/.
Well, here's one of those stories that is true, because it happened to my father.
He was suicidal one night (he had a hand gun) and as going to do himself in. My mother told him to pray first. He prayed, asking God to show him what he needed to do. He decided not to do it that night, and went to bed. The next day, JWs knocked on our door, and Dad took it as a Sign.
I was 12 at the time and remember the call. I scuttled into the kitchen to hide with Mom, and she whispered, "Oh no. Anything but them."
I wish it had been the Good Humor man, and maybe we would have worshiped ice cream instead.
i remember a long time ago the explanation was that various anointed ones would write to the gb with the same new understanding of a teaching, the gb would investigate it, and if it was acceptable, they'd pass it on to the r&f.
of course, now we have the new light that new light occurs only to the gb, not the anointed at large.
so, if any anointed ones get new ideas, they're just apostates, right?.
Wow, lots of smoke and mirrors. I'm glad I'm not living my life as dictated by that group of inflated egos.
good jws follow a strict schedule...in fact it is posted in front of the local kingdom hall !
every burglar (and stalker) simply needs to note down meeting times, and follow a few attendees home..and then wait till next week........ we were victims, were you ?
readfield man pleads guilty to robbing homes of jehovah's witnesses while they are at church.
OMG, I used to live in Vassalboro! Didn't attend a cong in Augusta, though.
MMXIV - LOL!!
For pity's sake, my cat is a killing machine, forget about crocodiles and lions. His whole life revolves around catching prey - it's what he was designed to do. 'Splain that, Washtowel.
