My gut reaction is don't sell your beautiful home with that fantastic mountain view. Is there no other way you could travel cheaply? Also have you already seen the rest of the world? What about Rome, Paris, Florence, Switzerland, the Black Forest, London, the Pyrenees? Perhaps you've already done this.
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Would like all of your imput on this. Please
by Still Totally ADD inboth reopened mind and i are now in our early 60's and it seems our conversations lately have been on putting everything up for sale and buying a rv and travel until we can't anymore.
it has been a dream of ours for along time to see all the site's in the u.s. and canada.
we feel we could make money as we go by selling and teaching using herbs and gardening.
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Shunning Makes us Joyful - Another Blast on Jehovah's Trumpet
by cofty inlike all the best comedy this is hilarious and agonising in equal measure.. if you have not bookmarked the jehovah's trumpet blog do it now.. shunning makes us joyful .... "fiends, we are the happiest people on earth because of true worship, and this includes the practice of shunning our closest loved ones...".
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Xanthippe
Soon after I firmly decided to be obedient to Jehovah by rejecting my mother, the opportunity to pioneer opened up. Clearly, Jehovah was rewarding me for passing this very difficult test. I’m proud to say that I shunned my mother for the next 20 years and didn’t even speak to her while she was dying. Shunning her proved to be a protection in the end. As my mother’s health failed, my godless sister had to disrupt her own life to care for our mother. I was not obligated to do so and was able to continue pioneering through the entire process.
Agonising, yes it is. Biting satire, very well written.
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They continue to drop like flies
by suavojr inyes, the jws continue to bleed their young ones, so far in my local kh 3 were dfd, one girl just turned 18 this month and packed her bags and said goodbye to the cult and her cultish parents, another young 18 year old man decided to have a non-jw girlfriend and decided to stop attending and is no longer a witness.
they continue to leave and wt leaders dont give a damn.
they dont do anything to help kids be successful and live a healthy life.. .
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Xanthippe
They are leaving before they get completely screwed up by the cult. At that age I was really strong, the cult hadn't got me by the throat yet. As long as they get away early they will be fine. Hooray!
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Today is my birthday !
by mrquik inafter missing 63 years of birthday celebrations, i'm making up for it in spades.
cake, presents & parties.
i tell everyone i meet that today is my birthday just to hear them say "happy birthday".
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Xanthippe
Happy Birthday Mrquik, have a fabulous time
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Something Big is Coming...
by notsurewheretogo inthe annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.
"at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".
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Xanthippe
They are just reminders to the sheeple that they must obey without question - the impression that something will happen is deliberate but does not mean they actually think something really will happen, they have been making people believe something will happen imminently (and you need to obey no matter what) for over 100 years
I agree with Fraz they are just trying to keep everyone in line. When you think about it the overlapping generations nonsense is the biggest thing that has happened that the R+F 'may initially lack full understanding of'. Mainly because it's absolute rubbish.
This year in particular they need to punch it home that you must obey us even when it makes no sense because people like my siblings have been expecting the new system within one generation of 1914 their whole lives.
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Female Attendants
by Quarterback inthe best thing to come from the regenal convention this summer, is to see women used as attendants at the end of the program.
they were used in distributing the new publications to convention delegates..
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Xanthippe
I remember being a volunteer at the baptism at a convention. The brother in charge insisted that sisters could not direct brothers. Trying to show guys where they were supposed to be without 'directing' them. Fun times. God it was crazy!
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I want it to be the truth, but I don't believe it. Unless I do but don't want to. Huh?
by noonehome inif i did believe, i think i could have what it takes to be what's considered a 'good jw'....being a missionary actually really appeals to me.
but obviously i couldn't live that life if i didn't believe in my heart it's the truth.
i'm young, and interested in doing some kind of humanitarian work... kind of a secular equivalent of "serving where the need is greater.
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Noonehome, great idea, if I was twenty years younger I'd do it like a shot.
Try this site,
There is an article about it here,
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/12/working-holidays-volunteering-breaks-lessons-learned
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R and me, part 2
by Pistoff inso i am at the funeral for the son of an old mentor of mine and my closet truth friends.. .
(i talked about r in a previous post, he was the most formative person in my life in the truth, and those of my family and friends.).
i was pulled aside by r's wife; she tells me that r wants to talk to me.. .
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Pistoff thanks for you two accounts, I really enjoyed reading them. Sorry for the loss of your mentor's son.
I can't tell him that all will be well, that soon the new world will be here and he will see his son again, though it crosses my mind that maybe I should.
It just struck me that now we are not in the cult we can't say things like this when people lose loved ones because what they believe is very personal and no-one would presume to say such a thing at a funeral the way JWs do.
It's really sad that these old 'oak trees' are lost to you. I don't know what to say. I lost everyone I knew my whole life too. It's not normal is it?
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How many things did you toss out in the name of Jehoover
by love2Bworldly ini had a flash back yesterday.
my non jw husband and i went to disneyland and bought my young daughter a set of 7 dwarf toys.
after a few months i felt guilty and threw them away, thinking they were demonized.
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Xanthippe
My mother got rid of old plates from relatives that I now think might have been Spode. Furniture and clothes. China and silverware from relatives. We were so damn poor too. Grrrr! Couldn't sell it of course because of passing on the demons!
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BEING SHUNNED
by JOHNROSS93 inafter almost 40 years of being shunned by close family members, it never gets easier.
my own mother is under the spell of the "organization" and won't even write to me.
for a long time i sent her things - cards, news articles of interest, jokes, etc - i finally gave up.
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Xanthippe
Johnross I'm sorry your family are treating you like this, I know it hurts. My family have shunned me for twenty-five years. How am I dealing with it? Well like you I used to send my mother things. When my dad who was never a witness told me she had her purse stolen in a shop I posted her a new leather purse. No phone call and I found it in her things, unused, after she'd gone.
One thing that really hurt was that when my daughter was born I took her to see my parents and my mother acted as though she was just tolerating the visit for the sake of her unbelieving mate and his granddaughter.
Just before we left she picked my daughter up for the first time and brought her to our car. I put my arms out to my mother so I could put my daughter in her car seat and my mother was so desperate not to touch me she nearly dropped my baby on the drive. Her head would have smashed on the concrete.
After a while I stopped trying to phone my siblings, that's how I deal with it now. I wont accept their attitude that possibly I can phone them and maybe they will speak to me if they feel like it or they might put the phone down as has happened.
That is very wrong so I don't contact them now. It's hard but I refuse to let them abuse me and treat me as if I am evil. I wont play by their rules. In the real world if people repeatedly treat you badly you avoid them as toxic. As I now live in the real world that is what I do.
I hope you find a way to cope with your family. I suppose I would advise you to choose whom you love and find new 'family' who value you for who you are rather than just where you were born.