firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.
it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.
i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.
What's wrong with just ignoring a thread or individual you don't like? Sometimes people start expressing ideas and I think he or she is a total turd. Sometimes it's depressing so I go live in the real world for a while.
If they're a turd it's their problem, I'm glad I don't have to live with them. This is how I deal with people in my real life so why worry about people online I can't even see. They're probably some ten ton git with BO who has a sad life.
yesterday, i had an epiphany.
i realized that the jw religion made my experience in school awful and i hated school because of this.. yesterday, my kids had an activity where the whole school was out at the park, playing baseball, soccer, other pic-nic games and even swimming pools.
during the day, i had conversations with the teachers and saw the kids out, playing having fun.
Yes, I hated school too, but then who wouldn't hate having to sit outside religious assembly and sit on your own in another classroom while they had the Christmas party! My daughter loved school but I didn't have to do anything special just let her join in! She made friends, they came for tea, birthday parties and sleepovers. It's not rocket science!
Now she has two degrees and a great job. She loves learning. Bloody cult, I was still afraid of school when I had to go up and see her teachers, but she loved them. Result for her and me!
is it me or do you share my thoughts about life seeming so simple when were--------------kids and when we were----------------die-hard jw’s?.
as a kid we trusted our parents explicitly.
their word was truth and we believed everything they said.
Is it me or do you share my thoughts about life seeming so simple when were--------------kids and when we were----------------die-hard jw’s?
I agree, this is the reason religions still exist because we now have answers about reality but some people prefer the simple life, let others control your life, tell you how it is. Be a child and you don't have to think or worry about anything. Jesus is quoted as saying just that.
hello, can someone let me know why i don't see the dates of the posts anymore?.
thanks!.
I can see dates and times now, thanks very much Simon.
i think he is.
if you don’t want to put reasons for your yes or no, it’s ok. .
your vote,please?
What he's achieved with North Korea is amazing but who better to persuade a narcissistic psychopath than one of the same.
Those scientists who write about psychopathy say psychopaths, and here I'm referring to those born with a biologically different amygdala in their brain who don't feel guilt or remorse, hold many high positions in government and large corporations.
Perhaps there is a place for them as long as they are kept in check by those who do possess a conscience.
hello, can someone let me know why i don't see the dates of the posts anymore?.
thanks!.
I'm on Chrome 63 and I haven't been able to see the dates for a couple of weeks. I've tried updating my chrome app but I can't, possibly because my iPad is about four years old. I didn't say anything because if it was just me and everyone else is okay ........
in a new "must read" article, a former jw hlc committee chairman explains why blood components are the real issue, and the terrible price paid to learn this important lesson.. http://ajwrb.org/components-of-blood-are-the-issue.
were hoping that by now the entire blood doctrine would have become a personal conscience matter
They can't can they because of all the children, pregnant mothers and many more that have already died. How can you tell people who've lost kids because they did what the cult said that now it's not a divine command!
i have talked about him before on this forum.
he is now a graduate from mit!.
it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.
That's brilliant news, congratulations to your son. Good luck for his Masters, my daughter finished hers last September. So good we don't have to deny them an education and a real life isn't it?
hey guys, so now that i’m pretty much atheist and i’m not scared of demons or supernatural things, or bring them into my house by watching movies or reading books about them lol, i defenitly want to watch a few scary movies.
i’ve always loved scary movies, but as witness, you don’t get to watch many since they need to be pg-13 and have no spiritism in it lol.
does anyone have any suggestions?
The Sixth Sense, What Lies Beneath, Ghost.
after a bit of a kerfuffle over a procedural matter, my university has awarded me a degree.
(the procedural problem was caused by my independent selection of what i wanted to study).
award : bachelor of arts.
Many congratulations FTS, you deserve it!
