jws don't say, "i am a jehovah's witness.".
instead, they say, "i am one of jehovah's witnesses.".
what does the second way of saying it convey that the first does not?.
Instead, they say, "I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses."
Yes of course just as you would say "I am one of Peter's friends"
You wouldn't say "I am a Peter's friend", that sounds ridiculous. For once I don't think they're being devious, they're just being grammatical.
more subpoenas have been added.
so the watchtower is getting close to 50. i think there are about 44 of them listed here.
brumley the witchhunter!.
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i have a recurring back injury that has spared me for some time but has returned and the results are nightmares of the 'stephen king' order.
my guess its nerve damage causing 'short circuits'.. am seeing the chiro tomorrow.. anyone else had this?.
Zeb I had nightmares and sleep paralysis sometimes doing night feeds when my baby was born. It seemed to be connected to waking up a lot during the night and then dropping off again. Perhaps you are awake off and on in the night with your back pain?
i stopped attending meetings about three months ago.
after researching everything i could find on jehovahs witnesses (which is a lot) i can happily say i am awake and free.
i was a baptized witness for over 25 year.
Welcome HBF I understand your desire to make a normal life for your children. I hope if you have a birthday party for your son your husband might join in or at least be okay with it. It will take time so just enjoy life with your children and let him do whatever he wants.
my cousin was disfellowshipped twenty years ago when he was 18 years old.
he admitted to the congregation elders that he was fornicating with his ''wordly'' girlfriend.
the elders were following him and hiding in their cars to see what he was up to.
My cousin's dad just sent him a baby gift with a card. He only addressed the card to my cousin's wife and granddaughter. For some stupid reason, he can't even write his son's name on the card to congratulate.
Why do they make a difference between relatives that have left the JWs and those that have never been JWs? Mine do the same, obviously because they want to punish your cousin for daring to be different. Act of love, who are they trying to kid!
They seem a very fanatical, controlling family. You and your cousin did well to leave. It's very hurtful but all I can say is you are well rid of these toxic people.
does anyone else know of a person who has such a sensitive nose or bad allergy that they are allergic to the paint or interior of the kingdom hall somehow and they can’t go inside?
and that person doesn’t even switch halls they “listen on the phone” all the time.
i know of a couple people like that.
We had an email at work some years ago saying deodorant and perfume can set of some peoples' asthma so to be careful about wearing it.
I asked my manager if that meant we couldn't wear deodorant anymore because believe me it's bad enough when some of our library users, the great unwashed, don't wear it.
She said no it doesn't mean that, as if I was being difficult. Still no idea what we were meant to do about it!
my cousin was disfellowshipped twenty years ago when he was 18 years old.
he admitted to the congregation elders that he was fornicating with his ''wordly'' girlfriend.
the elders were following him and hiding in their cars to see what he was up to.
I'm sorry for your cousin, that treatment is disgusting. Of course his family shouldn't see his baby without him, how dare they ask!
You ask how long disfellowshipped people can be treated like this. I d'aed thirty years ago last week and I'm still shunned by my siblings. They didn't see my daughter until she was nine and only then because it was our mother's funeral. It's an evil cult!
in october of 2000, i faded away from the watchtower.
like most people, i have family and friends who are jw's (including my wife and parents).
fading is generally the best method for people in that situation.
Excellent suggestions here on fading or even for building a new life however you left.
In time, I'm hopeful that my family will start to think for themselves, but I will not force the issue, because to do so will lead to slamming doors.
I wonder if Expatbrit is still around and if his wife eventually left?
if you haven't seen it already, skip to 1:14:30 in lloyds video and watch the craziness unfold.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2y7f7-k5wo.
i'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.. they're digging themselves a great hole here, in about 30 years time they'll be claiming this video was a mere "speculation" and that "some people" got the wrong ideas..
Seeing someone rambling on about wild beasts, Babylon the Great and Gog of Magog I now think, mad as a box of frogs.
officer james givens has served with the cincinnati police department for over 26 years, but has never quite experienced anything like this before.
he was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when he got an unexpected visitor.
a goose came up to his car and started pecking on the side of it.
Thanks for this Hecce. There are so many stories on Facebook of people rescuing animals in trouble, I'm amazed the lengths some go to to help them. Good people.
