Gojira_101, Thank you for the update. Now, I'm on pins and needles too. How wonderful if your Grandma would wake up! Keep us posted.
Just Lois
good morning jwn-land.. since my parents and my husband and i have learned ttatt we have been keeping quiet, mostly.
we have held off on revealing our true names, my dad has held off joining jwn and telling his story because we have been waiting for one special event.
my dad talking to his mother about ttatt.
Gojira_101, Thank you for the update. Now, I'm on pins and needles too. How wonderful if your Grandma would wake up! Keep us posted.
Just Lois
yesterday, a jwn poster e-mailed me asking if i would post on this discussion board his recent email to steven unthank and also post stevens reply.
the reason for the request is because the poster has need to remain completely anonymous.
i agreed to share the email because i knew you would find stevens reply informative and interesting.. .
Thank you Joe and Barbara,
Wow. The Watch Tower's letter makes me want to throw up.
I devoted 60 years of my life to that unchristian free labor based Business, masquerading and getting all the tax breaks as a charitable religion. Disgusting!
All my best to the Unthank family.
Just Lois
long time lurker, first time poster.
i'm really glad i can join your community because i've been in the wts for the last 14 years and now i'm on my way out and it's great to meet like-minded people!.
about me: i started learning jw ways when i was in my teens.
Hello Julia Orwell from Australia! It is a pleasure to meet you. I like the idea of you sitting next to your husband, and acknowledging the BS spoken at the Khall.
Please stay with us and give us updates as time goes by. Boy. I am already planning the big internet party we will have for your husband here on JW.net when he comes around to knowing TTATT and starts posting himself.
Anyway, I am jumping ahead of myself. Please make yourself at home here.
And Welcome!
Just Lois from The North Pacific
for those of you who like to keep up-to-date with the latest magazines without having to trawl through jw.org in order to get to them, here are some useful links to take you directly to the magazine you want.... watchtower (study edition): http://www.jw.org/apps/index.xjp?option=sffzrqvnznt&rln=e&rmn=w&rfm=pdf&rpf=&rpe=.
watchtower (simplified): http://www.jw.org/apps/index.xjp?option=sffzrqvnznt&rln=e&rmn=ws&rfm=pdf&rpf=&rpe=.
watchtower (public): http://www.jw.org/apps/index.xjp?option=sffzrqvnznt&rln=e&rmn=wp&rfm=pdf&rpf=&rpe=.
Thank you Cedars.
I appreciate everything you do for all of us.
Just Lois
service as a way of relieving our pain.... .
no, not field service.
i cant believe all the empty hours i spent knocking on doors, going where i was not welcome, not wanting to be there either, foisting magazines on people, occasionally studying with people in an effort to indoctrinate them.
Londo, Thank you for sharing your worthwhile "service time". Your joy comes across.
At a Women's Shelter, where I went for refuge from my Elder husband, I was asked if I had done any volunteering. As a born in, I have been knocking on doors and ringing doorbells for well over half a century. My embarassment for being a JW and in my predicament, I said, "no" but another part of the component was, what a waste of my time and life volunteering for free to a billion dollar publishing house masquerading as god's one true religion. I don't want anybody to know, what a wasted life, I've had. So, no, I haven't done any volunteering.
But good for you! What you did, can actually, help somebody.
Just Lois
i jus got dissfellowshiped at th last week..i feel like dying..i attended th meetings yesterday and ita ws jus horrible..came back home in tears....... people i used to cal my friends nw cant look me in the eye..so heartbroken confused and giving up on life !.
UN Informed----->Welcome to you your wife and your 3 smart kids that came out with you! JW's 7 1/2 million minus 5 good people! Yay!
Start a new thread and tell us more. Elders, pioneers, Bethelites...You have lots to share!
ChiChi----->I am so glad you are here with us on JW.net.
Just Lois in The North Pacific
what kind of parents forget the day you were born?
jehovah's witness(es)!!!.
yes today is my 3rd birthday (only started celebrating 3 years ago).
WhoLovesMagic, You have so much to celebrate. A birthday, learning TTATT and surviving cancer! You go Girl!
This is for you WLM... and ((((((((((((((Big Hugs))))))))))))))))
Remember, your parents do love you. They have been brain washed and right now act and talk robotic. When they learn TTATT, they are going to feel horrible about the way they treated you.
Just Lois in The North Pacific
if witnesses believe that we truly are in the end of the end of the last days, and they believe the work they do will really save lives, and most can just make a few adjustments and get 30 hours, why dont they do this more often??
without the title?.
to me if you really care about people you would not wait until you have a special title or badge to wear of look at me im pioneering, you would do the most you can every month and not care about recognition from men.
It makes little people feel special.
finnish co was sentenced for three years for molesting little girls in estonia and his finnish congregation years 2003 to 2005. man had been a co in estonia.
the mother was not believed at first, but laughed at.
she is a jw herself.
i was wondering how a baptised jw see wordly people?
i mean what do they think of people who arent jw ?
do they think we will die forever and that we are controlled by satan?
Your question is complex.
Is she a 25 year old that lives at home and sneeks out?
Does she live alone and wants company and all the local JW's are married and exclude her?
Does she live and work with worldly ( tm) girls...thus hangs out with her roommates?
is she a born in and wants to know what freedom is?
Is she questioning her religion as far as associates because she has personal knowledge that some of her JW friends are more worldly than her Christian Orthodox ones are?
In associating with these Russian or Greek Orthodox Christians is she enjoying their ethnicity, possibly embracing her own ethnic origins?
Is she a baptized JW, (got baptized as a child or teen) and says robotic words about her religion, as she was taught, but in her deepest thoughts, does not believe it?
Or...Is she just a girl that wants to have fun?
Just Lois