i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.
on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.
that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.
Pale,
This post really hits home for me. Just reading the first few lines caused me to have flashbacks to how I used to feel when it was "meeting" or "book study" night. The whole day did have this overwhelming feeling of gloom. I remember thinking to myself, "If this is the truth, then why does it invoke such overwhelming dread?"
i remember getting my ass beat .
in 1987 / 1988 for listening to atlantic star.
they had a song called always.. my mother sat me down anmd told me listening to music like that would just rile up my emotions and make me look for a girl to fornicate with.. like at the age of 10 i was going to take it to that level.. my mother later banned r and b from our home.... i find it all hilarious now, but a friend of mine actually sent me a link to the jw broadcast and said i had to watch this.. i told him there was no way, but he said just start at the 50:40 mark.. i do not believe that this is what the org is doing now???.
april fools?
while london remains substantially the safer city overall, with less than half the homicides of new york last year, according to a new report a recent spike in knife crime meant february was the first month the uk capital was home to more murders than the us city.london has endured a significant increase in knife crime, with 15 dying in february, nine of whom were aged 30 or younger.
meanwhile 14 were killed in the big apple..
What demographic of people are committing the most mass shootings again?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
Should we be addressing this problem?
I mean since we are trying not to be PC and all
roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.
in one sentence tell why you left the org.
not 2 sentences.
i just updated my website, any feedback is welcome!.
jwartwork.org.
Yeah, I just got the same thing
i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .
an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.
the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.
I rather enjoy these discussions. They do sometimes get off the rails, but I think they overwhelming productive. Multiple perspectives on any given topic is going to be beneficial.
i am not really sure what to make of all this yet, its just coming out so who knows what is real and fake yet, but if its true it seems the news coming out about seddique mateen & the fbi is yet another bureua failure.
as an informant for years mateen actually helped to clear his terrorist son of any scrutiny by the fbi, then he killed 49 and wounded dozens of others.
this kind of crap is actually giving credibility to the wearers of tin foil hats .
That would have only prevented him from "legally" purchasing the firearms. It wouldn't have addressed the underline issues that were the driving force for his actions. Granted, the indictment would have made it difficult for him to get the weapons through legal means, but it wouldn't have prevented him from purchasing the weapons through more unsavory methods such as black markets.
This is something gun control proponents have a hard time addressing....INTENT. You can't legislate away someone's intent.
i heard avoidjw.org is under legal attack from the watchtower society.
it's a shame because it's such a wonderful resource.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmhopfvoim.
does anyone know what is happening with this site?
I feel like the WT really shows their hand when they attack websites that are critical of them. If it's truly nothing more than "Bitter Apostate Lies," then why go through the hassle of taking legal action? I don't get it
fred deftone on another thread about the tragic events at m. stoneman douglas school:.
the us constitution wasn't written for 50 states either.
the country has gotten too big and i think the solution is fragmentation.
Democrats ultimately still support Capitalism. Regardless of the "Socialistic" type of policies they occasionally propose to appease Progressives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR65ZhO6LGA
Even the Democratic Socialism proposed by Berniecrats is just a "nicer" version of Capitalism. But still involves Capitalism nonetheless.
Unless someone is literally calling for workers to seize the means of production and put it under the control of the workers, it's hard for me to see how they are socialists. Just saying.....
just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?
(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).
with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.
The last time I ever step foot in a KH was a few years ago for my Grandfather's funeral. Sadly, I will be forced to have to step foot in another one since my grandmother is currently in hospice and could pass any day now.
Before my grandfather's funeral, it had been at least 5+ years since I had even been within the vicinity of a KH. Aside from the TV's and new songs, everything is exactly the same.
