friendly and good gorby smiled and waved towards 2 local jw's yesterday, and they turned with an angry face their back to me.
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has something changed regarding faders recently?.
Who cares?
Live your life the way JWs only wish they could. When they see you, and see your happy, carefree life, they think about how shallow their life is, how shallow their Friendships™ are, how meaningless and unsuccessful their Ministry™ is.
I've started shunning them, because there's no effing way I will ever go back to their so-called Spiritual Paradise™.
denial..
Holy COW is DT *still* here?
birthday wisdom magnum opus.
i was born 2 years after the end of wwii.. everything was in black and white.. harry truman was president.. mahatma gandhi was the spiritual leader of india.. .
by the time i was 5, a new-fangled invention called television.
Happy Birthday, Terry!
another implausible field service story told by ralph walls at the 2021 convention.
get ready for this unrealistic, stupid, dull and boring, made up fiction that is presented at this assembly.. some years ago ( tells a story but doesn't know exact date ), a brother ( doesn't give his name ) in mexico ( doesn't name the town) from the rurals, dressed in a very simple garb ( to show he was not showy ) knocked at the door of a palatial mansion.
( a very rich ''worldly'' person must live here ).
w & g are more like FOOL'S GOLD.
jmho
a while back, i suggested that an easy, quick, quiet exit with the signing and dating of a concise and irrefutable document would spur faders and pimos to preempt the elders' interference by quitting quietly first , before a fade or a confrontation.
here is the document .
https://1drv.ms/w/s!avoitfxyvyqghq3gbmkhfyqp_jqp?e=8bttg1.
If you don't believe that the Elders™ have any Authority™ over you, then why even bother with a letter?
Do you write a letter to the school yard bully who took your lunch money too?
my brother (who is a witness) has been married for 8 years.
he and his wife (also a witness) got married young, but he never really tried in the marriage, but she also lost his trust early on.
he says that it was his fault though because he pushed her away.. anyways, he met this new girl (not a witness) and told his wife that he wanted to separate.
Cheating to get out of an unhappy marriage isn't the best choice, but in JW-land it is an option. Doesn't the bible say that to look at another person in a lustful way is having already committed adultery in one's heart anyway??
WT rules seemed to have relaxed a bit in the 26 years since I left. At one time, adultery only freed the innocent spouse to remarry Scripturally™. The spouse who committed adultery was expected to return to the marriage *if* the innocent spouse was willing to forgive them. But to use adultery as a weapon to deliberately end the marriage and move on to another partner, and expect to be Reinstated™ and bring their new partner into The Truth™... well that's just mind boggling to me, for the simple reason that so much deceit and underhandedness has gone into the affair. But that's WTs fault too: they are the ones who claim that the *only* legitimate grounds for a Scriptural Divorce™ is adultery, and they also imply that the adulterer(s) are not at liberty to seek the divorce - that is up to the wronged spouse.
WT may as well accept the fact that people divorce for a variety of reasons, and there is no sense in expecting two miserable people to stay with each other until one of them dies. Let them move on and try to find some happiness. Life is too damn short.
people want to get back to work, back to "normal" in many cases (whatever normal now means).
even trump is encouraging protesters in 3 states.. but with the covid-19 thing, this is not just a matter of a person taking a risk, as a person may do who smokes, takes illegal drugs or in other ways lives an unhealthy lifestyle.
in general, most (not all, since cost of insurance and public hospitals may be involved), but generally you are not putting the lives of others at risk.
Any adult of sound mind can refuse medical treatment for themselves. Hospitals have forms for this type of thing. However, in the case of COVID-19, I would hope refusal of treatment would be accompanied by strict quarantine orders to not leave their home, or being segregated with other idiots, away from the rest of us who want to be safe for the benefit of our loved ones and other people at risk.
it's an alternate history called "1910: war in the pacific," about a (mostly naval) war between the united states and japan after the japanese buy alaska from the russians it's now on sale on amazon in both print and kindle formats.
it grew out of a short story i wrote a number of years ago.
that story was just posted on jeffthomasbooks.wordpress.com.
Congrats, Jeff!
I had no idea the Russians were selling Japan on Amazon
I used to love writing short stories and need to get back to it!
my sister sent me this text a few minutes ago.
what does she know about my relationship with jehovah?
it was followed up by a bunch of links to jw org problem is dialog is not possible her side is the only one to be heard.
"I love you and want the best for you."
"It made my heart rejoice to spend time with you [and your family]."
"We all have the time now. Jehovah knows our heart."
You're right "we all have the time now" to get to know one another and love one another unconditionally. How many people have died estranged from family because of shunning enforced by JWs? If you truly believe the time left for me and my family is coming to a close, why would you hold back your affections until we go to meetings, out in service and resume other JW activities? Can't you see how manipulative it is to do that? It's like an ex-wife refusing access to children unless child support payments are up to date, or withholding support payments unless visitations are granted. The everyone suffers in those circumstances, but mostly it's the children who miss out on the wonderful opportunity of having no-strings-attached relationships with grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins.
We have all been granted the gift of free will, and we have not chosen to be estranged from you, that has been your decision (bolstered by Watchtower teachings), and we respect that. We have not discussed anything with you out of respect for your faith and because we have no desire to interfere with your dedication or "lure you away"; we would never do that. But I hope that while you trust that Jehovah knows our hearts, he also knows where our hearts are and why we feel as we do, without any prejudice toward friends and family.
We would welcome you and your family with open arms, no matter the circumstances. I'm very disappointed that you feel otherwise.
as sgt pepper sang, "it was 20 years ago today" ... that i made my first post on my first forum.. i obviously didn't put too much thought into what it should say although i must have burned 45 posts testing things and was too lazy to reset the counter before going live (?):.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/46/welcome.
but somehow, it worked and grew and here we all are, 20 years on.
Congratulations Simon and JWD!
It’s been a terrific 20 years, I wonder how many JWs became ex-JWs and ex-ex-JWs as a result of all your hard work?
cheers
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