Posts by grumblecakes

] hasn't posted a "hello" thread yet, here is his first post with a mini-autobiography.... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/240404/1/all-things-given-to-us.

It is OFFICIAL they want MORE MONEY : NEW ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

by raymond frantz in

i just came back from the meeting .although the local announcements have been abolished recently as an item for the second part , an elder came on the platform to announce that the society needs more money and there is a letter on the noticeboard for all the congragation to read to this effect.

although the announcement was read half heartedly (this elder's daughter is an apostate ,it looks like he knows what's going on) the implictions are dramatic .

the society in brief,requests any brother or sister with funds sitting on personal accounts to loan them to the society ,he didn't go into any specifics but i will take a picture of the letter next time and make it available here .. i'm not amazed that they're asking for money ,i thought it will happen sooner or later .what i'm amazed is that 99% of the congragation are oblivious to the financial crisis that the society finds itself these days and the reasons why .i can see the future now .the watchtower will be the fist part of the babylon the great to go down in a blaze of scandals and financial troubles !.

grumblecakes

can anyone comment on the part in the OP where he said "local anouncements were abolished'? what exactly does this mean? when did that happen?

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It is OFFICIAL they want MORE MONEY : NEW ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

by raymond frantz in

i just came back from the meeting .although the local announcements have been abolished recently as an item for the second part , an elder came on the platform to announce that the society needs more money and there is a letter on the noticeboard for all the congragation to read to this effect.

although the announcement was read half heartedly (this elder's daughter is an apostate ,it looks like he knows what's going on) the implictions are dramatic .

the society in brief,requests any brother or sister with funds sitting on personal accounts to loan them to the society ,he didn't go into any specifics but i will take a picture of the letter next time and make it available here .. i'm not amazed that they're asking for money ,i thought it will happen sooner or later .what i'm amazed is that 99% of the congragation are oblivious to the financial crisis that the society finds itself these days and the reasons why .i can see the future now .the watchtower will be the fist part of the babylon the great to go down in a blaze of scandals and financial troubles !.

grumblecakes

whoa, raymond, what do you mean they "abolished local announcements"?!?!??

i went to meeting on tuesday but i honestly couldnt make myself pay attention...

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Quick question, did you feel lonely at the meetings even though you were part of the action?

by Theocratic Sedition in

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friends

just curious, something i've noticed only lately.

i'm in the mix within the congregation, stay late after the meeting is over, converse with quite a few people afterwards, make plans for saturday and sometimes sunday service and yet i feel so awfully alone walking to my car afterwards.

i feel lonely when i'm talking and laughing with people after the meeting.

grumblecakes

for a long time i did. when i started waking upand feeling like something was wrong i really did feel exteremely lonely. sometimes they would say s**t during a talk and i would tear up because i thought something was wrong with me for the way i felt (the doubt, skeptisim, resentment). bc the cult was my whole reality it hit me hard when it started turning sour and i blamed myself, and thought i was the most horrible person, sitting in that KH, alone with it.

miraculously, things changed the day i found this site.i lurked for a few weeks, desperately reading threads on everything i had tried so hard to accept, rationalize, force myself to just be ok with...and discovered that soooooo many others before me felt the same way. faced the same things. even though anonymous and far apart, we share the same weird ass experience.

so now, when i show face at the hall, i dont tear up or feel like an abomination sitting there...i just wonder how many other feel the same, but dont dare say anything.

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Fight Club

by d in

i love the movie fight club.the theme being that you are your own person.you do not have to bend to the will of others.what do you think about fight club?.

d.

grumblecakes

anybody ever read any of chuck palaniuk's other stuff?

"invisible monsters"? anyone?

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Fight Club

by d in

i love the movie fight club.the theme being that you are your own person.you do not have to bend to the will of others.what do you think about fight club?.

d.

grumblecakes

best

movie

ever.