i have failed to welcome any of you individually so i wanted to make a thread to formally thank you.
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i know that your presence, wisdom and the courage you're demonstrating by being here will help many.. .
I second Talesins comment. i kinda think its important to welcome EVERYONE equally as we move into the light of a new day, finally free from the hiarchy, status, and power structure that ruined so many of our lives. id like to think ive found a place here where we are all equals.
that being said, big welcome too ALL the newbies out there from grumblecakes (also kinda a newbie myself)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.
http://www.jwactivists.org.
facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.
(grumblecakes salutes you all)
it was creepy to see so many people making such a fuss.
and of course it ran way overtime.
(im reluctant to say which gb, because i dont want to be identified).. he compared the covenent with the 144k to:.
hi blondie,
invited by multiple congregations (simlutaneous via closed circuit tv), but i believe the real reason was memorial was just an excuse for an all expense paid vacation. (i live in a major vacation destination).
hi everybody, it wasnt splane. hes much harsher than splane. he spent a good portion of his long ass talk agressively alluding to the new lighton the fds and making sure every one understood that they do not have a personal relationship with god, we are meerly bystanders. as soon as the thing ended a witness was like "whoa, i bet we're gonna ses some new light in the wt soon!" (internal exasperated sigh).
it was creepy to see so many people making such a fuss.
and of course it ran way overtime.
(im reluctant to say which gb, because i dont want to be identified).. he compared the covenent with the 144k to:.
it was creepy to see so many people making such a fuss. and of course it ran way overtime. (im reluctant to say which gb, because i dont want to be identified).
he compared the covenent with the 144k to:
"its like a marriage contract, between a husband and wife. the children are not part of the relationship, but benefit from it."
What.
The.
F**k.
So cold and ugly to say something like that :(
that article about jehovah's witnesses having the lowest retention rate for born ins keeps popping up every now again ... i'm just curious if any of you have noticed that this is actually the case.
in the congregation that i grew up in, i'm going to say that 95% of the young people in their teens to mid twenties are either regular pioneering, regular auxiliary pioneering, serving in foreign language congregations or where the need is greater.
both of my younger sisters are regular pioneers - and the young people in their hall even organize 8 pm to midnight service on friday nights of their own accord.
out of 26 from my od cong, 12 left, 5 left then came back, 7 have been good little hardcore witnesses into their 30s. the other 2 i dont know their status.
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yeah!!! good one!
but, its on a tuesday, so on the plus side, it wipes out meeting for a lot of people. ha! :)
excellent! thanks sir82
i gotta show face... :(
thanks!
so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.
i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.
'my other car is noah's ark'.
honk if youre no part of this world
my other car is a service car
