i was disfellowshipped when i was 16, it really isn't clear because i stopped going to meetings, left home, etc.
i was 28 before i truly stopped believing and have grown to love every day of life i've had the privilege to live.
my mother was a missionary, my brother lives at one of the farms, one of my sisters is a special pioneer overseas and my other sister is a special pioneer in the states.. .
Honestly, I detest this route. But I dearly love my Mother, and she has truly been simply loving, when she visits, calls us - she is simply a grandmother with her grandson - no witnessing, no interference, nothing.
Bless your heart. I have no suggestions for you, but your words really touched me.
Tammy
i'm really, really curious about everybody's opinions on this.
say you won the lottery would you continue to work???
or would you retire to pursure a shuffleboard career among other things??
LOL! Yeah, right!
they start making remakes of remakes...... i watched the original king kong, not at the theatre but on tv.
i watched the remake at the theatre and fell in love with jessica lange.
now they are remaking that movie.. i watched the superman cartoon series and the the tv series.
I'm so old I remember when Saturday Night Live was funny!
Tammy
i posted this on another thread....but as usual, when i posted it, the thread died and so i thought i'd put it under a different subject as it's worth re-reading.. the society has always said nobody is the judge who commits the dreaded...."unforgivable sin", but they sure the hell do not having any trouble making a statement concerning apostates as commiting the unforgivable sin.. 1982 watchtower 4/1 p.26-28 .
" jesus told the unrepentant scribes and pharisees that they and their gentile proselytes were subjects for gehenna or, literally, sons of gehenna.
(matthew 23:15, 33-35; see also john 9:39-41; 15:22-24.
Well, they have to say that, don't they?
If they told the truth and said,
"People who leave Jehovah's organization and become aposates have much better sex lives."
then that would just make the people leave even faster than they already are.
Tammy
just wanted to tell everyone how much i love this forum but never had balls to join in.
now that i'm officially dfd i can do whatever i like.
how about that?
Welcome Zagor!
ok spill it... its good for you..let it all out.. tell us..what embarassing things did you do as a kid?.
i have many many many many stories.. ( you dont think i got this disfunctional easily did you?
lol).
I once stuck a flinstone vitamin up my nose. OUCH
It's okay as long as it's Betty or Wilma, but Barney and Fred are way too chubby for you to be doing that!
Tammy
(Sorry if this teasing sounded snotty!)
(tongue in cheek).
the jehovah of the ot has left us a record of his dealings(myths) and would like you to grade him on his qualities such as: goodness, kindness, love, omnipotence, omniscience, as well as negative aspects of his personal qualities like anger, rage, revenge, and lack of compassion and indifference to the suffering of others.
jehovah asks that you please be truthful, and take a good look at his performance as god almighty in the ot, and don't hold back what you really think, he promises not to retaliate, or hold a grudge(fingers crossed).
If life was a semi-truck driving down the road, Jehovah wouldn't even be behind the wheel. He'd be sacked out in the sleeper letting the truck run down the freeway on cruise control. On the back would be a sticker asking "How's my driving?" and I would have to call the number 1-800-YOU-SUCK!
Tammy
ok spill it... its good for you..let it all out.. tell us..what embarassing things did you do as a kid?.
i have many many many many stories.. ( you dont think i got this disfunctional easily did you?
lol).
I was standing in line to go back into the school after recess.
A boy in an older grade proclaimed, "I can read that word on the door."
"So what! I can too." I responded. It was an easy word for a second grader.
This boy taunted, "No you can't read that word on the door."
"I can too. It says ..." and I read it out loud.
Everybody in line yelled, "Oh, you said a bad word."
"What? 'F---!'," I read it again. "That's what it says!"
They were shocked that I read it twice, including a JW boy I knew.
"What does that mean?" I asked.
How was I supposed to know that the grafitti on the school door was naughty? I had never heard the F-word before.
Tammy
greetings folks, .
well, the big pr blitz about the wtbts legal threats to shut down the quotes website has begun.
we are sending the first wave of copies of the press release (text below) to the following news outlets.
I thought the part about them denouncing the UN as a tool of the devil was especially good.
Tammy
