ok, so, some jws stopped by my apartment today.
i knew two of the three that came to the door.
they were all very friendly, no mention was made of our long absence from the kingdom hall, even though hubby is sporting a full beard.. here's what i don't get, i asked after several of their family members and the responses were, "oh, my sister and her husband are now regular pioneers" and "he's a ministerial servant now.
I know, this isn't earth shattering, what's more surprising is that we were treated better than when we were IN.
That's because they are only trying to get you back "IN"! Get back and be treated like sheet , sorry, cheap . . . oh sheep! Or maybe to a JC!!
with appreciation of the "are cats for true christians?
" people.... are peeps for true christians?.
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Now, I wouldn't stop laughing today! Reminds me of my childhood when I'd write copy-cat versions of Awake articles, such nauseous nostalgia! And this wins "Satire Post of the Year" in my mind! And talking about Peep reminds me of another palindrome character "Pirrip". So much great expectations are expected from "God's only earthly organisation", but all they do is just go back and forth with their teachings, like a windvane during a whirlstorm, like a palindrome!
Now, this made my night!!!
the year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the bible with me drove by and had a full on "charles manson" looking facial hair and beard.
i asked tina, a friend what's up with him?
tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication.
I started growing my beard the day I got DFed. And guess what, even my JW girlfriend and my other JW friends that still venture to talk to me said I look more matured, or rugged, and they like it. Actually, more JW girls seem to be fascinated with me, and when no one's looking, would greet and even invite me over to their place! I also noticed almost all youths who left often grow a beard over here. Then, even many JW youths are tending to leave their facial hairs until they are called "to order" by the elders.
i know this topic has been touched upon from time to time.
i haven't been on here regularly in many years, but i know what it is like for many; or those that are on their way of exiting the organization.. what songs do you recall or remember during your exodus from the wtbts ??.
i left mentally in the late autumn of 1983; apparently (i don't know officially...but does it really matter?
Mine is Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All"!
i was curious what is the youngest age any jw has been baptised.
i thought it was hypocritical for jws to say wait for marriage because its such a big deal but "why wait to get baptised".
i think my step sister was 11 years old.
I was dunked at 9. Was already an atheist at 7, then did my dedication to Big Jay at 13! Funny sequence, right? 10 years after, DFed!
"true story" the circuit overseer came to our kingdom hall and read us the riot act (local needs style) "magazines of this quality are not free, they cost money and we are not generating enough donations to defray the cost of the magazines(or running the top of the line printing presses) i get my ass out of bed to place literature in the laundray cleaning, coin opperated shops and some asshole puts his apostate stickers on our magazines.
do you know how hard it is to get up at 6:00 am and how expensive those magazines are costing the organization to print?
please stop defiling our literature, i dont post hateful stickers on your website so please leave my magazines alone.
Thumbs up, Aunt Connie! I had a good laugh too over this piece of your's. You're the bomb! And how about a bomb sticker on the ragazines?
i think with every year their are more and more newbies that identify with this site , would you like to say " hi ", if you have joined in the last 12 months ?.
does anybody have a graph of the numbers of newbies who have joined in say the last 5 years ?.
i think that would be interesting.
Hi!
Keeping flying high!
i would like to thank everyone who is a part of this community.
i have been abused by this billion dollar evil religion since i was born.
i am now in my late thirties and have been battling depression issues over my former abuses by this nongoverment organization.
@Defianttruth, I appreciate your enthuasiasm in your response. I'd love to write my thesis on the Jordan-Wigner Transformation of the XY Model, a quantum mechanics problem on one dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with the Hamiltonian H = J∑ i S i S i+1 . This, though, might be subject to amendment by my project supervisor if he feels the depth of the research is too low. Let's leave that for a while, maybe I could get to talking that later, here is a poem I think my supervisor would have deemed too shallow in illustrating the depth of your feelings, and the narratives of your past. Despite my earnest endervor, all I could manage was a cold summary of your otherwise warm prose, please, let's blame it on the writer's block! LOL I have titled it 'Deviate' in poetic tandem of your profile name
Alright, here it is:
Deviate
Once upon a time, a story
Told, of pain and of glory;
Of an ant as defiant
As an elephant;
Of a religion of Hates
From which He deviates.
Of people, His parents
(But, hey do hippies pay rents?
But sorry I deviate
I only to humor relate).
Who thought
School wasn't that cool,
And were taught,
It was for fools!
"The best life-course-
A Bethelite's,
For which school course
Really sheds 'new lights'?"
The whips lash down.
For Discipline is nothing but a clown,
Who when in town,
Made His laughter a frown.
But the tables turned at 18,
200 pounds, and still a teen!
He grew and Dad's waned thin,
But abuse was not His thing.
No escape from Congo, baptised.
For you see, freedom is quantised;
Bound He was, a POW,
Solace, by the PO 'W'.
Family aplenty, and are odd
When they fight for the Lord;
Yet, against all odds,
He survived, with electronic boards!
Of similar sides, six
Of one, Physics:
Science truth seeks.
So, aided by Purdue's grade,
He begins to fade;
But behold, and lo
Love and Belly grows,
Oh, no!
Does the word 'disfellowship'
Really makes this fellow cheap?
Time counted hours, and counted eight
And here He and story deviate!
You've got a life,
Wonderful children, loving wife
Who crazy rides thru JW Drive
To understand still strive.
And in December,
You became a member,
Of a site solid like timber,
For people of mine and thine caliber!
Welcome.
i would like to thank everyone who is a part of this community.
i have been abused by this billion dollar evil religion since i was born.
i am now in my late thirties and have been battling depression issues over my former abuses by this nongoverment organization.
Moving, and eerily similar story with mine! And more coincidental is, we studied/study similar courses. Presently, I am doing my Masters in Mathemathical Physics. My parents really were harsh on me too, although on retrospect, here in Nigeria, it's common to be beaten as a means of discipline, I hate the cane! In fact, it was the punishments that made me a kinda atheist since I was 7, for a day I prayed to Jehovah: "Please do not allow me to be beaten today, I'd do all my best to be a good son and faithful worshipper,please!" Needless to say, I got beaten that day, so I lost faith in him. My father and mother without doubt loved me, and while they planned me to become a Bethelite, they also did all their best to give me a sound education. Even with my DFed status they are still financing my schooling. Sometimes tho', they really feel the schooling is responsible for my defection- what can I say, it is and it is not! I got baptised early, at 9, pioneered straight up and stuff, was very brilliant in academics and got scholarships . . . It's you on the spot here, so let me stop my driveling. I am a good poet too, and I write beautiful poetry. Maybe, I could write your story in a poem, if you'd allow me, would you?
