about one month ago, i sent my disassociation letters out, one was addressed to their headquarters in ny.
(usa) and three were addressed to the kingdom halls in my area.. now the strangest thing has happened, two of the letters that i sent to the local khs were returned to me by the post office labeled "return to sender-no mail recepticle-unable to forward.
" one came last week, and another one today.
They may have a PO Box where they receive their mail. Some times the post offices are not that reliable. Since the postal service has been reduced to what it is now, sometimes the mail gets returned.
Is there a way for you to verify the correct address? Sorry that the letters got returned. I'm sure that a disassociation letter isn't something one takes lightly.
just heard that a young brother committed suicide this week - the whole congregation is naturally very distressed.
what a tragedy.
according to my source he'd only been married about a year and his wife found him - he’d hung himself.
Surely this should not happen if a spiritual paradise really existed!
To me this is as bad as what they JWs do, using a person's tragedy to make a point. Have some humanity.
spoke to my younger brother dan yesterday (he da'd about 6 months ago).
he was telling me that he got a visit from our older brother the day before.
our older brother was raised a jw but never committed, lives a full-on "worldly" life - smokes, binge drinks, hangs out with non-jws, but he's been studying for about 6 years would you believe?.
That nonsense about things being possessed by demons has caused a lot of resentments from me too. I gave all my Engineering books and notebooks (with every single problem in the book beautifully solved; the best reference he could have used) to my JW nephew. That's gold for any Engineering student. Guess what they did with them. Yep, thrown away because of since the books came from the homosexual apostate of an uncle.
I have heard countless stupid stories about JWs doing all kinds of disregard for things that they don't know (or make up) their origin.
No matter what it is or what kind of explanation they give you. It's always nonsense.
for example, "and god said, let there be light: and there was light.
"a personal and vocal god said, "let there be light.
"so god saw the light, and thought it good, but how did the priestly scribe know that he did?
James Mixon, seems like you are only considering what people who believe in "Intelligent Design" (what a stretch!) and who are believes in the bible, consider, that is, what happened according to the bible God. However, as waton mention, and I'd like to add to, there's plenty of science that can trace a history of a lot of what happened (and formed) this wonderful planet we are in.
Remember that the bible was written at a time in humanity when humankind was the most naive about the world around it, so the explanations that they give are as good as the technology they had. Furthermore, for some reason people tend to forget that humans are as bad as they have been throughout their entire existence, hence, the same story tellers that we have today, we had back then.
The same way that we find people who tell stories, we did then.
i have to say that the talk was very good.
instead of just repeating a jw manual , the speaker actually spoke about my brother!
there were a few scriptures with the jw hope but 80 % of the talk was actually about the life of my brother.
First time I hear that they celebrate memorials for people other than Jesus. I'm glad that it was enjoyable. My condolences for the loss of your brother.
the changing of doctrine that cost brothers their lives or future happiness .
told flock to get no education .told sisters for one hundred years that having children wasn’t gods priority .
deaths resulted from no organ transplants and blood fractions.
The WT does not coerce anyone to anything, so no. The Wt does not commit that crime. Elders in congregations might do that, but there's absolutely no directive from the WT as an entity for elders to coerce people.
From a legal stand point they do not violate the law.
i surprised mom with flowers and cake ,candy etc.
she was so happy, i told her i was going to work.
and couldn't see her for mother's day, she said she was just staying home,as none of my non jw bro's or sisters were taking her out for dinner.
Please use the Enter key!
the fake news is working overtime.
just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the network news about me is negative (fake).
why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt?
And here are the rightist mentality and the Conservative Christian mentality.
When Rightists and Christians start to 'lose the game' they ...
1. moan and whine about how unfair the game's rules are
2. knock over the game's pieces
3. shit all over the game's board
4. declare victory
LoveUniHateExams, your point is...
for what it's worth:.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i am one of 7 children in my family, three boys, three girls and me.
yes, i'm right in the middle, and i'm the pink sheep of the family (or at least the official one).
Thank you all for your kind words.
@truth_b_known:
I wish I could have seen you do the chicken dance during the meeting.
I got my ears pulled a lot, and beaten a few times. I was also yelled at, humiliated and insulted on a regular basis in front of everybody in the KH. It was all worth it. It was fun, I was going to get (at least) yelled at, anyway.
@stan livedeath:
interesting you have been out 30 years--like me. i wonder why we still hang out on here ?
As far as I know this forum doesn't have a membership expiration date. Why do I still hang out here? Because I want to. No deep reason. Why do you ask?
@humbled
How you could assess the bullshit of the religion at such a young age really amazes me. I never questioned my world until much much later.
Thanks for your words. I'm not sure that as a child I even knew the word "assess", but I do remember noticing all the oddities that never made sense to me. I didn't have the capacity to articulate it as such, but I remember people's ridiculous stories, some of which were illogical to a 8 year-old.
this perfectly encapsulates the behaviour and opinions of the left and dave rubin nails it - "you're not oppressed, you're entitled".. lots of of shouting and claims of being denied rights to speak but nothing really to say when given a mic, just endless shouting and baseless confused claims about 'free speech'.
hey, some blm bitches try and get in on it too because, why not.. constant "i have a question, i have a question ..." as though she isn't allowed to ask it when the reality is she really has nothing to say, she just wants to stop other people being able to talk.
what a stupid cunt.. sadly, the left is indoctrinating a generation to think that *this* is what political discourse and "taking a stand" is.
Lots of of shouting and claims of being denied rights to speak but nothing really to say when given a mic, just endless shouting and baseless confused claims about 'free speech'. Hey, some BLM bitches try and get in on it too because, why not.
Constant "I have a question, I have a question ..." as though she isn't allowed to ask it when the reality is she really has nothing to say, she just wants to stop other people being able to talk. What a stupid cunt.
What a load of crap. Right wing people are always bringing this nonsense to prove that there isn't such thing as inequality. Then again, that's what makes the the right wing.
