last saturday, a former ministerial servant and pioneer committed suicide in the woodinville washington kingdom hall parking lot.
he was disfellowshipped several years ago, and according to the old sister that related the story to me today, he was depressed because no one would talk to him.
i don't know how i kept calm when she explained to me that "we couldn't talk to him...he was disfellowshipped.".
Sabine (River?)
You said, "He was disfellowshipped several years ago, and according to the old sister that related the story to me today,..."
And you said, "I am just in shock, I've been out of town and my son just related this story to me yesterday."
How did you hear about this suicide?
oh joy of joys!
thank god this last weekend is over.
what a complete waste of a good weather weekend.
thanks to an erstwhile cameraperson, we now know what a few of those evil apostates in the dallas area looked like as they gathered in the darkness for another demonic ritual at a local restaurant.
from right to left: nativenyr23 (diana) and hubby, some apostate hiding from the light, and neil.
ahah!
Mrs. Texsham and I had a great time, too. Everyone was very friendly. No one appeared to be demon possessed, and nothing moved on its own, although we discussed with NativeNY how to possibly push the envelope on this next Halloween. We are looking forward to the next time everyone wants to get together. Let's not wait too long before we do.
i really need to talk and try to get some things out.
i am one of the managers at a local fast food restaraunt.
we live in a quiet town and on friday night after one in the morning one of my employees and i went outside to take out the trash.
I would think that the authorities would be working very hard to apprehend these violent people, and with your descriptions, should have no trouble rounding them up.
as i read one letter from a judicial committee, which letter accused an individual of expressing violent thoughts about an unpunished.
child molester, i remembered 2 incidents where elders had revealed violent attack fantasies.. the po of my former congregation in wall, nj told me that he would like to "beat [a certain disfellowshipped wife of an elder] out .
of her chair" when she appeared at the kingdom hall.. .
PO'd PO Syndrome
i'm gonna go for the direct approach here.
it's kind of strange to identify yourself as an ex- anything, to define yourself using a former identity as a point of reference, one that is no longer.
in some cases you might use it to clarify your relationship, (i'm jane's ex-husband, or whatever) but again it gets weird.. i mean we don't think of ourselves as ex-kindergarteners or something do we?
I think it's important to emphasize the anti over the ex part.
i've seen it mentioned many times in many threads: "the society monitors jwd, don't post anything you don't want them to know etc.
i have even made that point myself in the past.. my question is this: does the wtbts monitor this discussion board?.
or have we all been propagating our own xjw urban myth?.
I do it for them. I just print off stuff and mail it to all the witnesses I know. And branch offices, bethel, etc.
the soundtrack of o brother, where art thou?.
lisa
Foxnews, what else?
pending tragedy for the wts and jws.
the heavy-handed tactics of the leaders of the watchtower society have begun to bear rotten fruit.
i suspect that it is just a matter of time before the need arises to coin some phrase to describe disfellowshipped or disassociated jehovah's witnesses who bomb conventions, shoot up kingdom halls or even attack bethel facilities.. leaders of the wts (and local elders) should stop and think about the lessons to be learned from columbine high school, the postal service (i.e.
You may be spot on nowaytess. Oops, I hope you didn't just GIVE them the idea!
pending tragedy for the wts and jws.
the heavy-handed tactics of the leaders of the watchtower society have begun to bear rotten fruit.
i suspect that it is just a matter of time before the need arises to coin some phrase to describe disfellowshipped or disassociated jehovah's witnesses who bomb conventions, shoot up kingdom halls or even attack bethel facilities.. leaders of the wts (and local elders) should stop and think about the lessons to be learned from columbine high school, the postal service (i.e.
nowa said,
"I feel the Dateline show will be the issue which Watchtower will use to justfy mass disfellowshipping in the Organization."
And then they can blame the people they df for all of the problems and call themselves a new, cleansed congregation.
