I've read your reply to Sarah. I'm so sorry about your experience.
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i've read your reply to sarah.
i'm so sorry about your experience.
I've read your reply to Sarah. I'm so sorry about your experience.
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i returned last sunday from las vegas, where i had been attending a convention for one of my suppliers.
it was a network marketing convention, so the people there were from all over the world.
one day i was walking back (about a mile) from the convention area at the hotel, to the elevators, when i heard a group say "well, we are all witnesses.
When I was studying, I asked about the Jacksons as well. The elder's daughter who studied with me and whoever was there with her, rolled their eyes and said, "Well, we don't consider them as witnesses."
after posting a reply to another thread i wondered if anyone can answer these questions??.
1. why are sisters not allowed to wear trousers?.
2. when sisters where a skirt why have they got to be below the knee?.
LOL@Mary
In fact I asked the same question (why the sisters have to wear skirs only?) before. The answer?
Because jws don't want to offend anyone who might get offended by seeing women wearing pants.
They are afraid of offending somebody with the sisters wearing pants, but think OK to keep the pedophiles within the org. What kind of logic is that?
i know the answer may depend on your religious views now, but how do you feel about the term "apostate".
if you are of an atheist / agnostic view since leaving the org, do you still feel a stigma attached to the word apostate or has the word completely lost it's significance.
if you have moved on to another religion, do you still believe in the concept of a 'true apostate' and would you therefore find the term offensive?
I think it's funny. I also learned some new words here in DB: Apostofest and Apostocrew.
Those words always make me smile.
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crazy151 working hard for the county!
this is what we do all day.
(wall of shame to the left) .
Just by looking at the pics, I won't say, "Don't work too hard."
ok...so my mom calls me up right?
...and i'm like "yeah...i'm half asleep...blah.....yeah...blah....sure...disfellowshiped??????
whatchu mean i got disfellowshiped???
LOL@SYN
I thought you were DF'd already. Then why were your parents shunning you at your uncle's funeral?
just read the posts about dissassociating.
wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are.. i myself had my meeting attendance drop about 1989. during this time, i found the truth about jws through books like those of raymond franz and never went back.
aside from my father trying to coax me back in, no other jw (elder or otherwise) has ever brought up the subject or hunted me down to make a decision.
I DA'd myself because I didn't want to be any part of the WTS. If I didn't DA, I was sure that I would get DF'd. And everyone, including those worldly people (my clients and associates) who have a link to any jw, would think that I had done something terribly wrong. I didn't and haven't commited any sin and still believe in God.
Now I can tell people why I DA'd. If I DF'd, I thought I might sound less credible. Oh, well, that was my decision - quit before they fire me. I didn't want them to manipulate my life ever again.
Yes, shunning exists. But who cares? As far as the jws, this whole world is Satan's any way. If they don't like it, let them go to the moon.
It's all up to you.
i am told by those stupid enough to be called my friends, that i think about death far too often for comfort.
this blemish on an otherwise perfect character is probably a gift of nationality as many of my comrades seem to spend whole days toasting seats in corner cafes, lethargically discussing the latest obituary and predicting the size and quality of the tombstone.
whenever i visit the mountainous village of my birth, it strikes me that i have seen these same people drinking campari in these same bars for almost four decades.
I haven't thought of the music for my funeral yet. But it certainly would not be Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.6 or even No.7. I think they are going to make people too excited.
i was laughing at the thread talking about the blue smurfs, how demonic they were.
:) it made me remember other stupid phobias the witnesses had, and how easy rumours were to spead around.
one for instance, was the false rumour about proctor and gamble, and how their business emblem/ picture/ whatever you call it was demonic, and how it was the sign of the devil, and to stay away from anything to do with that company.
Strange!
Years ago there was a brother who was a medical committee in my hall. He told me and others about their meeting with judges and doctors. He said the committee had a brother who had been working for Proctor and Gamble for over 20 years, and he told me how much the judges and the doctors were impressed and the jws were proud of that.
Sheesh, they didn't want anyone to get higher education, and now they are proud of the ones who achieved highly in the world.