well i'm sorry i've been absent, it's been a rough few weeks and still having to work....i ended up having a nice happy surprise by having the day off, so i'm finally going to get caught up on things.. .
april 1st was my 6 months of not reporting service time and i am officially inactive now.
i think my hubby and i are going to celebrate!
HAPPY OFFICIALLY INACTIVE DAY!!!
We want to thank the friend that had the courage to speak up and talk to us. It's also great that all 4 of us came out together! That feels even better. Even tho the rest of the family is still in and shunning us. At least we have each other and all of you.
Group hug!
gregg, we are deeply sorry for your loss.
you will be with us in our thoughts & prayers.
Gregg posted it on his Facebook page.
they keep pretending to be my friend, and then i get word that they actually hate me.
they have even slandered and said i not worthy to talk to.
then of course, there are the rumours... needless to say, i am pretty depressed..
I understand how you are feeling. My mother in law has called everyone we know and told them that we were talking against the organization and went apostate. Hubby didn't say anything except something he had found in a WATCHTOWER. Now everyone we know is shunning us and no one else has even bothered to ask us if its true or not.
So hang in there and find some real friends like we are doing that are not as judgemental.
Peace to you and a big hug
i have an aquaintance that likes to say, "once an a hole always an a hole".
i guess you could reason that whatever your religious views were, your core is you are who you are.. did your personality change for better or worse when you left the organization?.
Hubby & I have noticed a big difference. We're more tolerant of people in general. Non-JW's aren't evil and trying to make us sin, there are actually some really nice people out there and we're making some good friends that isn't based on conditional love. They don't care if we go to the meetings or not. Stress level has gone way down.
gregg, we are deeply sorry for your loss.
you will be with us in our thoughts & prayers.
For those of you just joining and do not what happened.
Gregg's ex-wife has passed away.
i haven't got much of a story.
i'm in my late teens, grew up in it, and got out of the society's regime by the skin of my teeth.
nearly go baptized because i firmly did believe it was the "truth" but because of a gut feeling that held me back, that i almost ignored, i didn't sign my blood to big brother.
Welcome! Glad to have you here on the forum with us.
gregg, we are deeply sorry for your loss.
you will be with us in our thoughts & prayers.
Gregg, We are deeply sorry for your loss. You will be with us in our thoughts & prayers
blondie i was reading where you posted information from 1952 onward on how we are to treat disfellowshiped members of our spiritual and physical family.
you posted information from the kms, wt and other sources.
i did a search and can't find it, one of the tidbits of information said that if a brother or sister has contact with the "disfellowshiped member" they should be disfellowshiped too.
Glad we could help. Wish you the best Aof A. It's not easy dealing with the mind set of this cult. If you need anything else let me know.
You can get the WT lib download on this site.... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/243812/1/Watchtower-Library-2012-download
remember a while back when the wtbts wanted more money to bring home missionaries?
i have been looking for that thread to no avail.
anyway, each and every kh that adopted that resolution is contributing a good deal of money to the wtbt$ based on the amount of publishers.
http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-cvtop52369349sep17.story?coll=ny%2Dbusiness%2Dprint
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York
25 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 11201
718-560-5000
www.jw-media.org
Revenue: $951 million
Industry: Publishing
President: Milton Henshel
Employees: 3,415
It takes a lot of printing to supply more than 6 million Jehovah's Witnesses with the materials for their ministry. One publication, Watchtower, now has an average print run of 23 million copies twice per month, an increase of 7.5 percent over last year.
"Our report for the year is different from a Wall Street company," said vice president George Couch. Indeed, the company's employees are volunteers who live and work in the Brooklyn complex.
since today is celebrated by christians all over the world as easter sunday.... here is sort of a puzzle to solve--if you are interested in things such as this.. .
we begin with luke 24:46. we have a claim being made about a prophecy.. speaking to his disciples on the night of his alleged resurrection, he said, "thus it is written and thus it was necessary for the christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day.
" that the resurrection of christ on the third day was prophesied in the scriptures was claimed also by the apostle paul in 1 corinthians 15:3-4: "for i delivered to you first of all that which i also received: that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Unless those scriptures are in what they call the 'Lost/rejected texts of the bible' ????
