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looks like a great story but i have a toddler climbing on me so havent read it all. at first glance, your childhood self sounds exactly like me "all in"
Best wishes to you
Love Sky x
here's where i am coming from.
i have spent over 45 years in religion.
i was deep into it, as a jw.
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looks like a great story but i have a toddler climbing on me so havent read it all. at first glance, your childhood self sounds exactly like me "all in"
Best wishes to you
Love Sky x
actually forgot about it.
could someone post a link to the thread with the outline?
just in case my mother asks...
I asked my husband,
he said, it was about death, nothing new.
so no great revelations or new light.
meh.
chocolate! pfffft! BOURBON!!
no, there's no jc scheduled for me, though i've heard from a friend on the boe that the inquisitor is about to get inquisited himself.
you will see who i mean in this thread: .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/246766/1/julias-inquisition-two-elders-the-full-version-i-want-you-all-to-see-this.
thinking of you
sounds like you're just going to have to say please leave me be Im not up to any shepherding visits. Stop going in service altogether and meetings. Cite discouragement and stress as a reason if you must.
Dont push your husband to fade with you... if he's like mine, it will backfire. and we all know how that can turn out.
Will be looking out for your post! xx
i'm really struggling with it.
i've been learning the ttatt for the past 6 months now and i've been inadvertantly fading - either one of us or the children have had coughs/colds/flu/chicken pox/stress over the past 3 months which has meant we've missed a lot of meetings and field service with good reason.
we've only been out in service twice this year, so far no ones mentioned it to us but i'm waiting for our group overseer to bring it up anytime soon.
breathe in, breathe out..
be careful what you share with your husband or despite your trust in him keeping private conversations private, you may find his WT trained conscience gets the better of him... thats whats happened with me.
I am kind of relieved, kind of sad. I have gone from fading to faDED in under 24 hours. Not going to ANY meetings now, because Im avoiding any awkward conversations.
edited to add - just reread your post, sounds like your hubby is even less of a real dub than mine... i reckon if you keep fading, he'll follow you. No need to mention anything yet. Let him bring it up.
ive sent you all pms
pms... *snicker*
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no, there's no jc scheduled for me, though i've heard from a friend on the boe that the inquisitor is about to get inquisited himself.
you will see who i mean in this thread: .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/246766/1/julias-inquisition-two-elders-the-full-version-i-want-you-all-to-see-this.
Glad you have your Mum on the outside! Aw now you can do mothers day brunch together!
so i've been pondering that there must be quite a few active jws out there who are conscious/awakened/lurking, but it's so risky to ask questions to find out they are.
i'm sure this isn't anywhere in the watchtower, but i've read that early christians had the secret symbol of the fish to help identify friends, i.e.
drawing a fish in the sand would secretly identify someone as being a christian.
lol - somehow i think the "warrior wizard" pin idea would out us all in a flash...
"mental wondering in the wilderness"... uh oh.... it's a long post from snakes.... lol.
yep... i think that is the best way to describe where i am at in life right now.
if you have read my past posts (mostly in the private section) you know some of my history as a life-long (now former) witness.. i have been away from the jw religion, for all intents and purposes, since dec. 06, though it was not until sept 07 that i stopped attending meetings.
Ditto rubadubdub... and LisaRose.