gma-tired2

Joined

• started 30 topics
• posted 744 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by gma-tired2

• 
  35

  I have just published my first book. ( consequences to follow )

  by sieborg in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i stopped going to the meetings last september and told them that i didn't want to be badgered.

  to be fair, they have not visited or called in nine months, apart from passing on their hello's to my wife and daughter who still attend.

  anyhoo, i have had a fair amount of time to do pretty much what i have wanted over the past 9 months and so i have just finished my book.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  Congratulations on writing you book. Kindle is great bought and downloaded your book, it is next on my reading list. Good Luck
• 
  8

  I've never posted a topic...but I wanted to share something I wrote today. I have been out for over 2 years

  by kjg132 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would have been couragous.

  if you hadn't pinned me down with fear.

  sorry to be so dramatic,.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  Nice
• 
  19

  How Does An EX-JW Go To Church For The Fun of The Experience?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you are on vacation and see a cute, pictureques, church and your fun and artistic side says, hey...let's go in...what's to be expected?

  i would think that it would be ok to just slip in for a few minutes and slip out again.

  geez...i don't want to listen.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  My JW friends was so afraid of going into a church that we had an old church, just for show not used, at a pioneer Village but we were told we couldnt go inside. We did not go inside, I guess we thought it would start Armegeddon. I think our brothers were so straight laced we were afraid of being df'd immediately.
• 
  19

  How Does An EX-JW Go To Church For The Fun of The Experience?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you are on vacation and see a cute, pictureques, church and your fun and artistic side says, hey...let's go in...what's to be expected?

  i would think that it would be ok to just slip in for a few minutes and slip out again.

  geez...i don't want to listen.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  Im with you no more organized religion. How did you get the nerve to go into a church, and then mention it to CO and his wife. I always was warned against stepping into a church for any reason.
• 
  4

  Blurred Lines Song

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know why but that song just gets me shaking my bom bom.

  i love it.

  i especially like the lines "okay now he was close, tried to domesticate you, but you're an animal, baby it's in your nature".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  LouBelle are you feeling better? I too love music that gets you moving.
• 
  82

  British zone visit from David Splane - a report from the special meeting in Glasgow

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well i went to a "special meeting" in the armadillo today where a 2 & 1/2 hour programme was relayed from london at 1pm.

  apparently the letters of invitation only went out a month or so ago and not all congregations were invited.

  there were 2,900 of us from around scotland.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  My sister in Northwest US just received a special invitation delivered to her personally, must be such a meeting coming to her area. She is acting so secretive it making some members of the family nervous wondering why the secretsy.

  We wonder because she has now started shunning members of the family that lives in the same home and encouraging mom to do the same.
• 
  33

  Prayer answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my van broke down before christmas.

  i could not even afford to have it "looked at", let alone repaired.

  so, i have been praying that god would somehow work this whole situation out.. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  Happy your brother helped you find a van. it was your brother to be thanked. we were taught to pray for things that were gods will, spiritual things. unless the van is to be used for service and meetings, I dont believe Jesus, or God answered your prayer.
• 
  8

  Check this out!!!

  by likeabird in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  we all know how the wt likes to go on about how the church would prevent the common person from reading the bible, wanting to keep everyone in the dark, well, they seem to have conveniently missed out a good part of history in the process.. .

  notice how what this book on the history of literacy campaigns says on church involvement in encouraging people to read the bible seems to have been completely overlooked in wt publications:.

  in the case of sweden, a church law of 1686 required children, farm hands, and maid servants to learn to read and see with their own eyes what god bids and commands in his word.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  the biggest shock to me when I started working was how many "worldly" ladies attended at least one night of bible study every week. I grew up thinking only JWs had bible studies.
• 
  70

  WT August 15, 2013 QFR - Sitting next to a disfellowshipped child at meetings

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 8 of the latest wt (insider version) has a whole page dedicated to the question whether it is appropriate to sit next to a disfellowshipped child at meetings.. not sure how to paste this in, but check jw.org.

  perhaps someone can do this for me.. horrible, no words really on how pharisee like their cult grip and control has become!.

  first of all, without any shame they are talking about disfellowshipped minors.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  Jehovah has made me SAD!! IF his followers are so easily stumbled by worrying who sits by who, who eats by who, who speaks to who, God has failed in his creations. I as a parent of children in their 40s would be so disappointed if my two grownup children had to ask me to make every decision for them I woukd know I had failed as a parent.
• 
  69

  What would it take for YOU to come back?

  by noonehome in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng /> </o:officedocumentsettings> </xml><!

  [endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:trackmoves> <w:trackformatting /> <w:punctuationkerning /> <w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing>18 pt</w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing> <w:drawinggridverticalspacing>18 pt</w:drawinggridverticalspacing> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery> <w:validateagainstschemas /> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:saveifxmlinvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:ignoremixedcontent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables /> <w:dontgrowautofit /> <w:dontautofitconstrainedtables /> <w:dontvertalignintxbx /> </w:compatibility> </w:worddocument> </xml><!

  [endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="276"> </w:latentstyles> </xml><!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  gma-tired2

  cant imagine going back for any reason. Return of Parakeet I feel that my family and husbands family are beibg held hostage.