these days my jw past stay safely under wraps from nearly everyone.. i dont dig it up- and i see no need to talk about it with anyone.. sometimes i feel as if my past is a large and terrible secret, and i will be found out eventually.
people can sense i am different.
i never talk about my family.. i guess people chalk it up to being a private person or let me be a mystery.. however, there is one thing that i feel completely reveals me as having been raised a jehovahs witness:.
I still can't wrap gifts.
Finally said bless you this morning when granddaughter sneezed
Still have a hard time with flag salute I guess to deeply ingrained in brain
But I can stand for national anthem
Recently called JW a cult too exercise buddies when home schooling was brought up Most are former higj school teachers who expressed having JW kids that would't go on to college.
did you generally have good experiences with the elders ?
we're any situations especially memorable???
pro or con.....
My take on Elders. THe servants in charge that I knew personally in 50s and 60s seemed overall like normal kind men. In the 70s and 80s when the Elder arrangement started a power trip for those I knew. We still had some who were kind and understanding but I personally saw the hardnose a$$holes push the kind ones aside and push their nastiness. 90s till 2014 I stay far away as humanly possible from elders.
Welcome Riks sounds if you have kind loving parents
friends,.
sunday my father, a strong believing witness, former elder and still a ms, collapses at home after the new light watchtower study.. the cause was extreme stress.
i asked him about his worries.
feeling bad for your Dad i'm concerned about the older ones in the congregations because they sacrificed their lives without the reward.
the circuit overseer ranted on and on today about how parents aren't policing the internet at home good enough.
i guess the kids and teens are on line too much unsupervised and getting into trouble..
Kids these days are taught to research on the internet for their classes. I think they will wake up quicker than our older "overlapping generations' has. Information is esy to find now plus critical thinking is encouraged in school.
i havent read any posts from gojira, newly enlightened, and brother of hawk.
i hope they are well just know they have been unusually quiet..
I also noticed Billy has been quiet. if any of you read this know we are thinking of you.
i havent read any posts from gojira, newly enlightened, and brother of hawk.
i hope they are well just know they have been unusually quiet..
I havent read any posts from Gojira, Newly Enlightened, and Brother of Hawk. I hope they are well just know they have been unusually quiet.
http://jehovahstrumpet.com.
i read the cat baptisim article and i doubled over laughing.
one time when i was a kid i asked why my kitty couldn't go to the kh with us and my mom told me that animals were perfect and didn't need to go to the kh.. .
I found it earlier today and I so enjoyed it. Enjoyed it so much my tablet froze.
i was thinking today about my childhood.
i knew from a young age that the proper response to a question about what i wanted to be when i grew up was pioneering, missionary, bethel, or c.o.
i was taught from childhood not to want to be a fireman or astronaut.
Yes, my dream of being a teacher, I knew I wanted to teach from 3rd grade on. Now I am 65 I have been told over the last 45 years it was my choice, not the way I or my friends remember. 45 years ago it became harder to go to college as I had my first child and didn't no how to start back to school. I always encouraged my kids to get their education. One has an associate and the other has her Masters.
here's the scene, you're out for a walk with a jw, and somehow discussion turns to religion.. the jw says: 'i know jws have the truth because we don't go to war, members of other churches will kill each other if their government asks them to, but the bible says 'do not kill' and we follow that.'.
how do you respond?.
True but look at JW tragedies and many JW have murdered their own families. Also there are religions in this world that are pacifists also. Quackers, Amish to name two.
