it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.
it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.
hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.
"Bring the narrative to an end somehow, JO. You seem to be acting out a script that gives you the kicks, but your stories are getting a bit boring.
pc"
Don't read them then. You can just not click on a topic started by me if you don't want to be bored.
i listened (as much as one does listen to this ****), this is the only point that i call recall from the assembly.. .
opening announcement: brothers, your attention please.... .
song: show honor to our brothers.... .
I never thought of myself as a less-than, but I was a convert raised by parents who respect and value women. A lot of the born-ins, I noticed, had that mentality, though I never hung with that type.
It used to annoy me that I couldn't do more in the congregation because I wasn't born with a dick. Door to door ministry? No way. I'd've been better doing other things, but I didn't have a dick.
just wanna know.
i'm doing the fade but i reckon my big mouth could get me dfd.
i know plenty who've been dfd for fornication/adultery, but never met one dfd for speaking the truth.
So, SD-7, is your wife still with you? Did she really love you, or your religion?
judicial committee, round 2. i have to give it to the elders on this one.
they fought well, albeit with unrefined technique.
pure strength of authority apparently seems to make up for a lack of sufficient evidence, just as the 300-pound fellow who believed you were checking out his girlfriend can beat the tar out of you even though you were merely looking at the clock behind her on the wall.
Mad!!! You are brave.
how did you explain it to them?
how did they react?
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I never explained it because I thought it was crud. I went to uni and told others to do the same if they wanted!!
it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.
it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.
hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.
Thanks everyone! You all tell me I handled it well, and to tell you the truth, I've had so much coaching from you all on JWN that I have you to thank. I've not made the mistake of revealing too much after I first questioned an elder about the pedophile/1874 thing a few months ago, thinking he would actually see the evidence.
My husband's the kind of guy who never imputes a bad motive to anyone, and so he sees the CO coming (after all, the CO said he wanted to speak to both of us) and elders calling him and turning up at the door as 'love'. "They're just being nice, honey, I just don't see it the way you do." He's very non-confrontational my husband, a truly generous, honest Christian guy. He's great! But gullible. Naive too, even though he's 10 years older than me.
He's blindsided by the fact the JWs helped him get off drugs and brought stability to his life, and he's grateful to them because that's how he met me. I'm grateful to them for that too. He respects my decisions though and reckons I'm not barking up the wrong tree.
I go easy on him with TTATT because like SkyGreen, I don't want to push him away!
Gonna start cleaning out my FB list now. I've also created a separate, 'apostate' account under my JWN username so I can truly be me...
lotsa love to you all,
JO
just wanna know.
i'm doing the fade but i reckon my big mouth could get me dfd.
i know plenty who've been dfd for fornication/adultery, but never met one dfd for speaking the truth.
Just got this message from someone who I was pretty close with:
Sorry Julia. It isn't me that has spoken to the elders but your comments especially "embracing christian diversity" is verging on apostasy. You have always acted like you think you are smarter than anyone else (higher learning/philosphy) and that you know better than Jehovah on how things should be (eg chaperones). The council the elders are trying to give you is to readjust your thinking but your comments here show you are not being humble at all. Jesus said there is only one road to life NOT "Christian Diversity. That is Satanic thinking.... I'm sorry my friend, I can no longer tolerate your comments and posts. After you acknowledge this (if you would be so kind) I plan to defriend you. You have to get your thinking in line with the Faithful and Discreet slave and stop looking for flaws in Jehovahs organisation.I sincerely hope you do.
I replied saying I'm sorry she felt that way, and that I didn't expect her to be so intolerant, and my true friends love me for me, not for what I do or don't believe.. This lady doesn't even know whether her dfd son is alive. We are no longer friends.
Not dfd yet, but I must be more discreet on FB or I will be, even though this poster was responding to nothing much...I used the expression Christian diversity in a comment, and said once I thought df-ing was mean.
it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.
it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.
hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.
I don't actually post much on Facebook except Lolcats and lately, barmy WT excerpts on which I don't comment. What really started it was I 'liked' Steve Hassan's FB page, and someone got offended and ran to the elders.
You know how easily JWs get offended. The only thing that doesn't offend them is...gosh, I've yet to find it...
it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.
it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.
hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.
I'd safely bet my ass. We both of us knew a lot more than what we were letting on :) I'm proud to say I didn't take the bait.
back when we were still active in the cong.
we became friends with a young couple with 2 small kids.
they were newly baptized and wanting a better future for their kids.
And these are the ones who write the magazines which tell us how to live our lives. Is it any wonder JWs are messed up after years of hearing that rubbish?
I remember when my little niece was born to non-JW parents and I'd pray earnestly, begging Jehovah not to destroy her because how could he destroy an innocent little baby? I never thought about what Armageddon would mean for the little children until my niece was born. I'm so relieved to learn TTATT because now I live with the knowledge that my niece will grow up and we can be friends for the rest of my life.
This religion is so heartless.
