i regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?
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We don't normally watch current TV and are cable free. My teen and I love The Mentalist. I enjoy how he rationally and kindly debunks superstitions :)
We also have the full seasons of Gilmore Girls and Friends.
I'm almost caught up on Mad Men (love)!
my first year after more than 20 years.... it seems strange.
happy fellings but at the same times feeling some loniness.. is your first one as well?.
veterans: how do you feel after some many years?.
It was our first to miss. My teen is relieved I woke up.
I walk/jog this bridge and route near where 5 or 6 congregations meet for the Memorial. I completely forgot about this until I parked and met my nonJW friend. She knows the whole story of me waking up and understood my trepidation. I did end up seeing a few JW's I knew, from a block away. It was ending and already dark, so they didn't seem to notice us.
When I got back home, I checked out Facebook and saw the posts of different "friends" about their memorial and how it could be the last. It's disappointing to see how heavy the delusion is, but I can't dwell on it. Life goes on. Carpe Diem is my motto.
after knowing ttatt for many years now...i had made up my mind long ago that after 2014, i would no-longer subject myself to the boredom, pain, and frustration of following this cult...the wt...the borg.. so...i made up my mind that since the wtbts/gb makes such a big deal as to the "significance" of the year 1914 and this year 2014, there can be no greater time for me to leave it all behind.
i daydreamed of how awesome and telling it would be if everyone that could ( because i do know that some have personal circumstances of their own, as i did too) would just .... walkout...never to attend/step foot in a kingdom hall from that moment on.. independence day of sorts?
there is too much evidence, too many videos, blogs, books, news reports and lawsuits for me to keep lying to myself.
Good for you. I hope your plan works out the way you intend. Once I learned TTATT, I had an exceptionally hard time even making it through an entire meeting. I did a fast fade and told my teen I wanted us to attend the memorial last year and then she didn't have to go again. She was thrilled.
This plan worked for us as all of our family lives out of state. Having a set date helps many people and also keeps you sane as you know there is an exit plan.
We run into witnesses often as we were part of several different congregations. They each act friendly and polite, without asking where we've been lately, which is actually strange to me, as I prefer not having fake relationships. Other than two texts and one phone message (after a year of not attending) just looking for our time, we've been left alone. I hope you have a similar experience.
ever since reading about dmt and hearing people discuss it, my new post-jw open mind wants to experience it.
anyone here tried it or feels the same?.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciqzhzax4ro.
Phil Drolet, of The Feel Good Lifestyle, just posted about his experience with this. He's on Facebook, if you care to check him out.
Honestly, I miss the entertaining I did and knowing that no one would be smoking or cursing around my child.
was just wondering how many gay exjw's were on this site, and how did you deal with being in this organization?
and also, how did you end up leaving?.
I echo exactly what LisaRose said.
i was wondering if he is still in the organization.
part of me thinks he is out by now.
you can pm me if you know him.
Ummm, there are plenty of non feminine gay men.
anyone who has awakened to ttatt and conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent individual from a prominent multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.
by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dimissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".
nothing blasts a louder, clearer, and more deliberate message to the jws who personally knew you and those familiar with your jw bona fides that you are not merely "not making the meetings" or "spiritually-weak" but that there is a conscientious reason you have rejected the entire watchtower society life than choosing to forego what they know you know to be their one-and-only holy and sacred event of the year, the lord's evening meal.
So true. That is why we aren't going for the first time this year :)
i am setting up a podcast (radio show) where we will cover the issues of jw's, amongst the topics of science, belief and more.. i am letting you guys know because i would like to interact with the forum as we do them, looking for suggestions for topics, looking for guest ideas and also we can mask voies and change names, so interviewing current jw's to help provide people a voice, an outlet for their frustration whilst providing a safety net.
there is no hierarchy, but current elders, bethelites etc that contribute here already will be more than welcome and protected!.
the podcast will be pro science, i will have both atheist and theist co-presenters in the episodes but i can't deny my bias towards evidence and science, but hopefully it should be enjoyable and informative for us all.. i plan for it to be about 2hrs long, maybe an episode a month or every 2 or 3 weeks.
What about covering Other science related issues? For example, GMO's and vaccinations?
I am noticing an increase in people I personally know, not vaccinating their children. I also notice quite a few former JW's that I grew up with posting on Facebook articles against vaccination. Although my daughter is already 16 and received all typical vaccines, except the recent HPV, I'm interestedin this issue and all the misinformation that seems to spread.
a magician, a con man, a spirit medium.... will have more power over you with a single hit, than without.
what i mean by a 'hit' is, if they convince you of something or amaze you just once intially, they can use that to hold a power over you for quite some time.. if a spirit medium was to point at you and say the name of the person you were hoping to 'talk to' on the other side, it would likely overwhelm you.
tarot card readers will describe your exact personality and thinking process.
You're so right. I can only stand the embarrassment for a moment at how I lived a portion of my life and then I move on, to
more constructive behavior for myself.
Have you seen the show "The Mentalist"? I'm not much of a TV watcher, but my daughter loves this show. I came to appreciate the main character and how he debunks superstitions.
