some of you may know my situation.
i'm still going to meetings, but i am a closet apostate and homosexual i. only keep going to meetings to please my family and some friends.
i guess i could tell my mom i no longer want to be a jehovah's witness and stop going to meetings, but i'm too scared to do it.
Trapped: I very afraid to leave because of what I'll lose
Yes, but think of what you'll gain: your own life. That should give you courage. I'm not saying what you have to do will be easy, because it won't be, but it will be the right thing for you to do. It's actually heroic.
every year on a certain thursday in november my family and close witness friends would get together, eat menudo ( hispanic stew) and other foods, watch football and then get dressed to go to the meeting.. sister so and so would bring her famous pie, bro and sister so and so would bring their gross punch and bro and sis so and so would bring mexican sweet bread.
sometimes we would go to "worldy" aunt's and pick up plates of turkey and fixins.. this was every year on a certain date, on a certain thursday in november.. this continued until my mom got alzheimers.
by that time i was married and had my own house.
I'll be eating lots and lots of turkey next Thursday. This will of course make my pants very tight.
As I watch football, I'll be wearing brightly colored socks to keep my feet warm.
honestly, do you??
and if you do, isn't that hypocritical!.
No, but I've started saying, "God dammit!" and "Jesus-fucking-Christ!"
Does that count?
Hortensia, how funny, I was typing my post before you submitted mine! ... great minds ...
And, "No!" I am most emphatically NOT a hypocrite.
it's been 12 years since i first read ray franz's books and the scales came off my eyes.
by that time i was in my forties.. since 2002 i went back to school and have worked with 3 very professional organizations.
but my biological clock is ticking away and while my peers are looking forward to retirement, i am only beginning.
Amen Billy, pass the brunchables!
this is a rumor i heard back in november, it comes to me third or fourth-hand.
feel free to poke holes.
i have many doubts about this myself.
Thanks to M.A.S.H. for posting this:
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2000242
What Others Say About Jehovah’s Witnesses:
“While other churches hire consultants to lure people into the pews or grapple with modern-day issues such as homosexuality and abortion, the Witnesses make no concessions to a changing world. They still systematically canvass the Earth.”—TheOrangeCountyRegister of Orange County, California, U.S.A.
This is abundantly clear from "Tight Pants" Tony's recent rant about tight suits, colored sox and women's workout clothes. There's no way any consuling agency would have let him give that completely homo-phobic talk.
I've had dyed-in-the-wool, Yes, I'll drink Kool-aid, thank you, JWs tell me they thought his talk was "over-the-top," "just his opinion," "very bizarre," "what was he thinking?" and other epithets that show that even fully indoctrinated JWs think that loser has gone off-the-rails.
forget the apple pie and just grab this booklet!.
2008 child custody booklet.. .. click the link by that little blue arrow.. .. https://www.sendspace.com/file/xvdh8l.
.. this booklet should be shared with every attorney you can find.
I could have used this a few years ago when I was divorcing my toxic, born-in, still-in and probably gonna' die-in 'cuz Armageddon's never gonna' come, ex-wife!
She successfully poisoned the minds of both of our kids.
Maybe this'll help someone just leaving.
part 1. .
she was suspecting me that i'm no longer interested in the borg, and she was trying to get a confession.
this is how our conversation went out.
she: How do you feel about the truth, XXXX?
Me: I love the truth. That's why I don't go to the Kingdom Hall. There's very little truth there!
i want to retire.
i'm quite a ways off from the age to collect social security and all.
i don't hate working--i actually like it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/11/19/convicted-sex-offenders-jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-first-amendment/.
convicted sex offenders, jehovahas witnesses, and the first amendment.
comments 16 by david post november 19. beginning in the 1930s, shortly after the supreme court had aincorporateda the first amendment into the due process clause (thereby making it an enforceable constraint not only on the federal government ["congress shall make no law .
This is a weird editorial.
As much as I think the religion of JWs is a cult, it is true that they have fought for and won some important rights in the area of freedom of religion and free speech.
It's still a cult!
On the other hand, I think that a convicted criminal has to accept the fact that they have lost certain of their rights. Them's the consequences.
The right for public safety is greater then personal freedom in respects to known felons, particularly in reference to pedophiles.
i need to explain this to someone later and need a concice way of putting it.
f you had to give a "in a nutshell" definition of ttatt, what would you say or what main points would you use to define it ?.
( thanks in advance for your help ).
My Definition of TTATT: Realizing that the WTBTS are not what they pretend to be. It is an organization run my hypocrites and liars that only want your money and your blind obedience. God ain't got nothin' to do with it.
There are a lot of other details, but they all support my thesis.
Let's review: It's a cult!
