i've been doing some research about famous witnesses.
some were raised and eventually left, while others came in as adults.
they range from sports players, musicians, and entertainers.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena
Selena was raised a jw? You do know there is a movie out about her life starring Jennifer Lopez. That movie helped JLO blow up onto the scene. Selena's death is still mourned today in the Latino community in the US. Her cumbia songs are my favorite!
my husband and i were both born ins.
i left in 2009, and he followed me out a bit later.
we were one of those couples who followed the script, married young and ended up having nothing in common other than the religion.
Marital counseling! Therapy! Please try that first before heading to a divorce. I wanted to go to counseling, my husband at the time refused after just visits. What can be done in 4 sessions? Nothing! There were so many things that I wanted to say that were left unsaid. I truly still believe we would have been able to resolve our issues if we could look together in the same mirror and acknowledge each other's needs wholeheartedly. That requires honesty and strength. I was ready to go through the long haul. He wanted things to stay the same. Coupled with the mess of jw-dom, it was truly a recipe for disaster. Utter BS is what I went through in the end, even now, really, if I sit down to think about it.
Anyways, if the both of you can commit to counseling/therapy, then there still might be hope. It doesn't sound like you're reaching out for hope. But wow, I sure was those last 2 years. Try? I'm not saying you're not... but try? again?
Best to you! It's hard breaking free from a difficult marriage. Reinvention is NO joke. Check out KateWild's posts and mine too. It might help you to see if you really want to be on that ride.
Good luck!
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i do suffer from bipolar and social anxiety, so sometimes i do withdraw into myself.. what do you think?
am i just being weird??.
Go when you want to go, as many modern day Catholics do. Usually it's all about the holiday Mass-- Christmas and Easter. I'm thinking of attending just those two Masses so that I can feel a bit of that special awe and wonder surrounding those days. I miss that. Plus, I'd like for my girls to experience something different besides the KH. No pressure, tho. If they don't even want to go, they don't have to. :-) Church is what you make of it.
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pdf: http://bayfiles.net/file/1kv2k/uaqn2y/w_e20141215.pdf.
A series of bs-- Why did you post these?
i saw an online post with pictures of all the witnessing carts all around the 9/11 site during the anniversary of the tragedy.... im appalled at how opportunistic they are, and how they prey on people in a mourning and vulnerable state!.
apparantly they boast of: "there are 65 carts, with 200 witnesses manning the area... and so far 15 new studies started!".
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It is shameful. When is it that they introduce this teaching (resurrection then destruction when Satan is released ) anyway? When you're in or when you're studying? Such dumb doctrine- - a veryvindictive god if there ever was one. I'd rather worship the Sun.
idk if waking up has been good for me.
i still have almost no friends.
im still waiting to graduate this december to qualify n b certified for my job.
Wow
The insight here is amazing... I'm going to read these over and over tonight.
Thank you
please read this short article and then think for a minute on how this apply to those amongst the jehovah's witnessses who enforce organizational policies that harm people (such as shunning, for example, but there are others, such as blood, rejection of higher education etc), and those who blindly comply with such pratices - both of them otherwise "nice, good people" in every other regards, and who apparently don't see anything wrong in doing something harmful, even evil, to their brethren.. what is this?
the "banality of evil", or, instead, because there's such a strong identification with a cause, people just accept they are doing the right thing simply because the authority that is regarded as legitimatly representing such cause has instructed them to do so?.
interesting thought - and this question too: if one ceases to see such "authority" as the legitimate agent of the cause, will that simple change cause the blind to finally become aware of the evil they've been enforcing / complying to?.
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idk if waking up has been good for me.
i still have almost no friends.
im still waiting to graduate this december to qualify n b certified for my job.
Idk if waking up has been good for me. I still have almost no friends. im still waiting to graduate this December to qualify n b certified for my job. I get treated horribly by my ex, and the stress is a killer. Life is super complicated. Before, my family was intact. But I couldn't handle not being me anymore and I behaved in ways I never imagined I would. I feel tremendous guilt and insecurity. Sometimes I wish I didn't struggle with the 'Truth'. Sometimes I wish I could've fit te mold. But I never fit in. And I never felt good enough. I doubted myself so much. I tried really hard. And I'm still paying the consequences of failing at being a Witness.
.. this song was just sent to me... it`s funny!...
.. "i don't look good naked anymore" .....the snake oil willie band.
click the link below:.
Age appropriate sex at 40?! What is that supposed to mean?! Im only a few years younger than you Outlaw. Don't tell me you've settled for 'age appropriate sex' so young!
obliette posted a thread about gb worship in the july 15 issue which got me thinking-.
in other smaller books which i have only seen skimmed quickly (i think the yearbooks (?
)) they often have articles about various jw's and their struggles and now the articles about the gb members and so on, my question is; why don't they see these articles as giving too much honor to one individual as they do with birthdays?.
Just Kidding-- that was rude!
I getthe OP's point-- they are drawing undue attention onto these individuals, the way that the Society says birthday do.
