some of you are aware of where i'm at with this whole thing.
i still occasionally go to meetings for family reasons but my attendance has been lack luster at best.
i'd say i go about once a month if that.. i empathize with those who are wary of taking the ultimate stand for fear of losing their family.
Im curious to see what my reaction would be if I returned. My last few meetings and finally the DC I was so disgusted with the entire thing I could barely keep my thoughts under wrap. It'd be interesting to experience the shunning again. I haven't cared for so long about it.
Btw, Billy the Kid you sound just like RottenRiley who also just recently joined! Siblings or same person?
Someone who.was preached to probably put it there. Doubt a Jdub did that.
i haven't been to a meeting in over a year, and as you know as soon as you stop attending meetings/fieldservice the "conditional" love becomes more apperant.
the coordinating elder starts off by saying how much he loves and misses me, etc.
i ask him, when was the last time you called or texted me?
Great story! I can definitely relate to the lack of love evident in the body of elders.
i'm sure topics like this have already come up but they tend to get hilarious with the absolute absurdity that goes on in the kh.
i was once counseled for not shaving after two days.
i was also counseled by a sister for eating lucky charms cereal.
Wait... was your bil talking about his own sister?!
yes, it time to gather and 'keep doing this in remembrance of me.
1 cor.
11:24 .. come all to our best memorial ever!
Tempted to go just to partake, but honestly I can partake in peace at home and that would be way better.
yes, it time to gather and 'keep doing this in remembrance of me.
1 cor.
11:24 .. come all to our best memorial ever!
I used to.like going to the Memorial. Short meeting. And dinner with friends afterwards :-)
so, normally if i go to a meeting i sit and don't say a word through the entire ordeal.
however today i just could not keep my big mouth shut.. it was funny that i even got called on....three times none-the-less.
of course 99% of the sheeple just sat with blank looks on their mugs this morning.
High fives to you!
i recently got an unsolicited lecture from a well-intentioned but nevertheless misguided jw friend.
the gist of it was that i needed to go to all the meetings or i would miss out on "everlasting life.".
i responded that i do not need to go to meetings to have a relationship with god.
Thank you!
.. .. .. .
will become whatever the wtbts needs them to become.. .. once upon a time they said this:.
1943 the watchtower, april 15, page 124.
Dis-member... maybe you have to teach dubs how to care first? Perhaps that's the first step in thinking for oneself. Caring about your heart, mind, life, family, friends. I think one skill WTBTS teaches so well is complacency. You just learn how to sit there and swallow BS. complacency eventually leads to abandonment of self. Forget about feeling alone. When you're a jw, you learn that nothing matters, not even oneself. Everything is of, for, about Jehovah. How could it matter what I think or feel if I am just a speck of dust on the rim of a bucket? (I'm thinking of that text in Isaiah.)
So really, Dismember, what did you expect they were going to do with that information? Those that leave jws behind entirely by waking up to TTATT are those who saw sparkle of light or tasted a morsel of life... freedom to be.
will the wts be issuing one (or has issued onne already?
) or will the www.jw.org online library be the future?.
There will always be people who posess the original. They will not be lost. WTBTS can hope and pray for that day when the past they created iscompletely erased, but it will not come.
