Someone told me that Glen Howe was almost disfellowshipped decades ago? Can anyone verify? Any details?
Wanna (inquiring minds want to know)
someone told me that glen howe was almost disfellowshipped decades ago?
can anyone verify?
any details?.
Someone told me that Glen Howe was almost disfellowshipped decades ago? Can anyone verify? Any details?
Wanna (inquiring minds want to know)
time to swallow the red pill.. right now both books remain unopened - sealed in the amazon.com box buried in a backpack in the trunk of my car.
i feel like i'm smuggling drugs or something.. i'll be starting coc tomorrow ... .
this is more of a vanity post than anything.
I feel like I'm smuggling drugs or something.
You will need some drugs after you finish reading those books.
You will go through the whole gammit of emotions.
Enjoy your reading. These books are great
Wanna
at this week's service meeting it a letter was read to all congregations in usa:
bethel wants lawyers, lawyers specializing in tax law, and cpa's.
if you are in any of these professions you were supposed to talk to the po that evening.
"Mother is hard to please. She doesn't want you to pursue higher education, but she wants you to be a lawyer .. She wants you to be illiterate and educated at the same time. Go figure that one out!!!!!!!!!
wanna
poor thing, she's had alzheimer's for about 10 years and the last year she's been on hospice care because she's been so close to death.
the past few months she's been slowly filling up with water -- they gave her lasix (not sure of the spelling) to relieve the edema and it worked, sort of.
last weekend she actually looked a little better.
Sorry for your loss Nina.
wanna
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i do: shunning df/da'ers and others i was told were "weak" or "bad association"telling on fellow dubs to the elderscalling the rc church and being hostile/rude while demanding they remove my name as a parishoneranything and everything i did in field service and informal witnessingintentionally having a distant relationship with my "unbelieving" dad and other relativestelling my relatives i was planning on going to bethel, which broke their hearts (of course i never went, because it was a lie--my mom made me say that sh-t)sitting during the pledge of allegiance/national anthem or during prayers when attending funerals/weddings in other churches (imo it's intentionally disrespectful--obnoxious--why make the point of being in the room and then disrupt--they should just leave the room if they can't be polite)being judgementalparticipating in the kh grapevineobeying my jw whack mother's rules and all the other jw rules, and tolerating mental abuse--i feel guilty for not displaying basic self respect.allowing my mother to continue spanking me until i was 18, again which showed lack of self-respect (lol, on my high school graduation day, she tried to punch me and i held her hands back, said, "you are never going to hit me again.
" younger sibs clapped!
I do feel bad for a lot of the same.
The worst for me is the sense of superiority I and my family displayed as loyal Jws. How we thought we were better than our "wordly" relatives. How condenscending I was towards them. Now I realize my relatives were the superior ones. They put up with all our crap and listenened and faithfully came to all the memorials and truly respected us. But I can't say the same for me.
I wish I could go back in time and undo all the damage that was caused.
Wanna
are you trying to fade or otherwise distance yourself from the org, but have a spouse that is a loyal jw?
on various posts i read about some that are staying in the org, or having a difficult time because their spouse doesn't understand the change.
i'll begin...my wife doesn't understand how i can turn my back on all the good things i've gotten from the org.
I was what your wife is today. I accused my husband for years of being an apostate and threatened to leave him if he left the org.
He tried for ten years to help me out. He didin't give up and I am so grateful because today I am mentally free from the borg.
We have not faded yet because of family. But that is our goal.
Be patient and don't give up it takes some longer than others for the rose colored glasses to come off.
wanna
Anticipating all year that the end of the world would come. I was 15
wanna
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hee hee hee hi i'm zach this is my frrst post
HELLO ZACK
i have a problem with this.
do they know what the right thing is?
this must mean that college is worse today than it was years ago, but is now okay to attend?
I believe that the FDS works for Jehovah and it is Jehovah?s sole prerogative to endorse and identify this entity.
I struggled with this for a long time.
After much study and meditation I no longer believe that the FDS works for God.
Each person had to decide for themselves.
I enjoyed your observations and I will save them for future references.
regards
Wanna
so here comes patdp very soon.
it's not as bad as ipalfatn i & ii, but still its based on the idea of 607 and 1914.. how have any of you ex or current book study overseers handled this problem.
i'd like not to conduct but thats not really an option.
Meanwhile, it's true I am focusing on my family - but little do they know that instead I am focusing on trying to help my wife see the falsehoods in the organization subtley, by just asking questions
NEVER give up doing this. Keep trying and trying. My hubby did the same thing for years until I finally saw it.
Hubby also has to conduct book studies. Usually if the material is too sticky he declines and pretends he is sick.
wanna