my understanding of the "big snooze" is that the essay maintains that jws have misrepresented quotes from secular sources.
is this message board not an obvious misrepresentation?
it claims to represent jehovahs witnesses (in its title)yet the vast majority of posters are anti jw and many have been expelled.
quango ,
I am sure you realized quite early on what this site was all about. Did the meetings not teach you to "make sure of all things".?
Also you went to all the trouble of getting here. I question your sincerity. Perhaps you are misrepresenting yourself.
Welcome anyways. But if you choose not to stay the back door is wide open for you.
wanna
just before i moved into my little apartment my scooter died.
it was an old scooter and the wires were so brittle that they kept shorting out.
when they tried to put a new motherborad into it the chair fried the new board.
wow Lee, you are such an inspiring woman to me. I am so happy for you and your new freedom! I wish I lived near you, I'd take you to the store every week for groceries
my sentiments exactly
love
wanna
i havent posted much lately becausewell just because.
in the past year i have tried .
to start my conversion from commercial art to fine art doing mostly nudes.
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wanna
I beleive he is and doesn't really know it yet.
wanna
i mean stuff that is right now, this minute on your table or desk, not something you might read someday?.
my desk is currently littered with;why won't they listen?
ken hamwhat the cults believe.
I have two on the go:
1. Getting unstuck by Dr. Joy Browne
2. Lord of the Flies by Willian Golding (Read this book in High school but wanted to read it again because I think there are quite a few similarities between the book the the serie LOST)
wanna
well i still go out in service.
so does my husband.
we decided that since we have to keep up with this facade we might as well have some fun .. so we go up to a door and pretend to push the doorbell.
But I was wondering that too. Hasn't any of the householders just seen you there and come out anyway?
If the householder come out then we will talk\
wanna
the influences on my life, education decisions, and baptism in 1971
(bold, highlighted added).
how many had a job because they have a degree?
PLEASE see the reality, WT, and stop destroying the future of yet another generation of innocent, well meaning young people.Well said!!!!
I feel your bitterness. I am also of that generation and know exactly what you are feeling. I didin't go to on to college or university. Neither did my husband and all my other friends in the congregation. The few that went were ostracized and critizied.
But I believe that WT will not win on this one. I know personally of at least 10 Jw of my generation that have children that will be going to college and university. I don't know if this is a local thing here. But it does not seem the flock is listening.
Thanks for that research, definite keeper
wanna
well i still go out in service.
so does my husband.
we decided that since we have to keep up with this facade we might as well have some fun .. so we go up to a door and pretend to push the doorbell.
Well I still go out in service. So does my husband. We decided that since we have to keep up with this facade we might as well have some fun .
So we go up to a door and pretend to push the doorbell. What we really do though is push the screw on the doorbell.
No one is the wiser. We have even pushed the screw with other jdubs right beside us.
At the end of service we measure our success by the number of screws we pushed.
We usually have a good laugh
wanna
i just returned home from the kingdom hall.
i am an elder.. after the meeting all the elders were called to the back room.
i thought this was an impromptu elders' meeting.
My father was an elder. Being an elder's kid stinks. Now as an adult, I would suggest that you spend that time with your family, resign the position and enjoy the kids while you can. If you have a book study in your house, have it moved too. That is murder on a wife too. Enjoy your family while they are young because they aren't young forever.
This is so true. Both my father and my father-in-law were elders when we were growing up. Now both realize how foolish it was to put family second to the congregation. Both have some deep regrets. But it's too late.
wanna
i just returned home from the kingdom hall.
i am an elder.. after the meeting all the elders were called to the back room.
i thought this was an impromptu elders' meeting.
No other organization expects their children to sit through hours of hell.
Children have such a short attention span and to expect them to sit still like adults for hours in my opinion is child abuse.
I have a suggestion, why don't you take them to the back as much as possible. What a nice excuse for you to get out of listening to the crap they spew at every meeting.
wanna
