You'd think the Holy Spirit would have flayed me alive as it ripped in sparking rivulets from the fingertips of the brothers who spoke with me, but no. Whew! Was I relieved!
ROFL
That was great.
a few years back a 'sister' in our hall was df'd for marrying a disfellowshipped man.
they were both free to remarry 'scripturally' - in their late-middle years of life.
i asked one of the local pharrasies why?
You'd think the Holy Spirit would have flayed me alive as it ripped in sparking rivulets from the fingertips of the brothers who spoke with me, but no. Whew! Was I relieved!
ROFL
That was great.
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do any of you have the matrix wish i could just forget all this attitude sometimes?
me and the wife were fightitng again and she asked why i can't just go back and pretend or just forget all this... she said as an athnostic you either don't belive in god or don't believe that god cares so why can't you just go and fake it... i was dumbfounded i ask her why can't you just get the f*ck out and stop faking it... she stormed out and i sat down here..... so i ask ya, if you could forget all the negatives about the wbts (i know thats a lot) and just go back like nothing had ever happened would you?
Wow......and just how long would it be acceptable to her for you to fake it until it's OK to her for you to stop....the rest of your freaking life 'till you DIE !!!!!!
I must say...you did well by turning the question back on her; her wanting you to give up your religious freedom for "appearances" sake. How long could you look yourself in the mirror or have any self-respect if you did that?
It hasn't gotten to that point with me and my wife yet. She's now at the stage where she's leaving magazines all over the place hoping I'll pick up and read them, have some type of epiphany and go back to meetings. She continually moves that KOTW campaign magazine front and center atop anything else I might be reading on the nightstand on my side of the bed.
I think I'll move it to the trash where it belongs sometime this weekend.
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when they had the meetings in Bryan\College Station last year their idea on hotel accomodations were piling people up in empty dorm rooms. I never did see the Hotel list though as my wife is never up to speed on these things because of her spotty attendance, but for her sake I actually tried to get a room close to assembly week but everything was filled.
They'll have to split it up though as that venue only holds about 14K at a time and the one day I went, 1/3 of the seats were still empty. Bring a lunch, they'll already "encourage" that, because the closest fast food places are about 3 miles away.
a little before 5p.m., i got a call asking me how long i'd be working to.
it was my ex best friend, i'll call roger.
i recognized his voice.
My view is----I DON'T need to tell them anything. They're not over me!!!!!!!
That was my view when they showed up at my door earlier this year after 8 years being all friendly asking what they could help me with even around my house to get me to come back to the meetings.
here is an obituary from my local paper.
i have removed all personal info before posting.
her loving husband thanks jehovah god that he had x .
However, as in all things JW, an oppurtunity to express love and admiration for an individual has turned into a commercial for the organization.
Exactly what I was thinking. Pushing WT prophaghanda even from the grave and the bereaved
did you just decide one morning that that was it??
did you agonize over making the decision?
was it a very gradual process?
Had doubts before I even got wet from the heavily bleached water. I could've came out of that water white and blonde.....the stench from the clorox was that strong.
Tried very hard to believe but couldn't bend my mind to that degree.
Finally came to a head when I'd decided to go back to school and I had the PO and one of his cronies in my home telling me that I was wasting my time. I knew then that I'd want no part of a religion that demanded that much control over me.
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1 tim 2: 11,12 and 1 cor.
14: 33,34 says woman should be silent in the congegation.. how do the witnesses explain it is ok for woman to give talks and demonstrations in the congegation?.
Doesn't anyone else find it humourous to see a JW woman running around frantically searching for a napkin to place over her head just because some baptised teenie bopper with testicals happens to be in the room?
It really is a riot too watch.......
hi everyone, below is some research on the understanding of blood that is interesting once again showing that the wtbts is not interested in what the bible really says, but is interested only in what they the gb determine for the rank and file.
balsam.
this blood will always be asked back.. of course, if no life is taken, there can be no debt for a life.
The author of this letter is soooo on his way to getting DF'd......
my wife and i have not been to a meeting for well over a year.
we are not disfellowshipped, but would be if we admitted to the elders what we've been up to, mainly smoking.
we was both born and raised in the "truth".
I am not even really upset with him, he had no choice.Yes, he did have a choice. Just as he expects you to bend to accomodate his religious beliefs, how is it that he should not accomodate your religious beliefs?
He did bend though. He did what everyone should've expected and got the hell out your house rather than sit there and berate you condescendingly for having a tree as he would if you were on his turf.
since we were indoctrinated that those leaving the organiztion had their lives turn into sh*t until they "returned to jehovah (the organization), how would you say things have turned out--so far?
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Only surprised that I fell for that crap in the first place.
Watched my wife just go through half her wardrobe picking out a meeting outfit just this morning. While I sit back here and associate with all you filthy poztates.
out4good3......part of the "lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas" class....