Not officially DF'd that I know of, probably DA'd in absentia based upon my last meeting with the two stooges that came by the house to call on me last year.
but, even if I were, I wouldn't give a $&it.
is it realy the worst thing one can go through?
are you afraid of it??
has being disfellowshipped actually turned into a "blessing"?
Not officially DF'd that I know of, probably DA'd in absentia based upon my last meeting with the two stooges that came by the house to call on me last year.
but, even if I were, I wouldn't give a $&it.
even when i was active with the cult i always bought the forbidden cookies....my mother-in-law a lifer in the borg, always forbid my wife to even take a bite of one, let alone purchase them!
my wife works in a small doctors office everyday with two witness gals.
gets real dicey at times with my wife being dissassociated.
Damn near $20 dollars worth. I'm going to be up to my a$$ in cookies when they come in.
well, a post from low-key lysmith on another topic got me thinking about the less than memorable food at the conventions and assemblies.
anyone have some thoughts to share?.
i missed the ham and cheese on rye-- it was one item that was actually pretty good.
I especially liked the Hoagies
Oh no........not the Je-hoagies !!!!
we have just gotten home from sunday-meeting, when my mom ask me if i believe in god and so on.
so i tell her, cause you adviced me to be honest.
and despite all my fears, she took it very calm, and then told my dad whos also taking it calm, and it doesnt seem like theyre hating me now or want to throw me out of the house.. the thing is.
Philip
The main thing I see going on here is a bunch of great people giving a bunch of great advice and information, so much such that there is no way you could remember it all and recall it at will. Couple that with your young age and the natural inclination to want to believe in what you're parents are telling you makes for a very confusing situation for you, I'm sure.
Sounds like your parents are using the JW tried and true method of "issue hopping" to keep you off balance. Rather then allowing them to jump all over the place, when talking to them, try sticking to one single point. Know the point, know what you want to say about that point, try to anticipate anything they can come up with about this point........then....beat that point to death. Their hypocrisy in joining the UN, their distancing themselves away from their 1914 generation doctrine. Or an even better one, is the new blood documents their using now that allows "blood factions" whereas they're still prohibited from donating, or even storing their own blood. Just where do they think those components their allowed to use come from? Their double standards on just these few issues they cannot run from.
Argueing or discussing whether or not God exists, the deity of Jesus, moot point neither of which can be proven one way or the other. But with the hypocritical nature of the WT in light of their assertions that only they are acceptable to God, that issue they can't run from.
were any of you the really obnoxiosly loud singer at the meeting?
that always used to make me laugh when somone who couldn't sing just belted it out in their horrible voice.
or i used to love the husband and wife duos that thought they were all that as they sat and tried to harmonize.
"We're Jehovahs witnesses........we speak out in fearlessness"
"from house to house from door to door......."
were any of you the really obnoxiosly loud singer at the meeting?
that always used to make me laugh when somone who couldn't sing just belted it out in their horrible voice.
or i used to love the husband and wife duos that thought they were all that as they sat and tried to harmonize.
Those are the most childish horribly arranged songs I've ever heard. I caught a ride in one of my dub relatives car and they were listening to them the whole time to our destination.
I'd rather walk through hell with gasoline underwear than subject myself to that again!!!!
we had a phone call yesterday, after being "inactive" for 6 years.
not having attended a meeting in 4 years, we get a call saying they are concerned that they had heard we believe in evolution.
my partner said "not necesarily believe in it, im just not discounting it at this time.
Sounds a lot like how my wife talks sometimes too....but she usually stops when I .
i just recieved this note from one of our faithful and discreet slaves... keep an eye out for the march 2005 km.
word is that the awake will only be published once a month starting in january 2006.. sincerely,.
district overbeer.
Also, what of all that money spent on new state of the art printing presses designed to increase their output of magazines with less manpower to support them for branch offices around the world. If they've had this in the works for awhile, and there's no reason to think they didn't, if I were a R\F member I'd be pissed after listening to them "poor mouth" begging for donations to support such a decision.
What a collosal waste of money.
they'll be lucky to see me at all at the farguing book study meeting!!!
damn it, if they don't have anything new to study, why not move some of the other meetings' material to this hour thus making shorter those other meetings???!!!
of course not, for this move would be too simple yet smart and full of common sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
BrotherSelfRighteousBastard
Obviously, this is the brother with the stained tipped nose who's "reaching out" for privileges.
for arguments sake lets assume that the wts teachings that the bibles prohibition against blood is valid with regard to accepting a transfusion.
jws are now being told that while they cannot accept whole blood or whole blood components such as red blood cells, white blood cells and blood plasma, they can if their conscience permits accept blood fractions.
i have thought quite a bit about how and why the accepting of some blood fractions and not others is supposedly a conscience matter.
The elder presented a biblical verse that states if one's action were to affect a brothers perspective it would be a sin against the holy spirit, which is considered a significant sin.
Ahhh......unity conformity through the use of the, get out of jail free "do nothing that would be a cause for stumbling" clause.
The hard-nose JWs use this on each other all the time....
I get it....