A get together? Who was the grown up responsible for the alcohol? Was everyone modestly dressed? Did it bring a shout of praise or bring us into disrepute? God, I'm supprised you can stomach it at all.
larrycurry123
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Experience at a get together recently
by CaptainSchmideo inevery so often, i will get invites to social gatherings from people from my old congregation (not the one i currently attend).
recently, it was for a high school graduation of the son of people i grew up with.. so, a curious thing happens (and happens every time i go to one of these things).. the old timers start quizzing me about my mom (who hasn't gone to meetings in years) and my brother (who has spotty attendance, apparently), and they assume that i am still attending regularly (i don't volunteer anything different).. .
i really resent being interrogated about my family members, it's like i am volunteering information to "big brother".
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Fed up with the way JWs treat those who can no longer believe
by hotspur inmy favourite uncle died about two years ago (non-witness) and my mother couldn't tell me .
earlier today i went round to the cathedral square of the city where i work for some lunch and i had the misfortune to sit near to an ol'boy witnessing to some people who were too polite to respond.
he kept going on about truth.
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larrycurry123
Hi. Does this mean you were disfellowshipped or just fell away? I understand your frustration but I cant offer a solution. I got disfellowshipped a few years ago and was reinstated quite quickly ( 6 months). I saw flaws in the process and I could have lied through my teeth and avoided it but I was not going to do that.
I did vow to myself that if I did get reinstated I would never take priviledges in the congregatin again. I am a brother and refuse to say prayers at meetings or take field ministry groups. I grew a beard and was told that I would not get any priviledges in the congregation if I kept it. My response was that maybe I had a beard because I dd not wish to be used.
I dont comment at meetings but I did once recently. A sister gave a comment that she had met a man in the ministry who was rude to her and threatened her. She prayed and found out a few days later that he had died and went on to mockingly cite how this was some form of poetic justice. I put my hand up and said that the sister needed to be reminded that Jesus died a painful death for that man and that Jehovah valued him just as much as she valued her. The study conducted shrugged and said thats not the subject of our discussion today. The sister does not speak to me now.
What I am trying to say is that Jehovah loves you like a child. Your parents may not treat you like that and god forbid that you or I would treat our children anything less than the way Jehovah would treat them.