it's been exactly 2 years since i stopped attending jw meetings and it's taken a toll on my marriage.
i expected as much but i guess you can never really prepare for the pain you have to go through when one mate no longer believes in the same things they once did.
i think my wife has honestly tried hard (as have i) to make the relationship work but i think we're both realizing that there are some really large issues before us that will never be resolved.
Leaving the WTS and going through a divorce at the same time was some of the worst hell I've ever been through. When you leave your an enemy of the Wts. They are like sharks finding blood in water. I thought i would never recover.
Being re-married with NO Watchtower is like heaven. Stress is less, sex is better, money is better, time together is better, family life is just plain better. There is nothing like sleeping in on Sunday morning and feeling great about it.
i found this on the official jw site:
conscience
jehovah's witnesses avoid making rules and regulations beyond those provided in the scriptures, and they do not follow traditions that contradict bible teachings.
Keeping track of hours preached on a publishers record card. Low hours=weak publisher. All a person is worth to the Watchtower is their hours.
Inside cover of the Botchtower "it is non-political" U.N. scandle with the Botchtower being an N.G.O. makes this statement totally false.
http://www.bethelcoachtours.com/english.htm#top
(for some reason, i'm not able to get a good link)
check out the "bethel classic with dc & holocaust" - sounds like a truly upbuilding trip:
Do the tours to Canada include any Casinos? When I was a strong dub, I did the tour thing. Even then I was unimpressed. Heaven forbid you use your free time to do something outside of the Botchtower.
stumbling is a term i never understood.
let's suppose i robbed a bank and a witness was a witness to my crime.
would they decide to the same thing?
I will never enter a kingdom hall again because of the Watchtowers imvolement with the U.N. and its poor handling of sexual abuse cases. Yet this organization talks about stumbling others? Why? because a movie they watch? Because they eat turkey on a certain day? Because they own a store that sells lottery tickets? Talk about an organization that has its head up its ass!!!
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isn't that what you expected?.
scooby- "emotional meanderer"- snax (i never disappoint....and aim to please)
A few people may be, but after 20 years of being around these people I'd say most of them are are self-centered, self righteous, and lack love.
hi gang:.
this article was published in the local sheboygan press newspaper this morning on my conversion from the jws to the catholic church.. here is the link:.
http://www.wisinfo.com/sheboyganpress/news/archive/feat_15995880.shtml.
Do you think this article will appear in the next watchtower? It is a nice experience.
i did a search and couldn't find another post on this subject, so i hope this hasn't been addressed too recently already.... i systematically throw away wtbts literature that i find in public places (restrooms, and most recently, eight, count 'em, eight mags at the train station that had about 20 chairs in it (four sets of the same magazines--someone had a good month!
) i rolled them up and deposited them into the trash, my father was shocked and said that people should be given the chance to read them.
i said i was saving people from exposure from a cult.
If you found a #### mag in a public place are you wrong to throw it out? Very few people would call that censorship. If someone puts a Watchtower in a public place, then its up for grabs. If I pick it up, look at it and throw it out so be it. Very few people will call that censorship. Plus, have you ever heard of someone becoming a Jw because of what they read in the laundrymat? They are put there to make a service report look better than it really is.
witnesses believe it would be a transgression against jehovah's sanctity of blood to give your pet a blood transfusion....even though it's an animal, blood is to be poured out on the ground and not used in any manner.
one time, a notable brother who left the borg and was visiting with some friends to encourage them out of the cult, saw the wifes cat eating a bird out the window.
he said "maggie!
Two articles are very hepful on the subject.
Young Kitties ask---Do I have to bleed all my kills?
Young Kitties ask---Do I really have to come home when I'm called?
put yourself back in a dub's kids shoes and make up your own young people ask titles.. here's mine:.
young people ask:.
why do i have to go to these lousy meetings five times a week?.
Is it o.k. if I eat deviled ham?
Is it o.k. to eat beaver?
Should I confess my dreams to elders? Can I be d'fd
