But she's been Inactive for 10yrs!!!no meetings, FS, nothing.
I am gobsmacked the WT still have a hold on people like this.
i explained that i had da'd early december, due to many reasons, ie; paedophile cover-ups, doctrine, hypocrisy etc etc....... she said she would keep in touch and we'd meet up in february when we would be visiting her area.
i also asked for her df'd sister to get in touch.. guess what?
not a dicky bird.. i've seen on her facebook page that she she still has some very active witness mates, she obviously wants to stay friendly with.. i feel like i've been hurt all over again by this stupid ass cult that ruins good friendships totally.
But she's been Inactive for 10yrs!!!no meetings, FS, nothing.
I am gobsmacked the WT still have a hold on people like this.
when i was first introducing myself to apostasy, i sincerley believed i could play both worlds.
at the time i wasn't happy been a witness, and i didn't like the people in my congregation, but i thought i could just stumble along.
with in 18 months of visiting my first apostate site, i had walked out of the kh.. what i have a hard time getting my head around are these people who can successfully play both worlds.
I stopped going to meetings in September 13. I started looking at "apostate" websites in the November, I joined JWN on the 26/11. After about a week I had to DA myself. There was NO way I could be part of that crap, or have people say "aren't you a JW?", how embarrassing!!! As our Kate just said, it is a toxic environment.
JWN gave me the key to my prison cell I'd been locked in for 14 years.
i explained that i had da'd early december, due to many reasons, ie; paedophile cover-ups, doctrine, hypocrisy etc etc....... she said she would keep in touch and we'd meet up in february when we would be visiting her area.
i also asked for her df'd sister to get in touch.. guess what?
not a dicky bird.. i've seen on her facebook page that she she still has some very active witness mates, she obviously wants to stay friendly with.. i feel like i've been hurt all over again by this stupid ass cult that ruins good friendships totally.
I made contact with a sister in one of my old congregations just after Christmas. She got married 10 years ago to a non-JW and has'nt been back to meetings etc.... Her family are still in the truth, apart from a DF'd sister, who is coming back to meetings.
I explained that I had DA'd early December, due to many reasons, ie; paedophile cover-ups, doctrine, hypocrisy etc etc......
She said she would keep in touch and we'd meet up in February when we would be visiting her area. I also asked for her DF'd sister to get in touch.
Guess what? Not a dicky bird.
I've seen on her Facebook page that she she still has some very active witness mates, she obviously wants to stay friendly with.
I feel like I've been hurt all over again by this stupid ass cult that ruins good friendships TOTALLY. WTF?????
i am sure that the term "circuit overseer" will be gone soon.
they seem to be changing vocabulary and the presiding overseer is now the "coordinator of the body of elders" and all "district overseers" will be gone in a few months.
they used to be called "circuit servants" but they will never re-hash an old term so they will make a new term.
It reminds me of when they started calling a bunch of guys Environmental Technicians.
They were previously known as dustbin men.
psalm 51:17 says, my sacrifice, o god, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, god, will not despise.. .
as the evidence mounts, and fingers are pointed at the governing body for their complicity in the 'child abuse cover ups' ,.
...will they ever get down on bended knee and show truly broken hearts?.
Love is love but business is business.
JW.org is a business.
as usual, i was unprepared for a "drop-in" visit by a jw.
they seem to have a knack for coming when you're in the middle of something, or your house is a complete disaster... for me, both things are almost always true.
it's better if you call me and warn me before you come over.
Wow.Great post.
You did brilliantly.
so im obviously out mentally....i havent da-ed but i cant care less!
but.....my co workers are encouraging me to find and join a church.
this person is particularly "wisdomonian" meaning she seems to solve and assist many an ailing indicidual in my field.
Been to a couple of RC services but I'm enjoying my local parish church now. Got a good thing going with my spiritual self and no control techniques.
Check out all your options.
May the force be with you.
i know many who were witnesses hate their past, their decisions, their wasted time.. but you know what??
it's not so bad now.
at least we are out, either mentally, physically or both.. and now, we know better!.
P.s woof woof
i know many who were witnesses hate their past, their decisions, their wasted time.. but you know what??
it's not so bad now.
at least we are out, either mentally, physically or both.. and now, we know better!.
My only regret, as I have said before, was not to give some of those dickheads, a piece of my mind.Tell them what I REALLY thought of them!!! But, as the old saying goes, "every dog has it's day".
so, i was thinking about pierce's dead.
so, supposely he is in heaven, right?
and down here on earth, they are going to give a talk about him, maybe with his body present or his body already buried, but the question is, if his body is still here on earth, what went to heaven?
Oh shoot, I forgot the bloody ladder!!!