Personally, I want a refund!
Someone give me my lost years back!
what a waste of living being "in the truth" was!
sometimes i see persons suggesting that the witness religion isn't all so wrong.
actually they suggest that they themselves are the issue.
Personally, I want a refund!
Someone give me my lost years back!
what a waste of living being "in the truth" was!
sometimes i see persons suggesting that the witness religion isn't all so wrong.
actually they suggest that they themselves are the issue.
Well now, wait a minute! Isn't bullcrap good for crops?
what a waste of living being "in the truth" was!
sometimes i see persons suggesting that the witness religion isn't all so wrong.
actually they suggest that they themselves are the issue.
I do understand that it is all bullcrap. Unfortuantely, I have no knowledge of how my life might have been different since I was born-in.
I have fantasies though. Holidays, birthdays, summer camp, normal friends, academic encouragement, getting to go out on dates, not having to spend a large percentage of my formative years sitting in the KH being miserable and not having Saturdays (FS) to myself unless I was puking my guts up.
I also think of how nice it would have been to not have to hear horror stories of Armageddon, constantly told that no matter what I did, it would never be enough, and having to live with the knowledge that there was no such thing as "unconditional love" in the WT world.
It would have been great to have my family and those around me to be happy and encouraging when I decided to go to college. Instead I was told it was a waste of time and that it would only make me materialistic, make god unhappy, and would probably get me into things like drugs and an immoral lifestyle.
Today I fantasise about my family waking up. Instead, I watch them entrench further and further into it.
just wanted to say i love you guys !
it's so wonderful to see so much love and understanding after being in the horrible cult !
i'll tell my story later but i just wanted to say hello for now !
Welcome!
welcome to august's book club thread.. first my apologies for getting this thread posted late.
it's been a crazy month/summer for me.. this month we are discussing 1984 by george orwell.
this book was suggested by sad emo.
How does one participate?
1984 is probably my favorite book of all time. I've read it about 12 times over the years.
i remember being in my dub uncles friends car when e,w & f came on and he goes "don't let your unc know you heard this song".
i didn't ask why at the time, but then some years later i hear again that dubs have something against e, w & f. (not that they don't have something against anyone who isn't one of them) but what went on between the two groups?
Hahahahahahaha "baby making music!" Good one, Mrs. Jones!
I love that song. Maybe not for makin' babies, but certainly for kicking back!
i remember being in my dub uncles friends car when e,w & f came on and he goes "don't let your unc know you heard this song".
i didn't ask why at the time, but then some years later i hear again that dubs have something against e, w & f. (not that they don't have something against anyone who isn't one of them) but what went on between the two groups?
I had always heard that EW&F's album covers looked "weird" with "elements of the supernatural."
Wow! Talk about flashbacks! I remember a PO talking about EW&F's album cover artwork and saying how that alone was proof of their "occult involvement."
I've heard the John Denver rumor too. My folks, along with their Dubbie friends, threw out their John Denver albums and boycotted anything connected with John Denver as a result of that rumor.
Then, there was the rumor of Alice Cooper believing he was a reincarnated witch hung during the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Heavy Metal bands demanding the crowd join them in worshipping Satan, Stevie Nicks was supposedly an admitted witch, and Disco music led to immorality, fornication and drug use, and of course, all that insidious backward masking that seemingly was going on.
**GASP** Even The Beatles were supposed to be doing backwards masking!
Do we want to go off topic about Dungeons and Dragons?
check this out.
this is what we're up against.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/1kiruj6v7sb8n/ref=cm_syt_dtpa_f_1_rdsssl0?pf_rd_p=253457301&pf_rd_s=sylt-center&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0941813053&pf_rd_m=atvpdkikx0der&pf_rd_r=0r7kvqvgpv0ddbnzn1hb.
What a stupid woman.
just shower the people you love with love .
shower the people you love with love .
better to shower the people you love with love .
'Shower The People' by James Taylor. Better than any Kingdom melody ever written!
This is one of the most loving, most heartfelt songs ever written, IMHO.
You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn't written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
If it feels nice, don't think twice
Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will
You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you're all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease.
Better to shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
You'll feel better right away
Don't take much to do
Sell you pride
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine.
Oh yes
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine
Yeah, all right
Everybody, everybody
Shower the people you love with love
a bizarre explosion at a church east of kansas city killed one man on saturday afternoon.
atf agents said the explosion at the jehovah's witness' kingdom hall on foggy bottom drive was intentionally set, and that the person who died appears to have committed suicide.
witnesses described large amounts of smoke pouring out of the building, which they said was just recently completed.
I had a tense moment talking to my mother about this. This will also illustrate the typical JW mentality.
My father went on Friday to the site to see if he could help on the rebuild. My mother called me late Friday afternoon to tell me that he had come home worn out from the heat. I asked her about any developments and what the scuttlebutt was. She told me that Bethel had directed that the dedication next weekend would go on as planned. Several things she said made me want to vomit. For instance,
"Well, the Society wants the hall rebuilt. It will send a fine witness in the community that Jehovah's Witnesses will not let tragedy discourage us."
on the man himself. "He was depressed. That's why he did it."
Ok, true. But why did he become depressed? What was happening in his life? How long had it been going on. I received,
"He just was."
I kept bringing up quesions for her in order to try to get her to pause and consider the situation. Nada. Just like the well-programmed JW she is, she turned off any thought processes that would make her think about it beyond what the bOrg wants her to employ. She didn't get past "the society says......"
Finally, with annoyance in her voice, she snapped "why are you so upset about this?!"
I'm sure the members of that congregation are greatly grieved and upset, but ultimately, their compassion and humanity will be overshadowed by the WT machine.