how longo it took you to find out your mate was cheating you, kidding.
really how long it took you to find out the truth about the truth or at least to become really distrust about the whole thing, and why.. to start i just knew, by summer 1974, that big a was not comming on 1975. the oil embargo, nixon etc kept me worry for a while.
i even resigned a very lucrative and promising job to piooner.
One......
I really wish I hadn't gotten wet, but at the time it seemed more complicated than not just doing it. My study guide (who was an elder) was also my boss. Things were really complicated......but they became clear, and the good lord gave me a way out!
Things are good now..............
how longo it took you to find out your mate was cheating you, kidding.
really how long it took you to find out the truth about the truth or at least to become really distrust about the whole thing, and why.. to start i just knew, by summer 1974, that big a was not comming on 1975. the oil embargo, nixon etc kept me worry for a while.
i even resigned a very lucrative and promising job to piooner.
I think I knew before I was "in". I got baptized in March and by the middle of May, I was gone.............Six weeks I guess.
i'd like to find out how many years collectively we have acquired in the wts.
please list how many years you were/have been a jw.
please also list how many years you have been out.
I was baptized March 4, 2001. I have been "inactive" (out & never going back)since the end of April.
hi friends;.
just wondering about this subject of holidays again.
i really miss christmas but don't have enough nerve to celebrate it.
Last year I celebrated christmas with my parents. This was my first and last year as a JW. They are not Jw's and never have been. christmas has always been a very emotional time for my family. They are somewhat poor people, and they always prided themselves on giving us kids the best christmas that they could. Although I did exchange gifts with my parents, I was not there on christmas morning. I wish I had been, but my fear of being looked down upon in the cong. and fired (my boss was and elder in my cong.)caused me to stay away. This is the worst thing I could have done. I wanted to be there so bad christmas morning. I celebrated 21 christmas mornings with my parents, and the 22 one I missed. For what? The fear of reprisal from a religious group. How stupid could I have been. I see the pain that I caused my parents. They could care less about the gifts that I gave....sure they were appreciative....but they just wanted their son there christmas morning like he had been for the previous 21 years. That would have been the best gift in the world. I feel so much anger, pain, sorrow......I should have listened to my heart and gone. My parents taught me so much growing up. I have a lot of respect for them, and I know I let them down. That hurts. But I have learned a lesson. I will do what I believe to be right, not what someone else tells me is right. You do what you want, what you feel is right for yourself. You see, I hurt my parents bad that day, but I hurt myself worse. I have thrown the religious aspect of the holidays aside for now, all they are to me is a time for family and friends to be together. If someone else doesn't like that....oh well.
are there any jw's posting here who believe that they are not of the anointed class?.
also, of the jw's who post here who do consider themselves as of the anointed class, do you feel that you have a special mission with regard to making ex-jw's aware of their standing with their creator?.
englishman.. ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
If I were to ever attend meetings again (won't happen) I would consider myself part of the anointed class. Your question was:
do you feel that you have a special mission with regard to making ex-JW's aware of their standing with their Creator?
My response would be:
I feel that I have a special mission with regard to making JW's aware of their standing with their Creator.
They are the ones that need a clearer picture of their standing with the creator.
what are the most stupid jw rule?.
what do you consider to be the most stupid rules or tradition of the jw lives?
im thinking about any kind of rule or regulative that only has one answer to the questions why:.
I personaly think that the rule that drove me CrAzY is the no beard rule. I had many conflicts with the elders regarding this issue................But I find that many of their rules are pretty stupid, and very unbiblical.
i ran into a jw from my local congregation last night.
he was, to my surprise, very polite to me.
he was curious as to why i haven't been attending the meetings lately.
Thank You very much Farkel.
This helps me alot.
i ran into a jw from my local congregation last night.
he was, to my surprise, very polite to me.
he was curious as to why i haven't been attending the meetings lately.
Thank You RunningMan.....
Would you happen to have a copy of that article? The brothers would not give me a cd once they learned I was doing "independant" research on the WT policies.
Thank You..............
i ran into a jw from my local congregation last night.
he was, to my surprise, very polite to me.
he was curious as to why i haven't been attending the meetings lately.
Sounds like fun to me......
Still, anyone have any WT articles on the spreading of rumors....or slandering someone else's name?
i ran into a jw from my local congregation last night.
he was, to my surprise, very polite to me.
he was curious as to why i haven't been attending the meetings lately.
Hello everyone....
I ran into a JW from my local congregation last night. He was, to my surprise, very polite to me. He was curious as to why I haven't been attending the meetings lately. I gave him the usual speel about being busy.....have a couple of things I need to work out...the usual "hey I'll tell you whatever you want to hear to leave me alone speech".
He said he had heard that I went on a cruise for apostates only. I then fell in love with an apostate and ran off with her. That is why I haven't been to meetings lately.
First I laughed. Then I asked him if she was hot. He didn't find that funny. I told him that it was just a rumor and that it is not very christian like to spread, or even listen to rumors. He agreed and left very quickly.
My question is, do any of you have WT articles that pertain to the topic of spreading rumors? I feel that if I ever go into a Judicial meeting, I would like to bring up this situation at the meeting. I feel it is not a very good representation of love amongst themselves.
I thank you in advance for your responses............
