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Hello - I'm new here
by boydarwin 44 Replies latest jw friends
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seattleniceguy
Welcome, BoyDarwin! I like your name. Why did you choose it?
SNG
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rwagoner
Welcome to the family...odd bunch but we're fun.
RGW
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MerryMagdalene
Greetings & Salutations, BoyDarwin!
We're a greedy bunch, so tell us more. We'd like to get to know you...
--Merry
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Kaique
Welcome! Are you JW or ex-JW?
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AK - Jeff
Welcome BD
You will find that there are folks here that have info on things you never heard of before - always something new. Jump on it and enjoy
Jeff
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LittleToe
Hiya.
Welcome to the site -
clementine
welcome on the board!!
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diamondblue1974
Welcome traveller...hope to see you round soon
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boydarwin
Hi again,
Wow....what a welcome. Thank you all very much. I see in some of your welcome notes that a couple questions have been asked. I will try answer them.
Am I a JW or an ex JW. The answer is I don't know really. I am not sure what category I fit in. I am baptized. I got dipped when I was 14 (cause elder dad was starting to get heat that I had not signed up so to speak) and am now in my mid 30's. I was a ministerial servant at 17. Removed as a servant at 21. Disfellowshipped at 23. Reinstated 6 months later, more then anything else cause i bluffed my way through. After I was reinstated, I went through the motions and was a good boy for about a year. Then for lack of a better expression I just got tired. I slowly stopped going. Then I started reading. I was pissed off over a lot of things. Things started to bug me. I had questions that no one wanted to answer. Things stopped making sense. I stopped believing. I have been inactive since then. I guess I am still on the books. No one has come to see me in years. I bump into people every once and a while and they say things like " we miss you" "special talk coming up you should come" "memorial time soon" blah blah blah. I had a meeting with the elders where I told them I was pretty much done with it. They said "well, there isn't much we can do then, if you don't want help we can't help, call us when you need us" I haven't called, and they no longer ask.
Sooooo....I don't know what I am. I guess I have disassociated myself with out ever letting them no. I live the life I want, sort of celebrate Xmas, smoke and I don't hide it. I think I am waiting for the day they wake up and give me the boot, I just don't want to do the legwork for them.
You tell me....what would you all call me.
Oh...and boydarwin. Well....I am a boy trapped in a man's body (peter pan syndrome) surviving, evolving, trying to reinvent myself or at least re-become what I woulda, shoulda been if I had not have wasted roughly 25 years of my life being what everyone else wanted me to be.