March 25 1989. Fremont Assembly Hall.
They used to let you get baptized with your spouse. ( that's my first wife ) we were 19 and 20 years old.
March 25 1989. Fremont Assembly Hall.
They used to let you get baptized with your spouse. ( that's my first wife ) we were 19 and 20 years old.
From the most important day of your life...
if a fellow j.w.
asked a publisher/pioneer/missionary j.w., "how are your hours this month", they will gladly reveal how many hours they've racked up "for jehovah.".
now ask them, "how much money have you contributed to kingdom interests this month", they'd look at you as if you were beelzebub himself, and tell you that that was "personal.
How are your hours this month?
Matt 6:3,4
That would make a nice roadside sign on the way to the KH or Assembly.
Hmmmmm.....
when i left in march officially i started reading the forums here.
i had this excitement that more people would be leaving soon because of the crazy broadcasts, the crazy "new light" that the gb was dishing out, and more recently the australian royal commission lighting up geoffrey.
this past saturday i had an elder stop by to chat for the first time since i left.
I think there will be snowball effect. TTATT will not stay a "secret",
The bottom will fall out.
Think about this: The 25-55 crowd are watching the very ones that "taught them the truth" die before there eyes. Parents, grandparents and older friends.
They all know that none of these people "were supposed to die".
I think this one component will get people sniffing around the internet and the forums.
When millions that were living, have now died, some will accept reality for what it is.
The internet genie is out of the bottle, so to to speak, so asking the JWs to stop using the internet is impossible with all of the JW,ORG hype.
There must be a rather large percentage of JWS that must be just be too scared or confused to act. On the other hand, if you are used to "waiting on Jehovah" all your life, why would any of this shake you now?
I'm hoping mass exodus
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/109520001/we-going-see-mass-awakening
so i live in the area of the 'valley' wildfire in northern california.
i just returned home after 3 days evacuated.
there is a family who run a fitness center and had opened their doors in disaster relief to affected people with beds, food, clothing and shelter.
"It might cost us money..."
Love of neighbor, my "Apostate ASS"?!?
so i live in the area of the 'valley' wildfire in northern california.
i just returned home after 3 days evacuated.
there is a family who run a fitness center and had opened their doors in disaster relief to affected people with beds, food, clothing and shelter.
This is so sad.
I mentioned the fact that JWs are not a charity regarding this fire.
I was told the local BOEs called to make sure the JWs were accounted for.
How is that charity?
That's just what "friends" should do when they know there is a need.
as a published author on amazon, i'm used to getting negative reviews from time to time.
it goes with the territory and i'm ok with it.
writing is an art form, so no art is liked by everyone.
has anyone here gone nuclear on their spouse and, all of a sudden, came out in the open as a jw opposer?.
by this i mean, sitting them down and saying: i no longer want to be a jw anymore, do not want to go to meetings or preaching anymore!
and, what has happened in the relationship after that?.
My wife and I are still together.
I went nuclear.
Admitted apostasy and DF'd in absentia.
Yet, we are still together.
She attends all the meetings and prepares her lessons.
I will never set foot in a KH again.
It's not easy, but marriage is hard work.
i'm sick of.... ...having an elder i barely know invite himself over to my house, and bring another asshole elder with him, you know, to "see how i'm doing" f-ck them.
...having same elder with all insincerity approach me at the beeting and before inviting himself over, ask, "how are you doing?
" then when i say everything is great, go ahead and invite them selves over anyway.
This is a topic that no doubt rattle around in many of our minds.
I didn't want to DA, either.
I didn't attend any J/C's or appeal their decision to DF me.
It's only been a few days since the announcement and this is shaping up to be the best week in my life!
That being said, admitting apostasy and getting DF'd in absentia might be the best hope of waking up others that have known you for decades.
Shock the hell out of them!
Making them DF you is by far the better course than DA'ing, in my opinion...