Thankyou for sharing that purplesofa
In a business where multiple marriages and divorces seem to be the norm, for those two to be a year away form clebrating their 50th anniversary is quite an achievement, and a testimony to the love they have for each other.
sorry if someone posted this already, i just saw it and had to laugh!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dluxnpw1tvi.
Interesting, and I know a lot of my former brothers and sisters who would be more than glad if the preaching work ended.
It's quite funny as well, it makes him look like a puppet, which is what most jws are anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6jtzwlkwue.
heh heh heh .
Very funny
I can't say I ever encountered that in the ministry, but it would be effective in getting rid of JWs,
hello everyone, i haven't been on here for a while, though i have read a few posts from time to time when i've been visiting my friends linda and trevor.
i would like to be here more, but i am retired now, and can't really afford a pc or the internet, being on a somewhat limited income.. since i left the watchtower society in august, i have kept myself reasonably busy.
i attend a couple of evening classes, help my non jw son and his wife out by babysitting when needed, and manage to see my jw sons' children as often as possible.
Congratulations Marion!
I hope its a truly wonderful, blessed day for you
Sad Emo,
Thankyou very much for that, I am sure it will be.
i had a memory come up today.
i recall there was a time when kids were allowed to read the subheadings at the watchtower study.
they cut that out because they wanted kids to participate in the same way as the adults, by answering the questions for the paragraphs.
I didn't have a normal childhood at all. Right from being able to talk, I was taken out in the ministry, taken to meetings and not allowed to play with other non JW kids. I was fortunate in having a sister only 18 months younger than me, and another JW family with a daughter close to my sisters' age who lived nearby, but they were the only friends I was allowed to have as a child. My first year at school, when I was the only JW there, was very uncomfortable as well, and it was a great relief when my sister and our friend started the following year.
I am sorry to say that I inflicted the same things on my two boys when they were young as well, though the younger one rebelled against it as a yeenager, and never became a jw, so his children have had a childhood, unlike my older JW sons' children.
hello everyone, i haven't been on here for a while, though i have read a few posts from time to time when i've been visiting my friends linda and trevor.
i would like to be here more, but i am retired now, and can't really afford a pc or the internet, being on a somewhat limited income.. since i left the watchtower society in august, i have kept myself reasonably busy.
i attend a couple of evening classes, help my non jw son and his wife out by babysitting when needed, and manage to see my jw sons' children as often as possible.
Regarding Trev attending my baptism tomorrow, Juni said:
That's a sign of a true friend!
It most certainly is. I have been chatting to him about it earlier this evening, and he isn't in the slightest bit apprehensive about it, nor is Linda. He made the comment, tongue in cheek I suspect, that I was there for both his and Lindas' baptisms, which I was of course, so they are returning the compliment tomorrow! Linda said that maybe the local Witnesses will see all three of us leaving the church tomorrow, I'm sure that will cheer them up no end, I can imagine the gossip at their Tuesday night meeting now!
with so many of us having gotten baptised at a young age and now dealing with the results of it.... it made me wonder how many decisions made at a young age still could and do affect your life.. example: when i was 14 i thought it was a good idea to marry this weird brother that was our land lord.
(thank goodness i was too young to do so) also, i thought it was a good idea to have pet monkeys....and a good idea to have my own apartment with several other young jw sisters...even thinking it would be a good idea to have babies.... i was too young to do any of those things...so i have no consequences from having those ideas....yet, getting dunked at that age was perfectly acceptable....and now i still pay the price.. are there any things you can think of that you would have done at a young age that could have made you pay for years to come?.
I was baptised aged 14, and spent my entire life up until a few months ago in the WTBTS.
I always put kingdom interests first, as did my late husband, and since the new system was always just around the corner, we never saved that much, and never bought our own home. So now I am retired, live in a rented flat and am on a limited income, with no real hope of my financial situation changing.
Even so, I am quite content with my life now, but a little more money in the bank would make it more comfortable.
hello everyone, i haven't been on here for a while, though i have read a few posts from time to time when i've been visiting my friends linda and trevor.
i would like to be here more, but i am retired now, and can't really afford a pc or the internet, being on a somewhat limited income.. since i left the watchtower society in august, i have kept myself reasonably busy.
i attend a couple of evening classes, help my non jw son and his wife out by babysitting when needed, and manage to see my jw sons' children as often as possible.
Little Toe,
I haven't had as big a surprise in years as having Trev agree to be there tomorrow, and he hardly thought about it, just said yes almost immediately. It would have been a special day with or without Trev and Linda there, but knowing how Trev in particular feels about religion, there prescence will make it even more special for me.
Jeff,
Thankyou so much for the welcome. I feel so liberated to be doing this after all those years in the WTBTS.
Marion
hello everyone, i haven't been on here for a while, though i have read a few posts from time to time when i've been visiting my friends linda and trevor.
i would like to be here more, but i am retired now, and can't really afford a pc or the internet, being on a somewhat limited income.. since i left the watchtower society in august, i have kept myself reasonably busy.
i attend a couple of evening classes, help my non jw son and his wife out by babysitting when needed, and manage to see my jw sons' children as often as possible.
Hello Juni.
Marion, in the Baptist religion don't they have complete immersion??
Yes they do, that's what I will be doing tomorrow morning, for the second, and hopefully last, time in my life. It's a long time since my first dunking, so I can't say I'm experienced, but I am looking forward to it.
RAF,
Thankyou so much for your kind words. I do feel surrounded with genuine love every time I go to my church, something that has been absent from the Kingdom Hall I attended for seversl years now.
come on now, is it really posssible that everyone at the hall gets along well together?
maybe during ideal conditions... were you aware of any friction or bad blood amongst members in your congregation?.
in my case, there was a brother thati didn't want to be around.
There was always an undercurrent of jealousy and resentment at my Hall, as those with money who were able to donate plenty to the congregation funds seemed to be better thought of than the poorer members, and would get away with minimal service or participation in meetings. I sometimes seemed that, with some people anyway, the size of your bank balance determined how spiritual you were.
The less well - off were well aware of this of course, and some were very resentdul and highly critical of the better off ones, even if they were zealous JWs.
