dear terry,.
thank you very much for your note.
i really appreciate all the information you provided on jehovah’s witnesses and the personal experiences you shared in this email.
Tight, well crafted letter, Terry. Nothing like pulling the data together like that. Nothing like being one of their throw-away faithful. It is a real indictment of the power that the WBTS took and used against true believers.
Hope that letter finds some wider readership.
Maeve
the catholic church gets a lot of credit in this book by a protestant.
title-how the catholic church built western civilization.
below is a description from the back page of the book.
Check your pms, Ruby
i don’t think any would give up the gravy train but that’s me personally.
ray franz was part of a larger club..
Franz believed in God’s love, was honest and had a brain.
Sound like a profile of one of these left overs?
NO!
because someone needs my help.. as a jw -- you can relate -- i truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality.
you know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment.
of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).. at nearly seventy years of age -- no, i didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad.
Beauty of a thread.
Wasn’t on board three months ago. So glad to find this lovely spot. You are such a good host, Coco.
i just watched the first episode of the joe mchale show and our old friend gary made the cut!
he makes his big debut as the last joke of episode one!
“pillow talk” has made its was to netflix!
F—g post the sign language vid! I’d pay good money to see it .
hey guys!
for me, things are doing better, you could say.
ever since i been on here, posting, and whatnot, i have been even more enlightened, if that's the correct word.
she basically is telling me that I am immature and a hypocrite because "I promised to do his will and I dedicated my life to Jehovah."
Tell her that if you married a person who you discovered was a child molester or pathological liar you would every right to leave /divorce. It would not mean you did not believe in marriage —it would just mean that you don’t believe you have to be bound to a lying monster for the rest of your life
And,Of course, you don’t have to “remarry” at all.🙃😳❤️💤
dear brothers and sisters.
after many years outside of the truth, living as an atheist, i have come to realise that i have been on the wrong path.
the fool has said in his heart that there is no god, and i have been a fool.
hilarious! I was freaked at first too...but no. It ain’t happening
i feel an unfamiliar restlessness in my lower body.
too long have i been confined to my sickbed; my mind and heart coax me arise and gaze upon the world outside.
it is no longer a matter of fighting long-entrenched despair.
Thank you thank you, Coco and Sylvia. Poetry is bare and beautiful. The healing counterpoint when explicit pose is just too clinical.
My heart runs with poetry in a world that says: what gibberish!
I love you too.
i feel an unfamiliar restlessness in my lower body.
too long have i been confined to my sickbed; my mind and heart coax me arise and gaze upon the world outside.
it is no longer a matter of fighting long-entrenched despair.
Coco-So beautifully a scene this night of quiet solitude on this board so filled with rancor and uncertainty and yet holding hands.
while chatting with forum friends the other day, we recognised the way that the gb have so cleverly set a faulty benchmark.
yes, a faulty set of scales or weights for all witnesses!.
two scriptures can even apply:.
@ wake up
As Bart Thompson, former District Overseer once said, "If the Society told me that this book is black instead of green, I would say, 'Y'know, I could have sworn that it was green, but if the Society says it's black, then it's black!'"
When I left the organization it was when I heard myself telling PO and a brother that I used to respect:
“Listen when you guys came to my door you opened the Bible and asked me to read a scripture then asked me what it said (you remember how that went—it always was a scripture they used to divide you from the mainline) Then you asked me ‘do you need a minister to tell you what this means or can you understand it for yourself?’ But now you are not letting me think. YOU are telling me what to think.”
l was gone a short while later
