hmmm i havent been here in a while....but tonight i did something quite stupid......i sent an email to all friends etc.
because i'm moving and i wanted to give them my new address...and in a spur of the moment i decided to add an invitation already for my birthday party.....then while i pressed the send button i saw that my very jw cousin was also in my list.........she might know im fading but i did it very carefully.....woops....... hmmmm.
the apparantly now-out-of-the-jw-closet-eppie....
Hmmm i havent been here in a while....but tonight i did something quite stupid......i sent an email to all friends etc. because i'm moving and i wanted to give them my new address...and in a spur of the moment i decided to add an invitation already for my birthday party.....then while i pressed the send button i saw that my very JW cousin was also in my list.........she might know im fading but i did it very carefully.....woops......
Hmmmm
The apparantly now-out-of-the-JW-closet-Eppie....
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how often did they tell us that we should at least once read the whole bible from cover to cover.. i never did that, why, because i was overloaded with meetings and field service, and my job.. did you??
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Yup i did when i was 16, Imagine all the fun i could have been having while reading.....
just a brief note here.
looks like kat_newmas won't be around here for an indefinite period of time
i found his presence and input to the forum: welcoming, invigorating, upbeat and positive.
Yeah i am sure someone on this board is not very genuine (if that is the word) but how ever can you track one down? I mean it is so easy on the net to pretend you're someone else, i mean i am a 21 hot sexy babe (ok i am at least 21 ).
Maybe Simon has some ideas about it but i am afraid that it is not feasible to do smth with it.
well i know i may be opening a can of worms here.... but after what we were taught in the wts about creation...and now that you may know more about evolution... which do you think you'd choose to believe more??.
myself...i am leaning towards evolution...but then i read things that make me think otherwise.
so i do find it confusing sometimes .
Well I know I may be opening a can of worms here....
Hell u sure did Dottie!
Ok i didn't have time to read the SEVEN pages of this thread but just wanted to say that i believe in both at the same time. I do believe in Evolution but only like the evolution from a cellular organism to the human being, not from nothing to this cellular organism. I mean why didn't God just started with one single cell, he must be bored after all that time, just to see what would happen. No harm to combine these two theories.....evolution but of Gods creation
if the elders, certain family members or your "friends" knew that you frequented this board, what do you think would happen in your life?......personally, i think a jc would be imminent, and i am not talking about the coming of jesus christ, either.
I would probably be dfd cause of all the things i told here, but o well, couldn't care less at the moment.
don't forget to wear your green and a button that says "kiss me i'm irish" !!!
and if your not irish, that's ok...do what i do and pretend so you can get lots of kisses .
dottie...of the i'm gonna drink green beer tonight class
I'm joining you in the green beer tonight, can't wait
war....he said bible prophecies are obviously being fulfilled and since war is imminent, it's time to get back into the "truth".
he went to his first meeting last sunday.
now, all he says he has to do is stop smoking, stop his pornography addiction, stop going out with prostitutes, start reading and researching more, and evidently, he has stopped engaging in homosexuality.
I am afraid though that he will not be the only one who is returning.....lots and lots probably want to get 'saved'
well, how's your weekend goin'?
mrs ozzie's soakin' in her bubble bath, listening to the rain falling outside, and all is quiet this evenin'.
bumped into a branch committee member in the supermarket earlier today.
Mostly 4 and 5. I never really enjoyed going out in the service. Only once, when a cute naked guy opened the door to me and my friend .
Eppie
this question is not to offend anyone, it's just that i have noticed people have many different reasons for leaving the borg and i thought it would be interesting to find out why some of you left.. for example:some leave because they want to be free to smoke, drink, gamble, fornicate, grow beards, celebrate xmas, take blood and drugs, etc.some leave because they never believed and now are old enough to do as they want.some leave because they have seen that they can be happy living life free from any religious organization, yet still feel safe in god's love.some have been hurt by the borg and have taken their wounds away to lick them, waiting to see justice.some have trusted the borg with their lives, time and money...........only to discover recently that there has been lies, cover-ups and hypocracy in the borg.
now they have left but need to belong to another organization to feel happy.. i left the borg because i found out about the cover-ups and lies.
my family was abused by it, my child was sexually abused and i was df'ed.
Dear Gumby and AlanF,
I am quite positive that this is exactly the reason why they discourage JWs going to college, of course besides the obvious reasons that you see all the things you miss out on. It really made me furious one day when I went to the book study (in the first semester of my college I never went anymore after that) and a sister who was, sorry to say, not very clever, answered one of the first question in that Jehovah book of two years ago. It was about the forces of nature, and about what molecules and atoms are etc. She said something about gravity that was so plane stupid but the elder leading it just said: 'yes, and this gravity law is so clever invented that of course it is designed by Jehovah and that it could not just have evolved....yadiyadiya'. This made me furious! I raised my hand and said: as a science-student I would like to correct that answer and started explaining it in very common words and very shortly, but after say 20 seconds the elder interrupted me and said: 'well the scientific knowledge is not really important here the paragraph just shows the importance of Jehovah's creations.' and he continued. I just stood up and left and never returned again.
AlanF your story is so amazing! Im sure that every JW that woud really look up everything would leave. Unfortunately no one ever seems to do that.
Eppie
this question is not to offend anyone, it's just that i have noticed people have many different reasons for leaving the borg and i thought it would be interesting to find out why some of you left.. for example:some leave because they want to be free to smoke, drink, gamble, fornicate, grow beards, celebrate xmas, take blood and drugs, etc.some leave because they never believed and now are old enough to do as they want.some leave because they have seen that they can be happy living life free from any religious organization, yet still feel safe in god's love.some have been hurt by the borg and have taken their wounds away to lick them, waiting to see justice.some have trusted the borg with their lives, time and money...........only to discover recently that there has been lies, cover-ups and hypocracy in the borg.
now they have left but need to belong to another organization to feel happy.. i left the borg because i found out about the cover-ups and lies.
my family was abused by it, my child was sexually abused and i was df'ed.
some leave because they want to be free to smoke, drink, gamble, fornicate, grow beards, celebrate Xmas, take blood and drugs, etc.
Well I must say that that was my original reason to leave, at least that is what I always believed. But already mentioned by others, it was more a nice side-effect that those things happened. The real reason I left was the fact that I went from a 'protected' high school in which I only had JW friends to a college far away from house and I started to think for myself. For the first time I took sociology and psychology classes etc. and I saw the world the way it is, through MY eyes, not through JWs eyes. I realised that stuff that happened within the JW religion is not correct and their claim that your only true friends can be JWs is just BS! I made great friends in college (and still am) and after 2 or 3 years I still have them while my JW friends immediately shunned me. College is a good place to start thinking (even though a bit late ), I wish more JW kids would go there (that's prob why the org doesn't want that).
Eppie
