This reminded me a bit of myself. I was already inactive and some friends of mine who were not witnesses were telling me about all these "apostate" books they had read. I wasn't interested in the least at that time. I just didn't really want to think about anything that had to do with the witnesses because my conscience was really bothering me about all the things I was doing. It just wasn't the time for me to unmask the real truth. I actually became active again. Always half heartedly and now I am inactive once again but completely convinced that the witnesses are not God's organization. Everyone is different. But you've given her the info. The ball is in her court whether she wants to do something about it. Maybe she is not ready to deal with the reality of it all.
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Need a Little Help With This!!!
by leaving-jws ini have a older sister that i have shared my feelings with about my doubt that jws are truly god's organization.
the reason she can promise is because she doesn't go to meetings herself.
" so i say, "well what if they did call would you open the door?
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"A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"
by Bourne insince coming to the realization that the jw religion does not hold all the answers, let alone most, the above statement describes me to a "t".
i'm separated from my wife, an almost certain divorce is on the horizon, and because of now being "inactive", with the exception of my family, i have seemingly lost what friends i had.. i can't bring myself to fully embrace "worldly" thinking about many things, yet, as long as i am not an "active" member of the collective, i have no chance of making friends.
in an earlier post, someone asked me the pointed question, "what do you want?
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I also felt very similarly when I first seperated. I thought the only people that I would be able to relate with on a deeper level would have to be ex JW's but the I met someone that had nothing to do with the witnesses who i connected with on an intellectual level which I had never been able to connect with anyone else. JW or not....It actually was a really good experience because it's importnant to talk to someone who has never had the JW mindest. It adds alot of perspective to many issues you might be dealing with. I guess what I[m trying to say is don[t limit yourself to thinking you can only get alone with ex Jw's. While there is something to be said for being able to talk to someone who knows exactly what you hace experienced, there are many other things you could have in common with someone that an ex JW might not have. For example, growing up in a certain area....or coming from a big family, etc etc...It's all these different "ingredients" that makes us who we are. Sometimes we can mix well with someone elses "ingredients" regardless of what those might be....
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Babies get shunned
by Crooked Lumpy Vessel inmy sister was recently disfellowshipped and she told me that she was eating in a restaurant yesterday when the elder that disfellowshipped her was seated at the table next to her.
of course they would not breathe a word to her.
but her son (4 years old) had kept saying hello over and over to the elder and his wife and they both refused to acknowledge him, smile of even say hello back.
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I remember a while ago a couple in my congo got reproved and the young girl was pregnant. They married and of course didn't have a pot to piss in so me and a friend wanted to do a baby shower for her. I mean she wasn't disfellowshipped. So my friend was making the arrangemnts and it was to be done at my house, but I guess some elders felt it wouldn't be correct so they told my friend to do something on her own, but no baby shower...I mean, seriously, this was so unloving. This couple needed things for their little baby and I think it would have been a great show of christianly love to have a huge baby shower...but I guess I was wrong...Anyways, my friend did something very small at their house...Sometimes it amazes me how unloving people can be.....
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Deal more kindly with one another...preserve and cherish the pale blue dot
by nvrgnbk inpowerful words by carl sagannovember 15, 2006 in smartkit all posts by rk.
if you look carefully at the nasa photo below, you will see a little white dot.
this minute speck is earth seen from the voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away.
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There are some awesome youtube links where carl sagan talks about evolution and other things..will try to put it up....
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You will see Old age
by KW13 ini told mum yesterday that i'd carry on my so called 'anti jw' speak when she is an old lady of 80 years old.
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her words "i dont think this system will last that long".. i have a long time to wait but i shall be proven right!.
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yeah I just got ANOTHER email about how we are soooooooooo close...and to hang in there a little longer......hahahaha!!!
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Apostate Presence Rattles World Conference on Religion
by SickofLies ini know many of you probably never saw my post a few days ago inviting everyone to the world religions conference where i was a key note speaker.
i'd like to send a big thank you to kwintestal and mincan for showing and giving their support, surfice to say it made quite an impression that the three people standing up and defending atheism at the event were all ex-witnesses.
the theme for the event was on the topic of morals and modesty.
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That would have been an interesting conference to attend by far...I remember speaking to a friend who has children like me about how children of atheists are taught to look down upon believers. You see it is another belief system, just like a religion and there is alot of intelorance being taught as well. My friends father in law is extremely anti catholic (of course we live in a Catholic majority country) and voices his opinion on them quite frequently much to the dismay of my friend who is catholic. I think TRygon summed it up quite well. It's a respect issue. The fact that many Atheist speak about intolerance is kind of funny because I know so many cocky intolerant atheists....I love them but they are what they are...
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Do u hate the young people ask video or not?
by XOCO inhow many of u on this bord hate the young ppl ask video: how can i make real friends.
4 the 1st time in like 8 years i threw up a little in my .
xoco.
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o.k. I don't know what happened there.....
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Do u hate the young people ask video or not?
by XOCO inhow many of u on this bord hate the young ppl ask video: how can i make real friends.
4 the 1st time in like 8 years i threw up a little in my .
xoco.
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Actually I thought it was an improvement over those assemblies where they always had the witness kids dressed in skirts and dresses for school and they were getting in trouble for smoking cigarettes or being in line for a R movie. Of course this happening during the time I could name 10 drug dealers in my school and there was like 5 teenage pregnancies in my class...But yeah i thought it was very generalizing of non jw youth...It was pretty hilarious...
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of weed
by inkling indo you know of any current witnesses who smoke marijuana, even rarely?.
did you ever smoke weed while you were still a witness?
do you smoke it now?.
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yes.
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Avoiding an Elder
by R.F. ini'm almost six months past walking away from the religion, and one of the elders has risen and thrown a monkey wrench into my entire plan.
things have been great actually.
since i've managed to shed myself of congregation responsiblities, the elders have gotten off my back quite a bit.
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I also was getting phone calls and had elders coming to my house a couple times. Thankfully I was at work. But after avoiding them successfully for months I was walking to my house and there they were at my doorstep. No escape!!! So I let them in and basically just told them that I had not gone to the meetings because i felt discouraged and I was re-evaluating what I wanted to do as far as religion went. That at the moment I felt like hypocrite if i were to go to meeting because it wouldn't be sincere. One elder kept on mentioning how close we are, and think about the PRIZE etc etc...oh yeah and my children and the responsability I had to Jah for them...
The only question one of them asked me that was very direct was if I still believed the end was coming and I said I didn't know. I had been hearing that story for years...and nothing..And then he said if I wanted to study the bible with them to regain my faith and I said I would think about them and contact them if I needed anything. It all ended well. My advice would be to get the meeting over with. They have to check up on all inactive ones in the territory. Just be nice and decline their help. I'll call you..don't call me thing....Well that's how it went with me and ever since I've had no more phone calls or visits...