Posts by lancelink

this is a post for all those jw lurkers out there who were once like me but probably think they are all alone and that noone else is going through what they are.... xmas day as a lonely jw is a real bitch!

what happens is: you spend the whole day alone, knowing that all those jw familys in your area are all together today having a great time!

if you have a family thats not jw then they are also all together having a great time... but you can't join in.... so you sit there watching tv, all the xmas films coming on... showing familys together on xmas day.... but wait a second!

lancelink

When I was a JW I was working construction with a brother who owned his own business.

On Christmas we went to work as usual, and since I celebrated the holidays before becoming a witness, it was a very

weird day.

Framing a house one year in a wealthy neighborhood, temp in low teens with below 0 winchills, looking at all the people having

family get togethers in a warm house.

And here I was with several zealot jw's working construction

That was one of the major incidents where I began questioning the normalcy, and sanity of people in the religion.

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Free Home Bible Study?

by juci32 in

why do the witnesses always stress "free home bible study"?.

as if other religions charge for them.

i never understood that lol..

lancelink

It cost me 30 years of just focusing on the world ending.

I missed out on some incredible opportunities for this belief !

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Free Home Bible Study?

by juci32 in

why do the witnesses always stress "free home bible study"?.

as if other religions charge for them.

i never understood that lol..

lancelink

It cost me 30 years of just focusing on the world ending.

I missed out on some incredible opportunities for this belief !

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Holy Cow...The Mormons just stopped by....

by LostGeneration in

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friends

its just past 8pm, freezing cold out, i mean probably 10 degrees at the most.

its snowing.

a little bit windy but not a blizzard.

lancelink

my wife who was a JW for 27 years, became a mormon two years ago.

BE CAREFUL, if you give them an inch they will end up taking a mile !

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Facebook condemned

by straightshooter in

my wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.

this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .

lancelink

hey, how can people on this site be facebook friends ?

I'm kinda new at it, educate, or pm me.

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insignificance and arrogance

by Aussie Oz in

this evening the wife and i went for a walk on the beach, something that never fails to make me feel small and insignificant.

i stand on the edge of this huge island called australia looking out to the curve of the horizon.

this is a small planet, floating in its own blue atmosphere, floating in our tiny galaxie, in its own little solar system, in its slightly larger section of the unmeasurable universe.. we are as tiny, even tinier than a fine grain of sand in the universe, we are, essentialy, nothing.

lancelink

very neat video, thanks for posting !

Since the late 1980's I have been looking for a video like this except instead of going all the way out into space only,,,,

the camera went back to earth and went into the hand of a man sitting on a beach.

Then the video went down to the molecular level

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OMG! Ghost caught on camera!!!!

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

omg!

watch this amazing video of a real ghost caught on camera!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l2ldhnmrfw.

lancelink

It is just an example of satan working today.

(insert picture of the church lady here) !!!

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Nobody from her church visited her - Jan 2010 WT study experience

by truthseeker in

i find paragraph 20 quite interesting in the jan 2010 study article.

http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/w_f-st_e_20100115.pdf.

"prove to be a real follower of christ".

lancelink

My Mom died a year ago, and she was a jwl for 25 years, then my parents moved out of Illinois.

When she died NOT ONE person from the Illinois hall (which my parents and current family attended since 1977) stopped off to visit me, no phone calls,only 4-5 cards from some of her older friends.

The really scary thing was when I was visiting my Dad out of state, we returned home one afternoon after getting something to eat and there was a paradise earth tract stuck in his door. He pulled it out, laughed, and said "oh, the friends must have been here"

I found out that weekend that nobody stopped and visited my Mom for over one year from their local hall.

They had been attending for ten years before she got sick, her illness prevented her from going to any meetings.

My Dad hired a nurse to come over pt to help,

friends from the hall,,, completely non-existent. Even tho they knew my parents, and they attended the meetings quite regularly before the illness.

They even had a book study in their home for two years !

One of the major headblows all within one year that made me ditch this religion like a hot potato