mine was to some random guy in uniform i saw on the street about two years ago.
even as a jw i knew that we had a lot of freedoms here in the us that were hard earned.
it felt really good to finally be able to say in person to someone when i i did..
Every chance I get !
when I left the jw religion I got involved with an organization, Honor Flight, that takes WW2 veterans out to Washington DC for one day to visit their memorial.
without a doubt that was the most emotional, and in a certain way spiritual chapter of my life. I was able to go on 3 trips and they affected me greatly.
much more than knocking on doors for a religion. 😉
this is a video of one trip I was on returning back to Midway airport in Chicago.
i honestly think they are the most boring people on earth!
even when they produce their so called "new light", there's no excitement.
jws just do their thing and refuse to think about their useless lives.
I remember hearing new teachings at the district assemblies, and I saw no real excitement.
But while leaving I would feel superior because of the "new light" esp. Whe seeing the apostates with their signs outside of the Hawthorn track.
Sort of like Clark Kent knowing that he is Superman. 😜
can you relay some of the battles , who won and how did the loser cope ?.
One HS aged son of an elder wanted to go to his prom with a sister. The girls parents were OK with it, but the boys dad was a big shot in the hall and he would not have anything to do with this !
Well, my wife was a teacher, and we signed up to be chaperones for the evening, that really burned the elder, because it seemed that we were siding with the girl and her parents.
He tried so many ways to belittle us for chaperoning, but we stuck to our guns and went to the prom.
Man, did he do a slow burn for several months afterward, because the kids had a good time and they were being "watched" by other witnesses, although that wasn't out reasoning. Afterwards I noticed that my privileges started to dry up, and at that time my fade was really in high gear. Thanks mr. p, you really helped me realize what was important.
years ago it was all about armageddon and getting out of babylon the great.
then with the draw close to jehovah and is there a creator that care about you.
it was all about building a relationship with jehovah.
I find this to be a very interesting topic.
yes, I remember the main focus of preaching to be the end of the world, but the college where I work the witnesses sit in the student lounge with their cart 2-3 days each week.
4 people sitting all day in an institution that their teachings do not like, it just blows my mind to see them sitting there.
And the signs they have, not much about the end, mainly it seems on how to be a better person and accept their version of the bible.
within the organization, jehovah's witnesses know that they must be dutiful and set an example for "worldly ones" as well as for their own brotherhood.
if a witness fails in setting the proper example, they may lose some 'privileges"..... what privileges did you look to have and what privileges did you lose?
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My hours would be between 4-7 each month.
one Sunday an elder asked if I would be interested in reading the wt. which I said yes to.
next week the same thing, reading the wt.
after that meeting the elder pulled me aside and asked if I enjoyed reading for the meeting, which I said yes to.
His reply back to me was that I'd better get my time up each month if I wanted to read again.
my time started to go down, and I never read on Sunday again ✨💫
so in this topic, i mentioned i had a conversation with an elder "d." this elder said that the catholic church admitted the trinity is unscriptural.
i'm pretty sure this is not true.
the doctrine of trinity is the most fundamental belief in the catholic church.
so in this topic, i mentioned i had a conversation with an elder "d." this elder said that the catholic church admitted the trinity is unscriptural.
i'm pretty sure this is not true.
the doctrine of trinity is the most fundamental belief in the catholic church.
Not true, another elder believing his thoughts are real.
so it's not enough that i'm dealing with post traumatic stress/anxiety and panic attacks all related to my life as a jw (50 years baptized -- i stopped going a couple of months ago) at 3 a.m. i get an email from the other side of the world.
'you have to go to the convention.
bro sanderson says we must watch the news, things are happening.
I went with a large group of witnesses to see " The Empire Strikes Back" after a convention the summer when the movie opened.
Everyone just loved the movie, but then the conversation and mood completely changed when someone said, " well, this is probably going to be the last Star Wars movie before Armageddon, maybe George Lucas can hurry up and make the next movie pretty quick".
That conversation just wrecked the afternoon for pretty much everyone, but there were those diehard witnesses who just kept bringing up how sad they were that this was the end of Star Wars.
Fast forward to 2017. There have been how many, 8-9 more Star Wars movies since then ? Try not to let their ignorant chatter derail your life. your too important!
3 missed calls from my jw brother last night.
i didnt answer because he's actively shunning me and when he does ring it always to preach to me about how we're so close to the end and how i should "humble myself before the mighty hand of god" .
he then texts me saying "we need to talk".
And they still think of that all the time.
maybe i am "gasping for straws"... maybe not.
call the spca on the witnesses.. in the convention they'll have various "musical videos" so that people actually sit down during the "musical interludes".... in one of the videos they show children with various animals... enjoying life now.. that... is a real, live fish... with a tattoo!!
it appears in one of the convention videos.... it involves the same process as tattooing a human... same amount of pain... but obviously can't get approval from them!.
I'm a humane investigator in the U.S. 95% of people/ organizations will just roll their eyes and smile.
but that nut group PETA might be interested
