soooooo .
last night, my son and i sat on a panel .
at a public meeting of pflag .
You're so right, chickpea. We ex-drones need to be just as vocal against Dubs as we were for them were still in the Borg. It seems like every time I'm even a little outspoken, I find someone who has something against the Dubs.
You are a great mother for being such a support to your son!
it's been a while since i've been on here and just wondering if any of the gays are still around... in addition, if you are gay and new to the board (or even been here a while), go ahead and introduce yourself!.
if you're gay and stuck in the organization, this is a good place to talk about it and meet other people that are or have been where you are.
it's not a choice and there are plenty of people out there who understand what it is like to be in your position!.
Gregor: "Why the hell does a posters sexual orientation even merit mentioning?"
Ummm.... Maybe because it's a huge part of recovering from the Borg?
jstalin: "Other site?"
When it was first announced JWD was closing, there are a bunch of us, both gay and straight, that migrated to www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com, but I still check in here from time to time.
dh and i have been missing a lot of meetings.
this i might add is of his initiation, not mine.
anyways, yesturday we missed the sunday meeting.
I didn't get panicky when I missed meetings while I was still in. But I did feel a bit anxious when I started missing meetings with the idea that I wasn't going back.
i have just posted a new article on methods of false reasoning in the watchtower at http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/rhetorical-fallacy.htm.
this discusses rhetorical fallacy, methods such as red herrings, straw man arguments, generalisations etc.. i would welcome any comments or proof reading.
i would particularly like to know of any additional examples that i may have missed.. .
Great site, jwfacts! Now I need to figure out how to talk my family into checking it out...
when you first started to learn about the bible, god and jesus?
preschool or school age?.
who were you learning from?
I'm a third-gen (mom's side) and fourth-gen (dad's side) JW, so I started learning about Jehoober "from infancy." I gave my first Bible reading when I was four.
once, when i was nine, i farted so loud, from the back row, that the guy giving the prayer started laughing and had to try really hard not to totally lose it.. any other stories?
avishai: "I learned how to light farts at a JW get-together."
So did my best friend. That's how he caught his pants on fire!
i think it's such a waste of time, energy and life.
no question.
i feel better about being out of "the truth" than ever before!.
I do feel bad for them. Sometimes it's hard not to resent them for the way they treat me now that I'm out, but a lot of them aren't really in control of their own actions, so their actions don't necessarily represent their true feelings.
drwtsn32: "People afraid of this are possibly from the same group that fears GM crops."
I was just talking to someone about that today. I write for a newspaper in a big agricultural area, and I was interviewing someone for a story I'm working on. He knows his stuff, and figures that GM crops are better for the environment: with some, only one type of herbicide or insecticide has to be used on the crops, rather than several. Which means, if we're not eating organic food — and who can afford that? — we're ingesting far less crap in the long run. I never thought of it that way before, but I thought his point of view was interesting.
just got a september '08 awake in my paws.. the cover asks "is there life beyond the grave".
they have a quote from forrest gump (of course he wasn't mentioned by name but i've seen the movie a million times).
it says roughly: in a movie a young man is shown standing by his mother's grave.
Couldn't the Forrest Gump screenplay writers sue the WTBS for quoting their script without any attribution whatsoever? It always pissed my off that they never gave sources for so many quotes. Obviously, journalistic integrity doesn't matter much to the writing department.
today i decided to visit a friend of mine who i met when she was my study.
(she has no intentions of making a commitment, but still continues studying with old pioneer 'friends' of mine.
well it just so happens that these 2 sisters were there.
Good for you, strawberry cake! It takes guts to do that when you know what their reaction will be.
