ive been lurking here for the past couple of months since i started researching the organization.
i dont have many people to talk to and its been a saving grace to read your posts.. i dont really know where to start so here i go.
its been a long journey getting here and it looks as if i still have a long ways to go to get somewhere healthy, stable and strong.
Welcome Hadit! I am also married to an active JW husband. It does present some challanges and occasionally some yelling matches, but it has gotten better.
Moshe, you are so right, fraud, and I wouldn't have joined up if I knew they could change the terms of "baptism contract" , so to speak, by changing their beliefs every so many years.
just so you all know.
moving june 1st... going back to an apartment... .
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Good for you, Mouthy. I hope you'll be much happier at the new place.
i was reading the topic on sisters having to sit in the backseat even if it was their car.
made me think of a few rules i was subjected to.
one was we were not allowed to have a radio on.
Wardens that wouldn't let you go pee til noon.
i enjoyed this essay by psychologist valerie tarico.
the born again experience.
i prayed harder and just then i felt like everything i was saying was being sucked into a vacuum.
Not all christians have these "feelings." For me, being born again, means to submit to Christ's leadership, and therefore being "born again" as "spiritual" children of God. To my knowledge, there is nothing in scripture that says we are to have some sort of "experience" Honestly, I can't relate to people, particularly the ones I see on t.v. , that claim to.
As far as tongues goes, I don't have it. I do believe it happened as stated in Acts. I don't know if it happens today or not. Personally, I prefer to pray in English.
So, I guess, as far as christians go, not all of us are emotional, or it is possible that I'm just cold hearted.
all the earthquakes, mudslides, and now volcanic ash in the sky of europe grounding air-travel.. the end is nigh!.
jeff.
Yes, Jeff, they are, or at least my husband is, every day, nearly every minute. That was until I told him that I didn't care if the end was tomorrow, I still wouldn't go back to being a jehovah's witness.
i'm getting coffee at the 7-11 about 8:30 this morning , in the parking lot i see this guy i know and his wife talking to some jw's in the parking lot.
i go over and say hi joe and wife, i play stupid and ask do you go to church with these people.
they say no they are preaching jesus to us.
Good job, Judge. You saved your friends from years of misery.
i've lurking for months, and have enjoyed the various personalities on the board.
i'm pretty sure that i've seen this topic done on an old thread, but i don't want to get my buddy asilentone all riled up by performing a resurrection.
minimus- cause he is funny.
Wildflower, I live in Bennett, I knew some people that were Buena Vista, the Walkers, the Richards, I knew some others, but can't remember their names. I'm not far from Dia, maybe we can meet up. Pm me and I'll give you my facebook, so you'll know Im safe.
i'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.
and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.
so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .
I stopped attending in 2008, was in for 22 years.
this is just a note to all who have assured me of their fondness for me, on board and in pm.. i really appreciate it, and i feel the same about y'all.. this is a great site, and i do get a bit carried away at times.. blame it on too much loneliness and not enough to do on the job, but not on deliberate crassness.. ok?.
thanks!.
sylvia.
Love ya, sis!
i've lurking for months, and have enjoyed the various personalities on the board.
i'm pretty sure that i've seen this topic done on an old thread, but i don't want to get my buddy asilentone all riled up by performing a resurrection.
minimus- cause he is funny.
Awildflower, I live just E. of Aurora, how about you? Pm me sometime.
