as the title suggests, there is a young man studying the bible teach book and attending meetings.
at every meeting that he has attended, there have been some really cultish comments.
of course i hear them loud and clear now, and for years then were coming through, that is why i woke up.. anyway, at the meeting i was sitting there, hating it, listening to all the emotion comments from the audience.
Find out more about him first. I mean as bad as the WT is, just say he was a drug addict trying to find a purpose and the JWs may be the medicine to go straight. Pull the magic carpet out from under him may make him return to worse.
Extreme example i know, but not everyone should be woken up. I beleive that if you wake up another you are responsable for what may follow.
Oz
my very first topic post, to present myself i only can say i'd been a lurker here for a while.. .
since english is not my mother tongue please just disregard my grammatical faults as well unfluency in the composition of my text.. i felt motivated to post because i'm interesting to now your opinion to the subject below explained .
because myself i could not find a perfect solution without raising collateral questions.. .
As the WT have taken it upon themselves to decide who is a predator of children or not, i imagine the 'paradise' run by these men will be worse as there would not be any law to take them to task for it...
a paradise but for who?
Oz
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good day...so this is the conversation i had with a co-worker of mine i mentioned in an earlier thread...shes a jw and doesnt know that i was associated with the jws before and that im a fader.
sounds like she was rehearsing a part for a convention demo...
Oz
total avoidance of everything you had to say
hello to everyone :) i wanted to introduce myself as a newbie.
i was raised in and i am currently on active status due to most of my family being very much in, but i am so ready to be done and have felt that way for quite some time.
internally i know this is not the right religion without a doubt.
welcome new girl
I am so excited by all the 'newbies' lately!
oz
any body else notice that here on jwn and in fact, all over the internet there are these underlined key words that look like a link or something put in by the poster?.
in fact it seems they are not, they link to bloody adds!.
they are popping up all over the place and driving me nuts!.
Any body else notice that here on JWN and in fact, all over the internet there are these underlined key words that look like a link or something put in by the poster?
In fact it seems they are not, they link to bloody adds!
they are popping up all over the place and driving me nuts!
Oz
to all bodies of elders.
re: proper handling of nested magazines.
dear brothers:.
Idiots
they set up an flawed procedure of shipping magazines and then have to issue detailed procedure on how to receive them.
DUH...just dont 'nest' them in the first place!
oz
this is a distilled (and from memory) reconstruction of a chat this morning.... my 81 year old ex-baptist minister friend dub and i went to starbucks for coffee and conversation.
dub likes to start conversations with strangers.. today a seminary student caught his eye.
they talked for about half an hour before dub dropped me into it.
That Terry is cautious about people who claim they DO know god is not the focus of the post. To debate the statement about being cautious is to miss the point entirely!
The point so far as i can tell is that the believer cannot prove anything beyond their own assertations.
Oz
i have always been intrigued about why we dream and recently signed up for a course on dream interpretation.
the course includes a great book written by sigmund freud.. this would have been oh soo taboo if i was still in the borg.
probably would have been df'd for it.. was wondering how many others out there have studied a subject or experimented with new ideas that "mother" would not have approved of since leaving the org, and what you learned from it?
getting back to the subject of dreams...
i wish there was a way to program what we will dream...or at least be able to record them for playback later!
oz
just wondering if your name describes what you saw, how you were treated when you were "in" or now "out", maybe your personality, ect.... i'm label licker and the why i picked this name was because of all the licking up one side of elders and down the other to either be an elder or ministerial servant.
one time i was standing right in front of this brother who wasn't made an ms yet and he totally ignored me and talked right over my head speaking really loud trying to catch the co's attention.. got sick of watching the poor elderly sitting all alone or standing against the wall like a wall flower with noone to talk to and yet all these label lickers would take turns picking up the elders elderly parents and take them shopping and do their groceries at least four times a week while out in service, yet, there was noone there to take a meal to a sister who just got out of the hospital with a heart attack.
when i had shown up at her apartment with a meal she asked if i could wash her private and change her bandages.
because i am Oz from Oz
Oz
i try to be a positive person but sometimes i just can't help myself.
the other day, i was looking at tv and this show was on mtv.
the show was called, "when i was 17".
rant is right!
Now, get it out of your system and move on. I mean that in the kindest way. You can remain trapped feeling like a victim and living a life of regret and bitterness or you can let go and move on with life.
Yes they stole your youth, they did mine too, from 10 to 36. I had to enter the real world like i was 17 again. I have built a pretty decent life since i left and i wouldnt 'marty Mcfly' at all. Change one thing and probably the life i have now with the people i have now would not exist.
It can be done, just don't compare yourself to other people. Not all worldlies are happy you know, sure they got to do all things you didn't but some are still messed up, many socially stunted for other reasons than religion etc.
Time to stop seeing yourself as damaged. You get to grow up a little later than most, but you still get to grow up.
Your Glass is half empty or half full...which is it to you?
Oz
