I didn't go. Spent a happy evening at home with Hubby watching a film
ambersun
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The first thing I did when I left the WT....
by sherry123 inwas sing the national anthem out loud......alone......in my house.
what did you do?.
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ambersun
Told the school we were no longer JWs so the children could now live normal lives and were allowed to have FUN. The teachers were cheering along with us!!
At the age of 40 I enrolled myself in the college course I was not allowed to do as a teenager (due to it being a total waste of time as armageddon would strike before I finished the course)
Enrolled my dog on an obedience course that was held on meeting nights. That gave me tremendous satisfaction!
Started having fun as a family, going out at weekends instead of spending them knocking doors and sitting in stuffy KHs.
The list goes on .....................
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Don't you DARE to get up!!
by stillin9 ininteresting points from this week's wt study (dec 15 2010 study edition):.
par 12: "do i encourage my children not to view the song between the theocratic ministry school and the service meeting or the one between the public talk and the watchtower study as a sort of intermission,an opportunity for them to leave their seats unnecessarily, perhaps just to stretch their legs?".
why do they have to make such a big deal out of everything?
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ambersun
I would think that if anyone found themselves in prison, the last thing on their minds would be singing Kingdom Songs, or any other songs for that matter.
Also, on the subject of forcing young children to sit through two hours of meetings designed for adults, the contrast between how children are treated at KHs and the Methodist church up the road to us is quite an eyeopener.
A couple I know who did not belong to any particular religion decided, out of curiosity, to go to the local Methodist church one Sunday with their very young daughter who had never been inside a church before. As soon as they walked in they were given a very warm welcome, but the warmest welcome of all was directed towards their little daughter. A nice, kind lady asked her if she would like to join the other children in the Sunday school while Mummy and Daddy sat in the main church listening to the Vicar. She gently took her by the hand and lead her into the adjouning room, smiling and chatting all the time to put her at her ease.
Well, the parents had a peaceful hour giving their full attention to the sermon while their daughter enjoyed herself in Sunday school learning about the bible in a gentle, fun, age related manner. When the service was over, all the children came skipping out of Sunday school with drawings of the bible characters they had been learning about during the hour. Everybody was stress free, no children had been forced to sit still on uncomfortably hard chairs staring straight ahead of them listening to a droning voice that they could not understand. The children were treated with respect and dignity, being taught in a manner appropriate to their ages and most importantly of all, made to feel welcome.
Given a choice, if I were a child I know for sure which religion I would prefer to join!!
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Going Door to Door with Scrolls
by VM44 indoes anyone know where this anachronistic and propagandistic picture came from?.
did a watchtower artist draw it?.
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ambersun
In those days, there were no printing presses. Scriptures were copied by hand, AND were very expensive. Few could afford hand-copied copies!
Exactly right, PublishingCult.
Who had the job of copying these scrolls? After all, someone had to do it as they wouldn't write themselves. Are we to believe these men spend their entire nights sitting up at their dining tables by candle light writing out dozens of copies neatly by hand in order to devote the daylight hours to going from door to door giving them out to householders who were most probably illiterate anyway?
How would these men afford all the papyrus and ink? It is hightly unlikely they would be able to charge enough money to cover these costs. Also, the writers' cramp they would experience would be excruciating to say nothing of sleep depravation in order to get all the scrolls ready for an early start out in field service next morning. Really silly.
Mind you, even when I was a JW I always tended to be very sceptical about things like this that other JWs just accepted as wonderful upbuilding 'facts'. Sometimes I felt like pulling my hair out in frustration at some of the highly improbable examples they gave us in the WT, but thanks to JWN I realise I was not on my own
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Stupid not just once but twice, and it is praised
by therevealer in12 the watchtower ?
5 what good results there can be when.
children are trained to keep a simple eye!.
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ambersun
lol at pontoon
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Stupid not just once but twice, and it is praised
by therevealer in12 the watchtower ?
5 what good results there can be when.
children are trained to keep a simple eye!.
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ambersun
I especially hated the stories about people who supposedly swam across crocodile infested rivers, hacked their way through a jungle or climbed over a mountain to attend their meetings.
That brings back some memories lol. Don't forget the one about the man braving bandits to get to the meetings knowing he would be murdered if caught. They did catch him in fact, but the bandits were so impressed with his faith that they let him go. Yeah, right . Then there was the crippled elderly sister who crawled for miles to the meeting on her hands and knees rather than miss it when there was nobody available to take her. Who on earth was this martyr to the faith? Possibly this Ethiopian girl's grandmother?
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My Labrador died can anyone please help me. I can't stand the pain.
by Witness 007 inmy wife recovered from depression just 14 months ago and things have been going well.....so much so that i started a buisness for her and we are two weeks into it.
my labby was ill vomiting abit of discomfort, i thought great, you ate something bad again!
the vet gave him a shot and sent us home.
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ambersun
My heart goes out to you Witness 007. I know only too well what that pain is like. When our dog died we were all overwhelmed with grief and still miss him terribly, but thank goodness the heart wrenching pain has now eased off.
Also, please rest assured that you are quite normal in your feelings of guilt, wondering if you could have done more at the time. I was exactly the same and tortured myself for ages as I went over and over his last days in my head thinking of ways I could have made things better. This is all part of the normal grieving process and WILL pass in time even though you may not believe it right now.
Hopefully by reading these posts it will help knowing you are not on your own with your unbearable pain and anyone who has lost a beloved pet will know the pain and the emotions you are feeling right now. Try not to beat yourself up over it. Your lab was really lucky to have had such a happy life with owners who adored him.
Take care Witness 007. Please be assured time is a great healer
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May 15 2011 WT - study edition out
by just n from bethel ini don't really care to download it and review it and see how it's the same old same old - but i do like to read up on others doing it here.
:) i'm a lazy leach like that.. so - get to it guys.. www.jw.org.
edit: haha- i said 2001 in the title - meant 2011.
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ambersun
Sorry
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Stupid not just once but twice, and it is praised
by therevealer in12 the watchtower ?
5 what good results there can be when.
children are trained to keep a simple eye!.
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ambersun
I whole heartedly agree dgp. If by some miracle this story was true, just think of the wonderful things this girl could achieve for herself, her family and her community with the money she earned, which would be on a parr with winning the lottery for most of us.
My friend's daughter who has actually lived among Ethiopians in the course of her charity work, told us some heart rending tales of poverty, the lack of food and medicines or clean water, and how she and her colleagues literally picked up a dying child and drove for miles to a hospital to get vital treatment for her which her family could not afford. Most children she came across were lucky to get any form of education at all. Of course, it is likely that there are poor areas and more affluent areas like any other country in the world but it still seems a bit hard to believe that a girl should not only be in a position to turn down higher education, but then on leaving school with no qualifications be offered an incredibly high paid job.
If I get a chance, I will ask my friend's daughter what she thinks about this story.
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You Can Overcome WT Phobias!
by leavingwt inearly in the exit process, it's very important to begin overcoming irrational fears.
fear of the devil.
fear of god.
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ambersun
Excellent topic. Even after 20 years I still have occasions when I find myself faced with irrational fears caused by all the mind control sessions I used to attend. This site has helped a lot!!