Topics Started by Intel
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I talked the first time in 20 years to a non-JW and need a divorce...
by Intel inthis is very difficult to write (forgive me for any spelling mistake, i am not a native english speaker).. i cannot tell my complete story on this board - i eventually will, once i have broken the last "link in the chain" that has kept me captive to the borg.
i can't tell my story, because.....basically i will be known.....as a more or less "famous" jw..... i have been lurking this site for many years, wrote here under another name - this eventually was found out and i had to do "damage containment".
i had to "go back" and tow the party line....all my family (extended and close) are witnesses, all my "friends" and even work & business relationships are jw.
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The ties that keep you in chains
by dgp ini am under the impression that one of the worst aspects of life as a jehovah's witness is that every new family and friendship tie you make might become a chain if you ever want out.. i was never a jw and therefore don't have the mindset, but, being who i am, i find that i would not want to create any ties with the witness community.
but it would feel to me that every new friend i made, and every relative, would come at the price of their eventually becoming your worst enemies.. let's use marriage as an example.
i would want a woman by my side, to share my life; but then i would also feel that i would need to find her among the witnesses only; my relationship with her would need to be approved by others; i would not be free to actually get to meet her before we married; once we married, she'd be someone who would know me intimately and could turn me in to the elders; and, if, unfortunately, my relationship didn't work, i would need to sleep with someone else and be disfellowshipped in order to be able to divorce her.
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why would jehovah need to "rest" in the first place? july 15, 2011 WT
by oompa inthe july 15 wt mentioned how god is still resting...confident that his plan is being worked out.
for some reason i had never thought about why the hell god would even need or want a "rest day"....i mean for crying out loud according wt god only created one thing....da baby jesus.
how boring to let him create everything else.
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K.I.S.S. Keep it simple (for the) STUPID! Considering 1914 anew
by Terry inhave you ever seen a stop sign?.
what if it were a "decelerate until stationary!
"sign, instead?.
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Today's WT Study Stupidity About Df'ing
by metatron inin today's watchtower study, towards the end, you had one of those typical comments by a former df'ed witness expressing appreciation for being shunned.
these comments always remind me of a stalinist show trial in which the accused enthusiastically accepts being executed for the greater good (probably to save his family).. after this kind of nonsense is expressed, you will get a flurry of self righteous comments emphasizing how important it is to shun your disfellowshipped relatives, so that they can come back in the "truth".. oh, really?
do any of these people raising their hand realize that, if the "success" of disfellowshipping depends on your shunning, then the "repentant" person is "coming back in the truth" for the sake of their relatives -and not because of fearing jehovah !!!???.
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my lesbian jw relative...sad but true 4-some...and penance
by oompa inyeah i thought the 4-some thing would hook some of you guys in lol!.
she is about 24 and has three other gay jw roommates and has for a few years.
virtually everyone knows they are gay.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 05-01-2011 WT Study (LAWLESNESS)
by blondie indo you hate lawlessness?.
can the elders enforce any laws since they cannot read hearts?
love one another.