I've just gradually let go of everything. I go out 1 hour FS a month to keep under the radar (they are RVs I've had for years that are going nowhere). I go to a meeting maybe once a month just to show my face and keep in touch with the few I like. Family have just got used to it now. They know how I feel which makes it easier. The elders and CO know I have my 'doubts' but that I don't want to talk about it. All in all I've found a relatively comfortable place to be under the circumstances.
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Coping whilst stuck in the org.
by crazyhorse ini recently learned ttatt and it really sickens me when i sit through the meetings.
i am so tired of faking things.
i feel like vomiting when annoying things are said from the platform.
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Sipping our drinks at the track..part 2.". I didnt tell them anything," she said
by MissFit in...as we were enjoying our weekly sunday "no meetings margaritas.. my friend and i have been meeting for lunch and margaritas ( okay mostly margaritas, we throw lunch in so we dont feel like alcoholics lol ??).
instead of going to meetings.. ( we discovered we could have lunch*margaritas* without the meeting first.).
my jw lady friend still goes out "in service" and stays in touch with her "service buddies" who also know me.. so she was telling me that they asked about me and mentioned that they would like to stop by to see me.
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tornapart
Missfit, your friend sounds like an adorable lady. I knew an old lady like this. She became a JW later in life. She lived on her own and loved entertaining. Always younger ones, never those her own age. We were young enough (at the time) to be her grand children. We loved her. Young at heart she was. Never went anywhere without her high heel shoes.
As she got older she went into a retirement home far from us and we missed her. It was near to where she was brought up as a child. One year we went on holiday there and looked her up. While hubby went climbing the neaby mountains. I took her along with my children for a drive in the countryside. We went past all her old haunts and she thought it was wonderful and told me all her stories as a child. We stopped at a countryside inn and sat outside in the sun overlooking a river and had some lunch. It was a time I will never forget. She was a wonderful old lady and I still think of her with a deep fondness.
Treasure a friendship like this!
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I loathe authority
by punkofnice innow i'm not preaching hatred here i am just expressing how i've felt for years even when i was a jw.. i totally loathe the police/policticians...any authority......anyone that is over anyone else.
i have a total hatred of them all.
i wonder if it's because i was raised a jw?.
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tornapart
Me too Punkie!! Hubby always used to call me a rebel long before I realised the big delusion. Now I just couldn't care less about any of it. Authority of any kind is just there to take away the free will of another fellow human.
Of course some authority is necessary to keep peace and protect us from crime but authority is always abused. And religious authority... well... no-one tells me what I should and shouldn't believe!
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A rose by any other name..............
by sparrowdown ini'm curious, why and how did you choose your username?.
does it hold any special significance for you, is there a share-able back story?.
for me sparrowdown is a playful reference to matt 10:29 and the title of the movie black hawk down.. matt 10:29 was my go-to scrip to "prove" that god cares about us as individuals.
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tornapart
I chose my name because that's how I felt at the time. I had finished reading Ray Franz's books and felt torn apart with learning TTATT. Now? I could do with a new name but I wouldn't know what to choose and anyway, I'm known by that one now.
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If money were no object where would you live?
by usualusername inmy money is on tuscany, italy at the moment..
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tornapart
Nth Tuscany (in the mountains) or the Cevennes or the Pyrenees in France. I love the Scottish Highlands too but the weather is too wet!
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the flood, mammoths, elphants, and food.
by Crazyguy inmy question is since it looks as though mammoths were alive after the flood and we know elephants are then how much food was needed to feed just these four animals for the time they were on the ark.
also was the ark, 500 feet long, big enough to hold the amount of food needed for just these 4 animals.. .
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tornapart
I think that there was a flood, a large one but that it was localised. When the bible speakes of the 'earth' being covered by water it could mean just the area known at the time. The earth as we know it took thousands of years before all of it was discovered. I think the flood must have been somewhat significant because of other myths and legends about it in other cultures. As for the animals, maybe it was just the few known in that area too. Perhaps even just domestic animals.
What has always bothered me about the story (even as a JW) was how did Australia come to have all the marsupials (bar the oppossum in the Americas). Why are nearly all the indiginous species of mammals in Australia either marsupials or monotremes? If the flood was global then this would have been impossible.
The logistics of feeding/cleaning up after all those animals didn't make sense to me either.
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Scottish independance in two days what do you think?
by barry inone thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.
if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?
even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .
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tornapart
I think it will be very sad. Will Wales be next? Why can't they just keep their identity within sports and leave it at that. A broken up UK will be a disaster. Hopefully the majority of Scots will use their common sense and vote no.
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FYI all... Mike and Kim You Tube
by ducatijoe inwell if any did not know, mike and kim were shut down on you tube.. they are back on under kim mikey.. .
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tornapart
They do some great stuff and they make me laugh.
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Circuit Assembly Summary
by piztjw ini thought to give a more comprehensive summary, however this pretty well sums up the entire wasted day.. stand and sing.. prayer thanking the gb.. only jw's will survive "the end".. do more.
preach more.
indoctrinate your children more.
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tornapart
BU2B... don't let it get to you so much!! Chill!!
I'm in a similar boat to you, elder hubby, MS/pioneer son (still at home). You have to let her know how you feel without letting all that negativity come out. Reach her natural persona, appeal to it. Even the most hardedned JW has a natural side! I have my mum to stay sometimes and she's full on, I change the subject to lots of other things, it can be done as long as you don't let the JW stuff get to you.
I know at the assembly is a bad time, we've just had our RC but take a deep breath, get through it and when it's over just put it behind you. Meetings too much? Don't go. FS too much? Don't go. Do something fun instead, let your wife see you having fun instead of drinking yourself into oblivion.
You can get through it! Like me and many others are having to!
Piztjw.. thanks for the summary. LOL!
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WT is obsessed with "Korah"
by EndofMysteries inkorah and the faithful and discreet slave go hand in hand.
korah and sparlock.
if you do a search for the word, "korah" in the wt lib, the wt barely goes a month without showing into a wt or magazine about rebellious korah and applying it to themselves as being moses and if you question the authority of the gb, you'll be destroyed.
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tornapart
So glad I didn't go Sunday! Hubby said something about it to me later. When I said that Jesus was the 'Greater Moses' and not a bunch of men in Brooklyn, he went quiet. LOL