I am so sorry for your loss.
Hugs.
less than 5 hours ago my great dad fell asleep the last time :( still in a bit of a shock and sad that i will not see him again...i promised myself that once he is here no more, i will somehow make my move out of this organisation who kept us all captive believing in a fantasy of an everlasting life :( i am in a tricky situation, since raised as jw, still in, married to an active jw, and pretty sure that all in my social and family circle will turn their backs on me if i finally say goodbye to a fairytail ;(.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Hugs.
september 21, 2016 to all congregations re: global assistance arrangement for the 2017 service year.
ps to bodies of elders:.
this postscript should not be read to the congregation, and this letter should not be placed on the noticeboard.
This is another WT money grabbing stunt.
In old time highway robbery, the bandits (apparently) used to say, "Your money or your life".
With JW..org, they take both.
i got in an hour metal detecting this evening and found this almost immediately.. it is a silver penny of henry ii minted in london by "davi" between 1180 and 1189. this adds a king i didn't have in my collection.
i now have the series of henry ii - john - henry iii - edward i - edward ii - edward iii.. i now need richard the lionheart to fill in the gap.
he was the brother of john and reigned after the death of henry ii.
Wow, wow, WOW!!! So exciting... To say the least. lol
"Two hundred yards from my front door".
Amazing. Simply, amazing.
I am tickled pink for you. (An American expression).
LoisLane
update on mouthy (grace gough)this is graces granddaughter.
i wanted to send an update that today my beautiful grandmother passed away - surrounded by friends and family.
- may 22 1927 - sept 2nd 2016. mouthys_granddaughter.
Granny Grace,
Everyone should have one. At least we had the pleasure of her company with her cheeky personality and that she made each of us feel loved.
If there is a Heaven, I hope you are up there enjoying it's delights.
My sincere condolences to all of her dear family and friends.
2016-08-16 branch relocation project - key events.
2016-08-17 branch relocation project - personnel needs.
2016 key events programme.
Wow! Dated today! lol Love it! lol
For how many years each of us has been involved with the WT 'Lie' (certainly NOT 'truth') if we had garnered all of our friends and family support to give us cash each month (for years so I/we live for free basically) and then take some of the 'freely' given cash and turn around and ask the same friends and family to donate to a building fund for 'me' (each of us) so I can buy land, then after buying the land and getting my blue prints and building permits, ask all the ones in trades to build my structure for FREE, how long would my friends and family carrying on as my friends and loving family members that I free load off of?
BUT, in the name of RELIGION, WT/JW..org does not mind free loading off of 'their' 'sheep'.
WT/JW..org YOU ARE DISCUSTING TURDS OF HUMANITY!
You are leeches that live off of the live$ of others who are BRAIN-WASHED by YOU, who never get to do what they want to do.
Normal people do what they want. Marry who they want. Get training and education that fulfills their needs, dreams and desires. Are adults who decide what they want to wear and if they want to sleep in on the week end or not. Are adults that budget time and money to pursue their goals, not WT/JW..org's or anyone else's, first. In fact, normal people put themselves and family first... NOT religion.
How wonderful it would be if all the Elders that read these letters, finally say, ENOUGH! My family comes FIRST!
Forget you, you demanding WT/JW..org aka Mafia hitman. If we don't do what you say... What ya gonna do? Tell us again, for over 100 years now, that your scary Big A is coming... to kill everyone if they do not sit in your Kingdumb Hauls for the weekly indoctranation sessions? What a laugh! You guys are the greedy, scheming, a$$hole$ of the Universe! If you had a conscience, which psychopaths don't, you should be ashamed of yourselves! That you never apolozy and never feel shame, shows the whole world what narcissist a$$hole$ you are!
Rant over.
anyone see that there is a long letter on how to handle child abuse?.
Sorry. I only read to point #3. Sexual conduct with a minor is a gross sin.
Really WT/JW..org???????????????????????????????????????????
It took you how many decades AND a century to figure that one out?
I despise you workers of lawlessness. Perverters of justice.
You are cockroaches who live to do their dirty 'business' in darkness, then when the lights are turned on, you, Geoffrey Jackson, Australian Royal Commission summer of 2015, LIED!!!
WT/JW..org are killers of people. You are a madman who allow no respectable escape. WT leaders are sociopaths, egotists, out for what they can get from the low and downtrodden 'little guy'. Shame on you WT. You are the scum of the earth! If only all GB members and Elder's could go to prison from holding back protection of innocent children, let those men (and women if they knew and did nothing) get their due there from stinky Bubba looking for new sexual conquests and see how they like it. Scream all you like. No one will care. That is how you treated us!
LoisLane
a few years on and the funeral of my jw momma still galls me.
she left instructions for which kingdom songs to be sung and we gladly abided by her wishes.
the funeral was held in a public crematorium, not a kingdom hall.
SnuggleBunny,
That is such a beautiful song you chose for you and your Mom's parting exit. Uplifting, joyous, yet melancholy and yearning. Full of love and heart.
Perfect.
Thank you for sharing your song choice with us. My heart is full with mixed emotion thinking of that day when the Jdub speaker had his way. Truly shameful of him. Just an unthinking, unfeeling, JW..org, zombie drone.
My condolences to you and yours.
Hugs.
LoisLane
well i just got back from 3 days in hell, and geez was this convention strange or what?
im sure someone's probably made a topic about this already but i can't believe that there weren't any new releases besides the movies.
has that ever happened before?
Through my decades in The Lie, many times they did not announce a date or place for the next years RC. It of course, would lead to suspicion that the WT 'knew' something that we lowly ones didn't. It caused renewed vigor in that... maybe our 'deliverance' was getting near. Nope. They just hadn't finalized the next years RC plans yet or they intentionally try and excite, scare, stress their loyal subjects.
As far as this years emotional videos...maybe the Govererning boobee's wants its followers to eventually stop preaching. Maybe they really did build a huge bunker at their new lakeside estate. Maybe they will try and scare all the sheeples into giving all of their money to them, and sell off all the kingdom hauls and assembly hauls they own. This could take a number of years to accomplish. After a portion of the GB's money is safely packed away in numbered accounts, and after they buy hundreds of different businesses and other investment properties world wide, they will report the preaching is done. Wait on Jehovah. Good bye. Stay warm and well fed and don't let the door hit ya, where the good Lord, split ya and they will morf, into some other new brand religion that doesn't go d2d or use rolly carts. An easier religion. Maybe TV evangelists or TV evalgelists for children... like cartoon religion. (??? I just thought of that. Lett seems to be practing for the part). They will do whatever they can to keep the money flowing in.
LoisLane
hello jwn,.
to introduce myself, i am still in the jws but learned ttatt some months ago.
i now ask this question to get more info on a past teaching.. between 1967 and 1980 was when the 'current understanding' of the wts was that organ transplants were cannibalism, and thus abhorrent.
As a born in Jdub, my mind was always spinning. as in, what is WT going to change next? The answer to that I have supposed is that when one of the GB members, friends or family, 'need' something on the WT/JW..org 'can't have/do' list, presto, chango, New Lite...
Why do they have to act like uneducated used car salesmen with huge egos that 'know' everything'? We all know people like that and unfortunately, those are the kind of guys running WT/JW..org. Ignorant, arrogant men.
Yes, when transplants started back in the 1960's, it was a disfellowshiping offense to 'eat' another persons body organs and the person doing so would have been considered to be a 'cannibal' by WT standards. I remember it well. What I missed was the March 15, 1980 WT quoted above that said it was a private conscience matter. In 1988, I met someone who had had a transplant and was in good standing. I was shocked to say the least then someone told me WT had changed it's stance on it.
WT does not allow adults to grow up and make their own informed decisions. WT is the ignorant, embaressing blow heart, know it all, domineering, arrogant person that alert and aware people don't want to have anything to do with.
LoisLane
it's finally finished!
it's a fictional story about an old jw.
it is very long, about 7000 words.. the opal ring.
Does anyone know how Julia Orwell is doing?
Someone mentioned a week or so ago about some GB member's wife wearing a lot of jewelry.
It reminded me of Julia's story of the opal.
I enjoyed reading it and for any new ones, I hope you will enjoy Julia's writing also.
LoisLane