i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.
there are resources here that are deep.
like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?
Welcome ML. A huge well done for standing up for what you believe in. Always be true to yourself. In my town a man was hounded out his home and made to leave by the community after the police found thousands of images of children on his PC, yet the same time the JWs refused to cooperate with the police when asked about a pedophile in their congregation! Us 'wordly' people are disgusted by pedo's actions, JWs want to protect them!
I wish you peace and happiness in your journey through life.
this is, of course, a recurrent topic that's made possible whenever a kingdom hall decides to march out on your neighborhood and street.. today it happened again in my neighborhood as a drum up for the memorial observance scheduled for monday the 14th of april.. why christ's passion and death should be observed on a monday of holy week i failed to ask this morning.
perhaps someone else might like to volunteer, but it seemed just another reason to be sceptical about the whole thing, though hardly ranking with changing ancient chronologies to get jerusalem's temple destruction 2520 years before 1914.. anyway two gentlemen in white shirts and ties greeted me politely enough at my door and presented me with a flyer about an event which they described as momentous.
they asked me if i had ever intended one and i assented.
You certainly left them with something to think about. Nicely handled.
i am sure that the term "circuit overseer" will be gone soon.
they seem to be changing vocabulary and the presiding overseer is now the "coordinator of the body of elders" and all "district overseers" will be gone in a few months.
they used to be called "circuit servants" but they will never re-hash an old term so they will make a new term.
I've always called them area manager
wow!
i've just realised i've reached 1000 posts on the board.. this is a personal milestone and so i think i should take a moment to reflect on the last 18 plus months.. in that time i have completely lost my faith in bible, in jw doctrine and in any kind of hope for a new world as described by the gb and believed by me for 40+ years.
i have stepped down as a ministerial servant after 20 years.
Well done in reaching your milestone and being able to change direction in life. Keep going and enjoy life.
so my wife is slowly waking up!
but cognitive dissonance is thick indeed!
my wife knows the gb are false in many ways but she still holds to the "theyre more right than others!
It depends on her personality. Appeal to it. If she is open to read crisis of conscience why not jwfacts.com? If you do meeting prep together I'm sure every week you'll find something disturbing. I used to find meetings excruciating as every week something would be said that jarred. Ask her how she feels about the subject being discussed, can she explain it?
i remember reading a thread when my exit was starting, about inspirational songs.
someone posted a link to the "shins" for a fool.
this was a surprising help to me.
Coldplay - Paradise. If you listen its a story of a girl who dreams of paradise and realised she wouldn't see it unless she makes it happen. Most of my life I was told to do things the JW way with the hope of paradise in the future, but now I realise we are responsible for making our own paradise. Follow your dreams.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/flash.aspx/288677#.ux9165ao7l9.
court rejects missionary lawsuit against netanya schools for voiding leasethe tel aviv magistrates court has rejected a claim by a missionary group, saying that the school they had been renting space in unlawfully voided their contract , and asking the court to instruct the school to pay nis 108,000 in compensation and mental anguish, as well as legal expenses.. it began when a missionary group, via a non-profit organization called "mitzpe l'yisrael", rented space at the raziel school in netanya to conduct daily afternoon activities.
shortly after signing the rental agreement , the school authorities discovered that the group was, in reality, the notorious missionary sect of "jehovah's witnesses".
Marked
i'm still in the matrix(the truth), but 'morpheus' and his team are valiantly working on a way to get me out.
in the meantime, everyday i am discovering so much about being a jw i never knew, like don't buy girl scout cookies, that i keep asking myself "what have i got myself into".. maat.
really lame for a first post, but i figure i should start some where.
Welcome here, never stop asking questions and never stop learning.
after years of looking down on me for not being "in the truth", being told (more or less) that my daughter died because i did not have the "truth" and therefore god's approval.
my sister has, after forty years of marriage and fifty years of being in the truth....left her husband and her dis-fellowshipped son and gone to live with our other sister (who by the way is disassociated).
i am amazed at this turn of events, as i have always been led to believe that they were a fine example of how complete and spiritually protected they were as a family for being in the jw religion.
I hope your nephew recovers quickly and is helped to realise he can live a better life without drugs and JWs.
just thought i would let you know there appears to still be no change when it comes to assisting the police here in the uk.
i am in the process of pressing charges against my abuser who was and is again a jw.
during my interviews with the police i did not mention jws as it was not relevant to the case, however during one if his interviews he stated that he had been 'punished' by the jws by being disfellowshipped, and now he was a jw again he had 'paid his dues'!.
Thank you all for your supportive comments. The case is moving ahead now after a long wait. It was a relief to give the police my statement, though it was quite a long time ago. The authorities seem confident he will get a good sentence.
