Please keep in mind...
I am NOT looking for a romantic relationship in this. I am married, and I intend to stay that way. That ship that could have been had sailed decades ago.
I do care enough that I would like to see her happy, (which she seems to be) except a lot of that happiness is based on a fantasy, a lie that she has believed all her life.
As far as the food "tasting as Jehovah intended"- she is very much into organic, non-GMO produce, and feels that what eat now is not as it should be. (She's probably correct on that score.)
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The Heartbreak of having a brainwashed friend
by Captain Schmideo2 inso, recently, i made a reconnection with a long lost jw friend.i first met her when i was about 12 or 13, and she was about 10.. she was a lovely young lady, very poised, very intelligent, a cut above the other girls in the hall.
easy to talk to.
i was in love with her.all the boys in the hall loved her.
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Bethel Layoff Notices arrive under Bethellite doors
by Quarterback injust heard from a reliable source that some at the canadian branch have received their lay-off notices under their doors at bethel.
don't know what the letter looks like.
probably something like, " the tribe has spoken, bring us your torches"
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"I wonder how it felt to be the person who had to shove those letters under the door."
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"Alarmageddon"
by stuckinarut2 in" alarmageddon " .
this term came to mind as i thought of just how weird it is that witnesses actually look forward to seeing billions of people killed..... also, at how strange it is that the org has repeatedly tried to work out the date or time for it to happen.
(although they will deny doing this ...but the old publications and talks etc are there on record!
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If anything, many of the true believers I know (like my mother in law) just exist in anguish over the idea that their sons, daughters, siblings, parents, will die because they refused to believe in "The Truth" (tm). Or that disfellowshipped family members will return "before it's too late". They also believe, beyond all reason, that other loved ones will be resurrected from death due to Jehovah's mercy, giving them a second chance to become believers. I am sure there are a few assholes out there who can't wait to see people burn in flames: "They'll be sorry they ever laughed at ME!", but, so many of them live in a special distress over a much anticipated event. -
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Letter from Brazilian Branch: Buildings
by TheTruthBR inthis letter will be read in all the congregations of brazil on the service meeting this week.
(google translation - original available)originala todas as congregacoesprezados irmaos:nao ha duvida de que jeova tem abencoado ricamente seu povo no mundo inteiro.
isso fica evidenteno aumento do numero de publicadores e no notavel progresso espiritual de nossa organizacao.
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All I can say, if this is not enough to shock people into waking up, then nothing will. They will be just fine with rolling out the barrels of Flavor Aid laced with cyanide, drink drink drink, see you in Paradise!
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The Heartbreak of having a brainwashed friend
by Captain Schmideo2 inso, recently, i made a reconnection with a long lost jw friend.i first met her when i was about 12 or 13, and she was about 10.. she was a lovely young lady, very poised, very intelligent, a cut above the other girls in the hall.
easy to talk to.
i was in love with her.all the boys in the hall loved her.
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Doubtful, but there is hope!
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The Heartbreak of having a brainwashed friend
by Captain Schmideo2 inso, recently, i made a reconnection with a long lost jw friend.i first met her when i was about 12 or 13, and she was about 10.. she was a lovely young lady, very poised, very intelligent, a cut above the other girls in the hall.
easy to talk to.
i was in love with her.all the boys in the hall loved her.
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So, recently, I made a reconnection with a long lost JW friend.
I first met her when I was about 12 or 13, and she was about 10.She was a lovely young lady, very poised, very intelligent, a cut above the other girls in the hall. Easy to talk to. I was in love with her.All the boys in the Hall loved her. But if she noticed all the attention, she found it amusing, and wasn't at all cruel about it.
Her parents, or rather, her Mom and her Step-dad, were very adept at keeping a force field around her. They couldn't stop people from talking to her at the Hall, but they definitely would stymie efforts in letting anyone with a Y chromosome do any activities with her at any other time.
As a result, there were many aspects of her and her life I never really knew.
So, about 30 years after the last time I ever saw her (by then, I was about 20), I now reconnect with her, both of us in our "mature years".It has been very exciting to know her again! After all these years, I find out that she has hidden artistic talent, she teaches art workshops, she has a food blog, she went to culinary school, she's more interesting now than when I knew here then. I am almost afraid to say it, but, dang it, I am still in love with her, much as I was when I was 12.
But, like a grinning, ugly Jack in the box, that old cult speak just pops out in the chats."I will be SO glad when Jehovah's kingdom is here, and the food tastes like he intended it to taste."
"So looking forward to the paradise."
"People are so lost without the kingdom hope."
I haven't had the heart or the balls to tell her that my wife and I don't go to meetings anymore, that I don't believe in all this crap anymore, and that, if we are lucky, we are only going to be here another 25 years before the inevitable happens.
In her personal life, she has been through a lot:married young (to escape her home life), husband turned out to a be phony, immature dick who abandoned her with to small children to raise on her own, siblings no longer Witnesses due to various personal problems, and I know she has to cling to something to give her hope and assurance in her life.
But WHY does it have to be this made up, fairy tale, pie in the sky bullsh*t?
With her looks, intelligence, and talent, she could have had a much better 30 years if she had used those to better her life choices, rather than subduing those talents, rather than marrying a jerk who didn't deserve her to escape a stepfather who was same way. So many things she could have done, but instead, she is waiting for a pipe dream that will never happen.
Sigh.
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Proof that Armageddon will come in 2020 or 2021.
by berrygerry insomewhat just posted a link to www.jw2016.borg (remove the b ) which is an up-and-running site for 2016 dub conventions.the borg has also registered jw2017, jw2018, jw2019, and jw2020 (all .org)however, they have not reg'd jw2021.therefore, the conclusion in the title.
(a non-wt has reg'd jw2022.org)( jw2021.org is presently available, wink-wink).
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No, you can't trust that timeline. New Light has revealed that Captain America:Serpent Society is now Captain America: Civil War (in which things are not looking good for Cap)
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Latest Leaked BOE letter to Elders Oct. 4th
by Watchtower-Free inoctober 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
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https://youtu.be/0vvvPZd6_D8
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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?
by Funchback inthere were many addressed to me.
for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.
i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.
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I was told, as a child, not to watch Disney movies, because Disney "promotes evolution!"
Not a personal counsel, but when the movie "Avatar" was playing and raking in ginormous cash at the box office, we had a CO admonish the congregation for watching that movie, because the name of the alien race "Na'vi" was similar to a demon from ancient times that was worshipped. Hoo, boy what a stretch.
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This sounds suspiciously like the actions of another religion we know of...
by Captain Schmideo2 inhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/church-blacklists-103-year-old-granny-then-calls-the-cops-on-her.htmlchurch blacklists 103-year-old granny, then calls the cops on her.
genora hamm biggs had been a member of the union grove baptist church for 92 yearsuntil a new pastor banished her and tried to have her arrested over a clash about the style of a sermon.. a 103-year-old georgia woman was banished from her church for a sin the pastor cant forgiveshe disagreed with how he preached.. genora hamm biggs has attended union grove baptist church in elberton since she was 11 years old.
but last month, rev.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/church-blacklists-103-year-old-granny-then-calls-the-cops-on-her.htmlChurch Blacklists 103-Year-Old Granny, Then Calls the Cops on Her
Genora Hamm Biggs had been a member of the Union Grove Baptist Church for 92 years—until a new pastor banished her and tried to have her arrested over a clash about the style of a sermon.A 103-year-old Georgia woman was banished from her church for a sin the pastor can’t forgive—she disagreed with how he preached.
Genora Hamm Biggs has attended Union Grove Baptist Church in Elberton since she was 11 years old. But last month, Rev. Tim Mattox sent a letter informing her she could no longer visit her lifelong parish “for any reason whatsoever.” The ouster has spurred a feud between the revered centenarian and other congregants in the tiny church.
“The church means everything to me,” Biggs told The Daily Beast via phone. “I’ve been there for 92 years. Everybody I talk with says they’ve never heard of anything like this, and neither have I.”
“I don’t plan to leave,” she added. “I’m here to stay.”
Biggs returned to church the following Sunday despite Mattox’s warning, only to have the police called on her.
Biggs and her grandson, Elliiott Dye, sat in the pews, refusing to move. “[Mattox] said, ‘If you don’t go, you’ll be escorted out.’ I still didn’t go,” Biggs said. “They turned out the lights while we were sitting there, so we got up and went out. After we left, they went back in.”
Officers didn’t take any action. “We’re not going over there and throwing a 103-year-old lady out of her church,” Elberton’s police chief later told the Athens Banner-Herald.
Mattox did not return messages left by The Daily Beast.
In his Aug. 2 letter to Biggs, Mattox claimed his flock took a vote on her ouster. “This letter is to inform you… any membership or associations that you have had with this church are now officially revoked,” he wrote, according to Fox 5 in Atlanta.
HandoutThe dispute arises over Mattox’s “Sanctified Church”-style sermons. Dye told The Daily Beast that Mattox was hired a few years ago as a Baptist minister, but in recent months his services draw from the style and content of other denominations.
“It culminated here about three months ago when he invited members of a Sanctified church to our church,” Dye said. “We really saw then what he was about.”
Dye said Mattox fancies himself a “healer” and holds special services where he puts a hand on people with various afflictions to fix their problems through God.
“He dances, waves his hands, he uses a tambourine,” Dye said, adding that veteran members of the holy house—about 40 miles east of Athens—would rather see him resign and open his own Sanctified church.
Biggs said she disagreed with Mattox’s “style of preaching, moving around, moving his legs, falling on the floor. That’s not our style of service.”
Indeed, Biggs has been vocal in her demands that Mattox leave Union Grove. “He has been asked to resign, but he did not resign,” she conceded.
Despite local media attention surrounding the schism, the preacher’s standoff with the elderly churchgoer continues with no end in sight. Biggs claims Mattox refuses to return her calls and walks away when she approaches him with her walker.
Dye said the un-Christian behavior doesn’t stop there. He claims that when he took Biggs to a monthly church business meeting she’s attended for years, fellow members ran off.
“Now if she comes in the room, they go to another room,” Dye said. “She can walk very slowly but she can’t see very well, so I guide her. It made it impossible for her to participate. After they [moved] twice, I said, ‘Mama, that’s it. Let’s just go. We can’t keep chasing them.’”
Mattox’s sermons have also focused on “devils” and “nonbelievers” lately, and Team Biggs believes the pastor is referring to them. “They hate us there,” Dye told The Daily Beast. “They call us names. They make rude references to us.”
“They don’t point us out, but everyone in the church knows who the pastor is referring to,” he added. “The last three Sundays have been about the devil and what the devil is trying to do to the church.”
Glen Jackson, a deacon at Union Grove, would not comment on Biggs’s exile and told the Banner-Herald the dispute is “all a bunch of foolishness.”
When asked about Biggs’s 92-year membership, Jackson reportedly sniffed, “It don’t mean nothing.”
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