yo - do u see yourself - obsessing about the wtbts or whatever the hell they call themselves - all this beautiful intellect spent on thoughts of an alleged abuser u all allegedly left - oh my - free yourselves - you didn't leave - u r all in this funky stage of mourning and hatred and realization that not all lovers are true - but, forgive my rambling - i have a question here, what do you think they did to mess with your minds so much that u r still obsessing?
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Hi ese
Rather than have us speculate on whether or not you're a troll or genuine, why not tell us a bit more about yourself. Did you become a JW, how you came to be a JW, how long you were a JW stuff like that. And I suppose what interested you enough to post on the board.
Cheers
who remembers it or worse, suffered from it?.
does anyone remember the wt issue the gb reversed themselves in?
the cd rom doesn't show it.
I seem to recall a discussion of porneia at an elder and servant meeting with a c.o. a few years ago, must have been around 2000. These were usually deadly dull but this one was enlivened when the c.o. read out something from the wtbts about porneia including telephone sex or sex via the internet where the images were live and interactive rather than just pornography.
Do any other elders or servants remember this?
hi friends!.
i've finally made a decision: i wil leave the wt in december 2004 or january 2005. please let me explain how i would manage this and i will also like to know your point of view or any other thing you would want to say.. i live in spain (as some of you know) in a city where there are 20 congregations.
i think that the elders would like to know the reason why i'm moving to another congregation.
If you're in a city that has 20 congregations there must be at least one that is in a foreign language, at least English. Move there. It would appear to me to be easier to fade there as foreign language congregations tend to have a much higher turnover of publishers. You could say you want to improve your English, or if it's another language, that you want to help out.
And you are not obligated to explain in detail to the Elders your reasons for moving. You can always say you just fancy a change having been in one hall for X amount of years. It might be harder to convince your mother.
i can't help but discover things that make me have serious doubts about jehovah's witnesses as a whole.
but... and this is a big but.... what if they are god's organisation?
i feel as if i'm being blackmailed... if i don't make a go of this religion i'm effectivly killing my young daughter if it is jehovah's organisation.. my mum ( a pioneer and a lovely woman!
Just to add to what LT says:
While I didn't believe that JWs had the truth, I did think they were pretty unique. Then I attended a meeting of th International Chruch of Christ out of nosiness (they'd been recruiting on my campus and had bad press about being a cult in the student paper). I was flabbergasted. While they had some fundamental differences of doctrine, they were amazingly similar in approach to evangelizing, friendliness, morality etc. And they were damned good with their Bibles (on palm pilot no less!). The Witnesses were not so unique as I'd thought.
It's very difficult to make any stab at objectivity if you're attending meetings as you are flooded with information. When I was trying to get my head straight I called a halt to everything and took control, stopping anyone tfrom deluging me with pro or anti faith information. It was truly liberating.
everytime you go to an assembly or to a convention or the co pays a visit, there's always a call for people to pioneer.
they always drag out a couple of pioneers on to the stage and "interview" them.
the one question they always ask is if the pioneers have any regrets over pioneering.
Where and when did you go to the school Ross?
I went in Glasgow in '95.
everytime you go to an assembly or to a convention or the co pays a visit, there's always a call for people to pioneer.
they always drag out a couple of pioneers on to the stage and "interview" them.
the one question they always ask is if the pioneers have any regrets over pioneering.
I pioneered for 2 years. We lived a fantastically slacker lifestyle drinking endless amounts of coffee, going to the cinema, art galleries and just hanging' out. And I met a great range of people from heroin addicts to lord advocates. My report was always just over or under 90 hrs and bore no corelation to what I had actually done which was probably about 25 hrs. Thankfully, I was responsible for no one's assimilation.
a bunch of people at work were talking and it was amazing who some of them knew (or had a connection to...).
so, do you have a claim to fame?
mooch off an association?
I was on the Rolf Harris Show aged 9.
Mulan, wasn't Diana's maternal grandmother that right old bitch that colluded with the Queen Mother in arranging Diana's marriage to Charles?! We can't choose our relatives!
my company recently(less than a year ago) replaced all our computers with dell and it has been nothing but a nightmare!.
within 3 months 2 of them had to have their motherboards replaced.thats just the tip of the iceberg.i can't even begin to tell you the numerous "little" problems we have had.you will spend hours on the phone with snotty sarcastic tech support agents ...if you can first figure out how to get to them.. check out this link if you don't believe me.. http://www.smorgasbord.net/blog/archive/000002.shtml.
rumor has it that they are going bankrupt..
Hi Ruby
Just noticed a headline in a paper that said Dell's profits have gone up by 24%. They should last long enough to sort out your company's computer probs.
1. In bed dozing to the morning news. Thought I'd maybe dreamt it.
2. Washing the dishes when there was a news flash on the radio about a plane crash in NY. Turned on the tv in time to witness the second plane hit. Felt guilty being so transfixed and wanting to see as much footage from as many angles as possible.
my company recently(less than a year ago) replaced all our computers with dell and it has been nothing but a nightmare!.
within 3 months 2 of them had to have their motherboards replaced.thats just the tip of the iceberg.i can't even begin to tell you the numerous "little" problems we have had.you will spend hours on the phone with snotty sarcastic tech support agents ...if you can first figure out how to get to them.. check out this link if you don't believe me.. http://www.smorgasbord.net/blog/archive/000002.shtml.
rumor has it that they are going bankrupt..
I've used Dell for the past 6/7 years and had no probs at all. Currently using two Inspiron 5100 and they're great!
