Thanks, OTWO. New WT format, SOC.
The appreciation helps, 5th Gen.
Your welcome, whereiam.
Welcome, 49&holding. This is not for the WTS administration but individual jws who sit in the audience wondering if they are the only one thinking these thoughts and not getting answers from those in charge; even getting told out and out lies. Then they can examine the history of the WTS and decide whether to stay or go. As to other religions, I have only been a jw and do not feel I have the experiences and knowledge to address their issues. But there are other websites with members and ex-members that examine the beliefs and actions of those religions. The thing is that the WTS condemns all other religions as false and of the devil and soon to be destroyed by the "political elements" of the world. As a jw of more than 50 years and a family history that goes back 3 generations, I feel I bring a rounded viewpoint of the WTS. If you have never been a jw, it is like trying to understand what it is like to be raped having never been raped.
Aude, thanks for your reasoned explanation.
Hi Inquisitor. Thanks for pointing out the error. I am asking the mods/admins to correct that since it is past the time I can. I still write 2007 at work sometimes. Is it a freudian slip?
Good point, tophat. The WTS is egocentric. They even say that the NT is really just for the anointed and the great crowd just get the crumbs that fall from the table.
Hello, Poztate, a man of few but telling words. (hug)
Gary, why stop with praying for two? If you are going to ask for trouble, why not go big? Greed drives the WTS. They are so busy lying to "protect God's name" with this pedophile issue, they forget the pain and troubles of the victims. It is like that monkey with its hand in the narrow vase, the legal system has them by the nuts.
Welcome lancelink. Since the WTS has death-dealing doctrines such as no blood transfusion doctrine but then allowing hemoglobin-based products made out of stored (not allowed per WTS doctrine) blood (human and animal), jws die now and in the past not knowing what the WTS sanctions or not. I know of jws that have committed suicide for being df'd for things they do while under the control of a serious mental illness. The elders were sad afterwards but could not give these people back their lives or their presence to their grieving families. I'm merely trying to give other information to the victims and their families, to be able to examine the official doctrine in line with what the WTS has said in the past and currently. It is important to be like the Bereans and make sure of the more important things.
Thanks bob, it is best to use their own words to make a point. Hoist them with their own words.
Hi, Hope4Others, jw parents are still trying to get the WTS to put a number to the "age of responsibility." No infant baptism, but is six old enough to make a life-defining decision?
Love, Blondie