if you "chose" this religion, as i did, do you remember the moment you "bought", or believed, the religion?.
for me, it was during one of my studies with a knowledgeable, lovely pioneer sister who looked like her life was so perfect and wonderful.
i was coming out of a terrible situation in my life, very vulnerable, being abandoned by a husband during my pregnancy and with other little children to look after too.
Never bought it, like ever, just went throw the motions since I can remember; a born-in with such strong family affiliation with the WTBTS that in order to keep peace and togetherness, I need to remain confined to this 'spiritual jail'.
If there was no shunning, my last day stepping foot at the KH would've been yesterday afternoon in the middle of that awful WT study regarding loyalty.
DY
gerrit losch giving a talk in so-called spanish in the dominican republic.
first begging for donations ...and than this.
brothers and sisters travelling hours and hours to hear this reading, he obviously doesnt speak spanish, just knows how to read it.
Mandrake,
In the Spanish congs of this zone the parents are very focused in sending their kids to obtain higher education passed just high school.
Here in the States, a high school diploma won't get you enough to support yourself, a family and help out the immigrant parents that will need help once they get old (because the will; Armageddon ain't coming!). So, the WTBTS advice on not pursuing high educ is being completely ignored here. Thank God!!!
How dare they go to a 3rd world country, strugging economically for the most part of the citizens, and then claim that they do not better themselves and obtain as much education as possible to improve their situation???!!!
Easy for them living super large in New York and traveling 1st class all the way wherever they show their faces.
May he or any other from the GB be booed and eggs/pies/tomatoes thrown at them!!!
DY
i just recalled something from my past that i've not thought about in a very long time, but it did have a significant impact on me whether i knew it or not at the time....... i have a sister who was born when i was 15. my family are not jw's thank the universe!
but me as an uberdub at the time convinced my young sister to have a study.
she was about 14 or 15 at the time i'd guess.
Upon reading the article in the Watchtower of November 1995 (?) about the elongating of the 'generation' count, I became wide awake. However, my family ties are so strong and they all are such JW heavies/hardcore that since then I've been confined to 'spiritual jail' inside the WTBTS in order to keep peace and togetherness.
It's a high emotional price to pay. Living a lie is at times unbearable, and the older I become, the more it bothers me to live this way.
DY
urghhh... what a disgusting study!7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.
for example, a sister named anne received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.
the mother wanted to visit anne because she felt pained by her isolation from the family.
The cherry-picking of the scriptures inside the WTBTS is sickening and heartbreaking.
DY
after i retired i volunteered for several community service programs, including working with the local food bank.
every fourth thursday of each month i help out in distributing food to needy families at the local veterans building.
i've been helping out for five years now.
The WTBTS aims to occupy all the time any one JW has available. That some of them break away to do some real actual 'good' in society is commending, but definitely an act of rebellion against the Org.
Believe you me, if one was do every single thing required of a true JW, one would need to add hours to each day. These jerks just pile up so much for a JW to do in order to feel at peace in the mind.
It's just ridiculous!
DY
i bumped in this story this afternoon.
it's about a family of jw's.
it's an unbelievable story of murder that took place in 2014.. so much for spiritual paradise.. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dateline+tangled.
ALL type of things happen within the WTBTS; lead by and filled with ALL imperfect people, nothing that happens there should be surprising whatsoever.
Rumor has it of young couples in the Spanish congs around here exchanging spouses and horrible entanglements relating to who the real father is for certain of the ladies in the ring who became pregnant, which lead to big cover-ups.
Pure evidence that no crazy religious belief can counter our sinful, sexual, imperfect human condition.
DY
today's wt has the below scripture as it's theme.
friday of the rc has the same as it's theme.
the silver nwt is alone in using the word loyalty in this verse.
Broke my heart to read that paragraph where the mother called the daughter because she was lonely and wanted to visit, then the daughter turned her down and asked her to return to the Org.
This Org is a big time liar!!! They printed on their website that they do not divide families, that they do not shun; then, what is this display of pure evil, abandoning one's parent, a person that according to the Bible we are suppose to honor and care for in their old age???!!!
The WTBTS is a big time liar and a cruel, cruel, family divider organization!!!
I go so upset that just sat there most of the study and refused to comment on any of it. There are some other study gems coming up on baptism and getting them baptized as soon as possible; I plan on missing those meeting altogether. Can't stand it much longer at this point!
DY
Donald Trump is the best thing that has happened to the comedy world since George W Bush.
I love comedy, and if The Donald becomes the leader of this already great nation it'll be awesome to unfold from a comedic standpoint.
It'll be awesome.
DY
i'm hooked on watching "the story of god, with morgan freeman".
it's fascinating to watch the different faiths throughout the world, the rituals, how devout the followers are.
mind boggling for sure!
Hi y'all!
I'm hooked on watching "The Story of God, with Morgan Freeman".
It's fascinating to watch the different faiths throughout the world, the rituals, how devout the followers are. Mind boggling for sure! Humanity has this "God" gene we just can't shake; it's in us.
Anybody else watching this series? Comments appreciated.
DY
my comments are below in yellow.... .
friday, april 29. when under trial, let no one say: “i am being tried by god.”—jas.
1:13.. we may become impatient when a trialsome period seems to have no end.
God is an ASS!!!😡
DY
