i was thinking about how so many posters here on jwn are frustrated and frantic to help their loved ones get away from the brainwashing of jws, and how much advice is given about how to help family members and loved ones.
i considered my own leaving and that it was internal turmoil based on the teachings getting weirder and child abuse issues, to name just a few, and it made me wonder:.
did you self-awaken or were you assisted by the gentle proddings of a friend or family member?
The conflict betwen Job and James 1:13 did it for me .I was mentally out from the bible leave alone the org.
Although I had doubts all along. Especially on FS.
In fact during my baptism I was completely terrified as to whether I was doing the right thing.
Once I read TTAT and CoC, that was it!
watch tower judges man on size of nose .
1921 "the size of the nose, as also the size of the eyes, is not without significance.
the small-nosed man cannot have a judicial mind, whatever his other excellencies may be.
I’ve a tale to tell ya’lll
Do try and recall
What ya really know of the sniffer ;
It’s not only a nose ,
It’s what lives in those,
nostrils of hair and the flea!
2 I tell you again
if you wanna be king
or even a pres. or the pope;
you needn’t be clever
If you wanna be, ever,
a part of the gibbering GB.
3. For great men they are
Fat- assed and on par
With all the dolts in da land
Dey always in a rush
Pullin’ booboo from the brush,
Dat’s pickin’ their brains in glee!
4. Now I KNOWS DATS fine
I don’ draw me no line
‘tween genius and a genuine ass
But the GB can smell ya
no kiddin' n' tell ya
Your dam future - minus their fee!!
sources within heaven have revealed to us that jesus h christ intends to run for what would become his 26th term in office as ruler of the galaxy.. since his first term began in 1914 he's been unopposed in office despite, many say, failing to deliver on any of his pre-election promises.
they point to promises of "an end to death and eternal life for all" as being unrealistic given the funding given to healthcare as just one of many examples.. critics say the elections themselves are rigged and in fact no one even gets to case a vote because his father simply declares him the winner.
they believe that have proof that this was planned for some time in what many are calling "biblegate" and point to basic un standardsfor democracy which haven't been lived up to.. many of his supporters thought that his 16th term beginning in 1975 would define his rulership but they lost faith when his party later blamed them for having "unrealistic expectations".. "i did originally support him", says one man who didn't want to be identified for fear of reprisals, "but i'm starting to grow old and now think i'll die without ever seeing any of the changes his promised to enact".. we tried to contact the heaven party to ask when he planned to do any of the things he promised.
One reliable source, from within the organization, admits to doctrinal failure and gerrymandering of the core belief system. Reports of pedophling the legislative process while summarrarily dismissing claims of child abuse has aroused the ire of members, many of whom have distanced themselves from the party. There is definately a left wing emergence to the authoritarian right policies currently in force. Pary leaders ar scrambling to meet the high costs of legal fees, that culminate in hush money paid to detractors who choose to question the validity of legislation that is labelled draconian. Those loyal to the caucus still express the hope that divine intervention will, eventualy, bring order to a belief system gone awry. "Hope in this 'eventuality ', is the reason why we continue to do what we do," is the anthem of their body politic .
While governernmental heads in Warwick declined to comment on the present crisis and their continued political flip-flop with issues such as intraveneous blood injections, the 1914 blunder with its internecine 607 b.c claptrap, their unsubstantiated claims on the teragammaton which is the cornerstone stone of their worship as well as numerous other issues , the opposition has unearthed substantial evidence to disprove almost all claims, ever, put forth by the party in their rocky 130 odd year history. Recent attempts to stifle the voice of dissenting party members has culminated in a restructuring of the political hierarchy, appropiation of local funds along with comandeering of real estate . Stricter regulations are being put ito effect to ensure adherence to partyline dictates ." The effectivenes of measures borrowed from the middle ages, and being put into effect in the thwenty-first century, to salvage a badly tarnished image , is ,at best, wishful thinking", was the comment of a prominant party member, who wishes to remain anonymous.
when i was in my teens i wanted a room of my own, but i lived with my grandparents whose house was very small.. my uncle had been living in a little one room bed-sitter way out in the backyard.
he married and moved away and i moved in.. it was quite isolated and the ceiling was six feet from the floor.
unfortunately, the top of my head was four inches higher than that!
Terry!
This is strange. I get similar shakes and jerks while sleeping. However, I dismissed them as some subconscious nervous reactions on some nights, to the stresses of my day time job. But thanks. Now I know what it is!
1) science and technology appeared as a savior to mankind, yet the overall result points to the opposite direction.. http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-has-human-progress-ground-to-a-halt/.
2) john kerry warns of catastrophe if climate change is not tackled.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4295230.ece (times, saturday 13, 2014).
Abiather,
You are baiting people here? right?
the disconnect from the family of humanity......the snap of that fellow feeling......the cold indifferent shrug as each person dries up and hardens into a mere thing in a kingdom hall.....is a withering away of all that is noble, pure and innocent.. and when that icy moment sets in the rest of the world vanishes into an invisible nothing in the heart of that strutting and proud lump of human flesh called jehovah's witness.. it is the first of many deaths they will endure.... where does it begin and where does it end?.
perhaps by defending huge lies?.
if you are complicit in a crime against humanity you have two basic ethical choices:.
Marked.Thanks.
thousands of people in america were the beneficiaries of new inventions in technology in the 1870's.. the typewriter, the telephone, and the light bulb transformed something we may have never considered before.. communication was ramped up seemingly without limit for the first time in human history!.
pastor russell's customers were simple folks frightened by monumental changes.. what did these rapid changes really mean?.
pastor russell distilled everything down to the notion everything was understandable as signs of the end.. ____________________________.
Marked. Thanks.
the wt society pointed to 1975 as the date for the end of the world.
when the date came and went they changed their publications to remove themselves from the fiasco.
need proof?
Marked.Thanks.
i suggest taking this slowly .
.. consider the difference between taking a poll about an upcoming election and the actual vote itself on the day of the election.. the information gathered about what the vote will be is provisional.
the vote on the day of the election is actual and official.. it is the one that counts.. now, carefully ask yourself what the specific difference--if any--there is between the poll information and the election result as an identical knowledge of.
This website rocks. The cardinal rule of evolutionary thought is think the unthinkable. And rethink the think that is unthinkable! And evolve.
If the 8 million village idiots, who masquerade as the only ones with a supreme cranium connection to the divine fountainhead of knowledge ( they have more s**t in their heads than their ass) would,miraculously, get to this website and peruse through the intellectual river that runs through it , perhaps they might overcome being the witless witnesses they are programmed to be. Perhaps. Methinks!! Or is that unthinkable?
Thanks Terry, and everybody else on this thread.
'Carry On Nurse'! Way to go mate!!!
