i just tried to go to the site and there is a goodbye message.
i was a member there since 2010. i was really surprised.
i had just started posting there again after being away for a while.
I didn't think I'd ever heard of the place. Well actually I think I'd heard it mentioned a couple of times now I think about it more, but I never joined.
It doesn't give a good impression of the people who ran it that they treat members like this. If they couldn't be bothered explaining the situation to people on the site itself, don't see much point in them coming on here justifying the lack of information. Thanks for nothing and adios will suffice.
i was surfing jw recovery .com, all of the sudden a screen came up that says .
jehovah's witness recovery.
after much consideration, we have decided to move on to other things, and bring this site to a close.
It was a forum and you cut off without warning?
Sounds dumb and pretty needless. Could have passed on to others gradually or at least announced it.
i was surfing jw recovery .com, all of the sudden a screen came up that says .
jehovah's witness recovery.
after much consideration, we have decided to move on to other things, and bring this site to a close.
What was it? Was that the one with judicial committee videos?
i was a younger dub at the time of this release, and stopped watching this movie near its beginning, when john cleese was stoned with the huge rock for saying jehovah.. this was despite having been (and continuing to be) a major john cleese (and monty python) fan.. any fans of this film?.
Blessed are the cheese makers.
The shoe is a sign that we must gather shoes together in abundance.
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy, now go away.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shooting-orlando-gay-club-pulse-fierce-controversy-over-pastors-remarks-about-orlando-attack/.
Who is sitting in the audience listening to this guy?
Are there hate speech laws in America? That was incitement to violence surely.
But on the whole I think it's worth appreciating that while his views were commonplace a few decades ago they are now extremely marginal.
tell him that jesus probably didn't get married or it would have mentioned it in the bible, but at the same time we can't be 100% sure he didn't get married because it doesn't specifically say he didn't get married.
stand back watch fireworks.. i thought it was a pretty reasonable thing to say.
pop.
He is a only a young JW so it was a bit strange he used the word cross. I guess it's in the wider culture and can slip out even if you've not been a church goer.
sir82 the reasoning didn't make much sense to me either but he was pretty animated about it. So I backed down.
so is anyone else having an existential crisis after becoming fully awake?
let me explain.
about 2 years ago i read coc, still believed and tried to get back in da troof.
Narkisoss recommended that I read The Outsider by Albert Camus and Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. Which was good. See also this thread.
tell him that jesus probably didn't get married or it would have mentioned it in the bible, but at the same time we can't be 100% sure he didn't get married because it doesn't specifically say he didn't get married.
stand back watch fireworks.. i thought it was a pretty reasonable thing to say.
pop.
I think he was pretty flustered because he insisted that Jesus would have died on the "cross" for nothing if he was married and only slightly hesitated after the word cross and didn't bother to fix it before making the rest of the argiment.
tell him that jesus probably didn't get married or it would have mentioned it in the bible, but at the same time we can't be 100% sure he didn't get married because it doesn't specifically say he didn't get married.
stand back watch fireworks.. i thought it was a pretty reasonable thing to say.
pop.
I said I was sure I read it in a Watchtower that he was a normal man only without sin and he could have got married if he wanted to. And that almost all men got married in that culture so it would be unusual if Jesus didn't get married. This did not go down well, to say the least. So I backtracked.
At some point it dawned on me that I had read Bart Ehrman make this argument, not the Watchrower. It's come to something when I mix up Ehrman and the Watchtower!
In the end I said I must have mixed up Jesus with Paul. It's Paul that might have been married, probably not but we can't be sure.
The JW was not impressed at my explanation that I mixed up Jesus with Paul, I'm definitely bad association again. Ah well.
tell him that jesus probably didn't get married or it would have mentioned it in the bible, but at the same time we can't be 100% sure he didn't get married because it doesn't specifically say he didn't get married.
stand back watch fireworks.. i thought it was a pretty reasonable thing to say.
pop.
Tell him that Jesus probably didn't get married or it would have mentioned it in the Bible, but at the same time we can't be 100% sure he didn't get married because it doesn't specifically say he didn't get married.
Stand back watch fireworks.
I thought it was a pretty reasonable thing to say. Pop. Think I might be "bad association" again.
