the general public knows far too little about cults and mind control...and this is reflective of many ex-jws as well.
when i meet up with former jws, either in person or on the phone, im surprised that the majority have never read combating cult mind control.
of course, i am sure many former jws do not want to read yet another publication.
Apparently, Hassan has released a couple updated follow-ups - Releasing the Bonds (2000) and Freedom of Mind (2012). While CCMC and RTB, sadly, do not seem to be available in e-book form, FOM is:
(noting e-books avaliability, since those are easier to hide for ones who still have to put up a front)
from the upcoming august km:.
beginning the week of october 28, 2013, the brochure who are doing jehovahs will today?
will be considered at the congregation bible study.
Yea, love how they count each section as separate meetings. JWs love them big numbers. 1+1=5.
matt 25:34-40. then the king will say to those on his right, come, you who have been blessed by my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.
35 for i became hungry and you gave me something to eat; i got thirsty and you gave me something to drink.
i was a stranger and you received me hospitably; 36 naked, and you clothed me.
by supporting the faithful slave class.
The explanation I've always heard (and I think has been printed), is that JWs "support" the faithful slave (be they 8 or 8000) by the preaching work. So I don't really see that they will need to change anything there.
Is "supporting" REALLY the preaching work? I don't see preaching even remotely discussed in these verses.
PROTIP: Replies are easier and less confusing than editing, but hey.
I never said it was. I just said that was how the WTBTS would explain it.
when we got to paragraphs 10,11 with the reference to the box at the top of the page - is your teaching up-to-date?
the conductor asked for an explanation of what the current 'bible truth' was.
for the first one, 'this generation (matt 24:34) absolutely nobody raised their hand!
What was he teaching that was wrong and what is he now teaching?
I assume he's teaching the "correct" understanding now. I don't think he elaborated. TBH I wasn't really paying all that much attention (never do, these days).
when we got to paragraphs 10,11 with the reference to the box at the top of the page - is your teaching up-to-date?
the conductor asked for an explanation of what the current 'bible truth' was.
for the first one, 'this generation (matt 24:34) absolutely nobody raised their hand!
Our COBE is the WT conductor. Bet he was quite mortified when another elder, in his comment, confessed that he had mistakenly been teaching people wrong about the sheep and goats one until very recently.
made this on a whim.
enjoy:.
http://shador5529.deviantart.com/art/sparlock-ponyfied-376762418.
Made this on a whim. Enjoy:
http://shador5529.deviantart.com/art/Sparlock-Ponyfied-376762418
i have to admit i never really thought about this question until one of my classmates challenged me with this very question.
she made an excellant point and i have to admit i am asking myself the same question does jehovah enjoy watching people suffer.
the case she brought up was the flood story.
Why, I do believe it's time for my favorite quote:
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” - Richard Dawkins
i know it is easy to go there, on this board, and blame the jehovah's witnesses.
but being a dad, i can tell you that being a teenage girl in this day in age is hard.
add to that, having such a famous father in your past with such strange stories attached to him.
mP said:
Karma, must be tough living off dirty money taken from a pedo.
free2beme said:
He was not a good man, at all.
Wow! Judgemental much? He was found not guilty (so calling him a "pedo", is, quite frankly, libel) and I and a lot of others believe he was not guilty. That man went through a lot of hell that folks like you and I will never know. His life would have probably broken you before you were half his age. I'm disgusted that the two of you would use this poor girl's tragedy as an oppertunity to bash her father, who was a remarkable man in his own right.
let's have a bit of a laugh.. .
who of you rolled your eyes when brother never ending prayers was called up to give the closing prayer?.
who of you then proceeded to tap your feet, fidget loudly or start doing balancing acts off the back of the chair in front of you while waiting for it to end?.
Lol, that's funny, Lois. That elder probably got his ears boxed later.
Reminds me of a convention I was at. The brother said the closing prayer but never said Amen. Everyone was just keeping their heads bowed in silence, for a minute or two until it got wierd. Some of us finally peaked, only to see the brother had left the stage. Finally, the brother comes back and just says "That's it." - truely odd.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/depression/paris-jackson-daughter-of-michael-attempts-suicide-6330.aspx?xid=fb_eh_sf.
It wouldn't surprise me if it played some role, though the poor girl has a lot of other crazyness in her life, too.
Your link had me worried she had died there for a second, there TTATT, as the link says "Commit" - but then I went to the article and it actually says "attempt", and it seems she is recovering. So that's good, at least.
