It's on right now.
They are getting into cult psychology with the Warren Jeffs trial. Of course the Watchtower is not mentioned but Rick Ross believes WT is one.
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it's on right now.. they are getting into cult psychology with the warren jeffs trial.
of course the watchtower is not mentioned but rick ross believes wt is one.
It's on right now.
They are getting into cult psychology with the Warren Jeffs trial. Of course the Watchtower is not mentioned but Rick Ross believes WT is one.
mr. goux.
mr. goux.
mr. goux.
I'm in the middle of reading Russells "The Devine Plan of the Ages" (1886) and several of Rutherfords books.
Russell was genuine. He was a pastor. IMHO he started to overthink and over anylize the Bible to the point that he was influenced by Miller's end of the world predictions and focus on the Apocalypse. He otherwise seems quite sane and fairly intellectual. (I'm only 1/3 through the book)
Rutherford was a freaking delusional psychotic. He started the craziest things. Made the most insane unsubstantiated claims that anyone can read and see what a psycho he was. For example; he claims that a machine was invented (1921) in his book "Government" that could harness all the power the world needs from the ocean but the evil US government was keeping this from the world. He said that "women could cook without the intense heat of an oven" (some special type of energy from the ocean?) The fact is technology is just now trying to do this, especially in UK but it just isn't cost effective to put into wide scale use yet. In the beginning of the book he claims that this is not the opinion of man but of God. Gee you would have thought that God would know about the super ocean energy machine issues...I should start a thread and write down all these insane claims as I go along. I had never heard about this stuff before. Had to get some books off ebay, some are reprints.
Russell slowly veered from acceptable historic Christian doctrine and slowly rep laced grace. He brought heaven down to earth instead of earth to heaven. How Rutherford ever became the leader and people followed him is a mystery to me...Rutherford's writing and grammar is very uneducated and crude compared to Russell. Rutherford started yakking about Beth Sarim in1920s "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" and claimed Jehovah was well pleased with him. 1926 he's still yakking and waiting for the "fauthful men of old" to rise from the dead. PSYCHO
I think the Government book may have been the beginning of the JWs cannot join military as he states again 1926. Rutherford asks; " is there any just cause to go to war?" How about the genocide of 6 millions Jews Mr Rutherford! Would that count!
How anyone could possibly believe this mentally ill man was inspired I'll never understand.
aside from the jw bullshit of course.. so, i'm at work and taking phone calls as is my job.
a customer called up looking for pricing and information about some material and whether or not home despot sells equal quality product.
being the honest (for a salesman at least :p) person that i am, i answered her questions to the best of my ability.. after this was done, she asked me what my name was.
In my mind and heart I see a complete contrast between religion and one who truly has decided to follow Jesus and all his teachings. He was gentle, sensitive and loving. He communicated with people in a way that was never confrontational except for the self righteous religious people.
My faith is manifest in my life as caring and loving as many people as I can. When ASKED why I will tell them because I follow Jesus and this is what Jesus would have done.
The problem today is people are followers. If they follow a Christian leader, televangelist, pastor or anyone and anything other than the simple beauty of Jesus they may act in ways that are rude, even hateful. That is so sad.
We have a mega church in my town that does not have 1 charity. The food ministry is provided by a dedicated older man who is going blind and his dedicated wife. they feed the drug addicts, the alcoholics, the homeless, the mentally ill and their children when no one else gives a dam abouth them. His facility is too small and very old. He has a crew of sweet poor followers of Jesus helping him cook and distribute food all week.
It's about who they are following. In the mega church the beautiful people have peppy music and nice cars in the parking lot. They have plush cushiony seats, they follow the clean charismatic humorous pastor. The food ministry has old wobbly plastic chair and a beat up old man leading it. It is human nature to not want to be out of your comfort zone.
In other words; the man leading the food ministry does not have time to bother people on the telephone, he is too busy going about his way. The megachurch people have the idea that you should be like them. They mean well but are a little misguided.
first used as a study book on thursday nights?
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It is strange piecing your life together via Watchtower books.
What about the pink Paradise lost book? It was one for kids. When was it published and used as a child's home study book?
That was the very first book I "studied"
first used as a study book on thursday nights?
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Thanks for that information Blondie. I am in the process of writing about my JW experience. My past was so scattered we moved around more than a Gypsy. My memory of it is even worse. If this is what they did then that means I was 7 years old when the death of my spirit began. My mom kept saying I was much older but I will never forget how excited the grown ups were when this book was announced it was to be studied.
I remember staring at the time line charts pages where the world ended in 1975. I recently bought the book on ebay and distinctly recall reading over and over from page 29 that "six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975"
When you're a kid you believe with all your heart that the grown ups are telling the truth. From that day I lived in terror of what was to come.
first used as a study book on thursday nights?
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It was published in 1966.
Any oldtimers here with a better memory than me?
first used as a study book on thursday nights?
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First used as a study book on Thursday nights?
i recieved the august 2007 awake from a man i anti witnessed to about child molestation.
couldn't help but see a disturbing paragraph about acknowledging children's feelings.
it went , i quote: .
Does it go on to say anything about validating a child's feelings?
i think for me, it was the dysfunctional family.
things from my childhood are finally getting to me.
i've tried for so long to just push them to the back of my mind.
For me it was most definately the cult. I came from a very dysfunctional family, to the extreme, but was not as bad as growing up under the shadow of Armageddon in the crazy pre 1970's.
The cult screwed up my head as to the nature of God. That nearly destroyed me. Wether one believes in God or not after the cult, learning that the Bible does not teach Jehovah is the mean, crazy god who jerks people around set me free.
Finding out that the Wizard of Oz was really some old farting screw ball Bethel boobs was the beginning of healing.
Along with years of therapy... PTSD, psychoanalysis, phychologist and psychiatrist for meds when needed.
I still will have past traumas come to the surface, they just don't cripple me anymore. I have learned how to cry and how to reach out to someone who cares and will listen. I love life now and have true peace and joy. .
Hang in there,
Love~Kate
i think this is left over from dubdays, dunno.
when i need to be assertive i fizzle out.
my husband was furious when he came home.
Awe thank you Shawn. I understand what you are saying. There is a delicate balance between being assertive and being an a**hole..lol...
I'm going to do some reading and try a few excercises in assertivness training and I'll tell you why. Right now I need to make a phone call, I am intimidated and stalling. The reason is the person I need to call is rich, I provide a charity for her company, but I have never talked or introduced myself to her before.
I always felt that we are not there to hang out with the rich and the beautiful but to provide love to those who are poor and not beautiful anymore. The charity is growing and I really need to meet with her. Why am I intimidated? I am not sure but there is more to the story then I can divulge.
So here I go...I simply must do it.