a friend of mine has contacts to a family with several circuit overseers and special pioneers.
they have good connections to bethel.. he told me that the latest rumor from bethel states that the cos should be abolished in their present form.
they have also recently begun to take cos back to bethel.. over the same channel i have already heard of the car fleet program and that the dos should be abolished.. has anyone else already heard of it?
It sure seems the borg is just a shadow of it's former self. My god, we studied for 5 meetings a week, repeatedly studied from Gen. To Rev year, after year, after year. Plus all the mags and books. Now they play on their ipads. How could they know anything? This rebranding is just a stripdown and money being socked away somewhere (maybe invested in Trump/Jerad industries.
Who knows and more importantly, who cares. The damage is done.
i used to be a staunch believer in god.
maybe its technology and science advancing so much thats got me doubting idk.
do you believe in god?
Loosing Jehovah was the biggest heart break of my life. Knowing that dude was a fabrication pretty much took everything else down the toilet. I will always be amazed at my ability to make total fiction a real part of my life makes me a very gunshy person. probably a bit over reactive to anything smelling faintly like it. It is shocking how those indoctrinations are a natural default setting I have to monitor ALL the time.
since me and my siblings had to go to service every saturday, and i mean every saturday, i missed out on something so normal as watching good ole saturday morning cartoons from the 70's and 80's.
i remember wishing i could stay home just one saturday so i could watch cartoons.
but noooo we had to go save lives!
I think the worst was not developing normal social skills for you age groups. I read that kids that don't have that are pretty much screwed as development is age related. I get by pretty well. I was a flight attendant for almost 40 years but it was really hard work to act normal. I also have no sense of the future and have a hard time planning life. Oh well. Whatever.
why did jesus supposedly cast the demons into a herd of pigs?.
(matt 8 / luke 8).
and, how were there so many demons inside one man, that when "released" by jesus, it took a whole pack of pigs to contain them??.
I had an elder speak to this scripture. He said you could learn a couple of things from it. First, demons can't just possess animals willy nilly. The demons had to have Jesus permission to enter them, otherwise all humans and probably all life would be wiped out by those crazy demons. Secondly, in line with the demons desiring physical feelings, as when materializing into men and having sex "with all whom they chose" they would rather enter the pigs and physically dash those porcine bodies to death than be put back in the non feeling ether.
i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!
magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".
https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.
Are they going to only have a couple of WT studies a year?
last memorial i found an invite on my door for the memorial.
on it was quoted, "truly i tell you, you will be with me in paradise".
in growing up that phrase was a big deal because the discussion was where the comma was placed.
Last memorial I found an invite on my door for the memorial. On it was quoted, "Truly I tell you, you will be with me in Paradise". In growing up that phrase was a big deal because the discussion was where the comma was placed. Truly I tell you today, you will be......" vs "Truly I tell you, today you will be with...." Have they removed the word Today from this scripture in their latest Bible?
the jws teach that jc is michael the archangel.
how many archangels does the bible mention?
is it three?.
The JWs teach that JC is Michael the archangel. How many archangels does the bible mention? Is it three?
1) he wrote woman are not qualified to teach (1 corinthians 14:34).
in my experience, i have been taught by both teachers—male and female.
some of the female teachers were too wonderfully effective.
Undermined is putting it mildly. I view him as the great hijacker of christs message. I'm sure he a Joel olsteen would be pals.
so tomorrow is my last appointment with my psychologist.
we are going to commemorate it by giving each other a letter.. sept 2016 i sat, a quivering wreck, in her waiting room.
i was terrified.
Thank you for sharing! I'm in my mid sixties and just starting to live. Better late than never. Xoxo
i hope you don't mind if i share my latest blog post here: .
one of the most common ways in which people are psychologically traumatized whilst in a cult or religious high control group, is the extreme pressure to “forgive” people who have abused them.
i use the word “forgive” in quotes, because the concept often goes way beyond the biblical mandate.
I saw a lot of abuse in my congregations. You can "forgive" till the cows come home. The abusers have to remain ACCOUNTABLE. Forgiveness is for you.....accountability is for them.
