after almost 2 years of being wrongfully disfellowshipped and over a year after finding this site....i am starting to read crisis of conscience.
i will not lie....i am a bit nervous as to what information i will find in the book.
i have a strong feeling that i will end up crying through most of it as i will start to see the truth about the "truth".
It was an emotional book for me in that it made me angry.
Not that Ray was an angry person, quite the opposite.
The chapter that broke me was the one about the Society's long history of setting dates for the end, beginning long before 1914.
And then pretty much every chapter after that on through "In Search of Christian Freedom".
just wondering how many of us on here are musicians, what we play, and if we had witness bands and/or performed.
i have had quite a few funny moments of being in bands that wanted to be cool, but always had to nerf the edginess of any songs we played and watch the noise!
i played with different elders who loved to rock out, but when they played at a congregation party didn't even want to use overdrive of any kind!
I play guitar mostly but also have learned some bass, piano, and mandolin for multi-tracking purposes (and because I enjoy it). If you'd like to hear some of my stuff pm me.
It occured to me that it would be awesome to get several of us together and make a concept album about breaking free from the WT.
As far as this quote: "I will never master the piano and unlike you, I wouldn't think of trying to play the bass, guitar AND the mandolin in addition to the piano with the goal of getting good at ANY of them" the fact is there are many musicians out there who are talented enough to play more than one instrument and are more than good enough at each of them to entertain the masses. Take Paul McCartney, for instance. In any given concert of his he will play bass, guitar, mandolin, piano, and ukulele. I'd say his music is fairly adequate, wouldn't you?
one of my other posts mentioned briefly how the c.o.b.e.
of my "former" hall is trying to make it a rule of no football,especially for elders and servants.. of course,as a woman i would never qualify to be a servant,nor do i want to be.
but,i still enjoy watching a bit of the nfl.
They have enough trouble keeping males interested in the religion as it is. I guarantee you if they banned football the men would leave in droves. So for that reason, I say, yes, please ban football!
i have a 3-way tie,,,.
nightmare on elm street series - especially in noes2, when the gurl is running from freddie in the basement, and her feet are in goo,,, and just when he's about to catch her,,, she gets traction --- that's real nightmare action!.
rosemary's baby - no special effects,,, just the creepiest freakin' neighbours in the world ... chilling!.
Yes, "The Mist" is excellent. Not to be confused with "The Fog".
love really is the answer.
zen living reveals that loving kindness, compassion, and the desire to relieve the suffering of others emerge naturally from a zen practice.. as the world experiences struggle, conflict, and pain, zen living can teach those who practice it how to release fear, hate, and the delusion of difference.. loving kindness can heal emotional, political, social, and spiritual separation.. we can help spread strength, power, and unity through loving kindness by practicing mindfulness every day.. .
Love really is the answer. Zen living reveals that loving kindness, compassion, and the desire to relieve the suffering of others emerge naturally from a Zen practice.
As the world experiences struggle, conflict, and pain, Zen living can teach those who practice it how to release fear, hate, and the delusion of difference.
Loving kindness can heal emotional, political, social, and spiritual separation.
We can help spread strength, power, and unity through loving kindness by practicing mindfulness every day.
my jw wife babysits from time to time, usually non-jws.
apparently my daughter was indoctrinated to the evils of halloween recently because one of the "worldly" kids mentioned it and she told him it was bad.
(although when i'm with her alone, she totally loves the holiday).. this non-dub kid said, "no it's not bad.
That's up to you, PP. You're entitled to your opinion.
my jw wife babysits from time to time, usually non-jws.
apparently my daughter was indoctrinated to the evils of halloween recently because one of the "worldly" kids mentioned it and she told him it was bad.
(although when i'm with her alone, she totally loves the holiday).. this non-dub kid said, "no it's not bad.
That's a great reminder of Romans 14:5 and 6, WT Wizard. For those who don't recall this scripture, here's what it says in the New World Translation: " One [man] judges one day as above another; another [man] judges one day as all others; let each [man] be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day observes it to Jehovah. Also, he who eats, eats to Jehovah, for he gives thanks to God; and he who does not eat does not eat to Jehovah, and yet gives thanks to God."
http://kristenfrihet.se/vtsvar/vtsvar1.pdf.
(thanks to augustin for bringing this to our attention in another thread.
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God I loves me some Larsinger. The crazy train is a helluva ride!
since i started having sex , i changed my doctor, this new one prescribed me control pills for extra safety ... well, it turns out i have my hormones unbalanced and thats why i had such a terribles, painfuls periods, i had to loose days at work, lots of pain killers and sometimes even er .... uuughhhh i went to so many doctors and nobody knew what was wrong, they just kept saying,, is normal to have pain during the period....
You go, girl!
here is a list of the current governing body members:.
gerrit losch: born 1942, appointed july 1, 1994 .
guy h. pierce: born 1935, appointed oct. 1, 1999 .
Yeah, it seems to me the religion would do so much better financially if it would stop discouraging higher education. Of course it would have to change in a lot of other areas too so that the more educated JWs would stay with the religion. It would appear that the Mormons would be the model to follow in this regard.
I think there really has been a struggle within- some pushing for higher education and giving to charity- and I think that was evidenced and reflected by the drama a couple years back that featured the Scolios character.
Just imagine- if the Governing Body got with the times and no longer required neckties. Or allowed the songs to be played with a drum backbeat. Or provided a "Sunday school" for the kids, to the relief of the parents who tire of trying to make toddlers act like little adults. Or loosened up on holidays and the blood issue (which it actually has- "fractions" for example).
The religion has to either mainstream and live or become more cultlike and destroy itself. Unfortunately the current GB is picking the latter. It's all they know.
