it's not too soon to start mentioning that to jw's- let them know that 100 years is a long time and even g-d only made the israelites wander in the wilderness for 40 years, before he brought them to the promised land.
let the doubt begin creeping in and let the jw's know they aren't the only ones with doubts.
i will mention 2014 to jw's from now on- it's a date that the wt hopes the jw's will ignore..
I guess WT will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jesus INVISIBLE presence....the GB will make a great party, in Beth Sarim Mansion,(inside informations revealed to me that the Org has bought back Judge Jo's Villa) with fireworks, and pop corns, cakes, and CLOWNS....
Yeah about 12 CLOWNS they will make people laugh to death. 12 old Clowns that all they do is making themselves fools, for many years,starting from 1942(after Booze Jo died the GB was formed by Knorr)
at the special assembly day they interviewed a elder who came into the truth in the early 50's he had just signed up for collage and was starting his life at the age of 18 or 19 then he learned the truth.
a elder came to him and asked why he wanted to go to collage when the system's end was so close.
he realized that the elder was right.
He started pioneering due to the fact that the end was SOOOOOOOOOO CLOSE....So 60 years after still the end is CLOOOOOOOOSER...
WT is crap dude...
just got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
Also it was a good chance to reinforce the reason that I left WT 10 year ago....
Boring...boring...boring....
just got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
The only good thing about my attendance in the Memorial this year, it was the chance I had to speak to some other "fellow disfellowshiped Witnesses"...
at last this great book now in greek language...this book was translated from the english edition by a jw who was in prison due to neutrality back in the 80's.
for many years, many greek jw's and ex jw's had the photocopied translation done in prison by this ex-jw.. this translation was shocking event to the hellenic jw's and many left the org at that time.
now there is an official copy of this great book by brother franz, god bless him....
No need for the update in monotonic Greek, Blue Grass. It is the final revized version of Crisis, plus in Hellenic language when we are dealing with religious books we stick to the polytonic version of Greek. It has to do with grammatic and many other aspects of the wealth that Hellenic language has...
here is a quick version of my life in the org.
i was born and raised in it.
my father was physically and mentally abusive to my siblings and i. he was inactive from the meetings and service for much of my life.
thanks for sharing your story...I will be back with more comments later on...
i'm quite interested in this subject at the moment.
i was reading that in some cultures when the stories, myths and traditions began to be written down the stories etc underwent transformations as they were now accessible for critique and for moral judgements to be added.. i'd like to hear your thoughts leo and anyone else who has anything to share/discuss.
ql.
There are many traditions that came out from Mesopotamia and adopted by the Israelites, since the founder of the Jewish Nation is from that region.
We have a lot of commons between the first 5 Books in the Bible, starting from the Creation, the Gilgamesh Myth-Noahs flood, along with many other common things they have...
swansea paedophile in 17-year barrage of child abusesunday, march 21, 2010, 12:00a pensioner branded a "filthy paedophile" after being convicted of a barrage of sustained child abuse, which started over 43 years ago, has been jailed for 19 years.. gordon brian redmond was convicted at lewes crown court of 18 indecent assaults against children including six charges of rape and one charge of actual bodily harm.. the 72-year-old had already pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault against children.. the sexual offences took place while redmond, now of excelsior house, princess way, swansea, was living in brighton from 1967 to 1984. seventeen of the charges were sample counts examples of ongoing behaviour and offences.. the jury was unable to reach a verdict on a seventh charge of rape, and judge michael lawson qc ordered the charge to lie on file.. sentencing redmond, judge lawson said no sentence could truly reflect his actions.. "there is no mathematical calculation i can do that can match the harm that you have done with a certain number of years in custody," he said.. "nor can i undo the damage that has been done or bring peace and comfort to those who have suffered as a result of your selfish behaviour.".
redmond's sentence had to be determined according to the guidelines applicable at the time of the offences guidelines that judge lawson said reflected "an outdated view of serious offences".. redmond became a strict jehovah's witness in the 1970s and moved to a farm in pontyberem in 1984.. the offence of actual bodily harm took place in november 2006.. judge lawson paid tribute to the prosecution witnesses for their courage throughout the trial, particularly redmond's first victim.. "she has displayed a generosity of spirit throughout this trial that you do not deserve and which you never showed to your victims," he said.. prior to sentencing, defence barrister bernard richmond qc said his client was already enduring terrible punishment for his crimes.. "this rather proud, arrogant, cocky, difficult, bolshy, very full of himself, scary man, who everyone was supposed to look up to and admire, now stands in the dock as someone of very little money, no future, and with a reputation as a filthy paedophile," he said.. "he has been shunned by the jehovah's witnesses.
his wife, christine, has been forced to choose between her faith and her husband, and has chosen her faith.".
ONLY 19 YEARS IN PRISON?????
i found out someone i know is terminally ill. before i would put my jw hat and give them comfort from the bible and the hope of resurrection.
but now that i dont believe in paradise nor in heaven what do you say to someone who is terminally ill and still has some religious beliefs?.
Have you ever look for Near Death Experiences???
i am still going through the questioning my faith stage as i just discovered the inconsistencies of the org.
it was 1914 that really threw me for a loop.
i have never been completely sold on the "new light" policy.
Yeah INVISIBLE presence of Jesus that only Russell did saw and a banch of psevdoamerican Christian followers of his...
A really laugh with their explanation of Parousia- Presence....I mean in the Hellenic language there is only ONE meaning for Parousia, but WT did manage to twist the Bible once more...
Just the fact that they claim an INVISIBLE presence- PAROUSIA it is more than enough to show that they don't have a clue of Greek language and translation
