....i am your servant.
i want you to determine how i should spend my time, what my priorities should be, and how i should use my resources and talents.".
this was in this week's watchtower, first paragraph.
@ Sulla, I agree with you my friend, but "actual Christianity" means something different to everyone and each has their explanation of Christianity, thus the thousands of sects (including JWs).
@ Messerschmitt, you got it right! And I am not equating it, the organization is! ;)
....i am your servant.
i want you to determine how i should spend my time, what my priorities should be, and how i should use my resources and talents.".
this was in this week's watchtower, first paragraph.
.... I am your servant. I want you to determine how I should spend my time, what my priorities should be, and how I should use my resources and talents."
This was in this week's Watchtower, first paragraph. The whole article was about how you should not pursue any worldly interests and give priority to kingdom interest. Bunch of BS! And of course they have the picture of the "happy" pioneers, Sister Hardly Smiling, Sister Anorexic, and Brother Window Washer.
Getting sick of this.
End rant.
ok, so this week the bh was from ezekiel.
the brother starts by talking about a prophecy of egypt being laid desolate for 40 years.
he then says there is no evidence in secular history that this happened.
ok, so this week the bh was from ezekiel.
the brother starts by talking about a prophecy of egypt being laid desolate for 40 years.
he then says there is no evidence in secular history that this happened.
Sounds similar to our BH, the same old BS. Thankfully I wasn't giving it!
i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
My thoughts are with you Truman...I wish I could do something to ease your pain, but all I can say is hang in there...
Reading your posts brought tears to my eyes...sorry to see you have to go through this hell.
another post gives the stats that about 20 bethels have closed over the last 2 years.
lets assume that this continues at half the rate in another 10 years there will be few or a dozen bethels left.
if theres no bethel in spain, portugal, france, italy and they all go thru germany what chance does that give jws in those lands to ever get a chance at the big bethel in germany ?
They are making it sound like there is quite a bit of an expansion going on in the US, which is disappointing. Good to hear that other bethels are closing, but if they are expanding here in the US, that doesn't do us any good!
if jehovah's witnesses, which number about 7 million right now, are a small subset of the religious world today, what does that make former jw's?
as with any unique group, you have to be one to totally understand, esp if you were neck deep in it at one time.
when i first left, all i wanted to do was say the things i never had a chance to when i was in.
Sorry to bring up an older thread, but thank you for posting this ATJ. Enjoyed reading it, always love reading your posts even when I don't comment on them.
Wish you the best.
Stillin9
i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
im getting rather excited!
its only 8 weeks away!
this year, for the 1st time in 6 years, we are having a proper xmas.
Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, we'll be having our weekly meeting! LOL
Too bad I still can't celebrate...but to those who can, enjoy! And that sounds delicious Pams!
