Posts by wannabefree

jessica tidwell arrived in nairobi ready to heroically preach the gospel to destitute, half-naked peasants, living in mud huts and covered in "bug bites".. when she discovered that nairobi was in fact a prosperous, modern city with people in expensive clothes buying food and electronic goods in shopping malls, she was dejected and said so in her missionary blog.. the comments section below her blog entry is well worth a read.... here is bob marley's take on self-centred western christian missionaries.. "we're going to chase those crazy baldheads out of town".

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wannabefree

Thanks cofty. Interesting.

But at least she recognized that no matter what, it was what GOD wanted her to experience ... it was all part of HIS plan for her.

But as the day has worn on, I realized that I wasn’t fully accepting all that God had for me.
That He orchestrated this unexpected time in Nairobi.
That He wanted us to see the affluent parts so I could gain perspective.
That He wanted me to search myself and find the flesh in me that wanted to secretly stay here in the safe.
The protected.
The secure.
[...]
So, did I fall in love with Nairobi today?
No.
But I fell deeper in love with a God who uses all the things, including the safe and affluent, to change my heart.

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2014 Watchtower Library CD (very discreetly) changed the Insight article on Faithful and Discreet Slave

by Gilgamesh in

the updated article on the "fds" makes several changes although it still lists the article/entry as if it had come from the 1988 edition of insight on the scriptures, vol.

(1co 3:2, 5; 4:1, 2; compare mt 4:4.

at the same time the individual members making up such composite body, or the domestics making up the house of god (mt 24:45; heb 3:6; eph 2:19), would also be recipients of the food dispensed.

wannabefree

Jehovah's chariot is on the move ... try to keep up will ya?

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Mom says, "CO says there's only 15 years left!"

by Separation of Powers in

i don't typically hear from my mom often, but i tell you, over the past couple of weeks, i have heard from her several times.

you heard the comment about "our way of worship will be altered" and thank you for your posts by the way....but yesterday, she calls and is asking about the kids and then, in typical jw fashion mind you, says:.

"you know, you should really get back to meetings.

wannabefree

... another point

to this day I remember by heart the name of a Watchtower article that came out in 1988 ....

"Responsible Childbearing in this Time of the End" this was in the 3/1/88 Watchtower

Why was this article seared into my conscience? Because I was young in "The Truth" and my wife was at this time 6 months pregnant which means we probably studied it around the time my first child was born. I remember somebody bringing it up in conversation with my wife and I before we covered it at the meeting and wondering if the article made me feel bad. It hadn't until that moment. From that point I did feel somewhat guilty, like I had to make an excuse for the irresponsibility of bringing a child into the world at a time that we might have to take to flight any moment. Woe to the pregnant woman or those with small children.

SO, will the end be here in 15 years? Whatever. F@#K OFF JW C.O. and your entire organization!

That religion is guilty in causing so many to experience the reality of the words of Proverbs 13:12

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Seriously, Why Can’t Jehovah’s Witness Women Wear Pants?

by Watchtower-Free in

i found this.

http://jwvictims.org/2014/02/05/seriously-why-cant-jehovahs-witness-women-wear-pants/.

seriously, why cant jehovahs witness women wear pants?.

wannabefree

The answer is illustrated nicely here .... (somebody posted a link to this site on another topic ... thanks)http://www.bricktestament.com/the_law/transvestism/dt22_05a.html

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Mom says, "CO says there's only 15 years left!"

by Separation of Powers in

i don't typically hear from my mom often, but i tell you, over the past couple of weeks, i have heard from her several times.

you heard the comment about "our way of worship will be altered" and thank you for your posts by the way....but yesterday, she calls and is asking about the kids and then, in typical jw fashion mind you, says:.

"you know, you should really get back to meetings.

wannabefree

Most JW's think the end will come before they will ever get a chance to ________ (insert event).

I became a JW at the age of 20. ... quit college because the end was near ... didn't plan for my future or my children's because the end was near ... thought children would never even be in public school before the end came (my oldest is now 27) ... questioned the need for braces for one of my children because the end was so close (did get them though, but that I would even question it disturbs me) ...

Yet, the Organization blames the believer for their own false expectations ... well, since the experience isn't at all unique proves otherwise.

I'm not sure if this is accurate, but most born-ins my age seemed to address many of these issues differently. It almost seems that perhaps their parents who went through the 1975 fiasco hedged their bets (burn me once right?)... while me, a convert in the 1980's just gulped it all down. For instance ... I was going to school for electrical engineering ... a brother my age raised in the religion also went to school for electrical engineering (I didn't know him at the time, be we ended up in the same congregation), difference being he completed school and got his engineering degree and I quit because I listened to the counsel of the JW's at the time.

Of course when I brought this up a few years ago with elders it was my fault and I was bitter.

Yes, it was my fault! What an idiot! Damn cult!

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circumcision as a mark of gods people

by user100 in

so the last two watchtower studies talked about circumcision as a mark of god's people.

i thought it was weird why they would pick that as a mark.

why dont they chop of their earlobe er something.

wannabefree

What did God have against the foreskin anyway?

If there was some kind of health benefit to have it removed, why did he make it that way in the first place? Why did having a foreskin symbolize reproach? Seems like all MAN made religion has some sort of obsession with the phallic.

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Some screenshots from new KH meeting!

by pixel in

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they just put up a link to watch a replay of the "new kh meeting", here some screenshots.. .

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wannabefree

I notice this sample doesn't include the flagpole. That must be optional.

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Super Bowl Commercials JW's Probably Hate.

by cappytan in

so, dodge must be the real faithful and discreet slave as the philosophy behind this commercial was "food at the proper time" for me.

"live for now, because life is good.

" :-p. i can just see all those uber-dubs thinking, "wow, this commercial is a sign of the last days.".

wannabefree

Haha! I don't know. My first impression was evolution. And I know she took it that way too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQ-HyzAgRk