here is why, even though i no longer agree with most of what the gb/wt/jw's teach, i still feel especially close to all of us who were apart of this group.
born in or converted.
we all have had the same life experience of being raised in a over bearing mind controlling cult.
Don't post often, but read must of your posts. You guys make me laugh alot .(who else would understand dub humor ) and sometimes shed a few tears.
( who else would understand the tears) . Yes we are a world wide brotherhood. We all speak dub!!!!!!!! Hugs to all of you!!!!!!!
Sherry
one of my favorite toys when i was a kid was my spirograph.
i don't know whatever happened to it but i wanted to get another one and didn't realize they didn't make them anymore.
i went on ebay and got a super spirograph (complete except for the pens) for a real good price ($30) - i hit it at just the right time since most are listed for $50 to $100.
I loved.....cut-outs.....you know where you have a paper doll and lots of clothes you cut out...they have tabs you fold over to keep them on .
And how about color forms......you peel things off....and place them on a board..........pick up sticks.......Mr. potato head....(chutes and ladders....and
candy land ) both great games.........I think they are still around
it's clear that virtually everyone on here is infuriated by wt teachings/doctrines/practices, but i would really like to know what is of most concern to people who frequent this forum.. here is my top 5, number 1 being the most significant/infuriating:.
the disfellowshipping practice - expanded to include family members (but not parents) who are old enough to leave home.
wrecks families and creates abject fear once people find out the truth about the organization.the blood issue - another unmerciful teaching, but one that costs lives.unquestioned authority of governing body - a handful of men make life-altering decisions as representatives of a larger group of people who they never see or speak to, and yet they demand unquestioning obedience on pain of being disfellowshipped.failed prophecy - the fulfilment of huge swathes of bible prophecy, including revelation, has been attributed to the events of the early 20th century, and the actions of a small group of men.two-tier christianity - faithful and discreet slave are anointed who go to heaven to whom ransom provisions apply directly, whereas remainder, or "great crowd" stay on earth and form a sub-class, only access benefits of ransom through fds.i realise that many of these issues are inter-related, but that's roughly how i would put them.
1 blood
2 shunning
3 education
4 GB taking the role of Jesus
5 the end is coming soon
haha....what a bunch of crap designed to make you feel more guilty for thinking about attending college to make life easier for your family.
why would you attend a higher education when you can attend divine education from jehovah!!!!!!!!!!
get a life scumbags.
Has mans knowledge of medicine delivered him from the ill effects of disease...................DUH ! YES. it most certainly has. But it can't cure brain drain in a JW.
my town will no longer collect old books like that as trash and they're pretty hard to burn.
my solution has been to include one in every bag of used cat litter when i clean the cat boxes.
i've gotten rid of around 30 that way and i'm about halfway there.
Might be doing that soon......moving my elderly mother from FL back to MI soon....Will not be taking any bound volumes.
my town will no longer collect old books like that as trash and they're pretty hard to burn.
my solution has been to include one in every bag of used cat litter when i clean the cat boxes.
i've gotten rid of around 30 that way and i'm about halfway there.
I love Idrnomo's idea......lmao!!!!!!
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110825/news/108250327/-1/sitemapwatchtower buys another parceljehovah's witnesses to exit brooklyn for orange county this is the former international nickel co. site in warwick that the watchtower bible and tract society purchased two years ago to be the site of its new world headquarters.
the former international nickel property is about six miles from the society's latest purchase, the one-time international paper property in tuxedo.by alyssa sunkintimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 08/25/11 .
the jehovah's witnesses organization is moving forward with its plans to move its world headquarters to the town of warwick.
I just thought it was funny ha ha that it just happened to be the name of thier brokerage firm. I once looked at a house to buy.... it was on Catholic Church Rd. I wonder if a JW would live on that street? It would be funny if the address was 666.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110825/news/108250327/-1/sitemapwatchtower buys another parceljehovah's witnesses to exit brooklyn for orange county this is the former international nickel co. site in warwick that the watchtower bible and tract society purchased two years ago to be the site of its new world headquarters.
the former international nickel property is about six miles from the society's latest purchase, the one-time international paper property in tuxedo.by alyssa sunkintimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 08/25/11 .
the jehovah's witnesses organization is moving forward with its plans to move its world headquarters to the town of warwick.
Did you notice the firm that represented the WT ? Cushman and Wakefield- PYRAMID Co.......lol
i was trying to watch this movie with will smith titled "seven pounds".. i got an hour and 15 mins.
in and i just had to turn it off.. what a waste of time.. so what are some or your least favorite movies?
or some you just couldn't finish, they were just so bad?.
I have to agree with Eraserhead. That's the first movie that poped in my head. Twitch IMO you are so right. Another movie that fell flat for me was Water World, with Kevin Cosner. The most exspensive movie ever made. ( at the time )
Sherry
imagine boarding a bus with your family for a long anticipated vacation.
the destination is a place that is promised to be beautiful warm and sunny.
as you are boarding the bus you are given a ticket stub with several paragraph's of fine print.
Great post! I also thought the story would make a good twilight zone episode. Loved it !
