besides learning how to speak publicly, has the watchtower given you any benefits?
?.
Suspicious,
I used to think the same way because that's what I was told in the WT publications...that only Jehovah's people can achieve higher morals and superior coping skills. We are also taught those leaving the "truth" are unhappy and are gradually corrupted...This isn't the case for me or many more who no longer belong to the cult. I've never been happier and I hope it's the same for you.
besides learning how to speak publicly, has the watchtower given you any benefits?
?.
The price paid outweigh any benefits I received from slaving for the WTS. It could be compared to getting a university degree in prison while serving a life sentence for a murder you never committed. Doing the math hurts...4 years and your freedom...or a lifetime as a prisoner of a cult!
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/be-obedient-and-decisive-governing-body-instructions-to-elders-leaked-on-youtube.
How can you be decisive if the only decision you must make is to obey?
forgive me if this was already posted.... http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witness-53-denies-12-6670314.
Forgive me if this was already posted...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witness-53-denies-12-6670314
read 1.5 hours worth on conti case files (examination & cross-examination).
here is my take (and i consider myself a pretty logical person able to set aside emotion...i've never been abuse but know people who have been).. the jury was completely right in awarding the judgement to conti.
as far as the award amount, i don't care to comment on.
I explained it this way to my son...: you bring your children to the day care next to your best friend's house and he takes his children there too. He finds out that a paedophile works there...so he removes his children but chooses not to warn you...a few months later one of your own children is molested...How would you feel about your friend if you found out he knew but didn't warn you because he feared the consequences of exposing the pervert?
The congregation elders knew they had a pervert amongst them...they kept the matter confidential to protect the paedophile...until he molested a child or more...how can they live with that now?
which trade did you work with?
any interesting revelations or tales?.
Yes I was. I participated in a dozen builds. I was a general laborer and did drywall, shingles, cabinetry and tiling. In the end I was assigned to cabinet making but every time I got called it was for jobs no one wanted to do like cleaning up demolition or breaking cement...they caught me once with that bait and switch. They even called after I went inactive...that was my last no!
what did you imagine would happen?
did they react the way you expected?
how did you bring it up?.
Like Phizzy I attended every meeting and served as a MS. As I started waking up I changed job and started traveling more for business. It was a perfect excuse to step down from my ministerial duties. Then the DC came and after the final talk on the generation overlap we drove home and on the way I asked my wife if she realized what the society was telling us...she was clueless about what I was talking about. After explaining I told her that I had just attended my last meeting. She cried, then said she had no desire to live with an unbeliever. The following months she regularly went to each meeting and sisters made arrangements to get her out in service every week. She has since slowed down a bit but after almost 4 years and I can't see the situation changing anytime soon. Our relationship is fine as long as we don't talk religion.
hi guys.. just found out today that my landlord is selling my apartment.
he says he selling it with me as a sitting tenant, so should be okay.
i'm still a bit apprehensive as i've been here nearly 8 years and my son is in year 9 at the local school.. my mum's words of wisdom, were, of course, "jehovah will provide.".
When I was full in I lost a great paying job after over 25 years...at the very same time a close friend was diagnosed with cancer. Both situations were the subject of many prayers. God got me a new job...but my friend died a few months later...I would have rather be unemployed but God saw things differently...
hi guys.. just found out today that my landlord is selling my apartment.
he says he selling it with me as a sitting tenant, so should be okay.
i'm still a bit apprehensive as i've been here nearly 8 years and my son is in year 9 at the local school.. my mum's words of wisdom, were, of course, "jehovah will provide.".
When Jehovah doesn't provide it's usually because you're not doing enough in his service...get your spiritual life in order and your financial situation will improve...
they are afraid you are going to infect the good works done by the active jws.
are you aware that "one weak jw who is fading can take out five strong jws, so it's best to avoid or greatly limit your contact with weak jws?
" circuit overseer (past) words.. .
I stopped suddenly and nothing for 2 years except for one phone call from a MS friend, then a 2 minute visit from 2 elders...I told them to leave me alone....nothing since.
