(i wanted to put this in the child abuse section of the forum!).
we have seen that during the march 2017 broadcast, m stephen lett has openly praised children who get baptised as young as 10!.
so lets summarize why it is wrong to push child baptism (not far off "infant baptism" that jws condemn other churches for).
I watched the March broadcast and was struck as to how powerful it was. I can visualize myself as a youth and seeing this broadcast as extremely motivating. They clearly hit all the buttons. An old fart like myself can see through the hype, but I am not sure that the 18 yo me would see through the crap. For that reason, I found the video very disturbing.
You got to hand it to them - they know how to manipulate.
ah, yes, so mid-way through a conversation about work, a family member just had to say "oh, you know the memorial is tuesday april 11, so i guess you will have to schedule your work so you can make it right?".
i simply said "oh is it?
" and then went back to what we were talking about.. has anyone else had the pressure to attend put on them?.
The way I read your story, I see someone who is trying to relieve their on guilt in case someone asked: "did you invite Stuckin to the memorial?" Or perhaps someone in authority told your family member to "be sure to remind Stuckin about the memorial."
They now can honestly say that they reminded you. End of discussion....
it seems that most people who have been witnesses that i've known in the last 20 years are still jws.
they may not be as zealous as before but they still remain as jehovah's witnesses.
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While many have left I think there are many more who fit the category of the "walking dead." They no longer believe but have nowhere else to go. It is one thing to learn you live in a cult. It is something totally different to get the courage to actually leave.
23 days ago, zeb posted this familiar but ever intriguing thread regarding 1914, the mother of all topics.. put youir [sic] thinking caps on.zeb 23 days ago this was sent to me from doug shields blog.
for those who like stats and numbers may find this of interest.1914 – recognizing the ”the elephant in the room”.
the problem with the date ”1914 ad” lays with the two calendars that are involved – jewish and gregorian.
Any discussion of 1914 is silly. If there was a justification for this date in the past, it is hard to extract meaning given that we are many generations beyond the date. Let's move on.
i doubt people consider me an apostate but you never know.🤓.
I am not disfellowshipped or disassociated. I am forgotten. I was never worth the effort to be pursued by my enemies.
In any event, I consider myself a proud apostate.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fky2ues_6x0
good job
was there anything positive about your jehovah's witness experience?.
I learned the value of Brooklyn Heights' real estate. Purchase an apartment on Columbia Heights sold it several years later. Best investment ever.
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http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/510585965/poor-education-leads-to-lost-dreams-and-low-income-for-many-jehovahs-witnesses.
Thank you for posting. This should be talked about as much as possible. The no-education policy is the moral equivalent of keeping your woman "barefoot and pregnant."
No education severely limits a person's options if they consider leaving. In addition, a witness never learns the critical thinking skills necessary to understand TTATT.
there's a beautiful sky this morning.
it's my birthday, today i'm 64 and look every inch of it, but i appreciate my life and feel fortunate to be cult-free.
also very fortunate to have a purposeful and entertaining existence here in gorgeous north georgia (in the usa).
Happy birthday!
so i was checking out the website to see what the february broadcast was all about before i watched it with my jw wife.. on the front page was this video.... https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodbible/pub-jwbai_201607_1_video.
i watched it and pretended i had never been a jw.. if you pretend you don't understand their particular language it makes for a interesting (if not vague) watch.. btw i've seen several of the actors before.
jw version of movie stars?
flipper
I cannot believe I watched the whole 6 minute video without throwing up.
You did better than me, I only got through the first 5 minutes when I had to make a decision, turn it off or throw-up. I couldn't watch any more.
