so, apparently, there is an organization which provides structure, curriculum, etc.
for home-schooling of jw kids:.
http://www.newsystemschool.org/index.html.
The least educated, for sure.
For all their indoctrination, I'm glad my parents sent me to public school. Of course, they disallowed college and discouraged any preparatory courses that led in that direction. And as long as I didn't get Fs, they realize didn't care about my grades (getting Fs would've been a bad witness and all that).
so i have been "faded" for approximately 2.5 years.
my parents know i haven't attended a meeting in quite some time, but don't know that i have been dating a guy for about eight months.
we really love each other and his family is super sweet.
Does your boyfriend's family understand your parents are in a cult?
i've come across a jw friendly article about watchtower predicting smartphones in the 20s.. .
of course, in the comments section there are a lot of jws freaking out saying "there is no doubt that this is the only true organization!
", "thanks jehovah that used his faithful and discreet slave to tell us some useful information about the future!
Whatever gets a JW to read the Golden Age magazine.
There are so many lovely articles how there is no such thing as gravity, about wood and glass atoms, and all sorts of "advanced" medical advice like diagnosing and curing diseases with radio waves, radium belts, and so forth.
I play it all the time.
I don't know what I would do without QI, XI, JO, or ZA.
Of course, I've no idea what those mean.
anyone got any ideas on how to get kingdom melodies out of my head.
keep finding myself singing them without realising and it's getting annoying lol.
hopefully they'll disappear with time.
Like bees that were molested...
good afternoon , .
i wanted to ask everyone here , what was your trigger to waking up ?
i have been waking up for a long time , but in looking back it’s hard for me to look at one event and say “ ah ha “ , i think mine is like a slow leak - like a crack in a damn - and then hold on , because after that it’s just a flood of information.
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this is my first post to this site, im pale.emperor's brother:).
first of all, i've left being a jw in june.
since then my family have tried to convince me it's "the truth" and force me to go back even though it's my own decision.
Congrats on waking up and walking away.
I'm sorry you are going through all the turmoil the cult is causing.
If they took you to court, I believe they would lose.
i posted on another thread about a couple of my experiences of meeting the governing body while i was in brooklyn.
i wanted to see if anyone else had any experiences along these same lines.
i met most of the ones that were current during the 2001-2003 years.
Amazing prediction.
one of the most common "defences" of jw organization is that "the brothers" are imperfect yet still strive to follow god's word.
"sure, they make mistakes," so the argument goes, "but so did god's people in the past, including in bible times.
" the key point is their readiness to keep studying god's word and learning from their mistakes.".
With this, they can eat their cake and have it too.
They are spirit-directed, but not spirit-inspired. Their directives are to be viewed as coming from Heaven, but they are not infallible. We must be ready to obey, even if it doesn't make sense, our lives depend on it! Unity at all costs! If we say this green book is black, it's black!
And if you do not accept any of this...say goodbye to your friends and family. The cost of treating them as imperfect men with imperfect directives is quite high.
i just thought i'd share this story from my past.. back in the 80s i remember the big problem seemed to be about music.
(today, it's tight pants, i guess) the organization, society, whatever they were calling themselves, were always going on about the music we listened to.
disco, heavy metal, the whole "backwards masking" thing...couldn't escape hearing or reading about how satan was corrupting us unless we were listening to kingdom melodies or elevator music.. i was assigned to wtf in the late 80s and remember one of the articles stating that "young people know that the rhythm of rock music is the rhythm of sexual intercourse.
No, wasn't Rogers.
I wonder if it was part of an outline from the Branch. Or else somebody borrowed from someone else's material.
I remember him playing the chorus of Sentimental Journey as well...and then launched into an attack on sentimentality.
