seeing on another post here about former jws throwing away literature.
i am curious as to the various opinions on there value.. for me i have been inactive for 3 years almost 4. i still have alot of books and of course all their bibles ever produced (except a few from the 1800s.).
in my opinion i think there are four books the jws produced that are useful:.
Thanks Petra ! I think I may have the 1990 edition, I will check when I can get to my old JW library, which is small, but my wife has made inaccessible while she "tidies up", I can take it they have not updated or replaced this book then, in which case they should be ashamed !
If someone could kindly confirm my assumptions, I may do a Thread on all that books faults, and lies etc !
I also assume it is not used at all in meetings as assigned material then ?
diego maradona apparently died yesterday, 11-25-2020, from a heart attack aged 60.. on the football pitch he was a genius, a footballer of outrageous talent.
btw i'm english, and like many of my compatriots, i remember how disgraceful his cheating was in the quarter finals of the 1986 world cup against england.
he clearly deliberately punched the football into the net, and that goal should not have been allowed.
I take nothing away from the total brilliance of Maradona, but that second goal was aided by some piss poor defending !
i think many people feel secure with an abundance of rules.
they enjoy being told what to do, how to think.
it makes them feel safe.
Enjoying true freedom of thought AND action is a joy. Of course, any freedom comes with responsibility, but I am happy with those rules, which boil down to " Don't use your freedom to be a Dick", simple, nothing more needs to be said !
i thought i would post an encouraging experience i found today.
i've been seeing a lot of 70-80 year old jws waking up, and their children are posting their experience on reddit.
these are old elders, pioneers, circuit overseers who have given their everything and finally at the end of their life, are walking away.. maybe the key to waking up is that a person has to have a deep sense of right and wrong.
He sounds like a kindred spirit to me ! 1914 being bollocks is what woke me up too, but when I left I still believed in Big and Little J and in the Bible, as he does, at present. I was in my late 50's.
" -a good person no matter what age, has no choice but to follow their good conscience and LEAVE. Regardless of the Cost." true, pistolpete, my JW parents brought me up to be a Lover of Truth, ironic a ? and I left because of that conscience, not knowing the cost, I simply had no choice.
I am still a Lover of truth.
i had to read this paragraph twice in case i'd misread it the first time.
who is he trying to kid!?
mr gomez says, "there's very little rules, if any, most of our conduct is governed by principles, and there's a lot of room for us to make personal choices.
A letter to the paper that may get published would be good from someone living in the Area. Be careful to stick to facts, make sure you explain Mr Gomez' two lies, if you do it.
i had to read this paragraph twice in case i'd misread it the first time.
who is he trying to kid!?
mr gomez says, "there's very little rules, if any, most of our conduct is governed by principles, and there's a lot of room for us to make personal choices.
" "There's very little rules, if any, most of our conduct is governed by principles, and there's a lot of room for us to make personal choices." An Elder no doubt, or certainly a grad of the Ministry School as he has said, he knows this is a downright LIE !
I found this, which is also disingenuous " "It's absolutely personal whether you want to choose [to stay in the religion],"
Mr Gomez does not add that if you make the decision to leave the WHOLE of your JW family will Shun you ! A devastatingly evil and unloving thing to do, not Christian at all !
2020--articles of association and bylaws--3 pages.. .
2020--notice of special meeting in december--8 pages.
if you are a jw read carefully before you sign.. .
In Article 9 it says that "No member of the Congregation shall be liable for.............. "
So who pays in cases of Abuse ? This lets the Elders as individuals or as a Body off the hook, the Congregation itself as an entity has no assets, and little cash on hand.
This is a move to deny any poor Victims due Compensation for having their lives STOLEN !
How does this square with the other letter we got recently that JW's are not members, but associates ?
or..as i remember the title..circuit servants wives.
but then i left 40+ years ago.. any recollections of those females that led such an unnatural existence?.
those that i recall seemed such aloof creatures..
One that stayed with us was very nice, but without doubt totally batty ! She insisted on washing up for us, in the days before we had a Dishwasher, and she was useless at it. My wife had to do it again when she wasn't looking.
what did you do with your jw literature when you left?
kept it, sold it or dumped it?
I kept some Books for reference purposes, a couple of Mags containing pretty damning stuff, and burned the rest.
Having that Bonfire was very cathartic, my "Ministry" bag and stuff went on it too, it also freed up a lot of shelf space ! More room for books of use and value !
my recollection of cos were they may have been very low paid almost volunteers..but they werent poor.
most appeared well dressed.
i knew a few..and they were well connected with wealthy famlies.
I think back in my youth most were "poor" in the sense of small income, no savings to speak of. but of course they had no living expenses to find.
One guy who stayed with us for the "visit" week, told me he took terrific care of his Meeting clothes , so as to look smart, but rarely spend on anything new.
That couple, and others who stayed in our home, were really nice modest people.
Later C.O's and D.O's may have been different, but I saw no sign of "back-handers" from our Congo. A wealthy bro in later times had a huge posh house, all the C.O's used to stay with him of course. In even later times there was an Apartment attached to a K.H they could stay in.
