i just got my first book ... to start with.
the next one will be ray franz, crisis of conscience.. so if there any believers or semi-believers that would like to chat about it i would appreciate your comments.. also it may help any visitors to this site, who may be questioning things.. .
lost.
I think Robert King, although having an interesting website is still too much into WT ideology.
I would go along with what others have said. Ray Franz's book CoC followed by ISoCF and then Don Cameron's Captives of a Concept are a must read for any awakening JW. Once you've read those, everything else starts falling into place.
i've been wondering about this for some time.
if there are 60,000+ registered users on here, what percentage are actual non-dfed or non-daed witnesses?
if it was 1/3, that would be over 20,000 active/inactive witnesses that post and read these pages- and that's huge.
Still in.. in prison with invisible bars. Totally and completely out mentally. Still maintain a facade for the sake of my beloved family. It's like acting a part. One day I won't be able to keep it up anymore.
for the first time, i realize that many people have different views about this.. some people believe that all should partake, others don't believe that there should be a memorial.. some are going to the hall, others are having their own celebrations still others are just going to be doing normal activities.. how do you think the memorial should be celebrated?
how are you going to spend it?.
At the KH at the non event... then after on my own, partaking in private and making it a very special occasion...
the new wt 2013 june tells kids that they might get to study with a pirate someday!
perhaps johnny depp will be resurrected for just that purpose?.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.... Matt 6:21
Of course they want pirates to become JWs!!! They have lots of treasure...... don't they?
a cautionary tale.
(it is evening at the kingdom hall and a mom and her daughter arrive before the meeting is about to start.).
"hello sister richardson.".
If sister Richardson's children had stayed JWs they would have received the book 'Children' in 1941 and as a result would never have married and poor sister Richardson would never have had grandchildren. Although she never gets to see the ones she's got anyway....
most people think mt sinai is in the sinai penisula in egypt, but some suggest their is significant evidance of mt sinai being in saudi arabia.. .
evidence points to the beaches of nuwayba in egypt by the gulf of aqaba (red sea) being the point of the red sea crossing.. .
it is thought king solomon put a pillar marking this on each side of the crossing.. (nuweiba egypt).
Watched some videos about this a while ago. Very interesting. Draw your own conclusions.
i had a very nice conversation with a christian man the other day.
it was so nice to speak to someone without fear.
i really just started unloading my burdens upon this man, and he was just awesome.
Talking to others that know nothing about JWs is eye opening. When you start to tell them things that you are troubled by they are actually horrified!
Total preterism doesn't make sense to me but I can see a point of view for partial preterism. Anyway, I only started partaking last year I don't want to stop yet! LOL
Don't I know you guys DD, Londo and CA?? ;)
i must admit, i am a sucker for bible movies.
i do not get the history channel on my cable service but i've heard good things about the series.. have you seen it?.
are you interested in these types of programs..
I thought it was very good. However there was a lot missed out, like Isaac/Jacob/Joseph but then I guess they have to fit 1,000s of years into a few hours. Also things have to be added for entertainment value. I found it hard to accept Samson and his family as being black because the Israelites were all jews. I know a vast mixed crowd came out of Egypt with the Israelites but would Samson have come from one of those? I doubt it.
On the whole it's good. I'm looking forward to the ones about Jesus.
after today's watchtower study which was basically a mind controlling article about shunning your loved disfellowshipped ones, i've come to see just how sick, twisted, vile, rotten, repulsive, disgusting, and just plain evil you all are.
so i stormed out.
i don't know if i'll ever come back to your meetings again.
On the other hand, if you choose the path of resentment toward Jehovah, the organisation, you will distance yourself from him it. Really, what your beloved family member needs to see is your resolute stance to put Jehovah the organisation above everything else-including the family bond. So to cope with the situation, be sure to maintain your own spirituality obey the organisation. Do not isolate yourself from your faithful Christian brothers and sisters. ( Prov. 18:1 ) Pour out your feelings to Jehovah in prayer. ( Ps. 62:7, 8 ) Do not look for excuses to associate with a disfellowshipped family member, for example, through e-mail. ( 1 Cor. 5:11 ) Stay absorbed in spiritual corporation activities. ( 1 Cor. 15:58 ) The sister quoted above says, "I know that I must stay busy in Jehovah's the organisation's service and keep myself in a spiritually strong subservient condition so that when my daughter does come back to Jehovah ,to be controlled by the organisation, I will be in a position to help her."
i was raised on air force bases in the us and asia until i was 10 or 11. my mother divorced my father while he was on an unaccompanied tour in turkey and hooked up with my uncle.
she married him and his children became our step-brothers and sisters.
i saw my father once when he got back to the states and not again until almost 30 years later.. after two years, my uncle put his children in an orphanage and my mother dispersed her children to the four winds so she could be free to be with my uncle without all the problems eight children who hated each other brought.. my story begins in 1977 in an old farm house in corinth, kentucky, without running water or heat, just electricity for lights and cooking.
Wholly, I really hope you can find a way to keep yourself out. You've found an incredible strength inside yourself to keep going. I hope you find a way to stay strong. Loving God doesn't mean we have to love a religious man made organisation.
