i showed my wife the new light, it did not go over good.
i started with all the publications and asked her three questions 1 who is the fds 2when did they start 3 when did they get appointed over "all the belongings"?
using the recent publications she said 1 the fds is 144000 2 they started in the 1st centry 3 they were over all belongings in 1919. then i showed her the annual meeting report on the jw.org and went over each point.
Sorry to hear how that turned out. I have to thank you though for taking one for the team! I was tempted to try something similar. At least we can learn from each others mistakes. Hang in there. I'm trying the: be less angry and more warm and helpful approach. My wife has enough other BS on her hands to deal with at the moment. The last thing she needs is me bitching and moaning about logic and truth.
I think the advice about not discussing doctrine is the best.
i'm not paying more than our house payment for vince and i to see a show.
i will buy the video and watch it nekkid.. the last time i saw them was in 1994 at legion field with my best friend.
we still say after all these years it was one of the best nights of our lives.. .
If you are at all curious about what the Stones were really capable of back in the day, find a copy of Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (a concert movie featuring the Britishrock band The Rolling Stones that was first released in 1974.)
Watch it on a good home theater system. Loud. I'd still go see them in a small venue if I had the chance.
what's your prediction?.
For most of us, the next few decades will resemble falling down several flights of stairs. When we hit the landing from the current flight, things might seem like they are leveling out (we've hit bottom!) and then we will start our trip down the next flight ( as we are about to start soon). There is always the possibility that since there are no railings on these stairs (unless you are too big too fall) that at any moment you could also just pitch over the side and that will be the end of it. If you are not in the 1% group, location will make a big difference as to how well you fair in the short term. Long term, a very real option is that this this experiment (think yeast in petri dish) doesn't turn out so well for mankind. Reset.
i don't know how to paste images from my smartphone but take a look on page 11 from today's watchtower (study edition) september 15, 2012.... .
is it just me or does jesus look like mitt romney???.
haha i have to read so i have no more time to talk but please let me know what you think!
At least you don't apparently need to wear a tie anymore in the new system! That is the first thing I always look for in the paradise pics.
i currently am a jw and my parents are too.they seem either confused or dislike it when i raise questions and recently, when i questioned them about 1925 and 1975, i've been told it's changed due to "new light.
" i don't remember nor do i have very much knowledge of "new light.".
this "new light" just dosen't sit with me and neither do the false prophecies.new light first of all, breaks a scripture in deut.
Listener said: "Ask them where the old light came from - was it God or the GB? If they say God then we know God cannot lie. If they say the GB and they are imperfect men then you can work in the circular and point out that if the old light wasn't from God then there is no reason to believe the new light is either. "
That is all I need. Many thanks.
over 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.
but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.
no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.
A couple of years ago when the WT started harping about the dangers of porn, my wife told me she didn't see any problems if a married couple wanted to view it together. Needless to say, after I resumed my composure, I had to explain why the society was discussing this topic. She is not a born-in and being somewhat older, her view of what constitutes porn is probably a bit different than what is available today. Now that I look back, I should have just kept my mouth shut, nodded in agreement, and downloaded some soft-core stuff for us to watch together. Talk about missed opportunity!
over 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.
but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.
no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.
On a similar note, I wonder how many got baptized without making the personal dedication first (like me)? Looking back now, I really wonder wtf I was doing/thinking. Why would you sign up for something that like that, if you weren't 100% on-board?
to: all elders in the grover beach congregation of jehovah witnesses, the watchtower corporation and governing body of "jehovah witnesses" .
from: gregg blasingame.
cc: watchtower inc.. dear brothers,.
Thanks for writing that letter. It may prove useful in ways that you did not intend. I would like to discuss the contents of it with my wife.
so we all know the jw vocabulary is a weird one.
what words or phrases bugged you the most?.
a few of mine:.
Governing Body.
That last book they considered/are considering at the 'book study' was the final nail in the coffin for me. I'm suprised I didn't spontaneously explode during one of the 'discussions'! It would probably only serve as proof that I was an evil apostate....
funny convo my wife had, an old friend called who connected with her on fb.
i was messing around in the kitchen when i hear my wife say jovially but forcefully "oh i dont go anymore cause my husband says its a cult!!!'.
seams she was on the phone with a fence sitter she grew up with but that statement was amazing lol.
Wow. So maybe I should try the 'direct' approach instead of beating around the bush.
Or maybe ask her what constitutes a cult. Then we could look it up online and compare what experts say constitutes a cult versus our experience with the WT.
