so i was fortunate enough to have a wife that listened and saw what i was saying was true and that the cult is bs.
but i wonder how bad it is in a relationship that one goes out of the cult and the other stays in.
i can see that being a real issue for a marriage.
My wife and 2 boys managed to leave within a few years of each other due to various circumstances.
As did a couple of others in the extended family.
Out of about 8 only one niece is still in it.
And not being Judgeable ,but both her teenage boys seem to be a bit effeminate ,so I will just wait and see what develops on that front.
I will be there to support them if it ever came to that and they needed me.
We were one of the lucky ones.
i cant get my head around how a religion ,like the jehovah`s witnesses can be a not for profit organization ,that profits $ from wheeling and dealing in real estate ventures $ ,and also profits from being a multi media publishing company $ that in its heyday profited from volunteers selling their literature and now its venturing into the digital age of tv imaging ,video conferencing ,dvd`s and whatever else they can use.$$$.
making $$$ profits from all of these activities while still claiming to be a not for profit religion reaping in the $$$ profits selling prophecy (profitsy $$$).
it`s about time governments woke up to this charade ..
I cant get my head around how a religion ,like the Jehovah`s Witnesses can be a Not For Profit organization ,that profits $ from wheeling and dealing in Real Estate ventures $ ,and also profits from being a multi media publishing company $ that in its heyday profited from volunteers selling their literature and now its venturing into the digital age of TV imaging ,video conferencing ,DVD`s and whatever else they can use.$$$
Making $$$ profits from all of these activities while still claiming to be a Not for Profit religion reaping in the $$$ profits selling Prophecy (Profitsy $$$)
It`s about time Governments woke up to this charade .
hey all you tree huggers, .
anyone by chance ever work on similar old ev?
i'm wanting to upgrade its performance while i'm at it.
That`s a car ? It looks like a covered over / weather protected ride on lawn mower ? LOL
you are what she wanted to be!please, let us remove any blame to anyone right up front.
what happened to petra was not the fault of mark o'donnell, listener, corney, mike and kim, or anyone else.. constant rejection and shunning even at an early age, the depression was storing up inside of her.
she was shunned inside the hall and outside the hall.
I am so very sorry that Petra is going through this obviously a loving young lady doing a selfless task in providing those documents .I do hope all of these messages of support help to cheer her up a bit .
And I loved her pics ,such beautiful long hair.
Take care all of you.
smiddy
volcano eruptions and tsunamis kill at large scale and very often, without warning.
how do believers explain these away?
jehovah's witnesses say that humans die and suffer due to the original sin, but what do volcano's and tsunamis have to do with it?
Why stop at tsunamis and volcanoes ,what about cyclones/,hurricanes , earthquakes ,bushfire`s , wildfires ,floods ,tornadoes ,viruses ,plagues ,pandemics, venomous animals and insects etc,etc. Have i left anything out ?
Oh but he is a loving God.
Satan has never been responsible for any of these things .And he is not a creator .
Oh but all of these things came into existence after Adam and Eve sinned ? ,that`s not in the Bible ,and these things had to be caused by God being the creator and no one else .
russia's reason for banning jehovah's witnesses is said to be due to extremism.
but what exactly does that mean, or refer to?
specifically, what practice (or practices) of jehovah's witnesses does russia consider to be extreme?
I think the fact JW had noted that the then USSR now Russia was the King of the North in Bible prophecy and was going to be destroyed in the battle of Armageddon would have had something to do with there decision to ban them.
And that was widely distributed in their magazines throughout Russia and her territories.
And that it is an American based sect that sends all money collected back to America would be another factor .
I would also add # 1-5 of your list also having something to do with the ban.
What positive value does any JW have to any country ? when you include # 6-10 ?
i've had a few medical procedures.
once, i had a massive loss of blood and needed 6 units of blood to replace the loss.
however, i'm curious as to what ex's state to be their religion when filling out the required paperwork when being admitted into a hospital.
No religion / Atheist
if you live in the u s a or the united kingdom, this is how the wt society views your government, your nation :-.
yes, as an ugly, evil terrifying beast !
this is based on the book of revelation chapter 13 , quoted as follows in the revelation climax book.
Anglo - American world empire ? never existed , except in the minds of religious nuts .
so the past couple of years, i’ve read several stories about jws who left the organization at an early age because they knew something wasn’t right------but they never bothered to research the religion.
there was this feeling that the watchtower was not god’s only channel.
so they left at an early age.
pistolpete it`s very true what you state ,I have often said .
" Many people leave the JW religion , but the JW religion never leaves them ."
And i too believe that`s a big mistake . They should for their own peace of mind research what they were indoctrinated to believe and clear it up once and for all .
And i believe Don Cameron`s book will do that for you , Captives Of A concept ,using WT publications .
please see the study article, “their refuge–a lie!” in the june 1, 1991 watchtower, noting paragraphs 1, 10 and 11. paragraph 1 calls christendom “that apostate religious organization.” why apostate?.
paragraph 10 asserts that “she insinuates herself into the favor of the political leaders of the nations–this despite the bible’s warning that friendship with the world is enmity with god.” to support that assertion, paragraph 11 quotes an unnamed “recent book” which reports that “no fewer than 24 catholic organizations are represented at the un.” how were such organizations represented at the un?.
the unnamed book quoted in paragraph 11 is new genesis by robert muller.
Then of course there is this :" Let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities for there is no authority except by God , the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God. 2 Therefore he who opposes the authority has taken a stand against the arrangement of God,those who have taken a stand against it will receive judgement to themselves .3 For those ruling are an object of fear,not to the good deed but to the bad.Do you then want to have no fear of the authority ? keep doing good and you will have praise from it .4 for it is Gods minister to you for your good ,but if you are doing what is bad be in fear for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword ,for it is Gods minister ,an avenger to express wrath upon the one practicing what is bad." etc,etc. Rom.Chapt.13
Charles Taze Russell recognized the superior authorities were the Govts etc, when Joseph Rutherford came along he tried to make the superior authorities of Romans applying to Jehovah and Jesus Christ ,
the Governing Body of JW`s in the early 1960`s saw the error of their ways and corrected the situation and applied it back to the Governments / Secular Rulers of the Nations.
