by Wasanelder Once 13 Replies latest jw experiences
Here's a little video I made about the baptism questions. Comments?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RI82BRDEe3g
I don't know how to put links in here anymore. The window for posting a thread looks different lately. In fact I can't highlight, quote or insert pictures like before. The whole second line of icons is gone. Is this how it is for everyone?
Thanks.
W.Once
edited to make link clickable ~ Scully
JWD is optimized to work with Internet Explorer. If you're using a different browser, or a Mac , you may not get the same mileage as before.
All I can say is that I am damn glad that the questions I said "Yes" to were not the ones that are currently asked.
well, you hit it right Scully! My friend formatted my comp and when he put it all back together he put firefox on. Duh! Now I know. I'll fire up Explorer for the JWD only. Thanks. Outline will be on the way soon! By the way, I gave a killer wedding talk when I used that outline. I started out by saying, "Some say that a wedding is a funeral where you can smell your own flowers". W.Once
If you use firefox and want to post a clickable link, the code is:
clickable text
or you can install the IE extension
LOL That was absolutely hilarious!
I love Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka singing in the background!
changeling
Technical issues aside, I saw the short video and felt that the questions were in effect a bait and switch scam. You are supposed to dedicate yourself to Jehovah God (itself a questionable practice, because you are in effect giving control of your life to a separate being that is not directly affected by your stagnation, frustration, and not being fulfilled). And then they switch the dedication to the organization at the last minute, not really giving anyone a chance to think about what that means.
To me, that is a pure scam. That is like getting a piece of software with a clear EULA on the package, agreeing to that, and then finding buried in tiny print some detail that it now includes the provision to change the agreement at any time and without prior notice, and that you are now going to have your computer hijacked by the company that wrote the software. Only to find out that the software is not useful in any way, like you were led to believe it would be and that it would be impossible to uninstall it even by formatting your hard drive (it would just come right back). And I'm afraid, with this religion there is no such thing as just getting a new computer and a new Internet provider. You are stuck with the "software" that the Watchtower Society is trying to install in your brain.
Unfortunately, answering those questions in the affirmative is like clicking "I agree" to the EULA. And you will be given "software" in the form of instructions from the Watchtower Society at regular intervals. Among that "software" is the explicit instructhon that instructions ("software") from another source is off limits, and that you are expected to do all you can to spread this virus to everyone on the planet. If only I would have been able to think of that before getting dunked...
It just shows the disimportance of god and god's will when it comces to the JWs. They do not even give the impression that they are dedicated to them in their ceremony.
so, when did these questions change? AND, if they changed and some of us were baptized before the 'are you in the borg' question, we should be free of answering to the wtbts and not be df'ed for apostacy if it doesn't conflict w/ the bible.
right?
