Worth the wait?

bite me

Okay, so I just checked my UPS status of Crisis of Conscience. It just arrived! But now I have to wait for the end of the work day to pick it up at the Barnes and Nobels. I hope it was worth the wait. I've heard mainly good about this book. The suspence is killing me! lol Just in time for the weekend. I think I'll be spending a lot of time in the bathroom if you know what I mean, just to read it without anyone questioning me. :-)

What would you (any one reading this) think is the best part of the book? I love to have opinions especially before I get started on it.

JH

I thought that "Worth the wait" had something to do with keeping on going to meetings....

primitivegenius

personally when i was IN.......... i did everything i could........ and it never was enough. whatever so called "privledges" were extended to me......... i did them to the absolute best of my ability....... kingdum hell builds........ i was there, working at the assemblys and conventions........ EVERY YEAR............ i was there........ and in the end ....... it was all bulls***

one of the things i particularly enjoyed/was horrified by.......... was the fact that....... franz and his coworkers....... did their job to the best of their abilities............... absolutely went above and beyond............ and look what it got them. they didnt just skim the surface...... they did indepth research.......... and when the bible did NOT support the wt teachings....... they tried to figure out why......... and did everything properly.........

i just wish when i was busting my hump trying to do the same thing............ that they woulda rewarded me that way so i would have known earlier what was at their core........... woulda saved me a buncha money and a hell of a lot of time

Good Girl or Bad Girl?

My opinion is that if you want to hold onto the "truth" then don't read this book. If you want to know the actual truth, go ahead. It's sort of a red pill/blue pill kind of experience. I don't know anybody who read it and was able to go on being happy there.

Lots of eye-opening information told in a calm manner, using citations and everything. Very logical. Hard to refute. The WTS should be scared of this kind of literature.

Happy Reading!!!

AlmostAtheist

Wonderful book, a must-read for any ex-JW. If you want recommendations, I recommend skipping chapter one for now. Read from 2 onwards, then read chapter 1 last. It's dry and doesn't tell you anything you're going to care about. He sets up his credentials, essentially, to tell you the tale he's about to tell. Suffice to say he was on the governing body!

Read it, but read it last. (Have dessert first!)

Dave

bite me

I took my lunch hour and went to pick it up. Gosh it is a big book! I wonder, reading the book say even just 30 min a day.. how long that would take me. I'm not in the JW's version of "truth" but I am interested in seeing what a former member has to say. For those who have read it, do you find the book accurate from your standing?

momzcrazy

I was raised a Witness, in Utah, with Lymon Swingle's family. Yes the book is accurate. It was just strange to me to look at the facts from the outside now, not justifying it as it being God's doing. Reading the book solidified my decision to leave, at the risk of losing my mother. My kids will NOT be led by the hypocritical men who lead this organization.

I bought one for my sister for Christmas.

momz

Gopher

Bite --

You think THIS book is big? You should see his follow-up book, "In Search of Christian Freedom" ! It's huge.

I don't know if you'll be able to limit yourself to 30 minutes a day. This book is a real page-turner. Take yourself to the local library if you need some privacy out of the house, find a comfortable chair , and get to it !!

I find the book to be dead-on accurate. Franz included a lot of documentation to back up his accounts of what he said. If there were anything inaccurate about this book, the WT Society would have sued him sometime in the last 20 years for libel. They can't.

greendawn

It has to be interesting being an insider's perspective on the dub organisation someone taht participated in its inner workings. It shows that the GB are nothing but ordinary and not so saintly humans bereft of any divine appointment or direction.

Their treatment of the Malawi - Mexico fiasco is the classic revelation that shows they are a self seeking commercial organisation.

bite me

I just realized, this book doesn't read well when you skim and skip around. I really want to start and finish this book. lol I was skiming through and the info does not fit nicely. I guess I'll start from the begining. Over looking chapter one as someone sugguested. I did read a couple pages and did see that it doesn't really tie in. I'll come back and read that part.

by the way, I guess I am planting some seeds. I'm secretly blogging stuff with scriptures of verses not found in NWT (or many other "easiser to read" Bibles. They don't see it yet, but they seem to like the verses. Maybe they do not know it is missing from theirs. :D.

I'm actually not feeling bad anymore doing that.

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