by Bigdummy 32 Replies latest jw experiences
bigdummy - "After all the changes in doctrine and the WTBTS tv show I can't take it anymore. I told my wife it looks like any other tv evangelical show."
And if it's just like any other TV evangelical show, odds are the WTS is just like any other evangelical religion.
And if it's really not as special as it insists it is, where's the incentive to stay?
As I mentioned above I went to the assembly with my wife because she was
upset she was going alone. I missed the opening prayer and I left before the
closing prayer. But at the end of the baptism talk the prayer ended in " in Jesus
name we pray". That was the ONLY time I heard the name Jesus during the
entire assembly. I thought that was odd and very noticeable. But a speaker in
the afternoon part did bring out that "some brothers ( for the millionth time in
recent history) had fallen spiritually ill, viewing pornography and lo and behold
going to strip clubs and getting a massage by a woman gyrating on him with a
lap dance." I kid you not that was his words. I felt embarrased for the mere
fact that he even said this in front of teenagers and children. What was the point
of saying that? Shock value? I have seen episodes on 20/20 type of shows were
JW elders have killed their wives and sometimes children. I've never heard that
from the platform and nor do I need to. I know people do bad things but if they
fade away from the WTBTS I wonder if the JW's think you are automatically
going to go to strip clubs. One Presiding Overseer we had who was always saying
" I did this and I did that", was giving a part one night and says " we don't let our
young boys watch just anything on tv. I don't want them to come to me sometime
and say, daddy what's a threesome?." Puhleez! Did he have to say that? What's
with all the sexual innuendo from the platform? I like to hear stories and accounts
from the Bible talked about from the platform not some speakers hangup about
talking about sexual problems or perhaps immoral wrongs. Yes, I already know
Jehovah would frown on threesomes and lap dances. It seems some speakers
like to draw attention to their own personal fantasies perhaps. I don't intend to
do these things so I want to hear something with substance.
" I don't intend to do these things so I want to hear something with substance. " Bigdummy.
Great comment!
The trouble is, if we want to hear anything of substance, it wont be heard at a witness meeting!. It is all recycled 'same-old, same-old' stuff....
