by Theocratic Sedition 72 Replies latest jw friends
Wasn't there a stealing problem at Bethel?
Yep. They put signs up in all locker rooms to NOT store any valuables there in plain sight. And things still got stolen. If Bethel was full of people who dedicated themselves to and love Jehovah, why are there any locks on any doors WITHIN Bethel? Do they not trust their own brothers?
Hi everyone, I've been around a few weeks and really enjoy the site. I was a born in that never was baptised and passively faded as circumstances allowed.
I had an ephiphany a few months back to look up JW on the internet for no apparent reason. What a revelation! (No pun intended.) I purchased COC and read it and I have to be honest, it was painful to read.
Even though I knew the org was not for me, I still had a certain amount of respect for it. I quickly realized this was lingering mind conditioning and was literally sickened to my stomach and would have to set the book down frequently as more and more things were revealed.
Since then, I have been on a personal quest to try to sort my own feeelings out and try to make sense of how damaged I am as a result of growing up in a high control environment, presided over by a mentally unstable father and mother who it seems were hell bent on making sure my sister and I were the "perfect" witness children at all costs.
It is so comforting to read so many other people's thoughts and memories on this site and others. I truly am not alone in my feelings as I thought I was. And even though I have not chatted with anyone yet, the overwhelming amount of love and genuine concern for others that I see and feel from this board makes me feel like I've finally found a real family.
elderelite: Your "fistbump" story reminds of years ago when I was working with other "brothers" on replacing the roof on the KH, the CO scolded me and and two others in front of everyone about the worldliness of wearing our ball caps backwards. That was one of the few times I remember even the supposedly most spiritual of the group grumble that it wasn't biblical, just one guy's opinion.
Thanks for having this place to help with the healing process
Welcome EAZY!
Eazy - Turn your cap forward like Jesus wants you too! You don't see pictures of angels with halo's spun backwards!
Jus' joshin' ya. Welcome
"...I really can't say if there are hidden apostates up there in writing. Personally I lean more toward the problem of having high school graduates who act like they are newspaper editors. ..." Lost Generation, page 1
I agree...
This is a great example of the negative results of their idiotic antipathy towards higher education. The writing department doesn't know how to properly research subjects. Not only that, but if some genius in the writing department DID have the time and resources to research a subject thoroughly, the article would be put through a meat-grinder to make it fall in line with their long list of failed prophecies.
Welcome to the board, Eazy!!
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
And I agree that the lack of any kind of formal higher education for most of those folks has to be suspect when looking at an article like the one being discussed here. That being said, I certainly consider myself as being a safe distance from genius.
Sadly though, I think it doesn't even register with r&f witnesses when such glaringly obvious contradictions are staring them right in the face.
I think they just get caught up in the lifestyle and unless something happens to them personally that they feel is unfair, they will never start to question and see the absurdity in what is staring them right in the face.
I know I have learned quite a bit in the last six months myself..
There are times when the Watchtower Society's hypocrisy is so extreme, that I am forced to exclaim "You've gotta be MESSIN' with the Rank&File, Dude!! There's NO way someone can put forth SUCH a gigantic lie and still be able to function rationally"...
Like that July 2009 "Awake" ™ magazine in which they declared, "Is It Wrong to Change Your Religion?"
That is one example that was jaw-dropping in its hypocrisy, and the 'stink-bombs' just keep on coming.
Maybe we can chalk it up to - the Writing Department personnel prefer to be inebriated while they're working...
Strange but looks like I can't post a reply except on page 1.
With reference to #16 above I know of a witness who had her wallet stolen right out of her handbag at the hall. Yes, she was away from her handbag and it was taken. Someone had to open her handbag, dig inside and pull right out. It was the last place she imagined ever being robbed. There's thieves along with pedophiles in those places. Another witness' car was stolen out of this same parking lot. Crazy.
When I attended I had a brand new pair of shoes (pricey sandals) stolen out of my car. It was during a C.O. visit, rushing and not thinking pressed my keys to h lock car and it obviously didn't lock. Someone was casing the parking lot that night but I'm sure it was kids or neighborhood thugs.
(Hi there!)
Leaving, sorry to hear that you've lost the shoes! Is it possible that an envious or covetous sister decided to help herself to those shoes? It doesn't sound like the sort of thing a teenage boy would steal...?
