by minimus 47 Replies latest jw friends
I actually couldn't help myself - I'd blurt all sorts of things out about how the JWs' teach one thing and yet the bible didn't tell them so.....as I started to find out more about the societies cover ups I couldn't help but blurt those out.
I've now been disassociated by them for apostacy.
Blondie (or anyone). Who is this "Storrs and Grews" you mention?
They are early church fathers, preceding Russell that helped him mold his views.
Actually, they weren't early church fathers. They were Second Adventists who came out of the Millerite disappointment.
http://amazingforums.com/forum/GSTORRS/forum.html
http://amazingforums.com/forum/HGREW/12.html
These websites will help expand on what I said.
There really is no early church fathers for a religion that Russell himself made. (This I know.) But Russell was greatly influenced by them and his belief system was affected by their views.
I worked with an elder. we were partners, and on the ride to and from jobs, I would slam the wtbts on all the things I had learned on the internet.
He never once said anything to any other elder. Daryl K always would just say "you have good points, I cant answer your questions"
But daryl was all about the attention he got from the dubbots when he got on stage, I know he got wood from it.
But I would slam the society hard. and one day he made the statment about another religion, the you just got out of one cult you dont want to get into another.
I never really planned to leave. It just happened. Circumstances by the elders made me not want to go to the hall and when I thought things were going to change instead they got worse, so I figured FORGET IT.. I'm not going back..
Hmmm...I am not sure if they considered this to be an apostate statement or not...I told them that I had issues about guns...they asked me if I owned a gun and I said no....they asked me if I wanted to own a gun and I said no...they asked me what the problem was....I said basically the problem was....if I came home and someone was raping my daughter I would pick up a candlestick, a baseball bat...pretty much anything in my house and kill the person raping my child, which to me made all objects in my house equal to that of a gun, I told them I felt it was my Godly duty and obligation to protect my children from would be killers and pediphiles with anything I could get my hands on, that my children had more right to be here than they did...and I swear to you they told me I had a serious problem and they were going to pray for me...I told them I was going to pray for their children. I think it is a sorry parent that will not protect their child by every means possible. So...I am not sure if at that point they began to think of me as an apostate....then at one point an elder brought the circuit sevant over to see me. I was burning a Christmas candle that I had purchased a couple of months ago on sale for a quarter. They looked at me like I had three heads...I just explained that was another area where I just thought they were nuts...to me it was just a red candle that I paid a quarter for...to them it was a CHRISTMAS candle...
