during a discussion about informing everyone about my uncle's sudden passing.
i said to her, "being that joe died so suddenly and is younger than you, are you sure you want to keep shunning me?".
her answer was, of course, to "come back to jehovah".
You might like to ask her how she can be so SURE you "left Jehovah" when the JWs ALWAYS tell outsiders that "they cant read Jehovahs heart and dont know who will be saved" when asked who will live through armageddon and be in the paradise.
The bible says NOT to follow men NOT to revere men NOT to worship men...and yet there they are, following a group of men who claim to be inspired of God.
the carol burnett was one of my favorite shows, something you don't see being written like this anymore..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9t8i4fknvo.
i love tim conway and harvey (r.i.p) korman, tim is always cracking up harvey and often times tim ad-libs outside of the script, sending the entire cast into laughing fits as well as the audience..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqe_wmagjy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rqzclclrp0.
Laugh In
Red Skelton
Jack Benny
one of the principal problems the wts has is, how do they motivate the rank & file witnesses to do more in the preaching work?.
over the past 3-4 years, one thing they have tried is a series of "special" field service campaigns.
two or three times a year, there is a concerted effort made to cover all the congregation's territory with district convention invitations, memorial invitations, "special" tracts, etc.. but, in effect, with these special campaigns comes along a subliminal message that the society expects, indeed demands, that it will be a colossal failure.. for example, consider the campaign to invite the public to the district convention.
Special campaigns mean "dump and go" without having to talk to anyone and so the result is people will do that because they can finally count some time, feel reasonably good about "doing Jehovahs works" and turn in some time. It DOESNT MATTER that the damn things are useless. They serve the purpose of keeping the R&F doing busy work.
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that going door to door is a USELESS AND UNFRUITFUL ACTIVITY which stopped being effective probably 80 years ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31838593.
from the article.
jehovahs witness ceremony .
These memorial services are for the living and perhaps Michael asked for this to be done. Im sure there is a bit of "15 minutes of fame" for anyone who does a memorial from the JWs at the familys behest. If the parents, mom in particular, did NOT attend this then it probably wasnt a JW sanctioned event.
JW funerals in or outside of the hall, are notoriously "infomercial" and their outline for that talk is horrendous. It basically says anyone who ISNT a JW and who ISNT baptized as a JW...can kiss their asses goodbye because they arent saved or going to heaven or anything else.
Michaels life, his home and his funeral were all circuses.
i have been thinking of this all night.
have you ever tired to tell on of the witnesses that you are happier and doing better outside of the truth?.
no matter what you say it is never a good reason to leave.
Well thats what high control groups tell each other to keep the other one in bondage and fear and within their silly little worlds because misery loves company! So if you have the guts to leave they treat you badly mostly because they are required to IGNORE that you are happy! If they dwell on that too much they might want it themselves!! So they cover their ears and go "LA LA LA LA LA !!!!! I cant HEEEEAAARRRR YOU!!!"
Its the Wizard of Oz syndrome. They are all smoke and fire and mirrors and cant do a damn thing to you if you leave...and they know it.
yes the watchtower says yoga can "open ones mind to demonic control..." so, i wen't to a class at my gym held be a pregnant instructor who was not dressed as a witch???
was her baby the "anti-christ devils child" i thought to myself in my witness mind.
we did some relaxing streching and i still did not feel under control of demons!
If someone is afraid of their mind being lulled into a trance and invaded by demons they should NOT attend the District Conventions.
after all these years, the two of them are still 'in' and i have been 'out' over 25 years.
neither of them could ever get along and i always played mediator.
they fight and disagree on everything!
JWs want everyone else to tolerate THEM and love THEM and forgive THEM but they in turn dont have to do ANY of that if you dont play their game by THEIR rules.
Forgive you for leaving the JWs? NEVER! Continue to associate with you even if you arent a JW any more? NEVER! Double standard? ABSOLUTELY
one of my boyfriend's best friend died over the weekend.
it was really sad.
he was 36, never married, no kids, and pretty lonely.
The man was unfortunately dead in his TRUCK. It was only a matter of a few minutes that SOMEONE would have found him there no matter what RELIGION they were for Gods sake.
Many JWs are into details like that...because their lives are mind numbingly boring.
if you read comments made regarding mj's death, there are tons of people talking about his religion.
the fact that he was a jw that disassociated himself, is giving bloggers all sorts of ammunition regarding the rotten witness religion.
jws are trying to defend themselves and their religion and outsiders are clearly seeing how effed up jws really are.. good..
awww undercover....I dont think so. Those performers are huge enough on their own without being spotlight hogs yknow? Mariah? Usher? they dont need any help.
Now Jesse Jackson? Hes another story.
if you read comments made regarding mj's death, there are tons of people talking about his religion.
the fact that he was a jw that disassociated himself, is giving bloggers all sorts of ammunition regarding the rotten witness religion.
jws are trying to defend themselves and their religion and outsiders are clearly seeing how effed up jws really are.. good..
No...there is no way if that guy was a JW that he would have NOT said Jehovahs name like 20 times during that prayer.
They might have a private talk in a funeral home someplace done by a JW brother. As long as its not in a hall. We had a man commit suicide who was a DAd JW and they did have a talk in the hall. His body was not present. But his SON who was in his early 20s and a JW, gave a talk.
I thought it was odd...but I think they did it for the benefit of the JW family who were still with us.
