being raised a catholic we had lots of crosses around the house.
when my family converted to this cult they were all removed and destroyed in case they had demons in them lol but at this juncture in my life i do not even know if jesus as the way he is portrayed in the bible was real.
yes a man named jesus did live and die 2000 years ago and probably on a cross but he was definitely not the son of god.
I can't believe I ever went around knocking on doors talking about this cross/stake shit with people, actually believing I knew more about it than them.
Mentally face palming myself right now, if I could go back in time I would be bitch-slapping myself.
i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".
of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.
i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".
The salvation Army band played
And the children drank lemonade
And the morning lasted all day....all day
Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town was more "spiritual" than a kingdom melody.
i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".
of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.
i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".
Always loved Amazing Grace, and although not hymns (lol) loved some of the songs from Jesus Christ Superstar and strangely the theme song and music from Vicar of Dibley I found myself humming along to. The kingdom melodies were like dry, stale bread in comparison.
How ironic, I thought, this so-called worldly/babs the great music was more stirring emotionally than their crappy songs of praise to the "only true God."
first off, i certainly agree the jw's are a cult.
but i'm sensitive to black-and-white thinking now.. so, where do they rank on the scale?
think of a cultish religion scale from 0-10.. consider the likes of unitarian universalism vs baptist vs amish vs charles manson.. where do you think jw's fall on the scale?.
before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?
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not long after learning ttatt, my hubby and i decided it would be best for us to fade.
his entire family is in, but not in the same cong.
we made it to the region convention and one sunday meeting after that.
I salute you. I started my fade with missing every other meeting and got down to sunday public talk then stopped.
Took them ages to realize I probably wasn't coming back.
Now I could not imagine sitting through that fuckery...oops ... huhmm... I mean fakery.
I think there is a danger with a really slow fade to become accustomed to it...even addicted to the double life thing. Then you become a perpetual fader and I didn't want that.
Good for you for drawing your line.
i recently started working at a goodwill here in wisconsin, and i've never encountered more witnesses ever in my life.
every time i go to work, i see at least two or three people that i used to go to the kingdom hall with getting suits, dresses, etc.
some of them say hi, but some of them i just ignore, or they ignore me.
Maybe they've been listening to Macklemore's song Thriftshop.
I'm gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I'm a hunting, looking for a come up
this is fucking awesome
yes, last week the number of bethel layoffs was confirmed from 90 to 125. .
and those going in thinking they may be there for some time have been told.
that they may be there for two months rather than 3 years depending on .
They act like a business but without any of the laws that are in place to protect employees of a business.
They enjoy the best of both worlds, religion and hard-nosed business.
before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?
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yes, last week the number of bethel layoffs was confirmed from 90 to 125. .
and those going in thinking they may be there for some time have been told.
that they may be there for two months rather than 3 years depending on .
I must say, I have wondered if the Aus branch would have a serious reshuffle of the higher-ups after the ARC debacle. It wasn't a good look for the Society, particularly Toole and Spinks they really came off as arrogant assholes. But then again, arrogant assholes are usually rewarded with more responsibility in Jehovah's organization.
With the Sydney real estate market being what it is, they could make some serious money selling the Australia branch and surrounding land off to a developer or an investor.
