Posts by sparrowdown

i recently made the decision to stop studying with my study conductor, due to a situation i found myself in that led to a high possibility of my unbaptized publisher "rights" being taken away from me.

i have since told my study conductor i have joined a new church (to which she dropped me like a hot rock, of course).... last time i posted on here, i was progressing nicely towards baptism, and was well into it.anyhoo, i like my new church, very hillsong-esqe.

so just wondering if anyone else has stayed the course of christianity after leaving the jws, and if so - where did you go?

sparrowdown

I now believe all organized religion to be one of the biggest scams pulled on mankind, usless at best, a divisive and destructive tool at its worst, so no.

People can be "moral" principled, honest and "good" without the excuse of "my religion says so." In fact, come to think of it if someone chooses to be all those things without the promise of heaven or threat of hell surely they would technically be more moral, principled, honest and good wouldn't they?

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"DO NOT look here! Seriously...just dont!"

by stuckinarut2 in

ok, so you all looked here??.

this thread is prompted by losch's stupid 'decrees' in the march 2018 broadcast, where he denounced online information that may be 'negative' about the organization.. it strikes me that the gb are so dumb!

the moment someone says "dont look at something", human curiousity will make most people look.

sparrowdown

It's like "DO NOT have sex with your pillow or blanket in any of the fifty different ways that we will now outline for you right now in this video about what is classified as pornea and not masterbating.

To reiterate DO NOT think about pornea or masterbating. Don't! Just don't, no matter how much we talk about it"

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Help Elders poking nose in

by Formerbrother in

jw
friends

what can i do when elders want to poke their nose in?.

they want to have another chat with me and my wife, but we dont want to, it just gets us down..

sparrowdown

It's called the "smiling no". Just smile and say "no thanks, maybe another time."

They give up asking after a while.

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Will the Watchtower Company in the near future start asking for a tithe?

by Sour Grapes in

it appears that the borg has some financial issues and i would think they are related to the hush money being paid out for the child molestation lawsuits to protect the guilty cult members and the fine untarnished reputation of the jdubs.. we have seen how much the borg refers to the hebrew scriptures for their guiding principles whenever it suits the borg's needs.

tithing certainly is laced throughout the old testament.

under the mosaic law, there were three tithes.

sparrowdown

Tithe is a regularly sent set amount and yes the congregations are already doing that except the amount varies to some degree.

I can see them making an arrangement for pubs pledging to do the same. Sent automatically through their bank accounts a set amount depending on what they could afford.

Yep, people pay their bills like this all the time and their donations to charities. Why not to the borg in leu (have I spelt that right?) of charites?

I could see it becoming a "not a tithe" thing.

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Spot the signs of a toxic leadership.

by Lost in the fog in

i came across this article in the magazine psychology today.

it is about the traits of poor leaders in the field of employment although you could easily think it had been written about the gb.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/201607/8-traits-toxic-leadership-avoid.

sparrowdown

Oh abso-bloody-lutely LITF.

GB=Toxic Leadership? Check and check.

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Newspaper is interested in interviewing me!!!

by dubstepped in

a friend and client and former politician just called me.

he knows people in the media and had offered a few months back to see if anyone would be interested in doing a story on what i'm doing through my podcasts this jw life" and "shunned".

of course i was excited but things take time and you never know if they'll pan out.

sparrowdown

Good one, hope it pans out.

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What is this "religion"?

by Kom 197 in

jw
friends

for a long time, i was convinced jehovah witnesses were just people preaching the word of god in a different way than other christians.

i was shown the real truth over the past few months.

i've been friends with this guy for over 5 years.

sparrowdown

If he has demonstrated he will not stand up for himself or those who are his true friends is a sign you may always have to take a backseat to this religion - a religion that doesn't give a crap about him or you! If you decide to hang around after this happens too many times it kinda gives him permission to treat you like this.

JWs will treat non-JW people like disposable dirt if you let them. You will need to protect yourself when it comes to this religion if he won't say no to it.