my spouse and i have faded 4+ years ago.
we know the jw rumor mill has gotten back to our family that we no longer attend.
most of our family is out of state.
Yep, we have the same situation.
I guess it's a case of "knowledge means they have to DO something about it". So the family members would rather just pretend all is status quo.....and they also live by the mentality of "why let facts get in the way of 'the truth'"?
Its cowardly really.....
in the latest issue of double-speak, i'd like to highlight these two statements:.
page 3, par.
2 - "...how encouraging it is to know that jehovah’s faithful servants in the past felt free to express the same question that may loom in our minds, and they were not condemned for asking it!
What amazing double speak indeed!
i read a fantastic quote that applies to the way the society treats those who choose to leave...:.
"when a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try and control how others see you".
just wanted to share....
Yes, that is a great book Blondie!
just found this chart on reddit here: reddit.
and here's a copy:.
what i find scary is that... it's accurate.
I always replace the expression "critical thinking" with "Analytical Thinking" when speaking with Witnesses.
It removes their defences....
so i am in trouble for questioning the whole rats nest of deceit and lies.
in matthew 12 jesus says: whoever speaks a word against the son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
" the gb seems to replace 'holy spirit' with themselves.
The GB / FDS supersedes Jesus everyday....
i know this has been discussed many times, but i was watching a news story about female genital mutilation (not female circumcision) and segued mentally into why the hassle about male babies having to be circumcised, christians especially.
even the wts flipflops on this...... if adam, the first perfect man, not under the jewish law code, was given a foreskin by god as an aspect of his physical perfection, why then do so many "christian" people have their boy babies circumcised?.
if a health issue....why did god create the perfect man, adam, with a foreskin?.
Blondie: Since culturally, many people keep their penis under wraps, who would see if a man had a foreskin or not, to be stumbled if they didn't?
Best comment!
at last night's clam the circuit overseer made this comment, "we elders sometimes have to act as judges in the congregation.
but we (the elders) are imperfect, and so cannot know everything about judicial matters.
that is why we (the elders) have the biblical rule that there must be at least two witnesses to wrongdoing.
Wow! That CO sounds like an absolute idiot!
Didnt Jesus condemn the scribes and pharasees for the way they messed with the law by "straining the gnat and gulping the camel"?
The society's way of dealing with child abuse is just such an example!
just found this chart on reddit here: reddit.
and here's a copy:.
what i find scary is that... it's accurate.
LOVE this!
Thanks for sharing!
good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
Hello! Im weighing in late to this thread, but I appreciate your thoughts!
It is indeed great to be alive and enjoying yet another day!
I read a great quote today that said "there are no 'good' days or 'bad' days. The choice is ours each day to make it what we will"
friends!
we haven't heard that word for some time!
it must be due for another round from the wt you know what you can and cant do in marriage.. incoming!.
Oh neverendingjourney! That is so very inappropriate! How did we all not see it sooner...?
Such conduct by elders as they pry into personal details is so very wrong...and yet we all allowed ourselves to be under their control for so long...
