i was baptized 30 years ago and have been in the faith for over 35 years.. our organization isn't perfect.
but i'm sick to death of seeing stereotypes about us.
we are not mindless automatons.
@jrjw They don't just have more to answer for, they're bloodguilty. They are soaked in the blood of innocents that they have killed with their teachings.
If by some strange twist of fate it turns out that there is a God and that he did write the bible and the JW's were right... then that God would justly destroy them all for their crimes.
Their best hope is actually that my worldview is correct and there is no God and so the only thing that is going to destroy them is themselves.
a 'concerned' jw in my congregation rang me earlier and said she's noticed my daughter sits miserable at the meetings and said she's a right miserable girl in general.
i said she's happy and hyper when she's not at the meetings they're just really boring and she doesn't want to be there.
apparently i'm a bad parent coz she feels that way.
Stories like these make me so boiling mad! These bullies are not able to carry on their bullying ways because you're weak, they get away with it because you're NICE.
They're exploiting a positive characteristic of yours, so if you want to counter them, you have to go against your own better nature and if you do get into a confrontation by not being nice towards them then the dice is loaded in their favour because they've had YEARS of experience not being nice.
This reminds me of the film Wargames: The only way to win is not to play.
i'm writing this tread for the people out there that are still looking for some kind of answers.
people who feel the void that any organized thought system can produce.
people who know there is more to this life than our daily routine which eventually will end, when we no longer exist.
There was an interesting documentary series on the BBC called Getting High for God that had an episode on Ayahuasca. My take on it is that if you frame the experience as a spiritual journey, then you're most likely going to have a spiritual experience. Nothing is really happening beyond your brain processing what's around you and what's in your mind at the time though.
When I took LSD when I was still a JW I had Armageddon style trips, but later, when I had become an atheist that all stopped and I had trips where I felt more closely connected to nature and the world around me. Like I've said elsewhere, it's great for learning more about yourself, but you don't learn about anything that's outside your head.
I love to visit Scotland, but I couldn't live there. My soft Southern skin can't handle the midges!
i was baptized 30 years ago and have been in the faith for over 35 years.. our organization isn't perfect.
but i'm sick to death of seeing stereotypes about us.
we are not mindless automatons.
Wow, 7 pages of interesting and entertaining comments from one bullshit post!
hi all.. it's being a while that i don't share in the forum.
after moving to another country and finding a job, i asked my congregation in my country to send my publishing card here.
once i did it, i stopped attending meetings.
Hurrah!
i'm so thankful for sites such as this.
i realise it's our imperfection but god's organization is not always open to 'outside the box' thinkers such as ourselves.
i've been researching dinosaurs and god's reason for not preserving these beasts beyond the flood of noah's day.
If the OP was true then current humans would have weaponised Blue Whales and would already be prepared to counter any piddly little dino threat.
we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.
he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.
he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.
Hi PE, I've just read this thread and like others on here I was consumed with a violent rage. Your course is much better though. Keep doing what your doing in the sure knowledge that you're right and good.
this is how the conversation went.
decide for your selves.. dad : joe if ever i need an operation i've told them i don't want blood.
not a drop.. joe : well what about blood fractions.
Those Golden Age quotes are horrific! All post 1919 as well, so "Chosen by God"(tm).
