so, today i went to a different church than the jw's for the first time in over three years.. it is a protestant african church.
my first thoughts: for people who are 'trapped in babylon the great (according to watchtower) these people really seem genuingly happy and sincere in their adoration for god.
what a freedom compared to the witnesses!
Comfort and communion
are two things for which religion was invented
You might think of a mother with her child when that child is frightened
Sadly has largely been replaced as a way to control people
Fear Obligation and Guilt are the order of the day with most Abrahamic
religions
Sadly
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(a true story...)not the other story.
little rock, arkansas many years ago.
we were stranded.
I always enjoy your writing Terry!
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an atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
You know Salome gets all the heat but the that was ONE man!
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Was this Mikal? I wonder what she was thinking, OOH David what a man!!
an atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
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an atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
in 1967 i had the misfortune of being born with a watchtower stuck in my ass.
it took 45 years for me to realize, "hey!
there's a watchtower stuck in my ass!
I'm counting 43 years to when elders were hunting me down
because loving wife (ex now yay!) turned me in as I was no longer a
"True Believer"
No Internet but encyclopedias and libraries,
Saw Penton's Apocalypse Delayed but didn't peek as
I was always trying to be good
They drove a stake of fear into my heart as a child and it was a
slow painful process to remove it
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i realize that wt has got a wind fall of cash through various means.
so my question is in the greater scheme of things is it really that much.
for example let's say with all their real estate and cash on hand they are worth about $20 billion dollars.
slimboyfat:
Watchtower 2012 Aug 15 p. 17
Study edition
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gorby went to the kh for family reasons today.. and landed right away middle in a pseudo history watchtower article.
just that aspect of the jw belief he is so sensative about.. so 1918 and 1919 are changed with one mark of a pencil.
the argument of change was in the past the argument of the doctrine.
i was in a good mood yesterday (makes a bloody change, i hear you say).
i was meeting an old buddy for a meal.
he was never a jobo.
i realize that wt has got a wind fall of cash through various means.
so my question is in the greater scheme of things is it really that much.
for example let's say with all their real estate and cash on hand they are worth about $20 billion dollars.
Indulgences!!
Of course!!
Passes through Armageddon
Issued by the GB
Then traded amongst the brethren
Hey it worked in Europe for hundreds of years
Before some cranky up start in Germany made a big fuss,
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