i learned this past week that my wife is now awake.
i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".
she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.
WOW!
I am incredibly happy for you. Many heres husband or wife is completely the opposite. I too felt incredibly happy to find out my wife was supportive and loved me more than the religion.
it is a whole new freedom. Now you can do what you need to as a team. Remember doubt will creep up on her. Just stay the course, and her own personal journey may not be anything like yours. (my wife had her own things to work out). So be patient still.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-machete-attack-new-orleans-airport-has-died-n327841.
the machete attacker at the new orleans airport was a jw.
he had a history of mental health problems and "refused certain medical care".
Mentally ill Jehovahs Witness? Say it aint so!
For real though, its a tragedy, and bizarre that he would refuse blood (assuming that is what happened), while still planning to hurt others at the airport. Clearly he wasn't all there, which may not have too much to do with JW's.
hi readers and lurkers, .
i decided it was time to register to the site.
after all these years, it was just a matter of time.
http://www.etonline.com/news/161150_prince_new_single_what_if/.
so prince sings a christian rock ballad with another young christian woman.
he has engaged in:.
Guys honestly......who here really thought there was any danger of Prince.......PRINCE.....becoming a model JW.
BTW his album just last year was fantastic.
was reading the comments section of the guardian story about candace conti.. an apologist or two were defending the inaction of elders - comparing it to attorney/client privilege.. commonwealth countries do not have the same blanket coverage that is appealed to by wts.. when searching whether or not reporting is mandatory in canada, came across this site:.
http://cwrp.ca/faqs#q5 .
do i need to report child abuse and neglect?.
Attorney client privilege?
new to the site.
currently i am a ministerial servant and was told i was appointed to be an elder.
i told the brothers i was not ready for that assignment.
Welcome Dr Who.
Crisis of conscience is a good start. I always am leery of waking up by the actions of a few local idiots. There are plenty of good people in there too. the main thing is that the same could be said for every faith. there are moderates, and those that are extreme.
The difference is of course within this faith, the extreme views are held publicly....by the GB. So they are mainline views, that many just choose to ignore.
Continue to allow yourself to see things for how they really are (not how you have been trained to view them), and you will be surprised. or maybe not.
a sick little girl goes to ny to meet caleb and sophia for her make a wish trip.. http://www.kmph.com/category/170789/video-landing-page?clipid=11142038&autostart=true.
i don't want to make too much comment as there is an innocent and poorly young girl at the heart of this but i do have to wonder what the purpose of the parents courting the media's attention over this really was..
They keep on trying to have a normal conversation with them.....and those two continue to resist.
When they say, what did you get to do in New York......they just defer back to the studio for JWdotorg.
The guy on the far left seems like he knows the family.
....or is that just me.
check it out.
literally the message is if you don't pay attention at the meetings you could die.
how insane, i feel like this must wake some people up..
I love how Noah playing a video game is linked to his fictitious drowning and is made to be comical.
Paying attention can save your life too!
The brilliance is the ease at which you manipulate people to be so cavalier with statements of life and death. they just roll off the tongue.
which of these activities did you hate/bothered you the most?
rank them from 1-5 with the most hated to the least.. .
field service.
Here is my order.
Watching young children getting disfellowshipped
Field Service
2 - 4 day assemblies
Watching 12 years getting baptized (I was 12)
Giving Ministry School Talk - for men and women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
I may have missed something along the lines of my current comments point in my review of the previous ones.....so apologies if it has already been touched on.
Christians (and JW's), have completely divorced themselves from the Old Testament. Somehow, even within Christian circles, stoning and rape of young girls is not something they would say is "ok". Yet the people of God in this book engaged in these practices, and it seemed to be sanctioned by God.
But now.....Christians do not do that. Something Jesus did or said or whatever, rendered those actions now as something of the past, not to be done anymore.
Someone that doesn't understand Christian culture, could read the bible and think christians believe in all of those things, not knowing the nuances. Is this possibly a mistake people are making with Islam and its primary holy book?
