i just wanted to introduce myself and say a big hello to all of my mentally diseased friends.. i say friends because i have been lurking for some time so it feels like home (us lurkers are a bit scared and cautious so it takes a while).
i won't bore you with too many details, but i am a born in, currently serving as the cobe of a congregation.
my wife and i have pioneered for the last 10 years and were shaken awake by that ridiculous 15th july 2013 wt about the generation and 1914.. my wife who is much smarter than me has questioned for years.
welcome to the forum. i'm firmly in the atheist camp.
i used to berate those on here who are still elders and pios--but---what right have i to judge.
but it could be an interesting experiment to see how much real truth you could feed into your congregation before someone calls you on it.
i have talked to him ttat.
and he understands.
he doesn't wanna be a jw.
around three thousand two hundred years ago a tiny tribe of desert pastoralists were called israelites for the first time.
by assuming this name it acknowledged, as was the custom, the name of a god el..
el was a chief sort of god and he had a fabled number of seventy sons including yahweh.
i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.
i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?
i've already found several by reading older posts..
hi there, although i have been a lurker here for a while now i've not yet posted a new topic, so here goes nothing lol.. i have been thinking a lot lately on all the changes and the branch visits, specifically the uk branch visit where apparently it has bean mentioned the great tribulation is about to start.. since i've not heard the full talk and only heard certain items from it i got to thinking that maybe this is the org's way of saying the watchtower is about to go down due to all the cover ups and the long list of discrepancies.. maybe i am way off the mark here, what does everone else think?.
bumped for username--
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/197364/ex-jw-uk?size=20&page=1
heyo!.
i'm quite interested in knowing the average age of those of us who use this forum.
i made a quick strawpoll that you can find at the following link: http://strawpoll.me/4340636 just pick an age and click "vote" if you wish to participate.. admins: if this breaks any rules, i apologize in advance..
67. what of it
wanna punch up ?
at the end of april, there was a zone visit in france, with tv broadcast in all kh.. g. losch told he received a letter from a girl, 10 years old, baptised at 5, reg pioneer since 4 years !
what a fine example, he said....... let s imagine the faces of the parents in the kh!
i was happy to see i was not the only one to find it crazy.. if you have a child, you know how mature he is at 5. how can a child preach 2.5hours/day after 7hours of school and homework to do??
so as i am "listening" to the wt study going on this question was asked.
"how do you feel about refined understanding?".
some of the comments were:.
the truth is always the truth.
it doesnt matter if its old truth or new truth--its all the same.
it doesnt matter if its false truth--its still the truth.
the only time the truth is untrue is when you see it for what it really is.
sometimes holidays can be hard on us.
some of us deserve a little toast today.. a toast to all the brave kids who broke up with their toxic moms.
my son left the cult over 5 years ago. in fact--he was d/f. his born in mother shuns him. his new wife has now presented him with a beautiful baby boy.
sadly his mother may never get to meet her new grandchild.
what a terrible price to pay for cult membership.
so this fella went into a pub and said to another guy sat at the bar: "i think jehovah's witnesses are all assholes!
" to which the guy sat at the bar replied: "i resent that remark.
" so the fella said "oh, i'm sorry, i didn't realise that you were a jehovah's witness".
