i think most witnesses are simple minded.many are ignorant.
there are a lot of basically "good people "in the religion but i believe many are kind of dumb, including many elders.
do you agree with my thoughts??
Someone..or some people..at the head of the watchtower cult are certainly not ignorant.
What a business plan.....target the ignorant..fill them with false hope and empty promises...who then donate their cash and free labour....who then go on to recruit more ignorants....who then donate their money and labour....ad infinitum. How many millions has the cult now got ?
i have been faded for 5 years raising my kid after jw wife cheated on me.
i go to the memorial here and there.
my mother is a pioneer.
lickingmywounds..
first of all--a warm welcome to this site. you have had a terrible shock to cope with--made worse by others harsh unfeeling attitudes.
i hope you find strength, friendship and comfort from us all here.
chapter 21.
“black thursday” the day the music died.
knorr gathered all the bethel overseers and governing body to the kingdom hall in the 119 building.
when i read the name--Jack Sutton--i did a double take----that was my fathers name !.....just that--Jack Sutton. not John--no other names. he became a dub about 55 years ago. he died last january--aged 95. he never shunned me--which meant he was shunned by other members of his family. his grand daughter ( my daughter 46 ) never once visited him in his care home over his final 3 years--even though i asked her to several times. she lived less than a mile from him. christians---you can keep them.
just curious but how do the people off this forum find reddit.
for myself i find reddit to be sadly lacking in the jw world.
i just don't find the depth there e.g one sentence replies, trying to be funny.
is it by coincidence that AAWA popped up on my facebook page after i replied above ?
the name of the group i mentioned is AAWA.
just curious but how do the people off this forum find reddit.
for myself i find reddit to be sadly lacking in the jw world.
i just don't find the depth there e.g one sentence replies, trying to be funny.
wake me up--re John Cedars
he was very active on here a very few years back--and a prolific poster. he had his supporters--and opposers.
he was also involved in setting up an over-night facebook group for xj's---and over 1000 members were added without their consent or approval. including me. many of these members were in fact " outed" by putting their real names on an open xj site. there was fury and uproar --on here--about it. i really have no idea--or interest--in whether its still going.
cedars had a head on collision with the site owner here--so is no longer a member.
that's what i've been told by a family member (elder) who went to one of the regional conventions in the north of the u.k lately, who told me the 300 or more disfellowshipped who returned to jehovah by attending show that the end is so close, just like the final talk says..
someone rocks up at assembly--says i'm d/f---and gets a badge. yep--sounds very secure to me.
these are the worldwide percentages of jehovah´s witnesses and where they live.
a whopping 50% live in the americas, and a whopping 35% live in the us, or mexico, or brazil.
(the percentages shown on the right pie graph are of the worldwide total, so if it says 15% for the us it means that 15% of all jw´s worldwide live in the us, not 15% of the ones that live in the americas).what do you think of this graph?.
do those average hours figures include pioneers ? i doubt if many in the UK get 10 hours in.
that's what i've been told by a family member (elder) who went to one of the regional conventions in the north of the u.k lately, who told me the 300 or more disfellowshipped who returned to jehovah by attending show that the end is so close, just like the final talk says..
i think a lot who get d/f are glad to wipe the slate clean. gives them a break for a year or so--then back in with no responsibilities for a while. like buying a pardon. so they never really left the cult--just doing their time for their crime.
these are the worldwide percentages of jehovah´s witnesses and where they live.
a whopping 50% live in the americas, and a whopping 35% live in the us, or mexico, or brazil.
(the percentages shown on the right pie graph are of the worldwide total, so if it says 15% for the us it means that 15% of all jw´s worldwide live in the us, not 15% of the ones that live in the americas).what do you think of this graph?.
interesting---that shows european publishers have about half a bible study each.
how do you have half a bible study ? what do you do with the rest of the time ?
so i'm pretty sure my fade is complete.
haven't stepped foot inside a kh in 9 years.
but the concept of fading still makes me wonder.
sin is a state of mind. the things i enjoy most are either immoral, illegal or fattenning. or all 3.
