it is christmas morning ....the weather outside looks cold grey and dismal (typical britain in winter ) the house is quiet as my wife gets on with something.
.... the street is silent, as dead as the grave.
the tv is full of the purile nonsense that fills airtime this time of year .
well--ive been up since 6. drove my wife to work---a 13 hour shift in charge of a care home. but tomorrow we are off to England to stay with my son ( d/f ) and family. he loves christmas--goes overboard big time. he is doing so well in life since he severed the link to the cult. they recently enjoyed a holiday in the Maldives......
hi everyone.
what does anyone think of the crisis of conscience book?
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first half is very much in the style of a watchtower magazine--so boring i nearly chucked it away. go to half way through---then i couldnt put it down.
during our weekend convention with the co i noticed he gets his expenses paid for.
my question is if the co then summits another expense report on the following day?
the circuit is split in a and b, so therefore the co meets with the other half the next day.
swerving off topic a bit...ive read on here about circuit assembly finances--how the watchtower charges so much £/$ per head and collects thousands each time an assembly hall is used. how does it work with big assemblies where the site rent has to be paid ? do they still hold giant international assemblies ?
counties once at war with one another can forgive and move on.
even horrible murderers who killed the family members of someone can be forgiven for the act that they did.. but god, no no no.
no such thing can happen.
i wonder if any dubs really believe all that adam and eve nonsense.
my wife has held onto them like they were family heirlooms.
we are cleaning and clearing out accumulated stuff and i pointed out that there is the cd-rom library now and that the society has made revisions and really doesn't want us to be reading the old stuff.
she said that even though there have been changes to the teachings, the wrong understanding served its' purpose at the time.
when i cleared my late fathers house--i dumped over 50 years worth of magazines. i found them all over his house. stored in cereal boxes. also a stack of books--and a large box of congregation records.
i wouldnt demean myself to sell watchtower rubbish on ebay..i dont need that sort of dirty money.
hello brothers and sisters am new here , what is the website all about ?.
no--i really think the OP meant brothers and sisters---and will never be seen again.
yes--bring it on.
i remember around 2005, there was an announcement made from the platform that in a few weeks time we would have to remain at the end of the sunday meeting for a big announcement, directly from the society.. i remember all the murmuring, people thought maybe this was going to be related to armageddon.
everyone was excited, people were speculating.
only the po in each congregation had any idea what was going on, and they were frequently pestered for information, but sworn to secrecy, which only hyped things up even more.. then the meeting came, anticipation was in the air, the announcement started, you could hear a pin drop.
all the congregation excitedly anticipating some sort of announcement that the rest of mankind was about to be killed off. there are a lot of very sick christians in the watchtower society.
my grandfather is a longtime jw with advanced parkinson's.
on the advice of a good friend mine who is inactive but not "out" i went to visit him monday and we talked for awhile.
his health isn't well, but he was happy to see me.
my late dad--a jw for over 50 years went into a care home for his last 3 years. i visited him several days a week--and performed various personal services as part of his care.
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my daughter---46----lives with her husband and her own 4 daughters----together with her mother ( my first wife )----less than a mile from him. they are staunch dubs.
my first wife visited dad just once in those 3 years---my daughter:- never.--despite me repeatedly asking her to.
i think it was their way of shunning him because they knew he and i had a very close relationship.. what a sad end to his life.
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in case youre wondering--i hate the watchtower cult.
one word for it.....apostate!
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how about armageddon coming in 2026--? not immediate--but not too far ahead....just about right to launch a fresh dub hysteria.
why 2026.....? isnt it 6000 years from the creation of Adam ?
the rumour started here folks.
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