i don't know if i have shared this with everyone, but there seems to be a new theocratic term, at least in my circuit.. the term is "final push.
" wtf does it mean?
well, an eldub said that the gb are "all in" with warwick and they might spend all their money on the project.
SimonSays, "Horatio what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
SimonSays, that quote is mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/misquotesfaq.html
It was Walter Scott who made that statement in his book Marmion.
i often wonder if apostasy could be defined as the "silent problem", as the majority who leave for this reason choose to fade saying nothing.
in all the decades i was a witness i could probably count on 2 hands those who were disfellowshipped for apostasy.i must admit it wasn't until i came on the internet that i fully realise the depth and extent of the problem.
i think of that young girl high school speech that went viral, and you can't tell me all those 300000+ views were all none jws.
so man was made by god in his image was he?.
so the human body was intelligently designed was it?.
you are kidding me !!.
The Universe shows order and disorder but not intelligence.
Why would an intelligent God create galaxies and then smash them together?
recently there was a thread where someone asked if there was a copy of crisis of conscience they could purchase.
raymond franz it seems had limited resources yet he was able to provide crisis of conscience in printed form to what?
thousands?
well, it's been a long while since i last visited here.
i've been doing this and that...you know....lugubrious life and all.. i am interested in collating views from all types of people about jws, albeit non jws, ex jws....anyone associated with jws who wants to share their viewpoint.
later on i'd like to self publish these collected interviews but cannot offer any money as the project is more about giving people an opportunity to speak, help, whatever, rather than make a best seller.
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All it took was a tract on the door. I was 13 and naïve and had an interest in religion. I thought I was discovering the secrets of the Universe.
The so-called "knowledge" I was taking in. I remember devouring any book I could get my hands on new or old. I even remember the smell of those books.
Picnics, playing volleyball, just socializing.
I was in school and during recess I went to a room in the library where a sister that I had a crush on was having a study. As soon as I came in she said, “Oh I must put a head covering on” and she lifted her sweater up to her head as an improvised covering.
On another occasion I was out in field service with a sister (the one I had a crush on) on a very hot day. Someone had the sprinklers on and she, dressed in a skirt, walked right over it with a smile on her face.
My most interesting moment was when I and some others went out in field service in an isolated part of town. There was this dead goat hanging upside down from a tree with its throat slit. A little girl, about 5, was yanking the horns back and forth apparently bleeding the animal.
The sister besides me said she was going to throw up but never did. I tried to witness to the people there – they were Spanish speaking – but they kept saying they couldn’t understand even though I was speaking in Spanish. Good for them.
Yes, definitely. I attended a special talk by Frederick Franz, who was then vice president of the society. It was at the Inglewood Public Forum in Los Angeles. The stadium was packed, may be 20,000 since there were chairs on the court. I remember having a tape recorder on my lap taping the talk. I wish I had that cassette now.
Franz gave a longwinded talk which started from creation all the way to the Millennium. In essence he said that the Great Tribulation would start either in 1975 or a few months or years thereafter but not decades.
That calculation centered around the “Adam and Eve gap", a period of time between the creation of Adam and Eve which could have been years or decades according to their chronological calculations (keep in mind the “creative days were 7,000 years long).
Franz then bizarrely stated that if the Adam and Eve gap were to be decades Adam would have been tempted into bestiality for lack of a mate. I remember him saying “Would Jehovah allow that? No, brothers and sisters.”
Whatever small good they may have is completely tainted by their evil.
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· (This is your platform to spill the beans. Go for it!)
Are you joking? I'd rather die than to live a living death. There is nothing that religion has to offer.
Nothing but grief. If you're reading this and you're new to the Witnesses please, PLEASE run away as fast as you can!
from commentary press: "in honor of raymond & cynthia franz, the present copyright owner of crisis of conscious and in search of christian freedom is committed to further distribution of these publications.
more details will be forthcoming.".
http://www.commentarypress.com/.
im here sitting and listening to youtube video songs and practicing on my guitar and checking out posts on jwn.
and one more thing, im seeing the spanish jws going door to door in my street.
they work my street every single week.
has anyone else looked at these graphs a little closer?
i see one trend of marked decrease in december then immediate marked increase on jan 1, almost like an exact time.
this is recent and brief observation of a few of those i have heard being called trolls or sympathizers.
