a british compliment ... your'e all soooo preposterously predantic!!.
one thing that always made me question jw thinking so much as a kid, were those 3 dots in quotes taken from professionals in the magazines.
that space i always knew was a misrepresentation of facts and it interested me highly that to verify such comments was always most difficult in that position.. that lil space i reckon was one of the reasons for my very first initial doubts at around 14. i would always go further in reading than most, past the scripture given in the body of the public talk to check out whether that was in fact what the scriptures were saying compared to the brothers comments.. hooray and cheers for a questioning mind.
Celtic,
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along with the awful..........................thanks for the.......................and the post too.
ashitaka
"I pray that I may never see the desert again-hear me God."-Robert Bolt
14 years or so ago, when i used to go around with my best mates steve and keith in west sussex, england, a frind of ours from one of the brighton congregations got a public reproof for bumming up to a car or having sex with it in some peculiar way.
has anyone ever heard of this before, cos we could never quite work out what that involved no matter how much we tried to work out what he'd been up to?.
any offers to put my puzzlement to rest?
okokok, i think i'll have a guinness now.
i have to shake my head and sigh whenever these prophetic.
(or pathetic) fantasies appear about the un.
far from being a. powerful world ruling 'wild beast', the un is an underfunded,.
I agree with both of you.
jehovah keeps sifting and cleanning out the organization.
this board is proof of that sifting work.
congratulations on being cleansed out of jehovah's organization because of your inmoral and prideful lives.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA-thanks for the laugh yoyo. And your post is evidence that the my leaving was totally justified. THANKS!!!
14 years or so ago, when i used to go around with my best mates steve and keith in west sussex, england, a frind of ours from one of the brighton congregations got a public reproof for bumming up to a car or having sex with it in some peculiar way.
has anyone ever heard of this before, cos we could never quite work out what that involved no matter how much we tried to work out what he'd been up to?.
any offers to put my puzzlement to rest?
What will they think of next?
many of you have said that the wts is babylon the great and feel that the prophecy in revelation will be fulfilled on the wts.
the book of revelation says that this babylon the great will go down into destruction because the wild beast will turn on her.
it also said that god will put that thought into the wild beast to carry out this action.. that is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned with fire, because jehovah god, who judged her, is strong.. if the wts is the babylon the great of the book of revelation then this will be its demise.
No, they wont. Who gives a damn about this little sect-see Room 215's comment.
ashitaka
"I pray that I may never see the desert again-hear me God."-Robert Bolt
fred willard portrayed himself as an afghanistanian living in the cave next to osama bin laden.. jay (on the split screen, interviewing him as a newsman would) asked him if there were any advantages living next to bin laden.. he said "yeah, no jehovah's witnesses come to the door!
gopher.
why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?
LOLOLOLOL
Just wanted to laugh at them to start my morning.
ashi
for many ex-jehovahs witnesses there is a disconnection between what we wish we could be doing in terms of making pronounced change in the ideological structure of the watch tower society or the dissolution of it, and what we actually find ourselves doing.
at some level we sense there are incredible potentials just waiting to be realized in the collective struggle to bring down the tower not just because it is fundamentally wrong and harmful to millions of lives but also for the changes it will make in our lives.
over the years though, i think a lot of us kind of feel that we are stumbling around in the dark trying one thing or another without anything serving as catalyst that starts an energetic chain reaction.. in a way, it reminds me of a phenomenon i learned back in my college days about termites.
An interesting thought, but even a concentrated blow to the core of the Witnesses would only intensify them; they would bury deeper in the sand because they'd believe the end was come. I once hoped to really do something profound and help all old friends and family to see the light. I've struggled for years, and now I have my family; but the friends would take a lifetime. It's just not feasable. And that's not the old JW rhetoric closing in. Just a weariness from years of fighting and reasoning on doctrine and experience.
I do agree with the concept of emergence-yet that is counting on people to want to involve themselves in a group called the ex-JW's to try to destroy the Jw's. It becomes another strange sect, not a religion per se, but an organized group of naysayers; I just can't see the point in it.
Ashitaka
"I pray that I may never see the desert again-hear me God."-Robert Bolt
where do i begin?
i have a problem here.
because of the teachings i had from a very young age, i refused to take a shot with blood in it.
My sympathies go out to you...I've seen it again and again.
finally, after almost a month, i get a response from my mother about the un.
for those who didnt see her original letter and my response, just click on the sheet of paper icon in my profile and you can catch up on this.. i will place my comments in italics and names will be replaced in parentheses.. .
dear ranchette,.
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Many guilt trips be upon you,
Love,
MOM
