i am not talking about the usual crap from the cult writings, but rather things idiots believed on their own.
maybe even helped on by the cult but not directly taught.
i knew an old man now long gone kunde in michigan.
Jimmy Young.
Don't discount the benefits of cutting an onion and putting it on your nightstand while you sleep. There is more to this folk medicine than you know. All the rest about peeing.....well....I'll laugh at that one myself. But the onion works.
we know all the dissolved congregations in minneapolis/st.
paul now:.
1. lake of the isles .
Right in my back yard! I moved to this area a year ago from Florida and love it here. JW's came to my door one time while my daughter was here. She wasn't very nice to them. lol
So happy I am free from all the BS.
from a member of the board asking for this to be posted.. hi.
i'm pimo.
could you please let people know about this?
iwatoutnow: This Columbia Heights is a suburb of Minneapolis as are all the KH's that Atlantis listed.
from a member of the board asking for this to be posted.. hi.
i'm pimo.
could you please let people know about this?
Atlantis: All of these KH's are around Minneapolis, Minnesota. I live east of Minneapolis.
so... it has been six years since my last post.
i wonder who still remembers me?
a lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... i'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well.
Great to see you post again. I often wondered what happened to you.
currently reading : 30 years a watchtower slave.
cannot put it down.. this book pre-dates ray franz book "crisis of conscience", written from early 20th century, shortly after the jehovah's witnesses were formed.
the author describes the original true background of the watchtower society as a multi-million dollar publishing company.
It was written by William Schnell.
there are so many kinds of foods on amazon.
i want to eat something different.
what do you like to order on amazon?
Had Amazon Pantry for a time. Went to Hello Fresh and absolutely love it. Much cheaper than eating out and even though you have to prep, there is no waste or wondering what to do. If you take advantage of their special offers, you can feed two people for $7.00 to $10.00 a day. And it is gourmet quality!
i hear of whole circuit meetings being held, taking all day.
maybe just usual yearly stuff, but it seems the local elders immediately held a followup.
i am sure it will be about better local control, more charity, kindness, that sort of thing.
Back in the day, I had to go to a few special elders meetings at the assembly hall in Pittsburgh. It was really a lot of nothing. Like "road to nowhere" said....."everything important could be said in 5 minutes".
so i was interviewing a guy for a podcast episode today and he went and saw his grandmother over christmas to gather some history.
he wasn't raised a jw but it turns out his family was actually opposed to the jws because they went all the way back to russell.
according to him (from her stories), they refused to follow rutherford and that's where the split took place.
I'm going back to the early 1980's. I had heard there were some "Bible Students" in the Pittsburgh, Pa area. The place where I lived was about 12 miles southeast of the city. One day in the door to door work a lady invited us in and lo and behold there was a portrait of Russell and portraits of two others right on the wall. Turns out she belonged to one of the "Bible Student" groups and she proceeded to try and convince us that the JW's took control of the original group and that the JW's were the false prophets. I don't remember what all she said because the person I was with wanted to get out of there. Personally, I would have loved to learn more of the "forbidden" things I knew nothing about back then.
Maybe that was a small seed planted in my brain the eventually grew. Who knows.
i've not been on this site for awhile now.
and i haven't posted in several years.
at times i'll pull up jwd and read a little bit.
There was a nut job on here like you said. He went by several different names but the one I remember the most is "Brown Boy".
