a couple of months ago i attended a funeral with my wife at the local kingdom hall for my uncle.
its the 1st funeral i've been to and 1st kingdom hall in 5 years.
i was a jw for 17 years and now i'm a chrisitan.
Sorry about your loss. Sounds exactly like the funeral for my aunt a few years ago.
What drove me crazy about the JW's is everything they do turns into a talk about the watchtower.
The prayers at the assemblies always iritated me the most because they ended up being a review talk of the assembly.
i mean really, besides changing some stupid rules now and then what is there for a jw to learn?
how many biblical truths or new understandings have come out in the last 3,5,or 10, years?
they keep on "studying" and yet they learn nothing new.
At one of my sheperding calls I told the elders the meetings were just meetings on meetings.
many here have been reproved or disfellowshiped for asking questions about the bible and the jw interpretation of it.. after encouraging the asking of questions, one of the newest wt publications states: "others worry that asking questions could lead to shame or embarrassment.
and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.
that quote is found in the first chapter of the new publication that all congregations will begin studying each week at their congregation book study.
Has anyone tried to refuse new light ? It could be an interesting twist on things.
here is a chain email that i got that has been circulating among the jws.. you have to be kidding me right?.
fw: something to think about wow!!!!!.
this is quite interesting seeing the progression of the stone hitting the false religious babylonish image at the base.
I'm going to send this chain e-mail to some JW relatives, got to stir the pot once in awhile.
ya know dat rock is there to fake the statue out, he dudn't know dah dubs gots an invisible one
drew in there dats comin to smash his foots all up
here are the scanned copies i promised i would post.
thanks to my wonderful husband, he made it all possible, as he is a computer whiz!
these copies show the out and out deception on the part of the organization.
I want to hear from dozy. [not]
my husband and i for the first time had an honest discussion regarding jw doctrines, he believes in the flawlessness of the society, so he is not easy to talk to.
he did agree however that if 607 is not correct that the society has it all wrong.
well to say the least that was an interesting turn of events.
My advice is go slow with the proof it takes a long time to get the roots of the watchtower out of your head. You made the an important step as a married couple; honestly talking about the watchtower, most jw couples don't do this. Be happy with your new ability to objectively and freely talk about the watchtower. It took me years to get all the jw cobwebs out of my head.
why don't the wtbs tell us the number disfellowshiped/disassociated instead of saying "thousands"?.
why don't they tell us how much money was made in the annual report?.
don't they owe all this to the membership?
I know in PA you can look up the tax assesement of property, all you need is the address of the property.
The records in PA are on the county web sites, the web sites give the history of buyers and prices paid.
the plagues the jw's brought on christendom ended dec. 31 1999 (or is it 2000) .. rev.
climax book pg.
143 subheading the 20th century plague .
Good question to ask them at the door.
Get the Rev book out and show them the subheading and ask them what century are we living in?
here are the scanned copies i promised i would post.
thanks to my wonderful husband, he made it all possible, as he is a computer whiz!
these copies show the out and out deception on the part of the organization.
This is a very poor example of a supposed misquote by the WTS [THE WTS HOWEVER DOES MISQUOTE REFERENCE MATERIAL] and wouldn't convince anyone who has a 3rd Grade [IN AN ADVANCED CLASS] understanding of punctuation. I cannot see the original quote[IT WOULDN'T MATTER ANYWAY] as the format is too small , but the use of square brackets within a quotation is the recognized literary method to add an editorial interjection that may or may not agree or harmonise with the views of the original writer.
Lady Libery is incorrect to describe this in any way as a misquote [BUT LADY LIBERTY DOES HAVE AN EXCELLENT POINT OF THIS BEING DELIBERATE DECEPTION ]- she is demonstrating a lack of understanding of basic grammar[BUT AN EXCELENT UNDERSTANDING OF WTS B.S.] The Insight book editor has accurately punctuated the quotation. [The Insight book editor wears womens underwear]
the year 2014 will be 100 years after the "end of the gentile times" year 1914.
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in october of that anniversary year, the watchtower will published a special commenorative issue.. any ideas as to what articles that issue will contain?.
An article entitled :
Why are you looking behind to 1914 ?
MOVE AHEAD WITH JEHOVAH'S ORGANISATION !
