so yesterday was a lovely day where i live and so instead of going to the meeting we went, as a family, out for the late pm/early evening to have a bbq.
we were far more relaxed than if we had gone to the meeting.
we spent far more time talking that if we had gone to the meeting.
good job Konceptual. I followed a similar path. I was able to free my children but not my wife. At some point in the fade you may have to get a bit more fadey and let the kids know, in some way maybe without verbally saying it, that it's ok if they don't want to go and you'll support them regardless.
Best of luck.
what do you think the reaction would be?
i would say a small portion (single digit) would walk.
no loss for the borg, they weren't donating anyway.
What they would probably do is end shunning and then once everyone outs themselves reinstate shunning.
Then they would clear themselves of the non-donating deadwood fence-sitters in their opinion.
after all, "at this time,over 13,000 kingdom hall projects and 35 assembly hall projects are needed worldwide.".
hmmm, not too sure about that but all the recent re-branding seems to be heading .
could this be the long game?
The new system came invisibly....why don't you feel better?
It's a cult!
i've been lurking here for a while now, and i guess you could call me a fader.
i don't have hate in my heart for the organization that i spent most of my life in, but i have had an awakening.
luckily, so has my wife, and that way i don't feel so alone.
so, many of y'all know bits and pieces of my story of waking up, but i thought it might be nice to have it all in one place.. i was baptized at 11, auxiliary pioneered every summer, regular pioneer at 17, ministerial servant by 19, then went to bethel for a year.. i always had minor doubts from time to time, but nothing serious.
always dismissed doubts and decided to "just have faith.".
after leaving bethel, i was never really firing on all cylinders "spiritually speaking.
Great post Cappytan! I am so glad you and your wife are on the way out. I remember your work post about your boss talking to you and you opening up to him. I had something similar so I totally relate. It is just so hard to keep everything going smoothly as your entire belief system crumbles around you. I wasn't successful at helping my wife leave but there is always hope.
607 was the first big issue I researched as well.
it seems like every time our circuit failed to meet the field service goals set by our co, the very next circuit assembly would invariably include a talk that mentions a chronically ill paraplegic sister who would dial the phone with her tongue to make return visits or conduct bible studies... i must have heard this experience at least 6 or 7 times in the past 20 years or so.
and every time i heard this recycled talk, they would add even more guilt-inducing twists to it.
to me, it eventually became way to difficult to believe...
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-convention-releases-2015/.
stephen lett speaks again in the beginning of the movie ... please smb make him shut up and go hide himself.
can they not see how ridiculous he is?.
from my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.
's, here are my conclusions:.
's are very rapidly falling into two distinct camps -.
from my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.
's, here are my conclusions:.
's are very rapidly falling into two distinct camps -.
from my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.
's, here are my conclusions:.
's are very rapidly falling into two distinct camps -.
Perhaps the groups that Oppostate mentioned is really large and isn't donating as much?
If they use video more at the local meetings they will need fewer shepherds to spread the parts around. That should work well with fewer brothers reaching out.
