i sometimes wonder if perhaps some of the higher ups in the organization are visiting this forum.
perhaps it has become a valuable source for them to "test the waters" before something goes public to see what the reaction would be?
am i overreacting?
I'm sure they do, and sadly I bet they pick up some information that benefits them, but such is life. I really think the internet and their unwillingness to go mainstream will be the death of them as far as a major sect.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if a GB member showed up on one of these boards?
has anyone ever stop to realize that since the new change in thought regarding the generation that jesus spoke about was from references dated: (w95 11/1 pp.
1011 saved from this wicked generation...).
1957 walter bauer's greek-english lexicon.... 1940 or so w.e vine's expository dictionary.... 1964 theological dictionary of the new testament.
The whole thing would actually be hysterically funny if it wasn't for 6 million or so folks jacking their lives around on behalf of the GB and their New Light.
!st.
i cant get this red to change on here.
im glad to be here.
Welcome to the board!!! Good to have you here and not there.
i am wondering, what made all of us different?
to explain.
obviously most all of us here were at one time brainwashed and endoctrinated with the rest of the rank and file of jw's.
I was born in and just hated it from day one. I'm not really sure why, I know the restrictions (sports, holidays, etc.) were part of it, feeling like a freak was another part of it, and even as a kid just somehow not buying it, the stuff just never rang true for me ever.
Born under a bad sign I guess.
i mean if you think about it - and i might be off on the time a little - in the past 6 months we have heard of the following;elimination of the hard cover biblereducing of awake to monthly additionsdownsizing at bethel worldwideelimination of bethel elders.
there may be others that i forgot about.
but these are all very significant, and they are all happening at once, in a relative sense.those of us in the apostate circles may not realize just how the total impact might be on the flock.
I always feel like a reverse dub with this stuff, always watching for signs of the end, the end of the WBTS that is.
From what I can see of my family, the changes tend to disturb them, which in turn makes them sort of hunker down and become even more closed off. The disturbing stuff keeps piling up and their response is to just basically force themselves to not think about it at all, just tune it out and I can almost hear them chanting under their breath, "just hold on, just hold on, just a little longer".
for those of you who read my continuing series about a girl i dated, i mentioned at the end of it that i'm gonna be a daddy!
i'm so excited!.
the wife is on week 8.. i'm trying to figure out how my parents, especially my father is going to take the news when i finally tell them.
Congratulations! I think you'll find parenthood to be many things but it will never be dull. You learn alot about yourself in the coming months and years.
there is and always was a lot of suffering in the world since the beginning of history, so who is to blame?
is it a god that doesn't care or a mankind that refuses to be reconciled with god and through that find salvation?
there is no such thing as suffering. there are the neurological reactions of your body and brain to discomfort,
Tetra, you sound like my freaking dentist, oh, that's not pain, that's just pressure, lol. Yeah, okay, we'll call your drilling into my head pressure if you want but man it still freaking hurts.
thought today that i would try to get some questions answered.
i wanted to see if he could answer my concerns and was looking forward to a nice discussion or some peace regarding some things that are driving me crazy.. so, i saw this older 'wise' looking gentleman on the street holding up some mags.
so, i approached him.
Jez, the Gureilla Apostate, the Viet Cong of ex-jw's, you go girl.
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is the watchtower bible and tract society and its representatives guilty of crimes against god and humanity?.
Guilty as sin.
I think I see Mick and Keith singing Hey you, get off of my cloud and being generally rowdy down at the dodgey end.
