i have been faded for 5 years raising my kid after jw wife cheated on me.
i go to the memorial here and there.
my mother is a pioneer.
I am so sorry for your loss. Something I learned early on, JW's will exploit any painful situation to hurt you more. It is intentional and encouraged. I limit what I share with my family ( the ones that still speak to me) because I know they are not capable of support and will cause further trauma.
You were given information about your mother from this interaction, information you can use to make better choices concerning her in the future.
i never thought i would see that in the us, a "free speech rally" (which has distanced itself from and organizers have nothing at all to do with the right, republicans or extremism) is being counter protested by thousands in boston today, the counter protests being organized by a coalition of black supremacists and sjw's.. on the other hand, google is building a database of speech that doesn't align with the left-wing political values.. i'm not sure what youngsters are thinking these days, but free speech used to be the cornerstone of american civilizations only a few decades ago.
the only way to drown out "bad" free speech is more free speech..
I am not sure what the solution is, but we are headed for a civil war. People need to take a step back and realize that our own personal opinions are not always the only opinion, and growth can happen when we come together to find solutions. But the way things are that is not going to happen anytime soon.
When you start silencing views you don't agree with, it's all downhill from there as a society. Throughout history silencing views and restricting free speech has ended badly.
i would like to state publicly, on this forum, i no longer hold the views i had a year ago.. with much thought, research, study and logical examination i have come to a better understanding of my beliefs and where i stand on all these issues.. i'm very happy to announce i have returned to healthful teaching of the holy scriptures and i firmly believe that the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is the faithful slave.. sorry if i have contibuted to any kind of stumbling and know that if i can turn things around then there's hope for all who come to there sence.. phill4:6,7.
When people do this it's all about being superior. Going back makes them feel superior, they have the truth, all the answers, and are so much smarter than all of us.
I would never trade my freedom, to be, say, and do anything, for lies, control, and false teachings. No pipe dream would ever be worth losing my freedom.
on my way into town from my office.
two carts set up a few feet from each other.
one manned by a man and woman (i assume they're a couple) in their late 30s.. the guys walks off to the other cart as im walking by, i wasn't going to approach but the woman holding the awake!
What a jerk!
I don't see witnesses very often, but I would love to ask them about Lot. So after his wife was turned to salt. His daughters supposedly got him drunk and then had sex with him. After they answer with Jehovah allowed this blah blah. Then I want to ask if one of their members got drunk and had sex with two women what would happen? Would he be excused because he was drunk? Did Lot not realize that he was getting blitzed? Would the family be held up as an example?
I travel for work, so waiting to run into them!
so a couple of nights ago i was speaking with a relative and we began talking about the organization.
i had to asked her "why do you believe that this religion is the correct one?
" they stood quiet for a second but then said that they view and feel genuine christian love, a type of love that is spoken about in the bible.
Pffft - Christian love my ass. The disfellowshipping and shunning alone show there is no Christian love in that cult.
in my stand up comedy routine tonight i want to list humourous reasons why i shd go back to jws.. how about nobody throws parties like jws.. how about jws being at the cutting edge of fashion.. how about it being easier for men to get a date.. any ideas?.
paul.
Lol
Buy Girl Scout cookies -god will kill you 😀
on sunday morning in the watchtower study, a "study" who was their for the 1st time put his hand up and said; "i have a question.
when the paragraph says give up everything, it doesn't really mean give up everything like the pearl merchant, does it, like be willing to lose my modest house, cheap car and other basics i own?
i mean, that sounds a bit much".. the watchtower conductor said in response; "no, it's just a parable and it doesn't mean give up everything.
Funny after everything - you are still surprised they lie. They will lie about any of their beliefs to people they are trying to recruit.
Liars lie, it's what they do.
in my stand up comedy routine tonight i want to list humourous reasons why i shd go back to jws.. how about nobody throws parties like jws.. how about jws being at the cutting edge of fashion.. how about it being easier for men to get a date.. any ideas?.
paul.
My husband was joking with me one day and he said something like
Eat birthday cake? God will kill you
Give Christmas presents? God will kill you
buy a two door car? God will kill you
fornicate? God will kill you
smoking? God will kill you
the whole religion can be summed up with god will kill you 😀
Compelling reasons to join or go back or God will kill you.
another one: my husband is Catholic. He said you can't scare me with that stuff. Catholics go to hell for all eternity - all you got is god kills you? That doesn't sound so bad. 😀
greetings, cold and allergy sufferers:.
i'm in good health currently, but i do sneeze quite a bit, bringing down the rafters, as one sister exclaimed at the kh.
apart from that, no jw ever acknowledged my clearing out .
I have the same issue sneezing 10-15 times in a row. My workmates tease that they won't bless me until I am done. Lol.
on video "benefits of divine education" william samuelsson makes totally appalling comment.. starting from 3:05 he refers to "an effort" that was made in past to see how society's curriculum corresponds with normal - worldly - universities.. then he claims that following question was asked (to university representative) "how we in five months can teach the same that for them takes two years"?.
according to w samuelsson the representative of a university replied something like this: "your students are motivated, they have come to learn where as our students have been send to university by their parents and might have something else than learning in their mind".
this is to crystallize what he said.
As with all Watchtower "experiences" there is no mention of what university representative said this. It's just a nameless, faceless, generic university representative. It's laughable that they would even compare the two, but when you keep your followers purposefully uneducated and villify higher education, you have to do something to appear superior.
I didn't take any believe in fairly tale classes at the University I went to.
