i was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .
quick!
hide it from your children!.
I still remember this book, I absolutely loved it as a kid, but then I grew bored of it. I still remember throwing out all my JW stuff when I was 18, fun stuff.
The only way that last picture could be any more politically correct would be to throw in a Vulcan kid. Hmm... Photoshop idea....
I know, right? The funniest part is the bible closed and on the floor apart from the kids. Subliminal messaging, perhaps??
my mother had this discussion yesterday.
basically, my main argument was that if the fds gets jehovah's holy spirit and their "food" is "the truth", yet they always are correcting themselves, how can anyone in all fairness believe it's "the truth"??
you can't show scripturally why organ transplants are a form of cannibalism and clearly a disfellowshipping offense and a couple of years later after possible disfellowshippings or death, and then believe jehovah god changed his view suddenly.
Another thing for me was the whole Governing Body and the annointed nonsense that even to a not so logical person, takes a stretch, on the part of the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus type of stretch. As I got older, the less it made sense. Who are these people? And why do they act like the pope/Vatican of the JW? Again, the more they pointed to the world's hypocrisy, the more I saw their own.
last week was the cyclone.
this week it is the chinese earthquake that so far has taken about 8,000 lives.
i feel an awake!
And imagine these are not even the worst tragedies that have happened to the earth.
my mother had this discussion yesterday.
basically, my main argument was that if the fds gets jehovah's holy spirit and their "food" is "the truth", yet they always are correcting themselves, how can anyone in all fairness believe it's "the truth"??
you can't show scripturally why organ transplants are a form of cannibalism and clearly a disfellowshipping offense and a couple of years later after possible disfellowshippings or death, and then believe jehovah god changed his view suddenly.
My mom says reasons for staying is because she learned the name of God to be Jehovah, no hellfire, purgatory, Trinity, etc....No other religion taught her that, especially did the Catholic church not teach her these things.
The name of God is not Jehovah, there is book that has about 200 different names for God. You don't need to join the JWs to dispute hellfire, Trinity and purgatory, there are many religions that believe the same thing. I feel for you, I really do - they really prey on people sometimes.
my mother had this discussion yesterday.
basically, my main argument was that if the fds gets jehovah's holy spirit and their "food" is "the truth", yet they always are correcting themselves, how can anyone in all fairness believe it's "the truth"??
you can't show scripturally why organ transplants are a form of cannibalism and clearly a disfellowshipping offense and a couple of years later after possible disfellowshippings or death, and then believe jehovah god changed his view suddenly.
Oh where does one start??
The ding dong of Armaggedon coming. How many dates are they going to change before they get this thing right?
The rewording of the Bible to fit their own ideology and lying to the masses regarding it.
The UN situation, how do you sit and denounce an organization, that you are apart of?
The constant and complete sexist hypocrisy towards women and the many many children that have been sexually assaulted but the organization turned a blind eye to it even using their indoctrination to force women and children into abusive situations. This is a big one for me, I know of far too many such situations.
The blood issue is completely misunderstood and distorted, people have died unnecessarily because of it.
Because it is a cult that breaks up families and life long friends on nothing more than a difference of opinion.
I could go on, but these are the big ones.
Jimi Hendrix
well, the first card my daughter got from a jw relative constisted of a blank card with two coupons for two wt publications.
no kind words or a gift!.
needless to say we all just laughed!
That's just rude, sometimes silence is better if you just don't want to congratulate someone. I would send a copy of Crisis of Conscience.
well hello all....yes...i'm a newbie.... and yep...i am an inactive witness.
haven't been to a meeting in a while.
my entire family are witnesses, actually had a relative that proclaimed to be of the 144000...thats how deep....this is third generation witnesses here in this family.
Welcome to the board and realize there have been wars and rumors of wars since the beginning of time, with thousands of people dying since the beginning of time. There have been hurricanes, famine, that's the cycle of life.
Fear from religious sources is about control. Unbreak the lease.
sometimes i look back at my 27 years as a witness and am astounded by the amount of double speak that goes on in the organisation.
god loves unconditionally, but only certain ones, god is going to save the world from its downward spiral, but first of all he is going to destroy millions of evil people.
it is all so fatalistic and unkind.
What a hypocritical mind controlled place, imagine why so many people in there have psychiatric episodes and are severly depressed? You did nothing wrong, they are just closed minded and can't think for themselves...
i just want to give a big happy mother's day!!
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I just want to give a big HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! to all the wonderful loving mother's here on the forum. I am not a mom yet, but each of your stories, the love, joy and pain you go through with your children warms our hearts in here. I don't think there is a harder role than being a mom, nuturing your children, providing for them, giving them guidance and helping them grow. I wish you all the best!
