has anyone else had a browse of the new study watchtower for april?
what then are valueless things?
thus their words were "a valueless thing.
TMS and Service Meeting are just sales meetings telling everyone their stupid if they aren't pioneering and don't have several Bible Studies.
Thank you! I wish people would realize that the blantant real organization is nothing more than a Watchtower Corporation to sell and bring money back to the home base.
The home base is to have power and control over a large group of people and create some kind of apocalypse fear campaign.
do you believe we're in a recession?
When you say "we", you are referring to the US specifically, correct?
And yes, we are about to enter an economic downfall because of the greed of this country and the high amount of debt and because of the Iraq never-ending war.
i asked the three elders who disfelowshipped me this question.. basically,they replied, "the society would never tell them to do that".
thats not my question.
if they told you to, would you?.
I think the real question should be would they totally separate themselves from the rest of the world, live on land (think some of the other cults), take some kind of poison to kill themselves as Armeggedon was coming?
For my own family that is still caught up in it, I sincerely wonder about it, because they are so blindly loyal to this cult/organizatio. The whole "last days" and Armeggedon fear campaign has been going on for a while with NO AVAIL, when more and more people wake up and realize they have been totally deceived, will they act in such a manner to save face? I can imagine something like this happening, maybe not to the letter, but I can see something along those lines going on, even something like mass suicides in the JW religion.
hi everyone, hope all is well.
i've been reading and posting here for a little while about my situation.
well it has just reached another high point.
My advice is to use your head and play the game. Tell your understanding boyfriend to not call you on the house phone and when your mom is around, then plan your next steps. Do you want to be a JW or do you just want to avoid DFs? If so, give yourself some time to figure out your escape route.
Number one, I never let anyone hold the cards on me. Ever. It's a life lesson, control when you leave by being smart. JWs are the best actors/liars/manipulators to get the desired outcome they want, learn from your own experience and use it to your advantage.
Tell mom, you are sorry for upsetting her and whatever else you need to say to appease her at the time. Avoid lying, just talk around it. Then keep the relationship out of house and off the conversation, then figure out where you can move, save your money and look for a job. You are about to graduate college, do you have any jobs lined up? You should and if you don't, now is the time to meet with your advisors, job counselors at school (I am sure your school has something like this) and line things up.
Now, honestly, I would suggest graduating, having a job lined up, a place to stay, and then figuring out the next steps with your boyfriend/fiancee. As for the JW thing, that's your path, but if you are here on this site and want to avoid the DFs, do the slow fade, move on with your life and use your head.
I hope that helps.
today 26th jan is australia day.
this has been my first "holiday" that i have celebrated.
strapped an aussie flag to the aerial of my car, drove proudly.
Be free, express yourself, enjoy life and don't feel guilty about it, one bit.
Break the chains and be thankful you woke up!
i was eating lunch with 3/4 of my active jw family earlier today and they were bemoaning the idea that they were going to have to leave the central oklahoma area very early tomorrow morning to find a room so they could attend an assembly on the otherside of the state.
they had tried calling the 'approved' hotels and motels in the town where the assembly is being held and they were all booked.
so that left them looking at the rest of the approved list and having to travel as much as 50 miles away to get a room.
Can someone please explain to me a JW approved hotel? And what are the qualifications of the people supposedly checking these hotels/motels?
You know the things that this "organization" swears they are so different from the world, is just a crock of you know what.
tornado warnings in los angeles, armageddon is almost here.. philip.
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Oh my, more prophesing.
This fear campaign is annoying.
how i survived being starved, beaten and tortured by my jehovah's witness foster motherhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=510457&in_page_id=1879.
by alloma gilbert - more by this author last updated at 19:01pm on 25th january 2008. comments.
panic is bubbling up through my body.
There are so many evil insane anal JWs, who torment, abuse and mistreat their children, it just makes me disgusted reading it. Somehow I really believe that this religion harbors it and because it is so regemented, that many can find solace in it without missing a beat.
That story was just tragic, sad. It was heartbreaking.
This was very eye-opening to read. It made me aware of another tactic the Watchtower uses: using random phrases from random verses in order to make it *look* like their ideas are backed by the Bible, when really there is no backing at all.
I realized that around the age of 15. I was reading the "Watchtower" and looking up the verses and I realized that not only did the Watchtower and Awake misapply just about every scripture, but it was very repetitive and it implied that disciples and such were "early JWs", when in fact, they were mostly Jewish. Funny stuff.
my family does not speak to me.
i have no problem with that as they are pains in the ass.
but during my tenure as a jw, i noticed that differant families would treat their df'd members differantly, even if they didn't live in the same household, often inviting them over for dinner, etc.
