the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses is having a memorial celebration on april 14, 2014 at 7:05 pm pst at the westlake hyatt in westlake village, ca, usa.. i am thinking about greeting celebratants as they leave with poster(s) and business cards with qr codes for www.jwfacts.com and www.freedomofmind.com.
my intent is not to debate or convert "spiritual strong" (non-thinking) jws, but to provide life-saving information to "spiritually weak" (still thinking) jws suffering from the wtbts's "undue influence" and bite control.
i might even be eating crackers (and cheese) and drinking red wine at the exit.. my plan is to place up to three posters across from the exit of the celebration and then place business-size cards with "critically think for yourself" and qr codes on the back.
BITE control means nothing to them and will not likely entice them much. And besides, if the used car salesman was a JW, they WOULD buy a car from him! Calling it a dangerous cult will keep all but the total apostates already in attendance from giving it a second glance. I like the headline though.
My understanding is that they have parking lot patrols, so getting on site might be difficult. Can you get a nearby location and use banners/posters?
this article is sickening, not a single word about love towards others, care for the needy or any kind act.
but since i worked 72 hours each week in a hotel restaurant, i first had to make some changes.. i asked my boss whether he would allow me to work 60 hours instead.
i next asked to be allowed to work only 36 hours per week, or 6 hours on 6 days, and that request was also granted.
When he was a boy scout, he learned to do a good deed every day. Learned to appreciate God's creation. Seriously, if we could find JWs just doing what he learned in boy scouts, it would be a much better group of people and honor God more.
Too bad he forgot that early lesson to do a good deed every day.
i was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.
i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.
seeing my family tortured.
As a child I was fascinated with every holocaust story I read. "Escape to Warsaw"was worn thin. I read about every aspect that seemed to apply when I was a kid. I freaked out when I read that "trespassers will the proscecuted". I just saw the big word and it instantly translated to persecuted. I refused to wear contacts because I figured that when the persecution came, I wouldnt have access to fresh ones or solution. Seriously. I was a messed up kid.
a little bit of background (for those of you who came in late).... i used to be a jw (no joke!).
i married a jw wife.
we were married for about 20 years, and i couldn't take it anymore - since i was no longer a jw, and didn't believe in their doctrines anymore.. i got divorced in 2002. since that time, i was solo, and then met a nice non-jw woman.
good riddance to bad rubbish
a little bit of background (for those of you who came in late).... i used to be a jw (no joke!).
i married a jw wife.
we were married for about 20 years, and i couldn't take it anymore - since i was no longer a jw, and didn't believe in their doctrines anymore.. i got divorced in 2002. since that time, i was solo, and then met a nice non-jw woman.
good riddance to bad rubbish
in the latest watchtower (july 15, 2014, page 14, paragraph 10) it says; today, jehovahs people are not often confronted with apostasy within the congregation.
still, when exposed to unscriptural teachings, regardless of the source, we must decisively reject them.. so, not often, but occasionally jws are exposed to apostasy within the congregation, and they are instructed to decisively reject it.
as we all know, the vast majority of the apostasy they are exposed to comes from the governing body.. i am meeting up soon with an old friend from the 1970s who i havent seen for decades, who is still an active jw, and who would really like to hear what i think about things.
You got a lot of good suggestions. Mine would be to keep all anger and bitterness out of it. Sadness at what (may have) resulted because of DF'ing/shunning seems ok, but just leave off the vitriolic statements. That will convince him you are an 'evil' apostate instead of someone who made a reasoned, reasonable decision.
it's been a couple of years now since i left the pink-pony-world of the watchtower real estate & money laundering inc.. out of curiosity i researched a couple of "brothers" to see if they are still in, what they are up these days, etc.
using linkedin, facebook, and other online research i come up with this:.
1. branch committee member lothar mihank (formerly in nicaragua, now branch committee in indonesia) presents himself in linkedin as "ceo of ssyi" and tries to pass the borg as some kind of corporation (which is what they are).
FulltimeStudent, One thing of note in the Roman Catholic church-They are selling buildings and facilities in the areas hit hardest by the child abuse scandals-cause they needed to do so to pay the lawsuits and fines'.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26984935 11 april 2014 last updated at 06:07 et.
sex offender's father calls for son's blood refusal to be respectedthe 23-year-old offender is being held at a psychiatric hospital after self-harming continue reading the main story.
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Menal illness does not preclude the ability to choose a religion. I am sure that it suits the JWs as much as the rest of us for this man to do himself harm if it keeps him from harming others. avoiding yet another criminal case against a jw suits the borg too,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jesus-wife-fragment-is-not-a-fake-scientists-claim-9253395.html.
a harvard professor is claiming a fragment of papyrus seemingly mentioning that jesus had a wife is an ancient document and not a forgery, following a series of tests.. the text is written in coptic and contains a dialogue in which jesus refers to "my wife.
"karen king, a professor at the harvard divinity school, writes in the harvard theological review that the papyrus is almost certainly a product of ancient christians and probably dates to eighth-century egypt, based on carbon dating and chemical tests on the ink.. none of the testing has produced any evidence that the fragment is a modern fabrication or forgery, prof king and her team concluded.. the fragment, which has some legible lines on the front and on the back, contains the words: jesus said to them, my wife .... she will also be my disciple.. james yardley from columbia university, and alexis hagadorn from columbia university libraries, used a technique called micro-raman spectroscopy to determine that the carbon character of the ink matched samples of other papyri that date from the first to eighth centuries ce.. malcolm choat from macquarie university examined the fragment at hds and offered an independent assessment of the handwriting.. prof king first announced the existence of the fragment in september 2012, at the international coptic congress in rome, where she dubbed it "the gospel of jesus's wife.".
Bad coptic grammar discredits it? I am an English teacher and my grammar is pretty iffy at times. OTOH, 8th century is long after the time of Jesus,so it seems speculative one way or the other. Interesting to think about. A 30 year old unmarried Jewish man in that time would be remarkable, however.
i was invited by my parents, and even though i have nothing but contempt for this religion, things have been good in our relationship so i was considering going just to appease them.
anyone else?.
I'm here in Pakistan for the memorial and while I know there are JW congregations here, I have no intentions of attending a memorial or anything else at a KH or any JW venue.
