that is, letter of disassociation and denunciation, i like that word.
.in person in the door of one of our ex-elders and via email to him and a few others.
there was an added level of peace in doing that, which neither of us expected.
Congratulations! You have now officially left the cult. I wish you a long and
happy future.
There was an added level of peace in doing that, which neither of us expected. It made us feel good, complete, extra free and alive.
I know what you mean. I experienced similar emotions when I sent
my da letter in just over 2 years ago.
i didn't attend any meetings in the month of august.
i worked too many hours and i just don't care any longer.
just the thought of driving 45 minutes,greeting brothers and sisters who don't really care about each other,singing the dreadful songs,listening to the boring talk(which are repeats of a repeat),going over the slanted watchtower study and then driving another 45 minutes home.. how did you feel when you knew that it was becoming unbearable to attend another meeting?.
I did some independent research into watchtower doctrines, and soon
realised that it was all bs. That was in 1999, which is the last time I
ever entered a kh.
I couldn't see any point in staying once I knew the truth about the org,
preaching about doctrines that I knew weren't true, or sitting there
listening to the crap coming from the platform, so I stopped doing it.
i have to confess, i am addicted to old soppy songs, i guess i'm just an old romantic.
just wondering what your favourite love songs are, mine are a bit wet but i will post it anyway lol!.
john denver annies song - i can't help it i saw him singing it on telly once when i was little and fell in love with it.
Here's one that both Linda and I love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbqwGe1q31A&mode=related&search=
having already started a thread about jw actions that irritated us the issue has to be completed by discussing what we did or can do to irritate them.
i would say wearing a cross would vex or even frighten them since they think it's a satanic symbol.
or drawing a cross on a kh with chalk and writing above it : jesus christ lord of the church.
When we find stuff out about them before the majority of jws outside Brooklyn,
and discuss it on boards like this one, that annoys them.
The kn37 campaign from last October was an example of that. We had copies
of the tract on here a couple of months before most jws saw it, and I put it on
my website and emailed or posted copies to most of the local churches, as well
our neighbours, long before the jws started their didstribution, so when they came
round with it, many of our neighbours said "oh, we've already seen that, Trev and
Linda showed it us", which pissed them off somewhat. We got labelled as
"dangerous apostates" for that one.
When gb member Carey Barber died in April, I told a couple of jws I happened to
see while I was out with the dog. It was on;y a few days after the event, and the
news hadn't spread far then. They asked how I knew, and I told them that the
news came directly from Brooklyn bethel, like all the advance notice of what
the org is doing does. You should have seen their faces - wished I'd had a
camera handy.
i have been battling an incurable illness and will be able to post less and less.
i will post my email, and any help you cna asend my way will be appreciated.
there is treatment but no cure and no cancer yet.
((((((((((((((blondie)))))))))))))))
We are both thinking of you.
Trev & Linda
i give it a 10...i love it!.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtahlpcdh9c.
3 for the intro, then it went downhill for me
Not my type of music at all
i'm currently reading this 1926 edition written by the second in charge of the organization after russell, judge rutherford.
this guy was paranoid!
the entire beginning of the book "government" is slinging false allegations at the us government without any substantiation noted that has since been proven lies.
Well, I guess the old drunk might have been a bit more paranoid than
usual in 1926.
He'd had a serious disappointment the year before, and finished up with
a lot of egg on his face when his prophecy that armageddon would come
in 1925 didn't happen
Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1925 p. 88-90
The chief thing to be restored is the human race to life; and since other Scriptures definitely fix the fact that there will be a resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and other faithful ones of old, and that these will have the first favor, we may expect 1925 to witness the return of these faithful men of Israel from the condition of death, being resurrected and fully restored to perfect humanity and made the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth.. They are to be resurrected as perfect men and constitute the princes or rulers in the earth .. Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particularly those named by the Apostle in Hebrews 11, to the condition of human perfection.. A simple calculation of these jubilees brings us to this important fact: Seventy jubilees of fifty years each would be a total of 3500 years. That period of time beginning 1575 years before A.D. 1 of necessity would end in the fall of 1925, at which time the type ends and the great anti type must begin. What, then, should we expect to take palace? In the type there must be a full restoration; beginning of restoration of all things
as everyone knows, jehovahs witnesses believe that the entire antediluvian world was vegetarian.
they hold that this was gods original purpose and further believe that the restoration prophecies (isaiah 11:6-9; 65:25) foretell a future return to this state.. for the most part, jw publications have (wisely) avoided discussing the specifics of this belief, but one notable exception to this rule was the article "when all nature will be in harmony" which appeared in the october 8, 1982 issue of awake!.
this article basically asserted that predation is simply a learned behavior that is connected to the fall of man in some unspecified way.
Great series TD, keep 'em coming.
The wts obviously believes in everything they say, however
ridiculous, as this quote from the watchtower shows
Watchtower 1990 December 15 p 26
For over a century, delightful, correct words of truth covering every aspect of life have been presented in the Watch Tower Society's publications ..
I think maybe the org should steer clear of science subjects.
i don't know how you will feel about miss south carolina if you view her answer, but i would move for throwing down the irrelevant leaderships of our respective countries (that means you, deleware), and making s.c. empress of the earth for life.
and maybe a few years after death.
surely even as ashes in a jar, she will be as a light of intelligence, clarity, justice, fluidity of speech, and above all, hotness.
Well, her reply made as much sense as some public talks I heard (and
probably gave)!
Seriously, it was a difficult question to answer on the spot. I felt for her,
and I thought the guy who slagged her off for it was a jerk.
i was officially installed as a member of kiwanis international last evening.
one other member and i had been attending since spring as members but never had the ceremony.
they finally got around to it this week.
Good for you Jeff, congratulations
