Posts by Beta Male

besides, none of that babylon crap even happened, so what difference does it make if they base their building on a dutch masters incorrect interpretation of what a building in a fairy tale looked like?

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Pounding On False Prophecy Hitting Home?

by metatron in

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it may be coincidence, but i noticed that both the annual meeting and a recently reported bethel speaker brought up the matter of the.

watchtower's false predictions, a bit more openly than usual.

a potentially dangerous perception may be emerging ( hooray!).

Beta Male

if you acknowledge your opponents point of attack, that is, their failed ideas and predictions, it blunts the force of it. it disempowers its effectiveness. the few who would have apostate leanings that would be stimulated to leave by these talks is far outweighed by those whose wavering faith is assuaged by them. it is a calculated risk on their part.

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Donations to Go Down?

by metatron in

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it's utterly amazing that the society has bamboozled publishers into thinking that all of its cutbacks.

are somehow not related to a lack of donations.. perhaps this will be tested in the next few years as gasoline, food, and other essentials go way.

up in price while wages stay stagnant.

Beta Male

You know how much ive donated in the past 30+ years of being a witness? 5 bucks. That's it.

No joke.

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Tell Us About Your JW Father If You Had One.

by new boy in

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we are great friends now....but he wasn't much of a father growing up.. worked all the time...we went on few vacations....pretty much pussy whipped my my nazis jw mother.. he never did believe in the whole jw thing.

he just when along with it, for my mothers sake.. she never did respect him for not being a "spiritual head" and pretty much let us kids know about it.. i, like my mother became very self rightious and judgmental.. i wished now he had just came to me just once and said "keith maybe the jws are not the people you think they are.

" but he was to afraid of my mother to say that...even though he knew it to be true.i would have never believed him....back then....but it would have planted a seed.... .

Beta Male

R.F.; I cant remember where i read it, maybe a second hand quote from some higher-up in the ORG, but iread that they PREFER ex-military due to their training to be compliant with authority. i believe this to be true.

MAN, three posts in this thread! Ive got some issues with my dad fo sho.

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Tell Us About Your JW Father If You Had One.

by new boy in

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we are great friends now....but he wasn't much of a father growing up.. worked all the time...we went on few vacations....pretty much pussy whipped my my nazis jw mother.. he never did believe in the whole jw thing.

he just when along with it, for my mothers sake.. she never did respect him for not being a "spiritual head" and pretty much let us kids know about it.. i, like my mother became very self rightious and judgmental.. i wished now he had just came to me just once and said "keith maybe the jws are not the people you think they are.

" but he was to afraid of my mother to say that...even though he knew it to be true.i would have never believed him....back then....but it would have planted a seed.... .

Beta Male

i also dont think that having a seperate authority structure, i.e. the GB, constantly interfering in lives of their followers allows a healthy father/son relationship to develop.

i cant help but wonder what could have been had he not chosen the path that he did. a doctor once offered to pay his way through med school if he would like. this, of course, was turned down. now hes busting his ass with no end in sight, worn out from all the hard physical and emotional labor over the course of his life.

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Tell Us About Your JW Father If You Had One.

by new boy in

jw
friends

we are great friends now....but he wasn't much of a father growing up.. worked all the time...we went on few vacations....pretty much pussy whipped my my nazis jw mother.. he never did believe in the whole jw thing.

he just when along with it, for my mothers sake.. she never did respect him for not being a "spiritual head" and pretty much let us kids know about it.. i, like my mother became very self rightious and judgmental.. i wished now he had just came to me just once and said "keith maybe the jws are not the people you think they are.

" but he was to afraid of my mother to say that...even though he knew it to be true.i would have never believed him....back then....but it would have planted a seed.... .

Beta Male

my father was ex-military-but not crazy or anything. but he did understand the power of authority, and (to his mind) the necessity of its imposition on others. emotionally distant, not really terribly interested in being a father, but not cruel. just almost completely non-encouraging about anything, including "spiritual" matters. eventually he got chewed up and spat out by more powerful, that is, richer, elders.

when he was deleted, i must admit it was one of the happiest days of my life. i held the hope that just maybe my family would be finally through with this crap. my parents stopped attending for a bit, then moved away and started up somewhere else. he still fervently attends and defends, although he will always be blackballed from having authority ever again.

his indifference to me, as well as his constant demeaning of my intellect over the course of my life, has left me indifferent to him.

and thats just sad.