hello everyone.. first post here.
long time follower of this website, probably 4 years now.
i've known about ttatt since ive been 18, im now 22 going on 23 but still go to meetings because of parents.
Hello and welcome. So fortunate you never got baptized. You are in a good position. Maybe check out the July 2009 awake I think it was. That is the one that talks about not having to choose between your family and religion. It's written for non witnesses who are being challenged by their family for studying with the cult. But flip it around. Apply the principles to you.
Edit. Looks like bonsai beat me to it :)
Guess I should read everyone's comments before not after. :p
okay, okay, okay - i know we're not supposed to jump to conclusions.
but the odds this is a "naturally occurring event" are pretty low.
and it's just the sort of megastructure we would expect an advanced alien civilization (type 2) to build.
hey!
i've been hanging around her for a while.
this is the third attempt at my 'hello'.
how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.
how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.
how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.
i made a medium level mistake at work today, and when i make mistakes it really shakes me up and takes me a long time to recover.
it completely rattles me, makes me feel awful about myself.
my mind keeps going back to the mistake reliving how i could have let it happen.
Measuring things by perfection is a deep jw mentality but also in general I think people fall into this.
Some of the people we consider the best on this planet past and present, failed regularly and often. But they had the courage to keep going, To improve, to keep failing their way to greatness. Sure failing is disappointing, but shift the focus to your next success instead and get to work on that.
hello, maybe someone on here can make some sense out of this:.
one of the reasons why jws are so quick to believe any changes from the gb is that they believe the light is getting brighter.
now there have been some teachings that to my knowledge changed at one point but then were reverted back to the original teaching.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html
Good one pumpkin
I was trying to read this madness on my phone and the article seemed insanely redundant I thought I kept starting over at the beginning. Seemed like I was reading the same sentences over and over.
something occurred to me last night.
people that made their pilgrimage to jw mecca (bethel) would often be excited about some silly things, i say silly because for those of you who were there or lived near enough to be involved in these things regularly they lost their magic.
i am talking about on tours one of the most memorable things people talked about or looked forward to... lunch.
Something occurred to me last night. People that made their pilgrimage to JW Mecca (bethel) would often be excited about some silly things, I say silly because for those of you who were there or lived near enough to be involved in these things regularly they lost their magic.
I am talking about on tours one of the most memorable things people talked about or looked forward to... LUNCH.
I have to admit the first time I went to bethel many years ago, I was pretty excited seemed like a great privilege of sorts. Seems as though those days will be a thing of the past with the great downsize of 2015-2016. Also the wonders of impeccable house keeping "oooooh ahhhhhh". The great laundry operation "wow jehobie is amazing!". I just thought there will be a new generation that will not be in intrigued by these mundane things previous generations used to hang the hat on of "this has to be jehovah's organization look how it operates".
Its also funny to know that while to outsiders Lunch is so cool, my experience with bethelites is they didn't care for it at all! having to stop work, change, go sit with people they get zero time away from, make conversation with visitors, etc. When you really find out how it is, people there were not happy. Many were miserable in fact.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html
I watched something on this stuff once before, it shed a lot of light on bible myths. Many places may have existed as object lessons that lend to "stories". How so? Likely there were two cities (such as these) that were destroyed, either in a war, or by rock falling from nearby volcano, or astroid as someone said, and as it was abandoned on a popular route, people would make reference to it along with the myth, to reinforce the "moral" they were trying to promote.
"see those burnt cities over there son, god burnt the shit out of them with fire from heaven because we didn't like what they did".
Also Lott's wife in the same vein. Along the sea shore there are these spires of salt, that you can clearly see would inspire vision of people turned into or were trapped in them. So you have a similar scenario.
"see that pillar of salt? that's lott's wife, she didn't listen and BAM! salt..."
This is not uncommon with bible myths or other culture's myths. Could finding prehistoric bones in Greece inspired things such as the Cyclopes? We know native Americans have myths for rock formations in the southwest, or for mountains in other areas. Because these mythological places exist, doesn't make the fantastic stories facts. Myths were reinforced by visible objects to explain them, not the other way around.
