hi everyone, i never was baptized but studied for a very long time before i finally got my sanity back and realized that although the individual jws for the most part were good people and doing what they thought was right the org itself was total b.s.
anyway ive been lurking here off and on for a while and figured i would stop being lazy and register.
so hello, i enjoy everyones posts and hope to be around for a while!
Welcome Lynne,
If you have been lurking for about a year, you know a lot about JWD already. I am glad to hear from you and look forward to your input.
Isn't it crazy that just because someone was dunked that they can exert power over them and their family relationships? I am glad you escaped undunked.
Sincerely, Choosing Life
i was on amazon.com today and noticed that they were selling a collection of rutherford's books on cd.
there was also the watchtower from 1920-1929 and a selection of yearbooks on cd.
they were all being sold under the name of research applications.
Vernon,
I think the only pot of gold at the end of Rutherford's rainbow was for him. He got his mansion, fancy cars, and all the booze he could manage.
my conscience wouldn't allow me to do otherwise.
after all, this is the country that schooled me and fed me.
i use all the infrastructure here, and am entitled to all rights and benefits that any other citizen was entitled to.
All Along The Watchtower,
Were you in the Worldwide Church of God? Sorry, I don't know your history and I was trying to figure out what WCG stood for. I have heard it was pretty abusive too.
Zeroday,
That elder was very hypocritical. I found that adults managed to escape any situation like the pledge or national anthem, but expected little kids to actually stand out as unpatriotic and suffer the consequences daily in school. The first time I actually sat for the anthem, I had people glaring at me. I felt very uncomfortable. I was with the CO's wife at the time .
i was on amazon.com today and noticed that they were selling a collection of rutherford's books on cd.
there was also the watchtower from 1920-1929 and a selection of yearbooks on cd.
they were all being sold under the name of research applications.
I just googled Research Applications and it has EVERYTHING from the old publications. I still think they must want to benefit from apostate interest in their literature.
i was on amazon.com today and noticed that they were selling a collection of rutherford's books on cd.
there was also the watchtower from 1920-1929 and a selection of yearbooks on cd.
they were all being sold under the name of research applications.
I was on Amazon.com today and noticed that they were selling a collection of Rutherford's books on CD. There was also the Watchtower from 1920-1929 and a selection of yearbooks on CD. They were all being sold under the name of Research Applications.
I am sure the Watchtower would not allow someone to sell their copywrighted material. That makes me wonder if they are trying to benefit from the apostate interest in old literature. They don't sell it at the hall and don't encourage new ones to research their past writings, so who else would they be selling it to?
Shows their excuse for shutting down Quotes was totally bogus as everyone knew. Has anyone heard of this Reasearch applications and if it belongs to the society?
i don't know where to start.
i'm on vacation, staying with my daughter for the next few days...and then we're going (my daughter & her 3 kids) to my son's wedding reception some distance from here.. she has been trying to finalize her divorce and custody of the kids for about 6 years now.
they have been separated for that long.
Take your daughter and her kids and get out of there. Her job and anything else can be replaced. She and her children can't. If he doesn't support the children, he has no rights to them anyway. And she has ample evidence of abuse and violent behavior. The kids don't need to be around any more of this behavior.
Run, Run , Run...............................................................................................................................................................................
my conscience wouldn't allow me to do otherwise.
after all, this is the country that schooled me and fed me.
i use all the infrastructure here, and am entitled to all rights and benefits that any other citizen was entitled to.
I was taught that if you were already standing, it was ok to stay standing. If you were seated, you were not to stand up at their suggestion. I just made sure I was always standing.
The first baseball game I attended with dubs, They all one by one left to use the restroom. Then they had the national anthem and i was caught seated. That's when I figured out why they all had to use the restroom all of a sudden. Wimps. Either stand up for what you believe in (or sit down) or don't say you believe it.
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I think the key word in your post, Wanderer, was DISCUSSION. You don't have to buy into others beliefs and can even point out the fallacies that you see. I really don't like to see people get to the point where they just resort to putting a poster down rather than having a discussion.
i take a chance and start my first thread :.
as it has been posted quite a few times lately, there has been a noticeable increase in the posting population on this board (i've added my bit) in the latest few months.
the consequence is that it takes an awfull time to read these posts -all the more so when one is a non native english writer- and one may feel that any posting we would like to do will be diluted in the whole lot, and/or come too late.
There's way too much going on here to keep up with it all. There is also a lot of good info that you can glean, if you don't get sidetracked along the way. Just choose what is best for you and leave the rest. It would be a full time job to actually read and respond to everything.
Welcome.
i was first contacted by the jws in 1968 when i was pg w/our first son.
i bought the little blue book "the truth that leads to everlasting life" for 25 cents.
found it interesting, but put it away because i was busy after our son's birth and i didn't think my husband would want to get into religious material as we had left the methodist church because they were always crying for $.. jump ahead to 1970. husband was home which was unusual because he normally worked saturdays.
Juni,
Sounds like they got to you about the same time they got to me. I was pregnant with my first child and feeling the insecurity that major changes bring into your life. It was that little blue book that they left with me too. I read the entire book one afternoon and liked some of the things I read- no hellfire, paradise, never having to die, not going to war, etc.
When my husband and I started studying with a young couple our age, the love bombing started. The red flags started appearing also. The blood issue seemed to be based on flimsy logic and a few select scriptures. They convinced me it would never happen probably in my life, so why worry about it?
A lot of other doctrines were never even mentioned in the Bible such as holidays and smoking. More red flags ignored. I also wonder what life would have been like if this 30 year interuption would have never taken place. I do have good relationships with all of my grown children and I am thankful for that. I hope some day they will see the light or more correctly, the red flags they have been ignoring.
