i just can't believe that they have people waste their time with what is said here.
is this board and the likes really that important/damaging to them?
don't get me wrong i hope this board and the likes, enlightens alot of people and brings them out of the society, it just that i guess it boggles my mind.
Would you believe scientologists monitor opposition sites?
They do.
As for the watchtower: We're talking about a paranoid little fringe group with a persecution complex! Look at how they police their members! It's all about control. Cults are like that.
I believe that they regularly monitor opposition websites.
so if you are not jw, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?.
heres a simple quiz:.
http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/ .
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) Click here for info
2. Liberal Quakers (96%) Click here for info
3. Unitarian Universalism (93%) Click here for info
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (87%) Click here for info
5. New Age (87%) Click here for info
6. Secular Humanism (81%) Click here for info
7. Reform Judaism (75%) Click here for info
8. Mahayana Buddhism (66%) Click here for info
9. Bahá'í Faith (64%) Click here for info
10. Orthodox Quaker (64%) Click here for info
11. Theravada Buddhism (63%) Click here for info
12. Sikhism (61%) Click here for info
13. Scientology (57%) Click here for info
14. Taoism (57%) Click here for info
15. New Thought (50%) Click here for info
16. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (49%) Click here for info
17. Nontheist (48%) Click here for info
18. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%) Click here for info
19. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (40%) Click here for info
20. Islam (37%) Click here for info
21. Jainism (37%) Click here for info
22. Orthodox Judaism (37%) Click here for info
23. Seventh Day Adventist (36%) Click here for info
24. Hinduism (35%) Click here for info
25. Eastern Orthodox (28%) Click here for info
26. Roman Catholic (28%) Click here for info
27. Jehovah's Witness (23%) Click here for info
i don't know if anyone has said this before, but i wanted to say a big thank you to all of you non-jw's who have put up with us and stayed with us and helped us out so much.. i know offhand: jerome, detective, and hawkaw.
i know there are many many more of you, but please step up here and take a very well-deserved bow and get a very well-deserved hand from me and from others..
salute!!!!!
I can't believe how much I've learned since I began investigating this group a little over a year ago. I'm a little embarassed about how long it took me before I finally got so baffled by witness behaviors and ideas that I finally started to poke around. I guess I just know people who are pretty darn good at leading double lives.
It never ceases to amaze me how bloated a self-image the organization promotes. It's true that most outsiders have little to no knowledge of the organization. I was one of those people. If I hadn't been drawn into the warped little world of this group- even in the peripheral sense that I was- I probably would still be one of those people saying, "aren't jehovah's witnesses those people with the briefcases and no appreciation of a good cake with candles?" Okay, maybe I wouldn't have been quite that bad, but I certainly didn't know much at all about them.
I'm indebted to all the people who went through such turmoil and still found the strength to share their stories, start websites devoted to informing the public and the endless hours of documentation and researching that others put in (making my researching much easier to do).
And, as an added bonus, I get to check out some very interesting spiritual/biblical conversations. I've always been fascinated by religionism and faith issues. I like people who not only encourage me to think, but expect me to.
Thanks for your kind thoughts, Dungbeetle.
yes sir ree bob tail, i had a big one.
i had four hours into my brand new job making $18.00 and hour which would have topped out at $25.00 in two months when i got this quezzy feeling in my chest and became light headed and weak kneed.
one of the girls looked out her office door and said, "do you need help?" raising my head off the the lumber pile i answered, "yes, i think i'm having a heart attack?" the pari-medics arrived within minutes ushered me to dessert spring critical care center in las vegas, nv.
Glad you are feeling better! welcome back!
http://www.stormpages.com/jwfriends/wwwboard/index.html .
check out their disclaimer.. it jumped off the screen at me.. .
terms of use: i agree to use the jw friends message board in a christian manner.
I liked this thread:
"Are you jehovah's tool?"
i hope that i will be able to properly express this thought on the board , that has been stuck in my head.
as a jw , i was always so concerned with pleasing jehovah.
was i paying strict attn at the meetings, was my heart in the ministry, all the other works you are supossed to love to do.
Francois,
it's okay to have a sense of humor and an appreciation for the larger point you were making. I understand your point, I assure you it wasn't missed.
its easy "beautiful so that men would love them!
and dumb so that they would love men!".
but the real question why does the society love their people dumb?.
WHY DID GOD CREATE WOMEN BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB?
I'm sorry but I don't understand the question?!?
(ha ha)
it occurred to me that perhaps one of the differences between a catholic confession(s) and a jw confession before an elder(s)is that the priest tries to figure out what's appropriate for forgiveness, whereas the elder(s) try to figure out what's appropriate for punishment.
forgiveness versus punishment.
would you say that's a relatively accurate assessment?.
Fire Dragon, I see your point. I hadn't thought about it that way exactly.
Of course, it still seems as though there is an assumption of sthe confessor's sincerity on the part of the priest in Catholic confession that doesn't seem to exist among elders in JW confession. Perhaps it is the fact that confession isn't mandatory in the Catholic church but JWdom seems to speak more of a police state where you will confess and be punished or be caught and be punished. Punishment seeming to be the focus.
Zanex, I wasn't sure if male witnesses experienced the same sort of grilling for details but I guess at least one has experienced it. Any others?
at least denzel washington came forth to say that his role in "training day" was a character to which he immensely hated portraying, and it was very difficult for him to act out the role of a villian in a character he just loathed to the core.
halle berry on the other hand, as shown by her response is extremely over joyful for the winning of best actress in "monsters ball".
" the 33-year-old actress, a former beauty queen, glamerized herself for her role in "monsters ball" as a dispirited waitress and mother who falls in love with a white prison guard who she doesn't know has helped put her husband in the electric chair.".
The number of ‘firsts’ that Sidney Poitier accumulated is the primary reason that he is considered to be such a great pioneer. He was the first black actor to be nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award (1958 ‘The Defiant Ones’), and was the first black actor to win that award (1963 ‘Lilies On the Field’). He also became the first black number one box office star in 1967, after the release of ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?’
The article that Spartacus posted does seem highly biased. Poitier played a range of "respectable" characters and Farah Fawcett would be an example of a beauty queen playing down her looks to be a troubled, abused person in the burning bed. It just seems as if the author didn't really think out their argument or they would have realized the flaws in their reasoning.
whats the central belief of jehovahs witnesses?
the very core of the religion?.
some people, alanf for example, have at times suggested that it is nothing more or less than we (wtbts) speak for god .
Wouldn't it just about kill the fun if only 1% of humanity perished? I mean, there's nothing special about being among the surviving 99% of humanity! And it's about being special, isn't it?
You'd have to turn to evil just to have a special mission in life! Bummer.
Good post, duncan.
