yes twenty-five years ago today we sent in our da letter.
some regrets, not about leaving the cult obviously, but sometimes when i read about people slowly fading and keeping in touch with family and friends i wonder if we should have done that.
of course it was before the internet in 1989 so we didn't know about people fading.. one day we were driving along and we had been talking about moving congregations because we knew something was wrong but of course we thought it was local.
I spent 32 years, from 1975 to 2007 in the borg, very active as an elder but now when i drive past a KH hall i just wonder how in the hell did i stay that long.
Life is good without the cult and being a slave of a few power hungry individuals that reside in NY.
they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.
how would you counter that belief?.
Ask them to explain their own doctrine on blood and the 144k going to heaven and give you an intelligent explanation.
just did some googling on jws and found some info i've never heard of before... this rabbit hole just gets deeper and deeper... links to retirement homes and company!!!
have any of you heard of this before?.
http://touch.mcall.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79180330/.
The question is : Is the Watchtower involved in this or is it some JW's looking to make millions on seniors.
"...jamie coots lived and died consistent with his faith and his death will only inspire more people to obey an instruction from god in the gospel of mark that they shall take up serpents, said professor ralph hood, of the university of tennessee at chattanooga..." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/jamie-coots-snake-handling-pastor-martyr?cmp=fb_us .
that jamie coots photograph: ap photo/courtesy national geographic channel.
apparently, he was bitted while handling a poisonous snake.
That's what the bible or any other holy book does to people.......stupidity at its best!!!
following on from a recent post that asked for a list of the watchtower changers since you left, it would be intetesting to compile the list with why the changes were made.. .
One of the reason i was impressed by the Watchtower society was reading the "Daniel" book(can't remember the name,green). It was 1975.
Being a Catholic it blew my mind how they were able to "know" things to come, it all made sense.
How they in detail explained verse by verse the 12 chapters of that book and it convinced me they had the " truth".
Load of crap it turned out to be.
recently, a public speaker brought up this point that i remembered being preached in the 70's.
when they bring this matter up, they always manage to give you an experience of how one person stood his ground, and got a great job offer, as a result.. what about the many experiences of ones that were not blessed?
i can memtion horror stories of ones that should have kept working their meetings..
It's so easy for the watchtower and CO and DO to tell everyone to quit their job in order to make meetings.
Everything is taken care for them by JW's contributions. We bought into it.
i believe it is mostly guilt.
many witnesses pioneer or "reach out" in the religion because they feel guilty.. they may feel they aren't doing enough.
they may have secretly "sinned" against rules imposed by the organization.
All of JW's have doubts about their belief but you're always thinking " who am i to question, GB knows more than i do".
Until you do serious research and investigate doctrines and history and that's when eyes are opened.
It's easier to go along with the crowd and not shake the boat.
https://soundcloud.com/jtv-16/jtv-podcast-ep1.
this podcast is very interesting, especially the latter half.
in a nutshell, the scheme is this: after determining that a complete kingdom hall remodel will cost the congregation $100,000.00, the regional building committee arbitrarily inflates the estimate to $250,000.00, fleecing the congregation and misappropriating the additional funds for other purposes.
Back in Chicago, as they were building the Romeoville assembly hall, a $5mil. project, the brother in charge of plumbing got caught making 10% profit on all the material he was purchasing.
It did not take long for him to get caught and get DF.
does the wtbts of transylvania have a paid clergy?.
but do they lie about it and claim otherwise?
here are some of their falsehoods, imitating "the father of the lie" and his deceptive practices, to blind people's minds:.
I would love to know of all the cash received by CO and DO on their weekly visits is being reported to the IRS as income....as it should.
Did not get the flu shot and i did get sick with the flu this year, had bronchitis and was in bad shape for a week and very weak for another two weeks.
After feeling better went to the doctor and got a Tetanus shot and that made me sick for the next 3 days, could not lift my left arm due to pain where i got the shot.
Bad January.....just don't know whether i should get the flu shot at the end of the year as they recommend.
