in a move to "democratize education" many top universities are now publishing class information online.
content can range from lecture notes to audio and video of lectures, assignments, and practice exams.
the article i read was called "yale for $0 a day" and originally appeared in the wall street journal.
In a move to "democratize education" many top universities are now publishing class information online. Content can range from lecture notes to audio and video of lectures, assignments, and practice exams. The article I read was called "Yale for $0 a Day" and originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal. See the link below for the article. I think this is awesome!
http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a/yale-on-0-a-day/20070215092809990008
i hope it's alright that i post a question, even though i've never had any affiliation with jw organization.
i have a friend who has been trying to convince me for years to study with jw.
i've been doing alot of research on jw and was just wondering if people here would be kind enough to tell me why they have decided to quit their affiliation with jw organization.
I was raised in the organization. I had doubts growing up, but in my 20's, I decided that the WTS was probably right, and that the reasons for my doubts were that the local "brothers" didn't fully get what the WTS was trying to tell us. I thought that the closer I got to the center of the org, the more sense it would all make. So I made an all-out effort. Ironically, the closer I got to the center, the less sense it made. Once I couldn't believe in the leaders anymore, I couldn't follow them. So I left. I have learned a lot since then that has reinforced my descision. I didn't come to this site or any other like it for about 4 1/2 years after the last meeting I attended, if I recall correctly.
I am not disfellowshipped, I am a "fader" (just faded away). But I think it is pretty obvious that I don't believe in it anymore. I never go to meetings, not even the memorial. And worse, I have a beard! I STILL can't figure out what the big deal is about that, but it is a no-no with them.
At this point, I just don't see how they can view themselves as the only channel of communication with God. I can't see why God would choose an organization that has mislead its people for over 100 years, telling them "the end" is "right around the corner". I can't see why Jesus would smile with favor on an organization that has basically built the modern version of the religion he was trying to get rid of.
just wondering if any one else but my self uses jwd during work hours.. my dial up at home is slower than a snail slithering through molasses.
at times i want to tell my clients to sit down and wait while i post something on jwd, but i can't.
hopefully i'm not being monitored !!
I am my own boss as well. I have developed a problem with the whole work/life balance thing. In the old days, I would go to work at 8 and leave at 5. Now, my hours are all over the place, and I'm constantly connected to the Internet and answering email (Blackberry like device). So I don't really ever feel like I am completely working or completely not working. Sorry, I don't mean to go off on a tangent here, but I guess my answer is - I'm not sure....
it seems that many jw's take up smoking as soon as they leave the watchtower.
the reason is obvious -- they weren't allowed to!
lighting up is like giving the finger to the watchtower.
Yeah, I tried it once. In high school. But I never got beyond the first one. And you're right, my reaction was "Huh. That didn't do anything. What is the big deal about this?" I guess I'm glad I didn't keep trying.
please don't leave.
we do care about you and want to offer our support of you and your family in what must be very difficult circumstances.. the reason i called for assistance from a forum moderator was because i was afraid my alligator mouth would overload my hippopotamus behind where you were concerned.
it does that sometimes.. frannie.
Hey Winnie,
It's cool. I understand you are in a frustrating situation. Glad you're here!
having read posts over the last few months, i have come to the conclusion that there must be alot of 'active' jw's who still regularly attend meetings/field service etc.. don't you feel that by posting your many and varied topics, usually complaining/disagreeing with the wbts, that you are being hypocritical?
when you post your information, obtained sometimes in an questionable manner, doesn't it make you question your own underhanded actions?.
you converse with many on this forum who are disfellowshipped/dissasociated, yet if you knew who these ones were, face to face, you would not give them the time of day!
I understand the damage that hard line JW's do, Winnie. And I am sorry for the damage they have done to your family. But the people who post on this board are not hard line JW's or they wouldn't be posting here. They are victims like you and I and the rest of us. They are not your enemy.
I have friends who seem to feel the same way about the organization that I do, and yet they still attend. When they express their frustration to me I wonder why they still go. I don't understand it. But you know what? I'm still going to support them, because they are still my friends. They are not out to get me or my family. And they don't owe it to me to exact some kind of vengeance on the WTS for the damage it has done to my family. That is something that I have to deal with. And coming here is part of the way I deal with it.
having read posts over the last few months, i have come to the conclusion that there must be alot of 'active' jw's who still regularly attend meetings/field service etc.. don't you feel that by posting your many and varied topics, usually complaining/disagreeing with the wbts, that you are being hypocritical?
when you post your information, obtained sometimes in an questionable manner, doesn't it make you question your own underhanded actions?.
you converse with many on this forum who are disfellowshipped/dissasociated, yet if you knew who these ones were, face to face, you would not give them the time of day!
Winnie,
I left to get away from judgemental, self-righteous people. I'm sorry you feel the need to act the way you have in this thread.
besides almost getting mugged a couple of times.
the closest, i came to getting hurt while at bethel was in the summer in 1972, at the allentown pa district convention.
i think its name was "the divine endurance" .
Hey, at least you gave him a hearing ear, and didn't judge him. It's too bad he didn't come back to talk about it more later, like the next day.
Poor kid. I wonder if the overseer threatened to kick him out and he felt like he was on borrowed time there, and had no support at home.
more "odds and ends".
i liked lyman swingle (governing body member)......he knew when to curse at the right time.
i think, thats why i went to him, when i was having so much trouble with debbie's parents.......he seemed "cool" and down to earth.............he might have been bit of a racist though.. one time a self righteous (known as sr) new boy, went to him and complained about what he heard in the bindery..........."brother swingle" the kid said "i heard some brothers cursing, in the bindery!
it says somewhere in the bible "the making of books there is no end........and it is much worrisome to the soul"
Sounds like a day in the bindery by your description
I just got back from out of town, so I'm just now catching up. I love the part in part 10 where you are blasting down the road in a beatup 68 Ford Fairlane parting traffic with "Rocket Man" blaring out over the speakers. That was awesome! I'd love to load that on my iPod and try it myself. But I drive a 2 year old rock stock Chevy Malibu 4 door, so it probably wouldn't work.
I'd have to think that the part of the lyric where he says "I'm not the man they think I am at home" would start to have meaning right about then.
how long until they really start cracking down on me?
any former/current elders especially.
i am currently an elder and basically miss at least one meeting a week and never go out in service on sundays and seldom on saturdays.
I like Aude's suggestion. My wife's biggest fear as I faded out and left the org was that I was going to leave her too.
It helps a lot to do whatever you can to mitigate that fear.
