a few hours ago it was crawling at a snails pace.
then it kicked me off and i couldn't get back on
Dear Friends,
I was having a royal case of the DTs when, as you say, the pace was that of a snail. I do most of my work, under inspiration, in the wee hours and found myself most disconcerted and uttering oaths, not entirely under my breath. I had information of utmost urgency to pass on to an inquiring one, and Satan stood in my path.
Or was it simply the software? I dunno. I'm back and I'm happy. Why go out and enjoy the sunshine when I can play here?
CoCo
direct and cross-examination questions in child custody cases.
wtb&ts, page 42.
"be careful that they [jw children being questioned] don't get the impression that they are in a demonstration at the circuit assembly, when they would show that the first things in life are service and going to the kingdom hall.
Dear Pilgrim Searcher,
Welcome to this discussion. When I began this thread, I did not anticipate what you have recently come upon. At the very outset, I recognized something amiss in the Society's portrayal of our childrens' true interests - the Kingdom or Hobbies, etc.? - and naturally was interested in JWD opinion. Some responded with anger and indignation, and rightly so. Submitted too were both sides of legal proceedings, including an insight into the WT's motivation. Insults aplenty also. Midway through I interjected a plea for civility and decency per forum regs and the decorum we learned as JWs (despite how we may feel about dub mores now). Thank you, PS, for your declaration of providing a fair and honest approach to a vital and serious issue. Regardless of how we may feel personally about what the WT has done to us, we don't need to stoop to the gutter level displayed by the GB some quarter century ago.
Thank you,
CoCo
dear friends:.
i had a personal copy of the coc book and had to destroy it (my whole family are hardcore jws).
now, i have the opportunity for a conversation with somebody and i need to tie in some information from that book.
CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE
INTERNAL UPHEAVAL AND RESTRUCTURE
Page 79
"...and where did they go, where did they report? There's the record, you read it for yourself in the closing verses of the fourteenth chapter of Acts. They went back to Antioch, to the congregation there, and the account says that they related things in detail to them, to the congregation that had committed them to the undeserved kindness of God for the work they had performed. So there's where they reported."
9 It should be remembered that the whole basis for the Witnesses' teaching of a "governing body" arrangement and authority is that there was such an arrangement operating from Jerusalem in Bible times.
FWF Disavows GB on 9/7/75 --- www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/126699/1.ashx
Hope this is it!
CoCo
dear friends:.
i had a personal copy of the coc book and had to destroy it (my whole family are hardcore jws).
now, i have the opportunity for a conversation with somebody and i need to tie in some information from that book.
Dear Redpill,
I just did a thread on this very subject: FWF Disavows GB: 9/7/75 - I will look up the URL and get back with CRISIS; I found it an hour ago and happened to look up the info on the graduation before spotting your request. I had trouble getting to your page so I hope I can find you again with the info you asked for. The piece is based on THE FOUR PRESIDENTS.
CoCo
during the gilead school graduation exercises, september 7, 1975, fred franz admitted to the students and their families that no governing body existed during the time of the apostles, nor one since then.
he had already concluded that the doctrine of a governing body from the days of the apostles to the present was a false teaching.
as franz revealed the unscriptural nature of the doctrine, his audience sat in bewildered silence.
Thank you, Friends!
I appreciate your thoughts and the link, SBF.
CoCo
yesterday i went to the kingdom hall (i was curious wether the little girls from my own jw-time were now gorgeous young women).
a few of them have been 'evolved' ;) into beautiful young women.
first of all, i would like to say that i was so happy when the meeting was over.
Welcome Prins V !
Yes - nothing has changed! It has been exactly one year since I have turned in time. I was regular for 40 years. The "real" truth shall set you free! Thank you for the information. Is the main language of your region Flemish or French? Just curious. Your English is quite impressive.
CoCo
the greatest proof that the organization is not "clean" by its own definition, is this website!.
consider the number of people - elders included - who post here, thereby associating with "apostates" or expressing their own disbelief.
in whatever nonsense the watchtower is teaching.
Welcome Lurker,
It was Ed Dunlap, who was teacher to many of us newboys at the House of Hurtfulness. Stories sent to me from an inactive JW re: former B'lites got me started. News of E.D. in CRISIS slayed my soul and confirmed my decision to NEVER GO BACK. A dear, deceased man's story clinched it for me - 25 years later! I realize now, given his and Ray and Cynthia's starting over out in the "world," that God watches out for the lowly one. Those three poor souls are my heros and giants compared to the contemptible WT officials who treated them and many others so horribly. The Society's calling the righteous one wicked condemns them to eternal damnation, IMHO! [Pro.17: 15]
CoCo
Edited to add: So sorry to forget Betty! - "Those FOUR poor souls are my heros......"
oh.... how the saga goes on!!
i swear we could write a novel about our life exiting the watchtower!!
ok..many of you read what happened..our house was egged and so was my sisters car that was parked here, and "frosty" was attacked!!
Stephanus - "What would be the mark of a brutal Frosty killer?"
BRAIN FREEZE!
CoCo
i thought it was the program life in the er.
when it featured a elderly couple from san antonio that died because of refusing fractions.. .
maybe i have it wrong..
Please see new threads re: blood by A Paduan and Compound-Complex for more info.
CoCo
people will invent ways of making blood, eventually, no doubt.
they will probably have synthetic substitutes for the short term and be able to grow or clone it off our own dna or something before too long.
so what will the org do for martyrs and publicity then ?
If at first you do not succeed........
Please, does anyone know what caused FWF to cave? Cannot find CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE. Thanx!
CoCo
