simon, i hope this is ok to post here.. for those who dont know yesterday a terrible car accident took the life of a lovely young woman leah ryan.
she was the daughter of 2 members here who go by the names of sleeping beauty and her husband hairy he goat.. leah"s sister has started an account to help fund funeral costs.
for any wishing to donate here is the link.. https://www.gofundme.com/for-leah-my-beautiful-sisters-funeral?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_co_shareflow_m&fbclid=iwar1z971joytaqnsy0zyq1_admdyxzqjpgrlf7l2-teq1nalnnqc6wcsn3pq.
Handing a family money at a funeral if one can/chooses to, is normal and has been for decades if not centuries. Technology makes it easier for more friends to know about it and choose to contribute if they want. It's a personal decision anyway.
I'll probably donate my body to science so nobody has to deal with it.
Having been aware recently of two situations of necessity, my observation is most people like to help out where there is a need, even if it is a small amount. It feels good.
i can no longer read any posts on this website with my iphone.
every time i go to a page i get something like a popup that says congratulations you've won a prize at amazon.
theres no way to close it out.
Same here. I've cleared the cache. Nothing works. I have to turn the phone off and on.
well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.
during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.
i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.
Sometimes we think it’s people with hearts and minds directing this organization for the spirituality of its faithful.
But it is a corporation making the decisions to insure the existence of the corporation. Every single decision is made for that outcome.
They’ve got millions of $$$ they are trying to protect.
a european jehovah's witness, who served in an important branch, has sent me the following rumor.. some serious sources are mentioned.
it clearly shake my perspective of what is going to happen in the coming months.. i'm totally shocked !.
the law firm managing all the interests of the wt has studied the problem in europe on data protection and actions on files and protocols of child abuse.
Interesting. Since the protection of the corporation is the utmost concern, I figured eventually something like this may happen at some point. What would be great is if anybody would save that communication about destroying records. I think in future abuse cases, it will be a slam dunk against the WT for that brilliant move.
They have savvy accountants and lawyers. Anything can happen to save the $$$.
the trial transcript of nunez v. watchtower (426 pages) has been made available from scaars which is the acronym for a new a 501(c)(4) lobbying corporation, sexual child abuse - advocates for reform and safety (scaars).. .
the scaars corporation was formed october 3, 2018 by barbara anderson and former elder, roger bentley and his wife, karin.
on the home page of the scaars website, scaars.org, you will find information that explains the goal of the movement - scaars: "changing laws - changing lives.".
Thank you Barbara, Joe, Karin and Roger! I'm about 3/4 through and have to stop even though I want to keep going.
Thank you all for all you do.
looking back over my life, the only thing that i can say i truly enjoyed as a jw was meeting and becoming friends with a number of jws who were fine musicians and had experienced various measures of success in what used to be called the "music business.
tommy reynolds, from the vocal group hamilton, joe frank & reynolds ("don't pull your love out on me, baby" and "baby, baby, fallin' in love, i'm fallin' in love again") recruited me to play drums in his dallas circuit assembly orchestra in the 1970s.
in 1977, i became friends with legendary jazz composer/arranger/band leader benny golson, whose life story appeared in the oct. 8, 1980 awake, and who appeared opposite tom hanks in steven spielberg's "the terminal.
Great read Roger. Looking forward to more be it here or otherwise.
I’m in the LA area and seeing the Phil and Tina band, Crusaders, and others perform was a usual activity, and fun. Wilton lived in my city for years and was on the speakers list and such a sweet man.
Hope to hear more. Thanks for sharing!
do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?
are they now infrequent lurkers?.
did they go back to the watchtower?.
Crumpet, Mary and Englishman are alive and well on FB.
whatever we think of it, you have to admit that it's quite "genius".. the door to door ministry as done in western developed countries where the jw quirky religion has probably reached their saturation level was a complete and utter waste of time in terms of the effort expended to recruit people.. at the same time, it was rarely something that anyone enjoyed which led to people being labelled as inactive, being pressured to doing more and maybe ultimately deciding jwism wasn't for them and leaving.. there was also the issue that many jws are actually pretty bad at knowing and articulating their beliefs so were pretty incapable of getting any meaningful message across.. they solved all this with the cart witnessing.
the real point isn't to recruit, it's to make life easier for jws.
now they can stand and chat with their friend, have a coffee, not talk to anyone or make eye contact and still act as a walking billboard for jw.org.
Oh it's brilliant.
And they sell it as a privilege to be able to use a cart. The org can keep the "preaching" hours up for the stats, adherents can finally be excited about the "ministry" (not) again...win win all around!
It's pretty swell.
hi everyone, this is my first time here and only in the last 2 weeks have my eyes been opened.
still trying to take in all this new info.
anyways here is my very condensed story:.
Welcome Welcome Centaurus! Thank you for sharing your story. I’m so happy for you and your kids in your new life. There will be challenges, but the freedom to live on your own terms and give your kids options to live and be who they should be is worth it.
Cheers! 🥂❤️
just want to introduce myself and let you know that this site is working and is a big help to lots of jws with doubts.
i've been lurking for about a year, the first couple of times i was frightened and literally shaking visiting an apostate site but it's the only place i can come to for sanity.
the religion has become a nut house.
Welcome Welcome SuperGirl! Thank you for sharing your story. Glad you were able to "see the light" quickly.
And Welcome to you and your son and ex, to the rest of your life with freedom of thought. The price is rather dear, but so rewarding.
