" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 411).
" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 413).
" (the watchtower july 15th 1963 issue, page 446).
Very poignant and sincere story, your not at alone in how so many people are waking up to this
pretentious fraud of a religion/publishing company.
Your quite lucky you've discovered this now and not 20 years from now.
All the Best......keep " The Truth " inside yourself always
i know a lot of people were upset when mash ended.
i never was a big fan of the show, probably because it was on a meeting night, but it was a very popular show.. i loved hill street blues, taxi, all in the family, the rifleman, even superman!
i wished those shows never stopped!.
I liked the entertaining variety shows like Ed Sullivan, Carol Burnett, Dean Martin and similar ones .
The reason being that its good wholesome entertainment for the whole family,
something you wouldn't mind the kids watching and can be source of entertainment for the seniors as well.
There is far too much violence based TV on air now days. Never did like murder and cop shows or the ever
popular lets do an autopsy shows. I grew up on the 60's shows like Get Smart, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island
Carol Burnett , The Monkees etc. just simple light hearted fun.
The TV industry back in the 50's and 60's were indirectly working with the TV manufacturing industry to
get people to buy televisions, so the programs were built on that foresighted premise.
Televisions were expensive products to purchase for most consumers, so
televisions and the programs were marketed to adults. Today most of the marketing is directed to teens and
young adults and they're made mostly for their commercial or Shock Value appeal rather than an endeavor to entertain the viewer.
(this question is directed to all the atheist and agnostics in the forum only).
i like most of the people here believed in a god who created us and the earth.
it was easy to explain the reason on many things like the degrees of inclination of the earth, the existance of water in our planet, the existance of an atmosphere, they joy in all the senses, the clear superiority of the human beens versus all other animals, the posesion of a brain who attempts to explain itself.
Answer : factual evidence
Astrophysics
Geology
Biology
Geology
Theology with all the evidence combined in these studies the only rational and honest conclusion would be there is no god and there never was one.
Spiritualism is mere figment of human imagination, as it was thousands of years ago and as it is today
as i listened to the brother giving the public talk.
sunday, he mentioned several times how close we.
are to the end.
Maybe they are just pretending
that the end is near in order to stay in the JW Club House.
BINGO ... and the elders get to stay in power in god's house
The two prominent psychological suggestions are fear and guilt
and more guilt and fear. This helps in the circulation of the literature and aids
in the financial support to the organization,
so the end is near now proclamation will continue indefinitely .
march 15, 2010 watchtower, p. 27, par.
16 ("one flock, one shepherd"):.
"paul also helps us to understand that those with an earthly hope do not partake of the memorial emblems.
Sounds like there is confusion and they don't know of which direction to go.
In anycase they will spin something out, trying maneuver their previous bullshit to make room
for the new bullshit is what they're good at.
of course this has been hashed and re-hashed as all of you know the feb. 15th wt is re-directing jw's to read the title of rutherford's talk as " millions now living may never die.
" however in reading crisis of conscience a second time - i found it interesting to see what ray franz said about this quote.. remember he wrote this book in 1983 , so keep it in mind when reading his quotes about this " millions " quote.
on pg.
You got to hand it to Rutherford though he knew what would sell and as always a guy with a bible
in his hand is always considered trust worthy and noble.
of course this has been hashed and re-hashed as all of you know the feb. 15th wt is re-directing jw's to read the title of rutherford's talk as " millions now living may never die.
" however in reading crisis of conscience a second time - i found it interesting to see what ray franz said about this quote.. remember he wrote this book in 1983 , so keep it in mind when reading his quotes about this " millions " quote.
on pg.
In countries where there is high use of the inter-net, there is the possibility of coming across old literature published by the WTS.
and this is where the WTS is playing a dangerous game of sorts.
Bringing into the mindset of todays JWS of what the WTS was publishing 80 years ago may actually have a backfiring effect
in that it highlights the commercial publishing aspect of which this faith is really based on.
i am still a member of the jw's organization.
i have been puzzled over some of the teachings for many years but as i seemed to be the only one querying things among my local jw's i felt as if i was going crazy.
i was very relieved to find this site, a few months ago, full of evidence to back up my findings, and so much more.. i am so grateful to you all.. i do not want to leave the organization until i have planted some seeds in my family to open their eyes.
Welcome undertheradar to the forum, your thoughts on gaining more information on the WTS. and the organizations
workings is quite understandable. There is good lot of knowledgeable people here to help you out with posing questions that you may have.
There is mixed bag of people on this forum, some who have been involved with the JWS for decades, ex-Bethelites, ex-PO etc.
There are people here who are also not too sure on the teachings of the organization.
So feel free to ask what concerns you.
of course this has been hashed and re-hashed as all of you know the feb. 15th wt is re-directing jw's to read the title of rutherford's talk as " millions now living may never die.
" however in reading crisis of conscience a second time - i found it interesting to see what ray franz said about this quote.. remember he wrote this book in 1983 , so keep it in mind when reading his quotes about this " millions " quote.
on pg.
Just for interest sake here's a link so people can have a look at the original book.
