if ray franz would have kept his mouth shut and not disfellowshipped, and remained part of the governing body how many of us ex-jw would still be trapped in the cult?.
would we have come this far?.
Finkelstien: "Ray had no significance on my leaving the JWS, its was my own instinct and personal integrity that drew myself out.
"Pre inter net I might add."
Me too Finkel even to this day I have only read parts of that book.I have never read it in it's entirety.
Village Idiot same with you too eh.
For the life of me I can't explain why? I really can't!
Congratulations all on trusting your instincts.
im going by memory, so not an exact quote...i believe this was around 2002, at the crownsville assembly hall (now sold from what i understand)..
he said basically: some people watch an hour show and give up the faith that theyve had for decades..
the impact of this show was like a canon being shot into a swimming pool.
I wonder how many witnesses who watched it were hung up on the word "church" which is outside their brand of good mind control trigger words
I was wondering that too Bob
As a Father of two daughters who thankfully to me, were not raised "in the truth", I am sickened by all of this stuff too. Even if the JWs who see it get hung up on the cult phraseology, surely some will see the dateline report as eye opening.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/feat-nasa-kepler-planet-discovery/index.html.
this planet is the most earth-like planet discovered to-date.
it's at the right distance from its sun to allow for liquid water and life, and it has a year of 385 days - only 20 days longer than our own year!.
as with the scribes and pharisees, there are a number of unwritten rules that witnesses are supposed to follow.
here's a couple : "worldly" kids in society depictions are shown quite often wearing their baseball caps backwards.
jehovah's witness youths would not want to imitate that "look".
Doctor Who
Your avatar cracks me up.LOL Tell me when the elder said that about your man parts. Did it move?
the guy don't realize when he attack john mccain he alienated every men .
and women who served in the military.
and this is coming from a guy that.
I was reading the comment section of story about trump and the things he says. It was very interesting I can't remember where it was because I do so much reading or else I would leave a link. But poster after poster said "the things Trump says is really his opinion and not just focus group approved responses when he is asked a question". Perhaps that's what resonates with so many Americans. There is nothing more sickening to listen to than a politician give prepared responses to questions that are approved by his/her handlers.
i was raised as a witness and i remember many of the old timers.
many of the elders are no longer serving.
it seems like almost anyone that wad married and had kids.
Yep it seems that the ones who were told they wouldn't finish high school before the end are overlapping with their Grandchildren's generation now. I wonder in amazement of what prognostications are to come from the GB's holy spirit directed leadership? I am awaiting with baited breath.
since becoming atheist i have been paying more attention to world events and issues.
this is giving me some worry's when i see what's going on.
as a jw i could just dismiss stuff saying "armageddon is coming, jehovah will look after us" etc etc now of course i can't do that.
There will eventually be a cataclysmic event to reduce or eliminate humans from the planet, and life will go on again as it has for so much of our history.
Rebel I was thinking about that today. An extinction level event like a meteor impact perhaps?
Hopefully we'll find away off this third rock from the sun so our story as a species goes on.All it will take is enough time. Survival of the fittest you know.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/is-watchtower-imploding-10-reasons-why-the-end-could-be-nigh.
i dont know how to hyperlink the link above,.
it's a link to an article by cedars on the possibility of the wt imploding?.
I agree that a mass exodus is not going to happen for a variety of reasons, but I also think the publishing house that they enjoyed for a century or so is over. Just like many newspaper and magazine publishing houses that are former shells of themselves. The big major ones are still around but their influence is somewhat diminished.
This is why the WTBTS is selling the expensive properties in NY and elsewhere they are no longer needed. At least now they will have to continually adapt with the internet and compete to get their message out. That's why the indifference witnessed in the trolley cart witnessing
Then there is the third world countries were they can continue with publishing the way they have always done at least for now.
i am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.
whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.
i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.
Sofia Lose " I ain't wasting my time, looking weird, in some public corner. No way!"
That's exactly the way I felt going door to door as a child. LOL
some of you may find this to be silly, a grip day.. ok, how many knew we have these days.. 1)national fast food day.
2) chick-fil-a , annual cow appreciation day.
july 14.
Well everyone it's international Pi approximation day 7/22. Actually 22/7=3.14
That's the first thing I said to the wife when we woke up this morning. She looked at me as if I had two heads. Who knows what evil lurks in a women's mind? LOL
