day text -- saturday, september 19 - "he will certainly bring about deliverance from the assyrian."mic.
today, jehovah certainly has provided an abundance of spiritual men to shepherd his precious sheep, to strengthen his people for the future attack of the modern-day assyrian.
the most practical step that we can take to prepare for the coming attack of the assyrian is that of strengthening our faith in god and helping our brothers to do the same.
Now is the time for any who may be putting their trust in secular education, material things, or human institutions to adjust their thinking. w13 11/15 3:16, 17
This tripe just keeps on going. Understandable speech, literacy, possession of material things beneficial to our survival and human institutions are all the result of secular education. So lets adjust our thinking and have none of them see how that goes!
so i was fooled by the witnesses.
what can i learn from that?
not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.
when you look through a keyhole, and see the person you once were?.
as for myself, i am just pleased i have mended my ways.
i realise ( now) my time as a witness was a keyhole that looked in to the ground, and licked the elders arse.
eyeused2badub:I think that all of us raised as dubs were embarrassed at one time of another because of our bizarre beliefs. I sure was. It was part of our jw culture. Being 'different' was to be worn as a badge of courage in jw-land.
Ditto exactly for me. If I had felt even a hint that the Dubs bizarre beliefs were true, all of the ridicule and condescension endured by me as a child would have been worth it and I would never have left. it's like being in prison.
i am the new vermin.. of course by disfellowshipping myself i don't need put a yellow star on my jacket.
but i am identifying myself to be looked at and resented like people did with the jews.. yes i am overdramatising my possible misfortune.
i will still be allowed on the buses, to visit the zoo, and such places that were deprived the sight of jewish families.
Prologos:I distinctly remember the day (in 1938 I believe) when the yellow star appeared in our street. I was told to not show the courtesy of opening the door for the good people that now wore that marker. the two intertwined triangles. So I am with you in those feelings. I have been there.
I am not old enough to have memories of things like that. I do feel fortunate though to be part of your overlapping generation as you no doubt must feel fortunate to be part of the WW1 overlapping generation.
i am a new member to this forum.
i am a current jw who is currently struggling to leave or stay, depends on how you want to look at it.
i have created a new blog, www.jwawoken.com to allow me to have an outlet for the cognitive dissonance in my brain.
it's been years since i've prayed and the last one i prayed to was the god known as jehovah.
just wondering.
many seek happiness externally and many a time assign others the possession of their happiness.
when they derive a sort of happiness from external sources, they dont feel satisfied, hence jump to the next and then to the next .... in contrast, jesus said gods kingdom (or real happiness) is within (entos) you.
this cannot be misinterpreted as jesus being the king of the kingdom was amidst them as jws do.
VillageIdiot: He wouldn't last a minute on a JW website. Only here would he be put up with.
You are probably right village, I don't know because I have never attempted to post anything on a JW website. I don't mind hearing things from other posters that I disagree with, If reading what I feel are laughable and futile attempts at cult recruitment on here are the price we have to pay to keep an open mind then so be it.
first of all; i must admit that i'm not a huge fan of putting people in boxes like this, it is not an exact science.
but i still think the data can be quite interesting and i intend to collect it and share it in a structured way with you guys.
so without future ado here are the details.. link to test: .
Anybody try answering the questions falsely just to see what you would get? I slide the indicator in all questions all the way to the left and then the right. When everything was answered to the left I was deemed a leader when I pushed the indicator to the right I was deemed a good architectural candidate.
What seemed even stranger was the comments at the bottom of each test result page. They all seemed to be a little flattered and agreed that the test nailed their personality to a tee. Now either the test is amazingly accurate or its just little demonstration of our inherent narcissistic tendencies.
I know, I know, my wife would say "spoken like a true Taurus" LOL.
an ex-jw ("apostate") should create a competitive business selling jw-related products as found on this site (check out the prices!!!):.
http://www.ministryideaz.com/jehovah-witness-new-products-s/1893.htm.
of course, you'd never mention anything about your "apostate" status.
when i first heard about this it sounded like they just had a mode that was optimizing the vehicle's emission levels which sounded good.. turns out, they were detecting when a car was being tested to cheat the control system.. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34311819.
their shares are down 19% - but larger than the financial fallout is the trust.
this is the worlds largest car manufacturer!.
From a big picture point of view there is a need to link the various technologies involved in driverless vehicle systems whether they be drones or air planes or cars into some kind of a format that will be easily understood and easier for everyone to use. Just think computer operating systems before the introduction of windows. It made Bill Gates, et al rich.
The computer hardware was already established before the windows operating system came into being and its the same right now for driverless vehicle technology. We just need a new windows operating system. Just like computer operating systems and the communication systems they utilize the operating system for driverless vehicles will increasingly develop faster and become more streamlined. I am sure there are a lot of people working on this right now.
