This hard line attitude toward desenting members has lead them their present financial condition which seems very grave with no way out.
I hope your right Brokeback but don't underestimate them,
they don't want you bettering yourself.
they hate college education.they applaud you if you quit full time secular work and instead, "pioneer".
they cry that they have money problems.
This hard line attitude toward desenting members has lead them their present financial condition which seems very grave with no way out.
I hope your right Brokeback but don't underestimate them,
they don't want you bettering yourself.
they hate college education.they applaud you if you quit full time secular work and instead, "pioneer".
they cry that they have money problems.
CrazyGuy:This religion would have to main stream become very tolerant and very social in a big hurry if they want to survive. I have not seen any of their new videos but from what I have been told their not really doing this.
That's a good attitude to have when it comes to twbts being a skeptic will never hurt anyone
i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.
we both served as elders for years.
he is in his late 70s.
There's a reason for that. When JWs lose faith in the Watchtower they do so in thousand different ways. Some accept the Trinity, some don't. Some accept blood, some don't. Some believe in the end times, some don't. Some still believe the Bible, some don't. Some believe in God, some don't. And so on and so on. The idea that hundreds of Witnesses are organizing themselves spontaneously into a community of like-minded doubt is, to me, just not credible.
I agree with you Slim I left at an early age because what they were teaching was not provable reality. I and I suppose a lot on this forum left not out of a conspiratorial overthrow of WBTS but just they couldn't in good conscience preach such bullshit anymore.
mark sanderson - here is some insight on his background taken from this site:.
http://e-watchman.com/congratulations-mark/.
congratulations, mark!.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jehovah-s-witness-grandparents-ordered-to-keep-faith-to-themselves-1.3282193 .
a pair of devout jehovah's witnesses have been ordered by a b.c.
provincial court judge not to talk about religion in front of their four-year-old granddaughter.. the couple lost their bid for unsupervised access to the girl because they insisted on taking her to worship at their faith's kingdom hall despite the repeated objections of the child's mother.. the girl is identified only as a.w.
I am glad this was decided this way and it seems to me it would have naive for the Grandparents to expect things to turn out differently. I have personal experience in this area with me forbidding my parents from discussing religion with my children when they used to come and visit when I was at work. I made it very clear that if my wishes were not followed the visits would end.
My wife and her family who are not Witnesses thought I was being a bit harsh, but they didn't understand the cult intricacies the way I did. So instead of trying to recruit my children they concentrated on my wife for a while but without any success.
Someone at the Kingdom Hall must have advised them not to pursue Witnessing to my children and because they did not discuss religion with them they had an almost normal Grandparent Grandchild relationship with them for a while.
there pertinent stuff starts at 11:30 minute mark.
it says in the video that this guy is an elder neighbor and has been shooting his chickens and also possible killing the plants in his garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qbgyjdy7da?t=11m29s.
I can't help but think of this video when I look at this guy LOL.
according to the guardian, the confucius peace prize has been awarded this year to one robert gabriel mugabe.
yes, you read that right.
i suppose i could've put this thread in either the entertainment section or joke section instead.
We just had a Nobel prize winner here where I live. I know this guy personally and he's no Mugabe! He's just a Narcissistic asshole. http://www.cp24.com/news/canadian-scientist-co-winner-of-2015-nobel-prize-in-physics-1.2596897
The Chinese can do better.
been totally out for a bit over a year.
feels great.
but i still get depressed occasionally.
british columbia, canada.
jehovah's witness grandparents ordered to keep faith to themselves.
a pair of devout jehovah's witnesses have been ordered by a b.c.
I cannot emphasize enough that the best interest of the child is based on whether or not a situation, regardless of what it is, is causing stress to the child. Free speech has no standing in this issue. None whatsoever.
Lets hope your right and I mean that, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.