i have been building and had a large body of information on shunning, quotes with sources, documents, eg conti case and so many others.. this computer was being difficult and after many $$$ i have it back and most of these vital files are wiped.. despair as i had intended to collate and make a report for the royal commission here in australia about institutional child abuse but a twisted relief that this crushing most difficult plan is now taken from me.
i feel so badly cheated.. the computer people mentioned so many 'corrupted files'.. pass the white pills please.
its a bastard when you care..
zeb
If you want to invest a little money, there are people who can recover the information even if the HDD has been formatted.
Corrupted files does not necessarily mean the information is lost, don't give up. The computer people you went too were obviously not so good.
i know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!
but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.
i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).
TheListener
If my wife had watched it she hasn't said anything. But I expect her stubborness to prove me wrong about my fading would prevent her from sharing anything about her feelings about it with me.
Precisely the problem I have with my wife.
somebody on another thread suggested that those still in could express their opinions on steven lett's performance.
i am still in and i was shocked, dismayed and saddened by it.
i became a witness over 30 yrs ago and the issue of donations was a non-issue for so many years.. now, it is a huge one for the org.
for those of you who have already faded due to family still being in, have you noticed how the noose is tightening?.
if it's not memorial, it's special day assembly.
if it's not that, it's convention or the special talk.
this is a great clip!.
funny and thought provoking...... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ziwuiq2yk.
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Just thought I would add a comment.
This is thought provoking as struckinarut2 said.
this saturday is the branch visit of mark sanderson in the selters german bethel.. there will be a video streaming for all the congs.. some of you might have heard branch visit talks of sanderson.. will there be something special or controversial?.
i am not sure if i should attend even if it's just for noting or recording some controversial stuff.
would be hard though, 3 hours of wasted time.
loony Lett
I like it.
couple of weeks ago an elder took a young man aside and crawled all over him after the tms for wearing a "skinny" tie.
it was one of those 2 inch wide ties.
nothing bright or scandalous about.
Deviating slightly. There was a sister in my congregation who would wear skirts from time to time which were just above the knee. This sister was quite tall and I know from my wife that she had difficulty finding skirts that were just below the knee. She was never talked to about this until she had a part in the tms, and as soon as she came into the hall on this evening the tms elder told her she could not do her part because her skirt was too short. It was less than an inch above the knee. This sister broke into tears, left the hall and went home.
Some time later when the CO changed the new CO's wife always wore skirts which were and inch are two above the knee. The elders did not like that, but none tried to talk to the COs wife about it.
tonight gorby and his wife watched a part of the 2015 may edition of jw broadcasting.
we couldn't force our self to watch the full stuff, because of it's sneaky way of production.
first of course the dynasty melody at the start, the world map background and the car salesman mr. lett.
I just had a quick look on the Internet to see what charge would be, and I found a figure of 15 cents for every transaction.
So that would be with a 1 cent contribution, they would get -14 cents.
i was on the jw.org website today and decided to watch a video entitled 'respect jehovah's authority'.
to my surprise approximately 3mins 25secs into the video, as the opening title began to fade, a symbol of the all seeing eye (eye of horus) appeared on the screen.
the scene was not set in egypt, but in a hebrew tent in the wilderness where praise was being sung to jehovah!!
WMF
That was a bit harsh.
i've been fascinated with this topic for some time now, almost to the point of obsession.
after researching the issue for several years, i have come to a conclusion/theory that i would love to receive some feedback on.
this theory of mine is one that will be somewhat unsettling to both those who believe the divine name was used in the original nt scripts as well as those who believe it wasn't.
Let go of fear.
I like what you say. As for myself my mind was a complete blank when it came to religion and the bible, so JWs could just fill everything in for me, and when it came to doctrines I had nothing to compare it with.
Now I have woken up and realized that I have been lied and cheated, it puts everything I have ever learned form them into question.
