do you know of ex jws that suffered greatly due to the policies of the wts?
i personally don't know any but i suppose those that left behind parents, spouse and children got a very bad deal since the wts dictates shunning from all these.
also those that lost relatives to the blood policy.
Greendawn are you on drugs ? Do you consider the braking up of families a minor thing, maybe the intellectual destruction of jws another unimportant factor
well there are a many more, I could continue for hours here.......... Born and raised a jw I have a life time of experience with jws, trust me !
in 1930 more than 34,000 people professed to be of the anointed.
they did not believe themselves to be the faithful and discreet slave, as a class; they believed c.t.
russell had been and that j.f.
And so the structuring of kingdom and slaves begins, oh glorious power, oh glorious power
hello, i'm new here on this forum.
i've been disfellowshiped for 10 years or so.
i can't even remember anymore.
Hi fellow Canadian,
growing up as a jw in the 70's and 80's we didn't have the influence of the internet.
i, of course, believed i was in "the truth" and never heard anything (from the outside) that negative about our jw religion.
of course, now and again, we had some angry people at the door, but other than that i can't recall very many outside negative criticisms.
The inter-net with all the information of the WTS. exposes them as a lying corrupt organization that it is, I'm hoping it chops these power sluts right at the knees,
maybe it might even bring down their powerful kingdom after all but I doubt it.
To show how corrupt a group of people they are back in the late eighties they denounced and cautioned the use of computers, they actually quoted a scripture saying that he thats creates a
tower for himself does so without gods approval. Then after a few years guess who has their own web site up selling and marketing their publications, obvious hypocrisy is it not.
That had to be the most stupid and ignorant thing I've ever read in a Awake magazine to date, and I was born and raised a jw.
Old ignorant uneducated men with the power of God in their hands is never a good thing for humanity and never will be.
according to the faithful and discreet slave writing in the pages of the watchtower magazine:.
jesus set up his (invisible) kingdom in the year 1914.. he (king jesus) had been given the task of directing the evangelical messege which would separate sheeplike people and goatlike people into distinct groups (according to how they responded to the messege they heard.).
okay....how well has jesus lived up to his title and duties of king?.
Good read Terry.....should keep this and repost on a continuing basis there is a lot of important information that you have presented here.
You are, I believe the number one poster in this forum, please keep up the good work
after reading crisis of conscience i got the impression that most on the gb actually believe all the doctrine themselves or at least that they believe that they are doing there best and god is helping/blessing them.. this sometimes seems unbelievable to me considering that they know about all the bad things in the org and see so many problems that the rank file normally does not notice or know about.
i'm currently reading combatting cult mind control by steve hassan.
when reading that book i can see that there are some cults that are far worse then the jws.
Well said Garry......
after reading crisis of conscience i got the impression that most on the gb actually believe all the doctrine themselves or at least that they believe that they are doing there best and god is helping/blessing them.. this sometimes seems unbelievable to me considering that they know about all the bad things in the org and see so many problems that the rank file normally does not notice or know about.
i'm currently reading combatting cult mind control by steve hassan.
when reading that book i can see that there are some cults that are far worse then the jws.
Old ignorant uneducated men with the power of God in their hands is never a good thing for humanity and never will be.
They believe in the organizational structuring that brought them to power, what man doesn't want to be a king in a kingdom
of 6 million people after all, power gained is power achieved.
ok - dont shout at me -but i know that archaeologists will change a theory based on a new find.
so will historains.
so will scientists.
Old ignorant uneducated men with the power of God in their hands is never a good thing for humanity and never will be.
ok - dont shout at me -but i know that archaeologists will change a theory based on a new find.
so will historains.
so will scientists.
To change doctrine is too damaging and weakening to the power structure of the organization. Once you present yourself as the one only true religion on earth under god's guidance and
direction, you can really understand the difficulty of changing any doctrines. it would in affect reveal the infallible human facture and would expose corruption. A magician that creates an
illusion never willingly wants to expose how the illusion is created. After all The Truth is in fact an agreed to set of lies that created a kingdom for man, so don't fool with it or you may lose it.
i wrote a review of the most recent anything i could find on atheists/atheism in my essay, but that article goes all the way back to '95!
(i used my 2005 cd to find it) the next closest one is in the mankind's search for god book, which was published '90.
i was just wondering if there's anything more recent that anyone knows of, or maybe even post if it's not on the 2005 cd?
Here's a web site that was written by Atheists......has some useful information.........www.evilbible.com
