it doesn't take long to know every jw belief.
maybe after a few months, you know all that there is to know.. then, every meeting for the rest of your life will be only repitition.
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The WT lessons alot of the times deal with how to apply Bible princibles in our life.
There's another way to accomplish the same. They call it COMMON SENSE!
It's been said: Morality is doing what's right no matter what you're told. Religion is doing what you're told no matter what's right.
Resenting all the wasted hours,
Nvr
a comment by rubadub in the thread about learning new things at the meetings made me remember something, and gave me a chuckle.. i would always see how fast i could look up the scriptures during the talks, and race to beat most everyone else.
of course everyone else didn't realize i was racing them, but i'd always feel a smug (and perhaps a bit self-righteous) satisfaction at having the scripture looked up and ready to follow along while from the sights and sounds around me most everyone else was still looking it up.
being able to look up jehovah's word with such speed would surely earn me spiritual brownie points.
I thought all Witnesses got off on being the fastest lookers-upper of scripture. Except for the spiritually weak, of course.
Those slackers didn't even bother.
Easy sacrificial, you're giving me some wicked flash-backs of my wasted childhood.
Thanks alot,
Nvr
shopworker in line for 120,000 after suffering homophobic bullying05.03.07 add your view.
marlene bielak: suffered months of bullying at the hands of a colleague who disapproved of her homosexual lifestyle.
a lesbian shop assistant is in line for more than 120,000 after leaving her job because of a colleague's taunts about her sexuality.
Bigmouth,
It was in response to this drama that he wrote You have killed me .
Nvr
shopworker in line for 120,000 after suffering homophobic bullying05.03.07 add your view.
marlene bielak: suffered months of bullying at the hands of a colleague who disapproved of her homosexual lifestyle.
a lesbian shop assistant is in line for more than 120,000 after leaving her job because of a colleague's taunts about her sexuality.
Crumpet,
Can I come with? I'll pay for the flowers!
Thinking what a pretty woman to be treated so badly by small-minded cult-robots,
Nvr
how did the kangaroo, the koala bear, and the platypus get from noah's ark to australia?
how did any animals get to australia for that matter?i know that this has been considered before but i just love asking jws this question.. nvr.
Tetra,
Thanks for the illumination. I gotta get out to B.C. one day to say hello. I hear it's beautiful.
New and Improved and now Cult-free,
Nvr
i understand that a jw elder in western australia defected to the sda.. have there been other cases of elfers defecting to other religious groups.
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Bro. A,
You kill me!
Nvr
P.S.-I'm an ex-elder and I've "defected" to the Church of Reality(check out the website, it's a riot)
the following is such a heartbreaking story it brought tears to my eyes, how someone (and his wife) could be such a monster.
email melanie and tell her how you feel.
her picture and name and email are on my website:.
Randy,
Thanks for this and thanks for freeminds. I know you've heard this one but I feel it's appropriate to this story:
"Morality is doing what's right no matter what you're told. Religion is doing what you're told no matter what's right."
Respectfully,
Nvr
...and had it printed, perhaps?.
just wondering.
what's the process on doing this anyway?
LOL, "Questions From Readers" is obviously manufactured. It's either used as a teaching tool (in which case the question is completely made up out of thin air, written by someone in the Writing Department) or in some cases a synthesis of many letters the Society receives. Simply scanning the past questions will convince you of this beyond any shadow of a doubt.
100% true. It would appear that some are meant to quell divisions within the Writing Dept. itself because no publisher in the real world could even dream up questions for some of the absurdly irrelevent wastings of ink and paper they call answers.
Nvr
how did the kangaroo, the koala bear, and the platypus get from noah's ark to australia?
how did any animals get to australia for that matter?i know that this has been considered before but i just love asking jws this question.. nvr.
mia-b,
Thanks for the link. Mario's one sharp dude. I can't believe(well,actually I can) the response from the big WT. I think I'm gonna vomit.
Embarrassed to have ever believed this crap and worse yet to have expended time, energy, and money teaching it to others,
Nvr(ever)gnbk
here's the story in a nutshell.
i stepped aside as elder in a foreign language congregation with a resignation letter in august.. i cited doubts in doctrine concerning "this generation" and 1975, and also said i don't "know".
the governing body well enough to teach their doctrine.
brunnhilde,
My last meeting was last years Memorial. I haven't spoken to the elders, reported time or anything else to do with the Borg since then. My husband was an elder and he stepped aside and then followed me out within three months. Other than my mother and father freaking out, we've had maybe a total of MAYBE ten phonecalls and no visits to the house. I've been very pleasantly surprised *WEG*
Good for you guys!
Best wishes for you both,
Nvr
