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i've read a few very interesting stories about people's experiences when they decided to purchase coc.i'd like to share mine and read yours also.. in 1999,not long after we purchased our first computer i started reading material about jw's.before long,i got really interested in the ray franz story because even up here in northern ontario,i had heard about the apostasy of 1980.in the fall of '99 my wife decide to take a college course(bucking the jw trend),and she would stay at her sister's place during the week.one day i called a christian book store to see if they could get me this book.i was very nervous,changed my name and i wouldn't give them my phone number.i told them i'd call back in a few weeks to make sure they had it before i went in to pick it up.. when the day came,i picked up my courage by two hands and took off for my 40 mile drive to get my book.the book store is located in a small shopping mall,which had me really nervous that another jw might see me going in or out of the store.i walked in the mall looking around,making sure there was nobody in sight that i knew.when i walked in the store,i had cash ready in my hands,walked up to the counter,gave my fake name and the book i was purchasing.now i just had to walk and make it to the car and i was home free.. i know buying a book isn't that hard,i do it all the time,but at that time the implicationsof having this book in my possesion was tremendous.. anyways,it's been 5 1/2 years and still nobody here knows.the book has really opened my eyes and mind to the realities of the wts.i would definitely recommend this book to everyone here who has yet to read it.it's worth the effort to acquire it and will take away your fear of the watchdollar.
I read CoC a year or so back. It was an eye-opener for me and I sure that the sort of things Ray describes still goes on in Brooklyn Bethel.
Aside from the actual factual content, one of the most powerful things for me was that Ray's approach was free from anger and bitterness.
Eyeslice
Homme,
Is this a question or a complaint?
I always out my site name at the bottom - I think of it as being the equivalent to signing a letter or note.
Eyeslice
for education or just for fun?
usually i read for self-improvement-always trying to figure out why i am the way i am and stop it!
but sometimes i read just for fun.
Paulo Coelho's '11 Minutes'.
Eleven Minutes tells the story of young Maria living an innocent life in a Brazilian village and is played out in a measured fashion, but with all the author's brilliant scene-setting (very lush here) fully in place. But then Maria experiences love and suffers great pain. From this point, Coelho has us inexorably in his grip. Maria's disillusionment with love leads her to Geneva where she finally ends up selling her body (Coelho may offer us the beauty of life, but never at the expense of its harshness). Maria's approach to sex is complex--this is no mere revulsion arising from what she is now doing with her life. And then she meets a seductive young painter, who may or may not offer her a new path in life. But does she prefer to continue on the dark sexual odyssey she has embarked on, at the expense of real love?
Coehlo is an inspiring writer and as with all of Coelho's work, he manages to find humanity by showing us that even (and I don't mean that in derogatory sense) prostitutes are real people with real emotions and needs.
Eyeslice
omg!
what a dream i had last night!
in it, we had discovered a plot by the governing body to hasten armageddon.
Sounds like you should write a WTB&TS sequel to Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code'.
Synopsis from AmazonIt appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
Eyeslice
i think it's kind of funny.
how do they explain more people this year than lasts?
i thought the number was suppose to get lower as they died off?
?I am the fine shepherd, and I know my sheep.?
Notice they do not complete the quotation .... "and my sheep know me". Also, as the fine shepherd, it is Jesus who knows the sheep; he does not need the WTB&TS to count them for him.
Eyeslice
my telephone conversation with the watchtower society, was a sincere attempt to find out what active role the watchtower is taking to help the tsunami victims.
thursday dec. 30, 2004 / approx.
watchtower call on tsunami disaster.. 1-718-560-5000. wt-recording--thank you for calling jehovah's witnesses.. wt rep--jehovah's witnesses, may i help you?.
IT'S A WARMUP FOR ARMAGHEDDON.Seems to me that WTS and its members rejoice over other peoples suffering.
I despair at that sort of attitude.
Charity from latin; affection love.
The WTB&TS is not a charitable organisation and its members generally fail to demonstrate the 'agape' love they brag about.
Eyeslice
armageddon wasn't coming in 1975 older adults are neither more knowledgeable or capable just because they are older that you can do anything you want if you want it enough
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eyeslice
Eyeslice
to whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
You can bet there will be an Awake article on it though in about six months time.
It be an account of how the local brothers pulled out all the stops to take the Bible message round to the survivors.
Eyeslice
in your opinion, what was the best and worst of this past year?....was it the political elections, iraq, the recent tsumani disaster (for worst), personal issues etc.??
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Best: the on-going love and support of my family despite my leaving the 'truth'
Worst: the tradgic loss of life in the tsunami
Eyeslice
