what are implication from this article for the watchtower jehovah's witnesses lgbt members who are still in closet?.
june 3, 2012 9:31 pmprint text 300 mormons march in utah gay pride parademormons building bridges marches in the annual gay pride parade through downtown salt lake city, sunday, june 3, 2012.
(ap photo/the salt lake tribune, scott sommerdorf).
Mormons are not JWs. Mormons participate in their government, go to college, run for office, accept blood, celebrate holidays, etc, etc. I dont think what Mormons do/tolerate is a predictor of what JWs will do. However, it is interesting that they are a cult that is maybe 75 years older than the JWs. Maybe with another 75 years of maturity, the JWs will also moderate and begin to enter the main stream.
I am not defending Mormons- they are just a different brand of crazy than JWs.
30 minutes ago i just got off the phone with some important players in this case, and some things were relayed to me concerning a lot of details of the outcome of the last two days of court.
i am passing this on.
cynthia hampton, one of the main players in the candace conti case (and a close friend of 28 years), just informed me of a further, far more powerful move by the state of california against the watch tower bible and tract society of new york, inc.. by order of the superior court of the state of california - county of alameda (see documents below), until the watch tower's appeal, which won't begin until august 13th and will take up to two years to settle due to due process of law, has forbidden the watch tower to sell any more of its $1 billion in assets in the borough of brooklyn until the appeals case is finished, to assure they won't shelter their monies in the light of this most huge and devastating sexual abuse scandal ever to hit the watch tower society, and perhaps any other single-victim lawsuit.
They would be absolutely insane to let this sit. All they have to do is purchase a bond in the full amount of the judgement. Just a couple of their buildings should serve as sufficient collateral.
maintain your sense of.
how can we maintain our sense.
urgent now than ever?.
Belief in evolution is an apostate religion!! Nice! Tie accepted science to the fear mongoring they do every week about apostasy. By the way- gravity, mass, physics, biology, chemistry- also "secular religions" People believe in them sooooo much!!!! (must be the Debil!!!)
a convention invitation.
i came home the other day and found an invitation to the upcoming district convention in my door.
i don't believe these are left in the doors of the general public, so a well-meaning witness must have been thinking of me, even though i have not been to the kh in about 7 years.. the leading question on the front immediately got my attention, and made my jaw drop a bit.. i thought i would ask the forum, .
Sounds like an invitation to be brainwashed and hypnotized. And the picture of the mindless drones sitting listening without reaction to the program just adds to the message.
Really looks culty to me.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
Wow- I remembered being there- checked out- eyes rolled back in my head- dozing off- waiting for the old coger to get it over with- hoping he didnt loose his place and start saying the prayer. I cant believe we convinced ourselves that this muttering was part of the "spiritual paradise" we were in. (The chance to be taught directly by the GB!!)
can someone post this in this thread please?
i don't know why the wife didn't get any jw calenders for 2012, but i was over at my dad's last night and looked through his for a few minutes.. in the upper right corner, it had a woman reading through a scroll, and i could swear it was referring to abraham and sarah.
now i'm no bible scholar, but i would find it pretty unusual for sarah to be reading through a scroll.
The real question is- why dont they show the rest of the story- Abraham tying his son up- putting him on the camp fire and taking out a big knife to cut his throat??
I cant believe Abraham is such a hero to so many religions. He was a religious fanatic psychopath!!
Me too? I know it used to be here- but seems to have been quashed.
i have just thought of a way to leave jehovah's witnesses using information from the new shepherd the flock of god book.
it's quite simply: rebaptism.
here are the steps:.
No need for a long an complicated departure:
You Just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
i thought i knew you.
an open letter from barbara anderson to watch towers writing department.
in 1517, martin luther wrote in a letter to archbishop albert of mainz: you must graciously forgive that i, that scum of the earth, am so bold as to dare to address a letter to you.. yes, i know, you think of me as scum, just like mainz believed of luther, wondering how i dare write you a letter, someone jehovahs witnesses disfellowshipped back in 2002. i was accused of being an unrepentant sinner and condemned for causing divisions, then labeled apostate because i spoke out publicly on nbcs dateline tv program aboutthe child sexual abuse policies that protected pedophiles policies that you helped formulate.
Great job Barbara. Did Martin Luther think the pope would read his letters nailed to the door of the church? Of course not! It was the broader audience that created the revolution!
the sunday after every memorial they intruduce a new talk, which is the 'special talk'.. this year it's called: "is it later than you think".
anyone able to provide me the outline?.
So much for JWs be becoming more mainstream and less apocalyptic and fear mongering!!!
