so, the wife and i are reminiscing today about how when you would leave an assembly- you would struggle to remember just one interesting point.
usually- you had to look at your notes or the program to just remember 1 thing that struck you.
all day of talking and less than :30 seconds of information retained!!!.
Spiritual feast...blah blah...obey the slave...blah blah...Jehovah's organization...blah blah blah...guilt...blah blah blah...do more...blah blah.
Many words are used to say so little.
It's no wonder that the mind shuts off and when asked to recall what was said, you realize you have been overtaken by 'dubnesia'.
"...disney land... eating meals together... skin tight "metro-sexual" clothing...".
is this the kind of speech a 'world-class' spiritual leader would present?.
imagine martin luther king during his 'i have a dream ' speech subjecting his listeners ears to these trivial, mundane topics.. .
Yep. Sister Tony doth protest too much. Evidently, he's about one disgruntled Bethelite away from being 'outed'.
(disclaimer- i know this is all fairy tales but i like to pick genesis apart since many millions still take it literally and is the foundtion of jw doctrine.
without genesis being real, the whole thing collpses).
i was just reading through genesis yesterday, and it really hit me.
The piecemeal instruction that the Watchtower gives out as teaching makes the average JW extremely confused about the Genesis story. As a result, when they discuss Genesis with someone who has read it in context they come across as hopelessly confused about it.
went to the movie theatre over the weekend to take in jack ryan (not bad) and saw the trailer for "noah" (russell crowe and a solid cast) whats the bet the dubs will be given a rule encouraged to examine their own consciences when attending this movie.
from what i hear its fairly true to the genesis account, but hey its hollywood with cgi at their disposal.. .
my guess is they will not be allowed to go until the gb 2.0 attend a screening at loews cineplex, grab some popcorn and pop and give it their blessing..
Jor-El tried to warn them when Krypton was going to be destroyed, but they didn't listen. He was only able to send his son to safety in a mini ark. Perhaps Noah will meet with better success.
awake 1993 3/8 pg 15 pp 2. raisingsheepisourbusiness.
have you ever worn a woolen garment or bought a skein of wool?
did you ever stop to think where the wool came from?
Not just sheep, but other sheep, as if they are even more docile and stupid than regular sheep.
someone sent this to me via facebook a few minutes ago... this is shameful, but hey that is what religion can do for you.
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh6pvv04cdowpmoe4a.
so as i've written about this before.
an old friend of my late husband's suddenly contacted me out of the blue after over twenty years of shunning and we started writing.
i didn't know why she contacted me but i thought perhaps something had happened in the organisation to make her think, which is why i came on this forum in the first place.. she kept talking about her religion and basically 'witnessing' to me and i replied with just how long are we supposed to wait when it's been nearly 100 years since christ came into his kingdom.
The irony in this is that the Watchtower has promoted the concept of 'community guilt', which is that even if you don't do anything wrong as an individual, you still carry guilt if you associate with people who do. If we accept this concept, then association with an organization that had sheltered pedophiles to the point of being legally liable would put us under community guilt, so therefore going to the Kingdom Hall is 'bad association'.
my husband on his own went out and got fireworks for our daughter and her friend to set off tonight.
he did this with no prompting at all from me.
in fact, i get nervious around fireworks, so i grimiced a bit when he told me.. but, wow, again, if this is another step showing he is not allowing himself under the complete spell of the wt.
It's a new year only on the pagan calendar, and no True Christian TM uses a pagan calendar, it said so in the December Watchtower so it must be so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q0coq8_ek .
what church is that?
lol .
Then there's the JW version of being possessed.
i'm finding it really funny how many witnesses celebrate christmas without actually 'celebrating christmas'.
i'm just looking at facebook and seeing how many got together with family on christmas day or boxing day and had a big roast dinner, often with turkey, ate too much, drank too much, played some board games etc.
then a few days later i'm seeing photos from all their 'family present days' where the kids get a ton of gifts to open.
The Jehovah's Witnesses at the congregations on Bobier St. in Vista, California LOVE Christmas.
