Posts by yknot

i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.

i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.

i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.

yknot

You will be deeply missed, heartfelt thanks for the many wise, patient, comforting and informative posts and pms you have shared with us.

I am uncertain of what AAWA at this moment due to my own preoccupied dubbie-life demands but I am sure you will be of tremendous benefit.

Sincerest huggles, love and well-wishes in your continued journey

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Do you appreciate our spiritual heritage?

by never a jw in

that is the title of the second study of the feb. 15, 2013 magazine (page 8).

to the left of the title a picture appears showing three people holding very old watchtower magazines from the early 1900's.

i have been studying jw's history and doctrines for less than a year and i already have far more knowledge than most c.o.

yknot

Never A JW,

1975 comments are not in print....it was addressed in Sunday's last talk "Keep in Expectation, Watching for Jehovah's Day"

Here is a link to hear Stephen Lett's version (and to all the Lett Rubber face haters--- go on and hate but seriously if they let Lett record all the MP3s, I would drink that koolaid continuously because for me he just has a TV-sitcom-daddy is telling you a bedtime story voice)...........

.........start shortly after the 24 min. mark and continues a bit for 2-3 minutes......

http://www.centralprint.net/jwtalks/DC/2009%20DC%20Long%20Beach/49%20Keep%20in%20Expectation,%20Watching%20for%20Jehovah's%20Day.mp3

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Do you appreciate our spiritual heritage?

by never a jw in

that is the title of the second study of the feb. 15, 2013 magazine (page 8).

to the left of the title a picture appears showing three people holding very old watchtower magazines from the early 1900's.

i have been studying jw's history and doctrines for less than a year and i already have far more knowledge than most c.o.

yknot

....well as a born-in my observations are that converts make emotional decisions to join and we immediately put them on the hamsterwheel of FS and meeting routines where keeping (or appearing to keep) active in all things FS-Meeting equates deep spirituality and often times popularity .......from there the mags, talks etc just keep feeding them a constant stream of reinforcement of end times and the need to be reaching out and asserting oneself in the ministry......

Yes you know too much and they too little..... in my lifetime we have had to two intense dumbing down periods, both were instituted by Ted Jaracz and both 'simplified' things by shifting away from 'staying awake and alert' to the groanings of this dying system of things to handing over thought and giving blindfaith complete trust to the Org...

As for the pic.... its twofold, it is a wink to the conscious class JWs (the CC can if opportunity arises use the pic to plant a seed or two of TATT) and a blind reinforcement to the unawake JWs who are old enough (and often the generation donating the most consistently and leaving estates to the WTS) to have some emotional connection to the picture and feel their life dedication to the WTS hasn't been a total bust........ The WTS has political/ideological divisions and this is just where they are meeting in the middle. Yes there are conscious class JWs in the Writing Dept and in the others as well.....

BTW in 2009 the GB decided to fully own 1975 by saying they were over-eager via DC talk.....

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GB member Anthony Morris in serious auto accident, accepts life-saving blood transfusion.....new light on blood to appear in August 15 Watchtower

by sir82 in

jw
friends

...or maybe not.. .

what's today's date again?.

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yknot

You so bad.......(giggles)

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Is this a religion of HATE? Check out what they have printed!

by Terry in

"" (the watchtower, 6/15 1995, p. 4).

" (the watchtower, 11/15 1952, p. 703).

" (the watchtower, 10/1 1952, p. 599).

yknot

Excellent points Terry!!!

Hate is a well used vehicle for the WTS. Norm had some good points about 11 years ago with his commentary thread on Sept 8, 1997's Awake http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/11630/1/Why-so-much-hate

I agree with Finkelstein too on 'hating kids'.....when we moved to where the need was greater that congregation hated the children who attended as a group.....we kids were proof the end was nigh (2 Tim 3:2) and made to feel like worthless burdens. Children hindered greater FS, were annoyances at the Hall expected to be seen but never heard. ......not even elderkids were immune.

Yes, I will admit there are a lot of kind and gentle congregations (I originally came from one) but even they as Finkelstein mentions harmed kids by expecting us to live up to the overbearing regulations of the WTS.......childhood joy is restricted to theocratic endeavors only.....any displays of talent beyond theocratic endeavors are vain and selfish. ......at best we were like the soap children in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (BTW I wasn't allowed to read fiction books beyond ones assigned)