Posts by SonoftheTrinity

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Why I became agnostic after leaving the Watchtower

by donny in

one of many things that led me to agnosticism after leaving the jw's was the cognitive dissonance i encountered with those in the mainstream churches, especially the really conservative ones.

these types would scream out in protest (rightly so) on all of the current atrocities going on in the world regarding islam and its radical extremists, but then justify the savage murders and slaughter perpetuated by israel in the old testament.. often i would take these passages and replace the names and places of these scriptures with current ones.

for example 1 samuel 15:3 reads "now go, attack the amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them.

SonoftheTrinity

If Jesus were alive today, he would be hanging out with homeless Jewish Christians who got cast out by their bourgeois parents somewhere in the San Fernando valley, turning bottles of Two Buck Chuck into Kristall. BTW did anybody see Black Jesus on Cartoon Network?

I went back to the Orthodox Church after 7 years of being married to my wife and ashamed to show my face. I am attending for Lent. I have a lot of baggage to let go of, so I need a purge.

Deep down though My priest would probably say I have become an antinomian.

Deep in my heart,I believe in Christianity, but not Churchianity. I hate the empty suits no matter what the religion. If I were to preach I would probably continue my Nazarite vow but also do stunts like dress up all Twisted Sister only with my bushy beard to illustrate that America has whored out herself to Israel and Saudi Arabia. The prophets of The Bible were Patriotic Shock Jocks who ritually violated Jewish law to make a point, as did Jesus himself. Generation Y communicates everything through irony, afterall. A true preacher of God should violate norms to wake people up. Not knock on doors or produce a cheesy tv show being as nonthreatening as possible while promoting a totalitarian ecclesiolatrous religion. In this reality TV world they are as distracted as the people of Israel were in Christ's time. That understanding is sorely lacking from the pulpit. Gene Scott perhaps understood this, but he was a greedy megalomaniacal narcissist who abused that niche.

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Doh! wife is about to hear the trololol song

by freemindfade in

doh!

here i sit on my laptop on this site, while the wife is watching dubtv over there, she is watching the feb one with trololololy song at the end... i am trying to hold back my laughter because i know it is coming soon!

how will she react???

SonoftheTrinity

In a previous thread I wrote that I felt as if I had been auricularly sodomized after hearing that doggerel. It has the so bad its good feeling of something produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, only without any of the irony, which also makes it a bit creepy. Did somebody put ecstasy into the music departments coffee?. We all know carts don't have souls.

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The 'Message" is spread into 700 languages...SO WHAT??? Big Deal!

by stuckinarut2 in

you know how the org goes on and on about how the "preaching work" takes place in so many languages by the website?.

they also trumpet the fact that witnesses are in "sooooo many lands and nations"....... so what!.

just because the message is spread far and wide, does not mean the content of the message is correct or of value.. take the example of coca-cola or mcdonalds.... these products are in nearly every nation around the world....but does that mean they are beneficial or healthy?

SonoftheTrinity

The less they translate the scriptures, the better.

For the preaching of the cross is unto them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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The 'Message" is spread into 700 languages...SO WHAT??? Big Deal!

by stuckinarut2 in

you know how the org goes on and on about how the "preaching work" takes place in so many languages by the website?.

they also trumpet the fact that witnesses are in "sooooo many lands and nations"....... so what!.

just because the message is spread far and wide, does not mean the content of the message is correct or of value.. take the example of coca-cola or mcdonalds.... these products are in nearly every nation around the world....but does that mean they are beneficial or healthy?

SonoftheTrinity

It is somewhat amazing that such stupid, ignorant people can learn all those languages. Becoming a good linguist or translator is no small task.

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All things considered, when will THE JW religion end?

by sowhatnow in

id give a guess of maybe another 15 to 20 years ,.

nothing will be the same , if there even is a headquarters.. opinion?.

SonoftheTrinity

I predict an inwardly focused time, in which the preaching work becomes focused on redeeming the born-in apostates and they become fed up with the world. They may also stop dressing to match the decade and appear quaint in the same way as the amish only in a 20th century style.

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Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

by SonoftheTrinity in

i blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower.

they don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary.

my stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health.

SonoftheTrinity

In Real Life

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Attacking the elders, can that bring down the cult??

by Crazyguy in

the borg has left out in the cold the victims of child molesters all to save their reputation and have used the elders to do their bidding in these evil works.

they have even made changes to their policies to put more of the responsibility on the elders.

so if the lawyers of these molestation victims which normally go after the money ie the borg were to also aggressively go after these elders in these cases could this not start a ripple effect where by elders find out and start resigning en mass to protect themselves knowing the borg not going to help them?.

SonoftheTrinity

Get a subpoena for the entire GB, that is the one thing that is going to bring them down to earth.

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Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

by SonoftheTrinity in

i blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower.

they don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary.

my stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health.

SonoftheTrinity

Oubliette I need to sit in on that class just to figure out how much is getting done. My child is shy, he can't handle an overcrowded ghetto school. This kid may be Fijian, but he is delicate and quiet like an Ethiopian. His little brother looks like a Samoan, is built like a Mack truck, and is intense about everything.

Getting my family out of this cult?

I went back to my Church for the first time in years. I told my priest about my new family, and how I feel like it is a sin to to stay and a sin to go. Now is Lent, a time to fast from not just food, but all the Self indulgent BS that holds you back. Perhaps in becoming a better role model by overcoming my fragile male ego and bad habits, I can show them a more positive alternative to the JW lifestyle. Adrift by myself, with next to little IRL moral support to counter the JWs I have become one of those anti-religious Jesus Freaks. I won't cut my hair or beard until my wife leaves the religion is just an example of my hating the fact that the JWs have become Charles Taze Russells worst nightmare, Churchianity at its worst. All the guilt of Catholicism without all the cute little bells and whistles, all the intolerance of Islam without any of the scholarship or valor, all the victimhood and paranoia of Judaism without any of the independent thinking and chutzpah. It has all the bad qualities of all the so-called false religions that it slanders. Sorry for digressing.

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Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

by SonoftheTrinity in

i blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower.

they don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary.

my stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health.

SonoftheTrinity

You've have? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw grammar stones LOL.

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Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School

by SonoftheTrinity in

i blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower.

they don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary.

my stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health.

SonoftheTrinity

Great Teacher, don't get me wrong. My wife helps him with his homework, especially in Math. She comes from a family of statisticians. Her tutoring style is more in your face. Which is good sometimes, sometimes not. I am but a lowly stepparent, so I don't have the luxury of being in his face, without it being a case of "He can't treat my child like that, only I can treat my child like that." So I walk away for a few minutes just to keep my cool, which she preprograms to fail. She expects him to do his homework in a set amount of time so that it doesn't interfere with family bible interrogations and his bedtime. Sometimes he just needs to sit there and think it through at his own pace, even if it compromises his bedtime. He is going to middle school next year! If his bedtime were when he got his homework done, it would be less stressful for him IMHO. I realize the importance of getting regular sleep, but grasping the concepts rather than just doing the work is just as important. His bedtime is of course tied to his going to school where it seems like a lot of time gets wasted trying to keep a rowdy class of forty in line.