The illustration should have been:
Adam and Eve were like perfect bread. When Eve ate the fruit, it was like smearing fruit jelly on her bread. It was nutty for Adam to follow his wife, so it was like smearing peanut butter on his bread. They were thrown together outside the Garden of Eden, and the results were delicious.
See, illustrations are easy!
the borg is turning into a disney music making machine check out their new kingdumb song (caution it might make your ears bleed).
https://youtu.be/goj1vbvqvhq.
No Susan Mavor or Andy and Vicky Kruk?
Well, at least there are still a few in the group that I know.
ok so im a lil late on tellin it.......was busy this friday & sat......🎉🎊🎶.
ok so thursday night, eldurr up on stage asking for brothers only...who have skills in construction, electical, and finish work, who were of the ages from 25-35 ..to pleeeeeease apply to help in ....get this😂 " theocratic construction" going on in various parts of the world.. this announcement happened in puerto rico.. many , many, many facepalms😂😂😂😂😂.
mad puppy.
Having studied WT publications and listened to their talks (especially Herd and Loesch), it's obvious that women can't be trusted with construction tools because they have small brains and tend to be emotionally uncontrolled.
according to them you are not gay if you are attracted to the same sex, it's just hormones and you might grow out of it.. i wonder what hormones in particular they are talking about and if they feel that a female who goes through menopause is in danger of turning gay or even if taking hormones will adjust your thinking?.
this is from the wt org website.
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.
For many JWs, having any sex is just a "phase". Typically, they're too busy with meetings, preaching, 'studying', and other cult busy-work, along with often working long hours at low wages, to have much time and energy left for sex.
There were plenty of JW couples I knew that I assumed they might still have somewhat active sex lives. But particularly after I became an elder, I learned about a lot of couples that were very unhappy about all kinds of sexual things... including accusations such as "He committed adultery in his heart. Maybe I can't divorce him, but I'm gonna act like we are." and "Maybe she has health problems and I do nothing to help her or be a romantic gentleman, but she should put out when I say so."
So should anybody be surprised that WT would tell homosexuals that this is a "phase" that they shouldn't act on? Heterosexuals are instructed by WT that their sexual desire is something they should "deaden" and deny, too.
just want to share my take on the new circuit overseers visit.
first impression, he's a control freak.
he got up several times to correct the servants on lights, sound and speaker stand positioning.
I know his type. This is me after the end of one such CO's (Correction Officer, love it!) visit...
That was me heading off to university, and haven't gone back since.
my wife was invited by her past employer to a dinner as guest of honour.
guess..?
the dinner coincided with a meeting..
this is my first post.
i never dreamed i'd be on a site like this.
i was baptized 43 years ago and pretty much have done and seen it all.
Welcome!
I never dreamed I'd be on a site like this.
I used to feel that way too. Now I can't imagine how I could have survived without a site like this!
It's not enough that the religion reduces people in illustrations to livestock (sheep and goats), now they're demoted to being pieces of bread that can neither think nor move.
The real "take away" from Flodin's illustration is this:
im on my phone, so im really limited.
i came out to my family about my doubts and my sexuality.
shit hit the fan.
Hey Magotan! Thanks for checking in. I hope school is going well. Is graduation coming soon?
I'm approaching my three year anniversary of leaving the witnesses!
Sounds like something worth celebrating!
Weird. They use the example that Jesus never complained about injustices at the temple, but he was cooperative and worked with the system... except for the whole "stone will not be left upon a stone" thing where the Jewish system was destroyed and lots of people were killed/enslaved when he used the Romans to do the "complaining" for him. So Jesus wasn't a "complainer" when me made a whip and drove the money-changers out of the temple twice? Really dumb.
The sappy video at the end just makes me mad again because I grew up when WT "encouraged" the "blessings of singleness" because "the end is so near"... 30 years ago. And the couple in the video actually kinda reminds me of a friend I knew in bethel who got married a little before I left. They were there a few more years before they got kicked out in one of the rounds of layoffs. They settled not far away, but not in a very good situation. He killed himself a couple of years ago. Ugh, now I need some brain bleach.
