Do you have children?
Ask her if she could shun them if the body of elders disfellowshipped one of them in the future.
at this point, the consensus opinion (and i agree) is to not release my 200 page letter to my wife and overwhelm (damn.
that's a lot of man hours wasted dividing into categories and subdividing into actual handy little chapters).
many of you suggested talking calmly (perhaps revealing one topic at a time....slowly....leaving lots of time to discuss/reflect/investigate).
Do you have children?
Ask her if she could shun them if the body of elders disfellowshipped one of them in the future.
could we be doing more brothers and sisters?
i'm sure i'm not alone in wishing that there was more we could do to hasten the demise of the wtbts and to speed up the exodus of it's members.
and i'm sure i'm not alone in thinking of possible ways to do this.. one which i have been considering lately is to make use of the fact that many who leave the organization actually leave the area, move away, and start a new life.
I think humour is a great way in.
startfragment.
these paragraphs once again promote the gb/writing commitee to the status of god.
they also blatantly reverse the meaning of acts 17:11 by selectively quoting it, missing out completely the phrase 'as to whether these things were so".
C.U.L.T.
anyone from the uk remember the assemblies at twickenham?
cytrstal place?
gillingham?.
Count yourselves lucky, there was a chill wind at Sheffield Wednesday!
http://www.4thought.tv/4thoughts/0354-derek-house-should-organ-donation-be-made-compulsory-.
4thought.tv asks if organ donations should be compulsory.
derek house is a jehovahs witness who believes an organ transplant could lead to the recipient having a change of personality.. this was on tv here in the uk this week.i couldn't believe my eyes and ears when i saw this!note the comments - many of them are defending jws saying he can't really be one.
What a nobber!
LOL @ Nugget.
this was inspired by that thread marvin did on the "ectoplasm".. in something of a confession - i actually gave that hour public talk on this subject.
and it was very popular with the jws.. i did not believe a word of it - even at the time.
did not believe in the "demons" either - with or without the slime.. it got me to thinking - how much of this did a small back room of your mind reject?
Loads in the Revelation book. I never for a minute believed that the trumpet blasts signified some random assemblies in the 1920s.
...and they said.
2014 - memo to abdul, we need a new abacus, this one keeps adding up wrong - ali".
http://www.cnn.com/2011/world/africa/05/28/pyramid.markings/index.html?iref=obinsite.
Scholar got a new red pen for Christmas.
could we be doing more brothers and sisters?
i'm sure i'm not alone in wishing that there was more we could do to hasten the demise of the wtbts and to speed up the exodus of it's members.
and i'm sure i'm not alone in thinking of possible ways to do this.. one which i have been considering lately is to make use of the fact that many who leave the organization actually leave the area, move away, and start a new life.
I think ex-cultists are missing an opportunity of helping one another. Steve Hassan's approach of holding up examples from other groups to show someone parallels in their own is the most effective way to help someone wake up and smell the coffee. Ex mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses need to draw the parallels between the way their cults operate.