i'm at the beginning of putting a package together regarding the wts and i'd like your opinion on which topics i should include.
basically, this would be a package for those who have family or friends in the borg, but who you think might listen to reason if it was presented in the right fashion.
it's not going to be a huge package, because i don't want to overwhelm anyone, but i want the information to be precise enough that it would stop and make them think.. so far, i'm thinking that i'd like to touch on the following:.
You could include a very brief summary of all their flip-flops on Generation and Sodom...
there have been at least 8 different Generations:
http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/generation.htm
there have been 6 or 7 flip flops from Yes to No to Yes again as to whether or not the Sodomites will be resurrected.
this thread, and others like it, got me thinking that, if this board is representative of society, there is definitely an anti-theist wind blowing in western nations, much more so in europe than here in the united states.
could it happen here as it happened there?.
from edward j. derwinski "religious persecution in the soviet union - transcript".
*sigh*
It's been done to death.
The Inquisition, the witch trials, the Crusades, all that good stuff was done in the name of God.
Communist atrocities were not commited "in the name of atheism". They were commited at the behest of totalitarian dictators. African dictators have a track record just as bad, without having explicitly banned religion.
have you observed a higher than normal number of mentall ill among jw's?
if so, do you think the religon attracts the mentally ill, or do you think that their beliefs and practices actually cause mental illness?.
Yeah, my family members for one.
They attract - or rather, entrap - mentally ill people, and then their pattern of repression and abuse reinforces the illness insteal of healing it.
this thread, and others like it, got me thinking that, if this board is representative of society, there is definitely an anti-theist wind blowing in western nations, much more so in europe than here in the united states.
could it happen here as it happened there?.
from edward j. derwinski "religious persecution in the soviet union - transcript".
I doubt it will. But I can always hope.
any takers?.
i'm guessing it's because people might get too curious when covering the material and wonder about different religions..
Why would Witlesses ever want to study other religions? They already have the Truth!!
motion to extend time, to file the motion for leave to intervene (to march 19/08)(bookform), completed on: 2008-04-02justice for children and youth2008-03-19 .
response to motion to strike out, (bookform), completed on: 2008-03-14a.c.
response to motion to strike out, (bookform), completed on: 2007-08-24a.c.
why a 14 year old does not have the right to have a blood transfusion.
Fixed.
i remember how much emphasis the org used to put on studying your publications, and how looking at other peoples books during the meeting was like seeing a lazar show with bright, hot, multicolored, florescent highlighted pages.
but i never personally enjoyed studying (even when i was more hardcore in it) so since i used to have privileges/responsibilities one of the requirements was to study for all the meetings, so before the meetings i would take a hot yellow and florescent blue marker and quickly just start marking up my books so that it looked like it was studied.
sometimes to look even more spiritual i would take a pen and start writing random crap in the margins, even scribble lines so from far away it looked likes cursive.
I do it 3 times a week. Flip open the Washtowel / Kingdumb Misery / Revelation's Lame Anti-Climax, highlight 2 random sentences on every paragraph, slam it shut 1.5 minutes later, and I'm done! Whoopee!
To be honest, I don't usually even bother for anything except the Washtowel. Sometimes I'll (fraudulently) do Revelation becuase people at the bookstudy are sitting close and can see your book.
surprizeingly, i am not a jw but an observer and in partial agreement with the jehovah witnesses on many issues.
i have been to many churches in my 30 years and have studied many church beliefs, church history and the bible as well.
so why do i believe the jehovah witnesses are the one true faith of jehovah god?.
Trolling scum.
sorry in advance to all of the ones on this forum now, who partook while jw.
i have to say that in my experience, having known personally several who were "of the annointed", most were absolutely dingy.
the only exception was the little ancient gal who had attended the early convention where all attendees were "annointed" en masse!
The only person I ever knew who was "anointed" was a complete off the wall nutjob... she was totally irredeemably batshit insane.
She claimed that "the Prince of Bulgaria" had proposed to her, but she turned him down, and now he had spies after her that watched her every move and reported it to him. And he sent her letters all the time begging her to marry him.
She used to give out "gifts" like empty kleenex boxes or scribbled-in notepads that she had obviously pulled out of a garbage can to the kids in her hall.
One time she cornered me after a funeral and started talking and food kept spewing out of her mouth. (This was when I got the story about the Prince of Bulgaria). I got the hell out of there as soon as I could.
She was about 70 years old yet she looked really young, had more energy than any human being I have ever seen, and was FREAKISHLY strong. It was an unnatural energy though. I mean it was quite frightening. More superstitous people than I would probably say she was possessed.
could anything have been more embarrassing?
you could be at the door of the least popular munger in school, but overwhelmed with envy because, hey, at least he was doing something normal.
in 8th grade, at the peak of childhood self-consciousness, i knocked on the door of a super popular, rich, "in" kid from my class and he answered the door.
I'm actually quite happy that I was homeschooled for this exact reason.
