he wanted to talk to the young ones in the congregation.
the main theme of the talk had to do with avoiding higher education.
basically the main idea was this: witnesses are losing alot of young people here in the last few years.
Doubting Dro: Ours went into some detail about that crazy Timothy drama where Timothy decided not to go to the "University of Athens" in favor of being a "pioneer".
Yeah, wasn't that anachronistic drama a load of crappy JW propaganda?
I'm glad I'll have graduated from college before the next CO visit and I won't be going to his stupid talk anyway.
White Dove: Way to go... no more welfare, you'll be self-sufficient before you know it.
A@G
the past weeks i have felt this overwhelming need to write my sister, her family has gone through an ordeal of pedophile issues over there daughter.
the culprit.
was an elders son and it was covered up well by the whole body.
Perhaps direct her to the silent lambs website...
A@G
congradulations on finishing!
i just took my last final this morning.
i have a bottle of wine in the fridge and am thinking about doing a bit of damage to it.
As you know I am graduating on June 10 with cap and gown and the works....
If only I can get off JWD and work on my final 3 projects LOL...
A@G
ok, "leaving" can be mental &/or physical leaving.. what time in your life did you start?.
I started before... and the logical thinking I learned was a factor in my leaving...
snowbird,.
what have you against cuddles, hs?.
in real life?
Thus far I generally will send hugs ((())) etc to posters who I "know" already (meaning I have established some contact outside of regular posts)...
HS's talk of emotional masturbation doesn't sit too well with me...
yesterday i celebrated my one year anniversary of leaving jehovah's witnesses.
i have no regrets, except to coin a line always recited at assemblies about pioneering: i only wish i had left sooner.
my life has been anything but dull.
Happy D-Day! Give me a ring if you want... I'll be at home all weekend working on my college papers...So I can congratulate you in person!
i'm going to start this topic, i know some of us know people who have left before we did, and have lost touch.
so i'll go first, i am looking for jennifer n. of lancaster/palmdale ca area, she had a son and i use to hang out with margie.
I'm looking for Jeffery Rivera of Miami or Miami Beach....I was best man at his 1st wedding...
And Linden Barrett, probably of London, but his parents live in Miami. We were pioneer partners when we were teens, and then at some point after he moved to London his parents wouldn't talk about him anymore... so I assume he went to the dark side...
Good name... 1914 and everything else is BS...
for those of us who got burned by the borg's bogus bible chronology.... once a few more years go by (at least by 2020 or 2030), the borg will not be able to fit their supposed divinely arranged role into some kind of bible chronology unless they completely overhaul their explanations of the prophecies.
that leaves them in a catch-22.
if they got it wrong, what's to make them any more believable in the future?.
Alex,
Nice topic.... 1914 and 1919 were the dates that began my exit, so I like this topic. In fact, right now I am read Jonsonn's book on the gentile times.. It's amazing that the society thinks that they can get away with their lie... but I guess you're right, the regular friends don't care if they can explain the 1914 issue, they just think it's light from heaven... When I have told some of my friends about my 1914 opinions, they tell me that there are some things that are hard to understand...
Of course JWs ridicule Catholics for believing in mysteries (Trninty)... so why do JWs insist on believing in the mystery of 1914.
Eventually they can rework the doctrine.... they have the 2300 days, so they can always use that to come up with some date in the near future. All they need to do is be inventive with the start date... they could say something about the Maccabees in the 2nd century.. and then count 2300 years from then, and say the end is coming then! After the end doesn't come then it would be deja vu all over again...
Problem is, there will always be people who are duped into believing the WT BS.
A@G
well i fried my motherboard so no computer access for me for a while.. my jw grandmother died last tues. of course no one told me until the day before the funeral.
my ex-jw aunt thought she would give it a few days to see if my mother would make the call.
and i suspected no one told her dfed son, so i asked mouthy/grace and her daughter to get a message to him.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss and the way your family treats you... BTW, I saw some of your video on exJWvideos... interesting...
Regarding the witnesses, here we can see how they really aplt the acripture:
(1 Thessalonians 4:13) 13 Moreover, brothers, we do not want YOU to be ignorant concerning those who are sleeping [in death]; that YOU may not sorrow just as the rest also do who have no hope.
So they don't think the rest of us need to mourn and grieve like they do. How unfair.
