a good friend of mine was df'd this week.
he did so much for this organization.
as an accomplished musician and composer, he has contributed so much over the years.his work is in most of the homes of an avg jw.
Thank's, Wha, for this thread and all of you who have contributed to it.
I will start a new thread, referencing this one, and share my story. I'll attempt to post it under "Friends" because it will go beyond my personal experience and address some general interest topics.
'til then . . .
i have had tough week with reasons that i will not get into.
it made me wonder if i could remember anything positive about this religion when i was growing up.
the only few "happy" memories i can come up with were going to the leimert theater.
Hey Fark,
I worked on a Roger Williams album once. He was a nice guy . . . a good Morman. He worked out of his home and his wife wanted him to have an office so he wouldn't be under foot all the time. He didn't like the idea of an office and since he had always worked out of his house, he simply bought a house across the street and moved his piano there. Problem solved!
i have had tough week with reasons that i will not get into.
it made me wonder if i could remember anything positive about this religion when i was growing up.
the only few "happy" memories i can come up with were going to the leimert theater.
Hey Gregor,
You don't mean "Tubby" Coleman do you?
his article was published by f18news on: 23 july 2009. russia: jehovah's witness lawyers deported for defending extremism cases?by geraldine fagan, forum 18 news service <http://www.forum18.org>.
four lawyers defending jehovah's witnesses have been deported since march, forum 18 news service has learned.
a leaflet by a traditional mari el pagan priest is among the latest additions to the federal list of extremist materials, meaning it is banned throughout russia.
Wow! The King of the North is attacking God's people . . . and right on time!
this is a question that came to my mind from a couple of recent threads.. we are all familiar with the traditional wt use of typology on ot material (you know, ot characters and events being "types" of modern-day wt features and history, the latter being "antitypes" of the former).
i'm not sure whether this interpretive method has been strictly restricted to ot texts (in fact i don't think so, because i doubt there has been much methodological thinking about it), but it seems to me that it has been only rarely applied to the nt.
and i am wondering why.
They may well have thought along the lines of what you present. However, from my perspective, it seems that rather than try to shore up the intellectual side of things, they are more focused on stopping the bleeding of membership. There is now at least one GB member who wants to emphasize the emotional side so as to contain this problem.
Under his supervision, the new songbook has been designed to appeal more to emotion and less to intellect. After all, songs are an emotional vehicle--not so much an intellectual one. The new songs are written in a number of cases by professional musicians and contain lyrics with greater emotional appeal. This year's drama reflects the emotional approach as well. It is telling that the majority of the new material released or announced at the District Convention emanates from the audio/video department.
Whether this approach is successful remains to be seen. Any time you try to amp up the emotion, unless you really know what you're doing, you run the risk of also amping up what I call the "cheese factor".
Whether shoring up intellect or emotion, the reality is that time is against them. When I was still associating three years ago, the thing you always heard was "the friends are tired." Solomon had it right: "Expectation postponed is making the heart sick."
for me, it's not having a "normal" childhood.
being raised a jw will make you miss out on ordainary kid things.
you can't have any friends except witnesses---and only jws that measure up.
Not having gone to college.
well?.
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bf.
I sent you a PM.
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i noticed on another thread a poster stating that he felt that unhappy jw's were in the minority.. .
As one Circuit Overseer told me about three years ago, "half of the friends are on Prozac and the other half should be."
DNCall
70 years of captivity?.
i myself have always believed that when archaeology disagreed with the bible the bible must be right.
that is how i dismissed the idea that jerusalem was destroyed in 586/587 bce.
I suggest you Google "John Aquila Brown". In the mid-1800s he published his theory that there is a connection between the seven times of Neb's insanity and the appointed times of the nations mentioned by Jesus in Luke 21. Charles Taze Russell appropriated Brown's theory. You have correctly stated that the 1914 chronolgy is rendered moot if there is, in fact, no such connection, as Brown theorized.
DNCall
looks like a good place to get info and share ideas.. o.k.
my first question:.
i am a christian.
I would go with No. 2. You will see that the event is basically an infomercial for the Watchtower Society and a device for taking a census of possible new converts. Any communion that the scattered few who partake have is incidental to the main thrust of the event. I say this having presided over a number of "Memorials."
DNCall
