so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!
first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.
he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
What a pompass tool to humiliate the poor microphone bro. Why not show the 'spirit of christ' and make a minor adjustment, and move on with your bull$hit. Maybe that simple display of hautyness (sorry I can't spell tonight) will wake some people up to the utter ridiculousness of this "loving" org.
I wonder if that was manuscript? Will be interesting to hear ours. I look forward to sharing with my wife how stupid those somments are.
Thank-you for sharing the drivel :-)
i have thought a lot about what to say when i am approached.
it will kill my fade, but oh well.. "after the new light i had to test my faith and i couldn't prove to myself that the slave was limited to the governing body.".
if cornered by an elder...."can you prove to me from the scriptures that matt.
I do like your "possible" response though!
i have thought a lot about what to say when i am approached.
it will kill my fade, but oh well.. "after the new light i had to test my faith and i couldn't prove to myself that the slave was limited to the governing body.".
if cornered by an elder...."can you prove to me from the scriptures that matt.
I too agree with whathappened and ldrnomo
when you were a believer did you give large donations to the society?
if so how much did you give?
i know an elder who's a chiropractor and he generously gives $400-800 a month to the society.
I was the accounts servant for about 3 years...I HATED that job, looked for every excuse to be done with it, finally got married and moved out of town for about 6 months...That did it! ;-)
That being said...I hardly gave anything, a random 20 or 10 every now and then. I did feel guilty about it...but as many humans, I am a good rationalizer! So I talked myself out of feeling too guilty.
Some brothers and sisters contributed the exact same amount to ea. fund seperately every month, like it was a bill that they budgeted for.
Glad I never wasted too much money.
i have failed to welcome any of you individually so i wanted to make a thread to formally thank you.
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i know that your presence, wisdom and the courage you're demonstrating by being here will help many.. .
Welcome all you Ex-Gifts-in-Men....Ex-Shining-Stars. Happy to have experiences from current and former elders. Thanks for posting!
fyi to anyone who hasn't seen it.
i noticed it is avilable to rent/own on itunes.
i hoped it would be on netflix for free but i don't mind paying for a good movie.
FYI to anyone who hasn't seen it. I noticed it is avilable to rent/own on iTunes. I hoped it would be on netflix for free but I don't mind paying for a good movie. I am trying to slide it into our movie rotation so my wife can look at 'us' J-Dubs from the outside and see how cultish it all is. This is part of my 5-10 year plan to be out once and for all.
Anyway, just wanted to mention in case there are lurkers and others who don't know or forgot about Worlds Apart.
Are there any Danish (or Norweigan) JWs here who can tell us how this movie went over with the JW community in Denmark?
congratulations to justitia themis on all her hard work at putting herself through law school.
after being raised in the watchtower organization and having survived all of what that entails she has picked up the pieces, analyzed her strengths and has made choices to better herself and the community.. .
i am so proud of her.
Wonderful!!! Congratulations, I can only imagine the hard work that goes into a law degree. I am so happy I now have a place to come not only to vent my JW frustrations...but also to get free legal advice!! haha ok just kidding. Those kind of people are so tacky.
:-) Congrats Justitia T.!
i recently came to the realization that the organization is corrupt and is false.
my story is similar to many i think.
i was raised in the religion, pioneered and served as an elder for a number of years.
Welcome! Former MS, almost Elder here....felt very similar to you. Still technically in, but very sporadic and borderline inactive. Alot of great people here, we even have a guy that thinks he's Jesus. ;-)
look forward to reading some of your experiences as an elder.
Take care bro!
TD
just wanting to post an experience by a former bethelite.
the first part was just published with the other two coming overt the next couple of weeks.
click the link.
Thanks for the link! Great Experience!!
I googled her...looks like she is a talented and I hope very succesful photographer in Detroit.
just found an interesting site containing old wt documents.. .
http://www.watchtowerwayback.org/.
bangalore.
Why promote a site that 95% of people here can't read?
