with renia now gone i feel more confident to tell my story without being belittled.
i don't want to drone on and on, as having read alot of the experiances on here i find i have alot in comman with everyone.
so i thought i'd just give a short run down of the reasons why i've ended up here.
Welcome and thanks for sharing.
The punishments you received just show what a cult the Watch Tower Society is; conform or be punished emotionally and mentally.
Sidenote; it's interesting you felt you couldn't share this due to Reniaa. I wonder if those who chose to defend her behaviour here will take notice of this.
after being gone from the jw's for many years now , and having done extensive research on the history of god and the belief in him , i can't seem to find any logical way to have a belief in an invisble being up there ruling over us.
how many here still believe?
how many don't?.
i'm new here.
i da'ed myself a few years back.
hope to get to know you..
Hi, and welcome.
hi, i've been lurking hear for awhile and just registered this week.
you're an interesting bunch and i look forward to getting to know you better.. i started studying with the jw's when i was 16. i was dating my husband, 10yrs my senior, and he heard they had the truth.
i was in an abusive household, so i moved in with him, studied, got married at 17 and baptised at 18.. i believed in it hook, line and sinker for 22 yrs.
Welcome. Sorry about your home situation.
this is the next part of the story, when the judicial hearings begin.
click on the link here to listen...deathorobedience.blogspot.com.
also free on itunes here.
The Society expect themselves to be treated ethically, they just don't offer it to their membership.
can anyone supply me with a hi-res scan of the infamous "changing your religion" article, please?
it's to display on a website i'm planning..
Can anyone supply me with a hi-res scan of the infamous "Changing your religion" article, please? It's to display on a website I'm planning.
daft fader (don't you just love the name??
) is a friend of mine and has been through the mill.
she's hoping she wont be struck down by lightning for being on here.. please join me in giving her a big jwn welcome!.
Welcome!
i looked over the aug. 1 public watchtower and noticed the same changes i observed previously.. plainly put, it appears that they have simply run out of things to say and so are just filling up printing space!.
they devote 4 full pages to a bible reading schedule that could have been easily condensed into a couple sentences.
they have the same large graphics and typeset that eats up printing area.
They must also be severly hamstrung legally, especially for the public edition.
one of the more ridiculous and offensive things the wts has ever taught and that is saying a lot.. i know i saw a link to this article sometime in the last two weeks but i've lost it!
can anyone direct me to this article?.
What makes me agree with Jws is the fact they are humble enough to recognise were mistakes have crept in and make the changes even if the shallow judgemental people will view this against them. Jw's accept they are fallible unfortunately the anti-witnesses cannot accept fallibility in their overseers they want what isn't yet available.
So getting these gloriously wrong and having to recant is a sign of being used by God? Very interesting notion.
one of the more ridiculous and offensive things the wts has ever taught and that is saying a lot.. i know i saw a link to this article sometime in the last two weeks but i've lost it!
can anyone direct me to this article?.
So actually these old publicationss do serve as a testament to them getting to total equality for all men through their own ways not the world around them.
What, by saying that God will make black people white? Bonkers.
