hello friends... just found out that at the recent one day assembly they are now really discouraging people from getting married!!!!!
they will lose young ones like crazy if they start telling them that they cannot get married...what are these sexually frusterated young people to do??
you cannot masterbate, you cannot have sex outside of marriage (not that i would encourage it either, but...), now you cannot even get married?????
I recently started going back and this year will probably be my hardest. It is my first DC in 10 years.
The KH garbage is bad enough. I do not think most J-Dubs believe it, but I know many that do. Many are like me and go for association and family.
I think of being at the meeting and being forced to read the bible and put on boots, because it got sooo deep in there.
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the other day i casually mentioned to my wife how weird the new generation teaching sounds.
she at first had no idea what i'm talking about.
she read the article, yet she noticed no doctrine change (sidenote: way to go gb!
I think most J-Dubs do not know most of the actual teaching until someone tells them in FS. As a pioneer, I found out the "Bad Stuff" about CT Russel from a householder. I eventually verified it soon after. The women are thinking, I am so spiritual (and single) I comment and go in FS all the time. Elders and men think, "RATS, the CO is gonna kick my arse, I do not have any RVs this month" and children think......"Can't wait till I turn 18!!"
All the teaching is FILTERED. The media tells lies and Apostates, why they are worse than vomit.....Who has time for truth?
i went to the sunday circuit assembly and came back all riled up with all the nonsense.. the sunday program was on ''safeguarding your spirituality''.
''it is better to remain single and not marry.
that gives you more time for studying and the preaching work.
Here's what I could never figure out: If all these JW kids are so hell-bent on pioneering and avoiding college as if it were a giant leper colony....why the flurck would you take the ACT (or SAT or any other test exclusively designed for determining ability to do well in college, and good for absolutely nothing else)? I had a 4.0 GPA, was a regular pioneer in the 11th and 12th grade and took the SAT. I wanted to compare myself against everyone in America. I knew that I would not go to college, although I wanted to. I was fortunate and worked to get a great career, but my peers hate me for it 25 years later. kinda funny!!
i see two compelling reasons right off the bat:.
1. financial - this one is a bit counterintuitive, as we all know the wtb$ is loaded.
but if we could see real preaching stats by territory, i bet my ass that the most return visits are in the western/developed countries.
Despite the high turnover rate, the witnesses will always thrive. As mentioned, a religion with over a million will not go down.. Remember, they have slave labor and low cost medical. If you get sick, they send you home.
People get the light and leave, but new ones come in. We are replaceable spokes in a wheel.
we had our special assembly day a couple of weekends ago.
some of the highlights:.
it is futile to store up material things they will only end up in the landfill.
It is crazy that people still belive this. I have a lotta J-Dub friends that think I am materialistic because I open say, MY CHILDREN WILL GO TO COLLEGE!!! It upset them...
WOW...same garbage, different city. I try to allow my children to have an open mind, but my son was digusted by the garbage that he memorized the entire bible (66 books) in a few hours.
the worst thing about being in your 40's is your friends start to die.
it's the first year anniversary of the passing of my friend, john kessler.
he was so tall, so blonde, so loving and so goofy.
The fear of having children so u get a vasectomy.....I mean ahhh nothing, everything is great about being in your 40's!!!
i had surgery this weekend and the history channel had a great special on the last days.
they actually highlighted the generation teaching and the millerites.
benny hinn was on and he stated that 1948 was the key year and the generation lasted 100 years.
I have heard bad things about Benny for years. He was just used as a reference. This was my first time hearing about 1948. I caught bits and pieces of the program, but it was interesting.
I know the WT could never use 1948, but they must think Dubs were crazy for 1914.
I am not sure, but I am a Black Ultra-Conservative. I do not say republican because of the association with Palin.
ok, here's my current list:.
i just finished the greatest show on earth by richard dawkins, and am almost finished crisis of conscience by...some guy.. currently in hand, i have:.
the power of myth, joseph campbell and bill moyers.
I love all Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlings Series) books. The last was Blonde Faith.
if all jw are so holy and righteous,why do 70,000 to 100,000 get disfellowshipped each year?
in 10 years,that would be 700,000 to 1,000,000.df for causing sectarian divisions,misleading,treating lightly the preaching work,rejecting god's representatives(gb) and his visible org.so what are they going to do to these df'er.. b.
I was an attendent at Dodger Stadium for many years. it was funny how ALL of the pioneers and elders and "ELDEResses" would literally fight to get the best seats (as was previously mentioned.
Now the wives of elders like to play the hollier than thou spiritually minded christian role. It is funny, but sad. Some JWs spend sooo much time tearing down the faithful, I am convienced that living forever is tortue if some of the JWs that I know are there.
