one of the first things i sunk my teeth into when i left the watchtower was national politics.
for the better part of my life i considered national politics as a dirty, or unholy, thing entirely.
i actually cannot remember a single positive thing said about politics during my childhood.
yeah I'm sure they're all neutral. I bet when their country is at war with another they wouldnt be rooting for their country to win, either way is fine, God will take care of us anyway.
And I'm sure the Governing body is neutral. I'm sure when the government decides to ban them they wont go into the politics of law changing and fighing in court for political change.
i dont think any of us are glad we grew up in the org.
but i was thinking about people who get cancer, and if they are lucky enough to beat it often they will say that they were better for the experience.
before they got cancer they were stressed because they had to work extra hours in a shitty job to make ends meet, the kids were nothing but trouble and they spent their lives wishing that time would go faster, that week would be over, that the year would be over.
just one other thing i thought of...
When i read books about those people who have had a JW upbringing and I read about all the times they were mistreated and hurt, and eventually they end the story about how they couldnt be happier in their new life.... it's just a remarkable life, a terrible start with such a happy ending.
Just the fact that that have this amazing story to tell kind of gives a different value to their life. I know some people who have no story at all, they grew up went to school and got married. Not that that's bad, but I really appreciate a story of struggle and overcoming that hardship.
I gues what I'm getting at is I wouldnt want my memory wiped and filled with different ones. Because what I've been through is what makes me me. My life isnt perfect but i wouldnt want to swap it with anyone else, because it's my fight, not theirs, and I feel like I can handel it and tweak it to my advantage. And I think when I'm an old man I'll be really satisfied that I had a rocky start but turned it around.
i dont think any of us are glad we grew up in the org.
but i was thinking about people who get cancer, and if they are lucky enough to beat it often they will say that they were better for the experience.
before they got cancer they were stressed because they had to work extra hours in a shitty job to make ends meet, the kids were nothing but trouble and they spent their lives wishing that time would go faster, that week would be over, that the year would be over.
I dont think any of us are glad we grew up in the org. But I was thinking about people who get cancer, and if they are lucky enough to beat it often they will say that they were better for the experience. Before they got cancer they were stressed because they had to work extra hours in a shitty job to make ends meet, the kids were nothing but trouble and they spent their lives wishing that time would go faster, that week would be over, that the year would be over. Cancer took them out of that and changed the way they look at thir family and their preciouse time on this earth.
Being a JW was emotionally cripling, and after coming out I realised how ill adjusted I was to normal life.
But being abnormal gives you a totally differnt perspective to everything. It's kind of like an Irishman coming to Australia and pointing out something perculiar that you never really thought about, but it makes you appreciate it a new way.
It's hard to explain, I dont like what I grew up in, but if someone could magically replace those life memories and perpectives with those of a normal person, I dont think I'd want that. Because I think I find joy in things that others take for granted.
Anyway, do you try put a positive twist on things?
that's what we say when non white people commit crimes in support of a thug who attempted to murder a police officer.
just wondered what you guys think.
apparently youtube has managed to silence the average video makers, push them off the "featured video list" and only promote the big guys with ad revenue enabled.
allot of talented musicians and film makers have left as a result of this, and they have been replaced with attention whores screaming "look at me, i say rude stuff, look at my hair!".
i do little cartoons under the username kingdomhallofjws
I guess i could enable revenue and if people get pissed off I'll disable it.
I was also thinking it would be good to have a JW community channel. Where people like ex gillead and tim kilgor could each speak on a certain topic or anser users questions.
Just thought of it then actually ;)
just wondered what you guys think.
apparently youtube has managed to silence the average video makers, push them off the "featured video list" and only promote the big guys with ad revenue enabled.
allot of talented musicians and film makers have left as a result of this, and they have been replaced with attention whores screaming "look at me, i say rude stuff, look at my hair!".
Just wondered what you guys think
Apparently Youtube has managed to silence the average video makers, push them off the "Featured Video List" and only promote the big guys with Ad revenue enabled. Allot of talented musicians and film makers have left as a result of this, and they have been replaced with attention whores screaming "look at me, I say rude stuff, look at my hair!"
So as much as I hate Ads and wish we could go back to the old Youtube, I was considering becoming a partner and enabaling Ad revenue. (I'd probably get $1 a month, lol.) They gave me this option about 6 months ago but I ignored it
What do you guys think? Is this a dirty tactic. Would it just piss people off? Would it make any difference.
I'd like to hear from anyone who is partnered too. Does it help get the videos out there more?
after reading sabastious post on when did you lose your confidence.
i started thinking about what it was like in the early 70's when large groups of people were coming into the wt cult because of the 1975 teaching.
talking with these people they whould tell me how hard it was for them to become a jw.
I remember my non born in parents telling me their stories of when they were young, some of the trouble and adventures they got into.,
What will I tell my children? I dressed up in a suit and went door to door, didnt have friends, got made fun of, had bible family studies......
after reading sabastious post on when did you lose your confidence.
i started thinking about what it was like in the early 70's when large groups of people were coming into the wt cult because of the 1975 teaching.
talking with these people they whould tell me how hard it was for them to become a jw.
I think people who convert do so because of some problem in their life or thinking. They need to fill a hole so to speak. Jw's take advantage of that weakness.
Born in's also have a weakness. It is the fact that they are an innocent child with no say in the matter. They would have the potential to be normal functioning humans were it not for the fact they are guilted and shamed into living a life that conforms to a repressive cult.
Having never experienced freedom to express themselves or persue their dreams they grow into a baby adult, unable to think for themselves. They dont know what they are missing out on, they are brainwashed to think that they are happy.
To break free from the mind control fed to you from birth is a greater feat than to realised you joined a cult for the wrong reason. One has seen "the other side" whereas one has not
in light of the thread on mr unthanks case gaining momentum i wonder:.
this is a real david and goliath situation.. it almost seems to good to be true that one man could cripple a multinational corporation.
all the publicity focused on the catholic church doesn't seem to have hurt them overall, it's almost like these behemoths grow so big that nothing touches them.. has a similar thing happened before?
How can we donate to the expenses?
i've done no research on this but i suspect that a members belief or absence of belief in god may have some correspondence with the number of posts he or she has made.. my tentative suggestion is that members with fewer than 500 posts are mostly believers while members with more than 3000 posts are mostly non-believers.
of course there are exceptions, maybe quite a few, but i'm only dealing with generalities here.
so how about a survey?
what a stupid survey.
shouldnt #1 be "I belive in a supernatural sky daddy and have conclusive evidence in a bronze age book written by dessert men"
I'm number 3 alothough it's not that I cant prove it. It's that I dont have to because only a deluded fool would belive in an invisible, unmesurable God.
