the announcement of the reduced number of pages in the watchtower & awake will be made after the watchtower study following the "special talk" on april 8.. theoretically, that's when there will be more visitors and "outsiders" than usual.
even the talk itself has 1/2 of its content directed at inactive jws.. obviously this reduction in pages has been in the works for several weeks if not months.
why pick that date to announce it?
It's funny. All the shit i had to put up with, and as soon as i leave they cut out the book study, change the blood doctrine and minimise the mags.
COuldnt they have watered it down..i dunno...TWENTY FREAKIN YEARS AGO SO I COULD HAVE A MORE NORMAL CHILDHOOD!!!!???
The JW kids nowadays are all on facebook and having parties. If anyone gets to paradice it should be me.. for putting up with Jehovah when he was a stubborn repressive prick
yes this is the new realization i have just had.. i recently went to a family event which happened to have several witnesses, none of whom i knew, thankfully.. "oh so you're ****'s and ****'s other child, (the evil son that went astray) nice to finally meet you".
anyway my dad comments to me saying that there are allot of nice single girls in the truth.
then he asks me if i've met any nice girls lately.. "well, no dad, it's quite hard to meet new people once... you know...you leave the org.
Yes this is the new realization I have just had.
I recently went to a family event which happened to have several witnesses, none of whom I knew, thankfully.
"Oh so you're ****'s and ****'s other child, (the evil son that went astray) nice to finally meet you"
Anyway my Dad comments to me saying that there are allot of nice single girls in the truth. Then he asks me if I've met any nice girls lately.
"Well, no dad, it's quite hard to meet new people once... you know...you leave the org. Isn't that how it's designed?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well I was taught to hate the world and wasn't allowed to have worldly friends or go to school camps or other kids houses, which seems to be a tactic by the watchtower to make sure you have nothing outside the org to go to, so you can never leave"
"Well I did the best I could, and the reason you have a steady job and you don't do drugs is because I protected you from the world"
"But it wasn't the best YOU could do, it was handing your parental instincts and decision making to the Watchtower"
"Well the watchtower does the best they can for us"
I was pretty pissed off by this stage and didn't have the restraint to kindly ask how not having any friends kept me away from drugs.
Do they not realize that the reason WE struggle is not because the world is an evil place. We struggle because that's how the watchtower designed it to be for us. Since birth they have made it so that we would be so fucking retarded that we would be forever bound to the org.
It is not a bad reflection on us AT ALL.
If I raised a kid to speak Klingon and only associate with vertebrate animals could I claim that I protected him from the evil world and that if he strayed he should come back to the safety of his absurd upbringing?
You can not reason with these people. They are fucking morons. That's all there is to it.
The reason I left the truth was because I wasn't a total moron. I didn't ever have my heart in it. It was just something I had to do. Sometimes I tried a little harder but mostly I didn't.
How can these "adults" these people I call my parents who are apparently responsible citizens fall for the shit stain logic of the Watchtower?
I think my next step is to just accept that some people are just stupid and gullible.
I'm grateful for all my parents did for me, but how could they be so careless as to join this cult. It isn't even mildly convincing. Were they on drugs in the 70's? I have no idea.
i've been searching for armageddon qutoes online from the watchtower and bible but i'm not having much luck.. can anyone push me in the right direction?.
i am after quotes that describe how god will torture people and quotes from the watchtower would be nice too.. things like....... .
in times past , when god destroyed the wicked he likewise destroyed their little ones.
thanks guys. blondie they were very useful. I did try searching this site but couldnt find anything specific.
thanks punkofnice, yeah i did find that exact page, it had some good stuff.
black sheep, i meant like the way god will burn people in armageddon, all that lovely stuff in revalation.
thanks again everyone, this was more for a video i am hoping to make.
i've been searching for armageddon qutoes online from the watchtower and bible but i'm not having much luck.. can anyone push me in the right direction?.
i am after quotes that describe how god will torture people and quotes from the watchtower would be nice too.. things like....... .
in times past , when god destroyed the wicked he likewise destroyed their little ones.
g'day. I've been searching for Armageddon qutoes online from the watchtower and bible but i'm not having much luck.
Can anyone push me in the right direction?
I am after quotes that describe how God will torture people and quotes from the watchtower would be nice too.
Things like......
in times past , when God destroyed the wicked he likewise destroyed their little ones." Reasoning from the Scriptures pp.47-48
children will suffer for the failure of their parents." Watchtower 1968 Feb 1 pp.83-84
in april, 1917 the united states declared war on germany.
the german u-boats had sunk a bunch of american ships and the war declaration was justified, even though woodrow wilson was basically, a total asshole.. anti-german frenzy hit the american shores.
sauerkraut was renamed "freedom cabbage" and dachshunds were stoned to death.
i was only recently reading about some of the things that were done to innocent germans under Churchill.
Churchill was an evil evil man in my opinion and I dont belive many of the allied forces were much more morally superior to the Nazis.
it is likely that at some time or other there will be a major shtf scenario.. my parents always talked of all going to the kingdom hall and waiting it out while god destroyed the evil people.. but bethal doesnt actually have food stocks and medical stocks, does it?
they dont have a plan to distribute essential supplies to groups of jw's residing on watchtower owned land, do they?.
if there is a ww3 and the watchtower says "ok this is it, this is the big a" then what?.
It is likely that at some time or other there will be a major SHTF scenario.
My parents always talked of all going to the kingdom hall and waiting it out while God destroyed the evil people.
But bethal doesnt actually have food stocks and medical stocks, does it? They dont have a plan to distribute essential supplies to groups of JW's residing on Watchtower owned land, do they?
If there is a WW3 and the Watchtower says "ok this is it, this is the big A" then what?
Are my family going to run off to the circuit assembly building and expect all their survival needs will be provided for?
Will all JW's be expected to bring food staches and share them with eachother?
Is there any plan whatsoever?
.. case number: b12083527.
.. case number: b12083108.
.. case number: b12083367.
so does anyone know why the JW's were so opposed to getting the checks?
I was thinking they maybe they thought that by doing the checks that they were admiting that they are responsible for screening and making sure children were safe. By not screening maybe they were saying "child safety has nothing to do with us, all responsibility lies with the individual members of JWs".
since leaving all organized religion, all superstition, all acceptance of deity, i have a terrible time truly understanding 'religious' thought.. i really do.. how is it possible for thinking people to just accept, without proof, all they accept?
this morning i overheard a conversation between two christians in a coffee shop.
they say to me 'dad, what's wrong with just being a nice, good person?
If it is impossible for God to lie, yet nothing is impossible for God.
since leaving all organized religion, all superstition, all acceptance of deity, i have a terrible time truly understanding 'religious' thought.. i really do.. how is it possible for thinking people to just accept, without proof, all they accept?
this morning i overheard a conversation between two christians in a coffee shop.
they say to me 'dad, what's wrong with just being a nice, good person?
The excuses and reasons for believing in religions and Gods can also be used to justify the JW religion.
How can we be so sure God isnt directing JW's? Since when did our human reasoning capabilities become the only way to truth?
The bible is full of just as many flaws as the Watchtower. The idea of a God is full of flaws aswell.
Atheists are usually quite consitant. They dont give the tooth fairy any more credibility than Jehovah or voodo any more credabilty over Islam .
i ask this because obviously everyone has different criteria, hence why we have muslims who think quran is the more than enough proof, christians who think the bible is perfect proof and atheists who believe that nothing yet has been proof enough of gods existence.. living with humans we all must have a good idea of human nature (god should certainly know) so what would you provide as proof if you were god to convince the masses of your existence?.
if you were a christian would your proof surpass that contained in the bible, would you provide less proof?.
if you are atheist would you provide a mathematical equation or a series of supernatural events that fulfill prophecies every 100 years?.
^ if an athiest was hypothetically a God he would no longer be athiest
but if he then was to prove he was God, what would he give as proof?
I think thats what i mean
