the mind control in this latest oct.15th is amazing.
our lurking jw friend sent us this and it basically tellls witnesses that their opinions don't matter and only god is good .
it belittles independent thinking and explains that each rank and file jw is owned by the alleged " faithful and discreet slave " .
THIS is what they will teach our family in December
Most in the congo's will be either away on holidays or day dreaming of their holiday break and the above mind controlling info will most likely slip "under the radar" sadly.....
Hopefully it may wake a few up (like my wifey!)
i was raised as a jw and have several family members who are witnesses, including my mother.
while i love and respect her very much i was very resentful of being raised in "the truth".
there are several reasons but the main one is the way i was "counseled" and ultimately publically pointed out as a bad associate.
G’day and welcome! Look forward to hearing more from you.
Cheers, Mattieu.
remember when the society used to say that the majority of ones df'ed each year was because of immorality.
i bet you anything the majority each year is for apostacy because they figure out this whole truth fiasco is nothing but a big lie.
the society would rather have people think it is for immorality.
The society would rather have people think it is for immorality.
Heck, it was always more fun when a disfellowshiping announcement was made to imagine some exciting immoral act than plain old boring apostasy!
all of our local radio stations are having tributes to john hughes, playing all the soundtracks from his movies.
http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne.
enjoy, .
All of our local radio stations are having tributes to John Hughes, playing all the soundtracks from his movies. http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne
Enjoy,
Mattieu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80qjh9yivs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkl7v3tbrze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7kpyxbmyw.
Yes Australia rocks! And Melbourne has the best live music scene in the world! Add to the list of great Aussie bands – The Presets!
Mattieu.
who i am is inconsequential.
it's safe to say, however, that i am between a rock and a hard place.
or perhaps...a watchtower and a hard place, more accurately.. i was raised a jw--mom got baptized same day i turned 4 (in 1986), alleged that 'satan got to' me because i wanted to do fun stuff on my birthday rather than go to the convention to see her get baptized.
PS - Ever since Dr Evil used the word "inconsequential", I can never read that word without saying it in his voice. So your opening line was quite humorous...
Mattieu.
who i am is inconsequential.
it's safe to say, however, that i am between a rock and a hard place.
or perhaps...a watchtower and a hard place, more accurately.. i was raised a jw--mom got baptized same day i turned 4 (in 1986), alleged that 'satan got to' me because i wanted to do fun stuff on my birthday rather than go to the convention to see her get baptized.
G'day SD-7, nice to have you on board. All the best with your journey ahead... Mattieu.
tens of thousands of jehovah's witnesses meet in france(afp) 43 minutes ago.
paris tens of thousands of jehovah's witnesses gathered on saturday in cities across france for an annual international gathering, the religious movement said.. about 150,000 flocked to meetings with the main gathering in villepinte, in the paris region, attracting 50,000 followers.. several hundred jehovah's witnesses were baptised by being immersed in water during the event, which lasts the whole weekend.. those baptised were adults, following the example of christ.. jehovah's witnesses consider themselves the heirs of a primitive form of christianity.. their beliefs are strongly based on the text of the bible and they consider modern christian churches to have deviated from the book's true teachings.. followers reject the ideas of modern evolutionary theory and refuse blood transfusions.. they are perhaps best known for preaching on doorsteps, where they offer religious literature and attempt to convert people.. the movement emerged towards the end of the 19th century in the united states and arrived in france in 1906.. there are more than seven million jehovah's witnesses worldwide and around 150,000 in france.. the group's status varies from country to country.
they are given the same recognition as mainstream religions in austria and germany but are classed as a "recognised cult" in denmark.. in france, some of their branches have the status of "religious association" but the movement was also mentioned in a 1995 parliamentary report on sects.. google_ad_section_end(name=article) copyright 2009 afp.
I was baptised at the grand old age of 15....... Man, all those years wasted between 12-15 when I could have been reaching out more in the org.....
in the early 1960s, a jehovah's witness named max hatton was living and working in albany, a town on the southern coast of western australia.
when he was challenged by sda geoff rogerson, who lived in the nearby township of denmark, about the watchtower society's neo-babylonian chronology, max investigated geoff's claims.. after four years of intensive research, max resigned his position as a "servant in the organisation".. max documented the result of his research, and his 77-page study is remarkable and deserves to be widely known.
it is quite likely that the copies max and i have are two of very few copies that now exist.
Hi Doug, you have a pm
Mattieu
i often wondered about this when i first started questioning things.. .
any jw that has died in decades past, how are they even eligible for ressurection?
during the time in which they died, they were never taught "the truth", as everything changed.. any jw today, looking forward to armageddon coming tomorrow, isn't being taught "the truth" either, as will be made manifest by more doctrinal change.
I had someone say to me the other day “it’s sad that you left the truth”, no doubt hoping to get the guilt feelings stirred up inside me. I nearly laughed out loud as I have been reasoning that the “truth” changes so much, that old truths become lies. So what was I leaving, “the truth” or a publishing company that keeps changing its mind to suit the dollar?
Mattieu.
