1Averagejoe

Joined

• started 5 topics
• posted 93 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by 1Averagejoe

• 
  56

  Hello Everyone

  by MarieK in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i hope everyone is having a good saturday.

  i've visited this many times in the past month or so, joined yesterday and finally got the nerve to post!

  needless to say, i'm super nervous, being new to this whole experience.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  See. All are welcomed! .. Sorry was trying to correct a typo...but couldnt find original message...

  Am still learning.... Baby steps.
• 
  56

  Hello Everyone

  by MarieK in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i hope everyone is having a good saturday.

  i've visited this many times in the past month or so, joined yesterday and finally got the nerve to post!

  needless to say, i'm super nervous, being new to this whole experience.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  Hi MarieK. And welcome. That's awesome!

  I've been reading these forums for a long time too and only beat you by a few weeks in posting.

  Thanks for your story hoping to hear more. Glad to hear your husband is "awake"

  Here you'll find you can express your changing views as we all have while we learn. A great place to be updated and get links to subjects of interest.

  Take things easy... Fade ever so carefully and gradually.

  Welcome!
• 
  56

  Hello Everyone

  by MarieK in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i hope everyone is having a good saturday.

  i've visited this many times in the past month or so, joined yesterday and finally got the nerve to post!

  needless to say, i'm super nervous, being new to this whole experience.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  Hi MarieK, welcome! I beat you in posting by a few weeks and it's great to be here. You will feel free to express your thoughts, doubts, rant and so on. Even as we now grow in our research we can still express our views, changes in thoughts, questioning as we go on. Yes am still in, by outward appearances still an elder for a short while. Phew I don't have to lie to the gullible from the platform again, but living a lie.

  Gkad to hear your husband is "awake" too.

  Waiting for the rest of your story. Hope you take things slow and easy in your fade...leaving ever so careful, gradual like.
• 
  12

  The lion king mufasa in today's WT?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has no one else seen this illustration in today's watchtower?

  i don't know how to post it on here perhaps someone will help?.

  i swear its straight out of the lion king, the scene were scar throws mufasa into the stampede "long live the king" that scene.. i wonder how many jw kids will be picking up on this today?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  Yes. Thought the same and showed it to some kids who were quick to see it too.

  And yes we still do watch movies... It's a classic here.

  Once more they have shown no originality in their art work... Not the first time they've copied and pasted. Perhaps too much brain washing has killed the artists' imagination skill.
• 
  12

  The lion king mufasa in today's WT?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has no one else seen this illustration in today's watchtower?

  i don't know how to post it on here perhaps someone will help?.

  i swear its straight out of the lion king, the scene were scar throws mufasa into the stampede "long live the king" that scene.. i wonder how many jw kids will be picking up on this today?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  
  
• 
  14

  Belonging To The JW Club Makes JWs Feel Special!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  honestly, they really have nothing going for them except that they are in an exclusive club.

  they are in a better place than anyone else.

  they have it over everyone else because of their superiority.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  No indept comments during the meeting from most, but after the meetings you hear their voices trying to catch up on the latest. Not single comment about what the meeting was about.

  As time goes on you have to do more to "fit in" then when hard times hit or old age, and your useless, where the club? Where are my pips at?
• 
  17

  BBC Radio 4. The Report. ''Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse''. Thursday 9th July 8pm.

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  Thanks ScenicViewer for the extra info.

  Lol. Left the meetings right after the congregation bible study in hopes to hear the anticipated broadcast, didnt know they had rescheduled it. Please keep us posted. I would love a download link it if possible.
• 
  17

  BBC Radio 4. The Report. ''Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse''. Thursday 9th July 8pm.

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  Thanks Thomascovenant. Perhaps knowledge of this upcoming broadcast has added heat to the GB concerning their history of mishandling child abuse cases, as noted in Morris' address in trying to wash their hands clean.
• 
  98

  Anthony Morris III goes on an eight minute rant over child abuse

  by Richard_I in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.

  link to video.

  i'm writing a transcript right now.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  Kairos hopefully something big will happed.

  Looking forward to hearing this reminder from another post by

  ThomasCovenant2 days ago

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

  To be aired this thursday.

  
  
• 
  12

  Questions to ask after July broadcast

  by scooterspank in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering what questions you might ask an active jw following the july broadcast and the 10 minutes addressing child sex abuse?

  or is it even worth the trouble.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  1Averagejoe

  I will say as I have mentioned to some elders when we were having this subject discussed at the elders school that this is because it's prevalent and there have been cases of elders/bethelite being taken to court due to child abuse. I was a Bethelite so sometimes my comments are credited to knowing stuff due to that.

  To one elder I had said we've been blaming christendom for the same thing thats been happening right among us.