don’t know how i ended up here but no one who understands will listen, or any one who will listen doesn’t understand.
i grew up in the “truth”, i was baptised at 17 as it was encouraged by the elders.
i really didn’t understand what i was getting into.
Good move Simon. And I'm glad that (for the time being at least) you have left him on the board because when he posts he can be replied to; so any lurkers or those that have not made their minds up yet can analyse what he writes and the responses.
"Black Spirit" (BS) will waken up more searching, honest and thinking people to the hypocrisy, money hungry and double talking behaviour of jw leaders than he could ever realise.
my dad died a couple years back (not how you thought this would start, i know).
he was an elder, and a very emotionally abusive father, well before the point where he ever shunned me.
he died pretty much penniless, and never would buy life insurance or anything.
Excellent news dubstepped! If you find a parking space or repair a leaky pipe later today you can be sure it was Jehovah that opened up the opportunity to you! If so put it in a podcast.
don’t know how i ended up here but no one who understands will listen, or any one who will listen doesn’t understand.
i grew up in the “truth”, i was baptised at 17 as it was encouraged by the elders.
i really didn’t understand what i was getting into.
Damaged, Black Spirit doesn't even know who we are to be witnesses of. He ignores Acts 1 v 8 as does his Governing Body who he gives "obeisance" to.
You will find much love and support here from genuine people. People who don't cover over child abuse and spout false predictions to retain control, luxury apartments, power and money and a very comfy lifestyle on the backs of others.
Jesus had "nowhere to lay his head" and preached from fishing boats and hillsides - the GB can lay their heads in the nicest apartments in apartments in printing and video production factories throughout the globe and "preach" from comfy chairs in plush offices.
jesus christ, the son of the most high god, jehovah has this to say: "if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
if you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.
now because you are no part of the world, but i have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
BS quoted - "Be obedient to those who are taking the lead among you and be submissive" - Hebrews 13:17.
He forgets the context which is a few verses back at Hebrews 13:7 - 9.
(Hebrews 13:7-9) . . .Remember those who are taking the lead among you, who have spoken the word of God to you, and as you contemplate how their conduct turns out, imitate their faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.
9 Do not be led astray by various and strange teachings, for it is better for the heart to be strengthened by undeserved kindness than by foods, which do not benefit those occupied with them.
(Bold italics added.)
unconfirmed reports this am (australian time) that tr has been transferred to a maximum security prison..
A snippet from an Independent (UK newspaper) article ...
A judge initially banned reporting on Robinson’s imprisonment but the order was lifted following a challenge by The Independent and local media.
Robinson, who was jailed under his real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, had already been handed a suspended sentence for the same crime and was told he could have caused the trial to collapse.
jesus christ, the son of the most high god, jehovah has this to say: "if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
if you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.
now because you are no part of the world, but i have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
Whose "Witnesses" are we to be according to Acts 1 v 8?
Jehovah's Witnesses or ...
Jesus' Witnesses?
jesus christ, the son of the most high god, jehovah has this to say: "if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
if you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.
now because you are no part of the world, but i have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
BS wrote:
The almighty God has not changed.
Probably not. Look how he behaves in Judges Chapters 19 through 21 ...
let’s start with the good news for the congregation that is.
two new sisters were added to the group a mother and her daughter.
then the bad news.
Also in a congregation of 70 ish I know well ...
Guess how many baptised publishers there are under the age of 26.
Two.
And unbaptised publishers? (pre teens, teens, bible studies)
Zero.
And over age 55?
35 - half of the congregation!
And how many young women/teens have left after growing up in the borg in the last five years? How many older women have DA'd or deliberately gone inactive?
6. + 2.
And older ones who have died in the last five years?
10.
a good friend of ours and i were chatting the other day about the difference between a zealous person and fanatical person.. what is the difference?.
why is someone praised for being "zealous" , but another person is mocked or condemned for being a "fanatical" person?.
how would jws be classed?.
"Zeal" is when you agree with the thing the person is zealous for.
"Fanatic" is when you don't ...
Yet "Zealot" has the same connotation as Fanaticism.
Video production centre eh?
So the industrial unit which Satan's world throws up in a few weeks err... lovingly reduced printery building or lorry garage can have the camera team moved over from Mill Hill.
