Congrats for sawing thru the mental bars of the Watchtower prison.
Sour Grapes
hello to all on this board.
thanks so much for creating it and fostering the spirit of welcoming and honesty here.
i have been "lurking" here for a while now and should really introduce myself.
Congrats for sawing thru the mental bars of the Watchtower prison.
Sour Grapes
i found this on another ex-jw site and it's well worth a read .
.. it's a bit long though... .
growing up in a jehovahs witness household was very confusing.
Thank you for posting.
Being a JW child was no picnic.
Sour Grapes
to be a good jehovah's witness you must:.
have a fear of growing old and be vain about how you look.. struggle to make decisions.. be a nobody who can have power over others.. have a mental disabliity.. have a physical disabilty who wants a cure.. be normal, but have parents who are j.w.'s..
have had bouts of depression.. have a fear of being wrong.. the above are based upon people in the kh.
To be a good Jehovah's Witness you must:
Have a fear of growing old and be vain about how you look.
Struggle to make decisions.
Be a nobody who can have power over others.
Have a mental disabliity.
Have a physical disabilty who wants a cure.
Be normal, but have parents who are J.W.'s.
Have had bouts of depression.
Have a fear of being wrong.
The above are based upon people in the KH
that I go to.
Sour Grapes
announce was made this week that the assembly halls in london, ohio and indianapolis indiana will be sold and a new 3000 seat assembly hall will be built in southwest ohio.
the assembly hall in london ohio was built in the 70's and is in fine shape - nothing wrong with it.
the new one will cost around 8-9 million.
The WTBTS will be asking for all members of the congregation
to make a least a one time donation for the construction of the
new assembly hall. Then at the circuit assemblies in the new
hall they will ask for more money for the loan to the Society.
In 15 years it will be paid off and not belong to the people who
contributed to it with money and free labor but the the WTBTS
( the bank ). Pretty slick. It is like going to the bank to borrow
money to build a house. You make payments for 15 years and
then when you have it paid off the house belongs not to you but to
the bank.
Sour Grapes
it just drives me freakin crazy when my wife and.
her friends say things like "well, in this system of things.
we will never be caught up in our work at home.
It just drives me freakin crazy when my wife and
her friends say things like "well, in this system of things
we will never be caught up in our work at home."
Or, "in this system of things we will always have
sickness and death."
Or, "in this system of things we will always have
bad weather."
This system of things is all we got, there ain't nothing
else out there. The Witlesses are so content about
living in a future fairy tell paradise that they fail to live the
only life they have.
Sour Grapes
during today's witchtower study there was so much wisdom.
coming forth from the conductor and those in attendance that.
i could only say to myself "can't they hear what they are saying?".
When he said that 80% of the sites were pornagraphic I wondered if a roomful
of young Bethelite guys spent their evenings counting all of the porn sights
so that the Faithful Slave would know how many there were.
during today's witchtower study there was so much wisdom.
coming forth from the conductor and those in attendance that.
i could only say to myself "can't they hear what they are saying?".
During today's Witchtower Study there was so much wisdom
coming forth from the conductor and those in attendance that
I could only say to myself "can't they hear what they are saying?"
Of course the Faithful Slave is begining to demonize the internet.
The conductor said that 80% of all web sites are pornagraphic
and that for this reason many Witlesses are deciding not to have
the internet in their homes.
Another brother said that you can be on a safe web page and
then all of a sudden a pornagraphic web page just pops up.
Then someone chimmed in "that once you see that pornagraphic
picture it is burned into your brain and it could lead you to commit
fornication or adultry.
Is their faith so weak that if they see a naked girl that they have
to go and have sex with the next available partner? You would
think that being a true Christian that you would manifest the fruitage
of the spirit one of which is self control.
I am on the internet all day long and I have never had a pornagraphic
web page pop up. You have to go after it if you want it.
It is just so said to see how brain dead they are.
Sour Grapes
a witless friend sent this to me yesterday.
able to copy the picture however the email is interesting.
and really shows the depth of their mentality.. sour grapes.
This first came out 3 1/2 years ago. It is not new light
but old light.
a witless friend sent this to me yesterday.
able to copy the picture however the email is interesting.
and really shows the depth of their mentality.. sour grapes.
A witless friend sent this to me yesterday. I was not
able to copy the picture however the email is interesting
and really shows the depth of their mentality.
Sour Grapes
Here is a story told at the annual meeting……
You know how the society has been cutting costs, part time help, cutting back
on cd;s selling property etc... well , you know the famous WATCHTOWER
READ GODS WORD DAILY " sign is on one side of the place,,,, well ,,, on the
other side is a sign but also a clock which is lit at night! Well the G.B, decided
that it cost too much in electricity so they decided to turn it off! Now remember ,
this has been lit since forever as far as bethel goes. Well they got inundated
with phone calls and Emails telling them that the clock was dark and the lights
were out, The brothers would politely answer that yes they understood but that
they are cutting costs so decided to turn it off. WELL..... the MAYORS office
eventually p honed and said that THEY were inundated with calls objecting to
the clock being turned off , so when the brothers told them about the cost
cutting the mayor said....." We will have a man come over and put a meter on
that side and the City will pay for it!!!! .........WOW talk about a LANDMARK!!!!
JEHOVAH is amazing and truly awe inspiring!!!
mag available here.
setting is obviously in the "new system", i'd say quite some time after the big a. everything looks neat and clean, so it can't be just few months or even years after the big slaughter.. let me point out few things that made me laugh:.
every effort was made to depict natural materials, but you see leather straps with metal rivets holding the picnic basket lids.
They will import their clothes from China. Why don't they
show the inside of the pretty houses sitting on the hill sides?
Maybe because they will be not be using dish washers, refrigeratures,
electric or gas stoves. If there is electicity where are the power
plants with their large stock piles of coal? If there is gas who is going
to man the gas and oil wells?
Sour Grapes