hi guy's & gal's,.
as many of you now know, i have decided to create my own blog.
i have just finished the about me bit within the site.. it would be very much appreciated if you could read what i've written and let me know what you think.. here is the link to it;.
I enjoyed your blog. I have shared many of the same
mental abuses you did as a child. I am still "in" for the
sake of my family but as all of the "new truths" are
revealed in the Witchtower and the light keeps getting
brigher and brigher, they are beginning to smell a rat.
Sour Grapes
honestly, i can't remember if i told some of this already, so if i repeat myself, please allow me this.
i am practicing for old age..... it is now 6 years since i got the "long form" application for gilead, with over 120 questions to answer.
5 years since i got my notice that we were selected to attend the 119th class of gilead from april-september 2005.. prior to this, i really wanted to be a co. i won't belabor the point about my ex jw wife wanting to go overseas, but suffice to say, her goal won out over my goal.
Thanks for sharing Jeff. I am thankful that you are a
part of our community and I hope that any borderline,
sitting on the fence Witnesses, read your posts and
learn before it is to late. A life is a terrible thing to waste.
Sour Grapes
do you have talent as a musician?
how much better would it be if you focused on pioneering!.
are you artistic?
I was accepted to go to a medical school but then the elders
told me that I was waisting my time. Why would I want to
enter a profession that will not be needed in a few more years.
That was 45 years ago.
Sour Grapes
when i read these eye witness accounts from haiti.
like jehovah is blessing his people with diesel fuel.
and food my brain begins to bleed.
When I read these eye witness accounts from Haiti
like Jehovah is blessing His people with diesel fuel
and food my brain begins to bleed. The JW's make
it sound like God came down from heaven on his fiery
charriot with a 50 gallon drum of diesel sitting in the
back of the charriot. How about the hundreds of thousands
of other Haitians who have received fuel, food, and
medical attention from countries all over the world
and from the good efforts of so many churches. I guess
that is not from Jehovah, it is just a stroke of good luck.
I had a dear Witness friend who recently died. He was
having surgery and died on the table. He was an elder,
pioneer, family man, role model in the congregation.
I am sure that everyone was praying for a successful
surgery but he died. Maybe Jehovah did not hear their
prayers or maybe he just doesn't care.
Sour Grapes
....either in publications, during talks or by individual witnesses?.
That I would not finish high school or get old.
Sour Grapes
they have 16,000 jw's in haiti who are now mostly desititute and will be for a long time.
how long will the wt hand out free food, clothes, shoes and pay for their medical care?
or will they just tell them to go to caesar for medical care?
When they repaired homes after Katrina, they required that the
Witnesses forward the issurance claim and check to the WTBS
when it was paid.
Sour Grapes
this is probably not going to come out right but when jw's look at the news and images from haiti and i do believe their hearts are touched by it (for the most part) why don't they connect their 'unified' vision of the big a with this much smaller scale catastrophe?
shouldn't it be kind of like a preview for them of just what they are in fact looking forward to?.
my apologies if you find the question heartless but considering they believe 99% of the population will be destroyed and they will 'help' clean up after the big a it's a valid question in my opinion..
They are brain dead. The brother giving the talk Sunday said
how terrible and sad the situation is in Haiti with all of the
suffering and death. What does he think it is going to be
like when not 50,000 people die but 6,000,000,000 die?
Sour Grapes
"treasure your place in the congregation.".
dozy did this exercise previously but i thought paragraph 5 was worth looking at agan.. let's change the perspective to the first person:.
"the spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience" is so widespread that it is like the air we breathe.
The only people who say that they are not in a
cult are those who are in a cult.
Sour Grapes
The Witnesses make the great tribulation sound so painless. They use terms like:
When God cleanses the earth, when God brings an end to this old system,
when a 1,000 years of peace begins, when paradise finally gets here, when
God wipes away the wicked, etc. It sounds so clean and neat and sterile.
The only problem is, look at Haiti, there will be no running water, no electricity,
no cell phones, food in freezes will be no good in about a week, no air conditioning,
no heat, no washers and dryers, no cars (unless God makes the gas flow out
of the underground storage tanks) And one more thing 6 billion dead men,
women, children, babies and a lot of dead animals. The stench is going to
be horrific. They will be busy a long time burying bodies, then building those
pretty houses that you see in the Watchtower without power tools. Unless
they generate electricity by burning coal, but then you have to dig up coal,
but then you need heavy machininery, but then you need big polluting companies
to make the equipment, and hot and dirty steel mills, foundries, forge shops,
and you need the bosses and workers. It sounds like what we have now.
Maybe we are are already in Paradise. Maybe the Witnesses were right
and the end came in 1975. Ah, free at last!
Sour Grapes
"treasure your place in the congregation.".
dozy did this exercise previously but i thought paragraph 5 was worth looking at agan.. let's change the perspective to the first person:.
"the spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience" is so widespread that it is like the air we breathe.
Another brother said that Jehovah dropped our
Tuesday night meeting so that we could have the
family worship night because the Faithful Slave
knows how important it is to study.
Sour Grapes
