Thank you for the list and overview of futurists, jgnat.
I'm having a blast reading up on them and their uplifting vision and insights.
Greetings
Fernando
as you know, my husband has physically left the witnesses.
he nevertheless clings to many of the beliefs like a protective cloak, and every once in a while i trigger a dissonant episode where my reality clashes with his.
recently he listened in on my work research, a video of a futurist describing the a potential "disruptive change" event in the next fifteen years, as our culture shifts to autonomic (driverless) vehicles.
Thank you for the list and overview of futurists, jgnat.
I'm having a blast reading up on them and their uplifting vision and insights.
Greetings
Fernando
i cant figure out how some persons like my husband and son, simply got too 'busy' and gradually stopped going to meetings, and were totally left alone, and yet some persons.
seem to indicate that people were constantly in persuit of them, for a way to disfellowship them.. the ones who fade never get 'disfellowshiped' unless they write a letter formally requesting thier name be of the membership.. just like the jw org tells people who get baptised to do to thier former church,.
i havent been to a meeting in a few months however it is also under a 'remodel' im sure im not missed.
If one does not care to openly question, doubt or challenge, I guess one could be left alone, unless a hounder (Pharisee) develops an agenda.
i've noticed about half my half are using these.
of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.
are the society going to find a way to police this?
Whilst there are risks, this has to be the best device to cope with meetings if one really has to go to these apostate GB propaganda sessions.
i know this has been talked about in the past but im new here..
Yes, there is some honey in the arsenic.
How is that good though?
The Watchtower hides that it is rotten at its very core (arsenic).
However there are good people, with good intentions, and good hearts, caught up in this religion.
The liberating gospel message of scripture, although not in their hearts and not on their lips, can be found in their publications, albeit fragmented and "buried under the mass of uninspired decrees of" the Watchtower supreme council of Popes and their apostate magisterium.
i was wondering just how many years have to pass before a bac(born again christian) or a jws before they say enough is enough with no rapture/armaggeddon.
i just feel sorry for them to just be waiting and waiting and waiting without any results.
bacs have been waiting for the rapture for 2000 years and sometimes i wonder is it a mental defect or is it they just are so "blinded" and cannot see they have been duped.
My spiritual awakening or birth has led me away from religionist interpretation of, and preoccupation with, the Rapture and Armageddon.
I believe you can post links to pictures that are already on the internet.
Maybe some folk would recommend sites where you can load your pictures to.
do jws believe that if a gay or lesbian is reserrected after the great trib he or she will have to give up homosexuality in order to live..
Who cares what the apostate Watchtower organisation says and believes on something they are totally ignorant about?
i know it's a completely absurd thing to say, but something happened to me today that triggered the old cult reaction.
my mind instantly lapsed back into that of a jw and for a split second i thought that because i wasn't doing jehovah things that jehovah's blessing had been removed from me and this is why my life seems to be running into so many dead-ends.
as a jw i attributed anything good happening to me to being the result of my being a good jw and dutifully doing everything the borg teaches.
Sorry to hear that you are going through a bad patch.
It can be a challenge at such a time to count ones blessings, yet it is great to be free of the cult and the hypocritical robots that inhabit it, especially with your partner by your side.
Are those who earn a good salary, in a first world country, in the top 1% of earth's population?
At any rate I believe the majority by far are worse off even when our troubles seem huge.
Life and earning a living is hard. Sometimes especially for those earning a good salary.
Sending you positive vibes for a breakthrough and a better future.
Fernando
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzc2m8_mba&list=uus0vqkpnsxult0gsz6ahpta.
Have some respect folks, it's exactly his condescending propagandist drone tone that got him elected to the Sanhedrin (aka GB).
it's been quite a while since i lasted posted anything on jwn.
i was in hiding previously, but only because i wanted to avoid the shun gun until i had the opportunity to tell my former congregation what i think about the org./gb.
i last attended a meeting over 2.5 years ago but it wasn't until june--when i earned my bachelor's degree--that i finally had the time to collect my thoughts and get them down on paper...i decided to write my letter in a style i felt would be most appealing to my target audience--jw's still under gb mind control --in the hope that at least a few would read it and actually "think".
Welcome spbondgirl007, and great letter, which makes it clear you are not of their sort (thank goodness).