a brother goes to the thursday night meeting, and an elder says that he and a couple of elders would like to visit with him.
" the elder says "well lets wait till after the meeting.
" so he waits.
Perhaps I am not understanding you fully, as I am a little confused (it happens when you get a little long in the tooth).
Is this a story you heard? Its just if you have been out for 25 years it could not have happened in your own day. Do you mean to say you have seen thingslike this?
Best thread heading yet!!!
so, much against my inclination, i went to the meeting this sunday morning.
just starting to fade, but i needed to do it so that it doesn't look like my hubby turned my head during last week's vacations.
since i'm not just disappearing cold turkey, i went.
Hi mrs E, yes I too saw the photo of that poor little might who drowned with his family trying to escape the war in Syria. It is heartbreaking, and your post made me realize what was not obvious to me when I was blinded by WT dogma.
There are many refugees stuck on the Hungarian border and hundreds & hundreds are opening their homes to them in Germany, where they are trying to go. Crowd funding sites are filled with people raising funds to go to open food kitchens & aid stations at calais where many are living in appalling conditions. Not to mention all the donations of cash & goods to the many charaties supporting aid workers in the war zones they are fleeing from. For all the flak the UN gets from the Watchtower, for many refugees they are a lifeline & do more for desperate, suffering & vulnerable refugees than the Watchtower will ever do.
There is a word for people who behave online the way the WT do about much in the world - they are called 'HATERS'. All they can do is condemn the agencies who at least try to allieviate suffering. NGO's, charities & governments are far from perfect but they are formed of individuals - many of whom genuinely try to effect positive change.....
As the saying goes all it takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing. The WTBTS would do well to consider that.
someone please tell me how or if i can find proof that the rumor [that is pasted below] that was posted by a friend [still in, but should know better] on my face book page is false, [which of course we all know it is,] this makes me so angry, i have to stick my neck out and comment on this post but need something to back me up....anyone want to enlighten me where this got started?
i need proof he never said such a thing, it seems to me its false.
whats interesting is this, the bible in the photo accompanying the statement below is the latest version.... [photo].
@Caleb should't that be one NRSV in english & one Americanised 😜
PS you guys are welcome back to the fold anytime we will even teach you how to play rugby (not your football) & rounders (not baseball)!!!!!!
They don't look angry they look like they are laughing - or 'grimacing' to be more exact, like they have pooped their pants, yeeeuk kind of face. The artist is so used to painting inane JW fake smiles he can't do angry. Gods people don't look in the least perturbed- petting those lions and eating giant fruit for 1000 years has turned them into automatons.
Thanks Outlaw for putting in the pic I couldn't see it in the OP.
i know there is a lot of people on here that will say it is pure make believe but i am interested if anybody has had any real concrete things happen such as something moving or something appearing in the mirror etc.. anything just post it up here even if it wasn't much.
please give a little context as to the situation..
i just had a look over at the pro jw forum because there's always something that can have one laughing ones arse off at the rather less thought of answers.. this one had me nearly choking on my pepsi.
apparently some church had a mass babtism in a football field and this was one of the replies..... ....who would even want to baptize in a football field?.
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well, in an effort to completely rebel against all things 'watchtower', i decided that since i gave all my years since leaving school to the borg, and listened to their admonition to avoid 'higher education' i have just started... right from bottom.... today i took a 2 hour maths test to see if i would be eligible to go on a course to re-take my gcse maths exam (this is the qualification you study for here in england in the last 2 years of compulsory schooling from ages 14-16).
back in may 1988 i did no revision, and didn't study hence a complete flop of all exams.... and seeing that 'education' wasn't on the agenda back then, and has always been warned against, (unless it was perhaps trade oriented) it was wiped from my mind... yep a jw mind-wipe occurred here, i've decided to go back to school, just for the challenge of it, f**k the org, i might have wasted decades swallowing their philosophy, but i don't have to let that past control me now... the test was 'really' hard going... and i don't think i passed, but can still get on a more basic course to start me off if i don't get on the main course.... the tutors were so warm and enthusiastic about me taking up the study at aged 43, it was so nice to hear someone get excited that i'm going to study (never in 29 years with the borg) .
i've also learned something else; jw's talk about the 'highest education' that the watchtower supposedly teaches... bullshit, that 'call and response' crap that you do in watchtower study and other meetings, that parroting, has got to be the lowest form of education there is, you don't use your brain, you don't have to analyse or think or deduce or calculate, or use savvy... it's just call and response, and nothing more, pure repetition, answer what's in the paragraph.
Have to say an oi oi to Cantleave I too took proper exams!!
Unfortunately, despite passing my 'o' levels I did not continue school although I guess I was one of the lucky ones and did attend nursing school at the Royal Free, which was barely acceptable being considered the equivalent of a trade. Despite my JW religous veiws I did want to work for an NGO like medcines sans frontier and do good worldly AND spiritual work.
Fast forward 20 years I went to the Open University, BRITAINS NATIONAL TREASURE , the philosophy module I completed was the best thing I ever did. It fully enabled my critical thinking faculties to flourish & taught me to evaluate claims in a logical way. Without it I would never have fully apreciated ttatt. The sheer arogance of the WT popes to assume that folk that have spent lifetimes studying scriptures, greek, hebrew, Judaic studies etc know nothing and whose work can be brushed aside is astounding. Only after studying a little myself did I fully appreciate this.
Marvster I highly recommend you go for a course there as you do not need GCSE's as a mature student.
