it was just about a year ago exactly that i really and truly decided in my mind where i stood and as rutherford would say "face the facts".
before that, there was a period of about two years where i almost felt like i had a dual personality, vacillating between pro and anti jw, a very confusing, draining mental state to be in.
and it all started over seven years ago in 2010, when i read "apostate" material on the internet.
Happy PimO birthday to my apostate sister with my favourite name:
Neat Blue Dog
Always wanted to ask where the name idea came from?
Edit: love uncle punks name for you: Neatster. ...punkys such a 70s kid, I can just imagine him at school with his mates, all with silly nicknames!
so i phoned an elder in the cong and asked him: "when did the calling for the great crowd start, was it 1935?
he said, "no, i think i remember a convention talk about 1950.
" so anyway, i said, "so then let's say in the 20th century right?
I think some estimate well over 200,000 early Christians were martyred.
The WTS decides that a large proportion of those must have been fake and died for their fake beliefs.
But all their guys now are 100% legit. Yup.
Yup. I think Nero martyred 40,000 in one purge alone.
But if you happened to be at a conference at Cedar Point, Ohio in 1929 you're automatically in, no matter if your the biggest sod out there.
i've seen comments by some on leah's expose on scientology: aftermath.
she actually won an emmy for this show.
rumor is that she might take on jehovah's witnesses in season 3. .
So, if she's charitable enough to do a segment about Jehovah's Witnesses, I certainly hope there will be courageous, well-spoken ex-Witnesses appearing on the show who are SHOWING their faces and are not seated in the darkness hiding their face with voice obscured like they are running from the mob!
Some will be interviewed on screen...no doubt. There are enough of us.
But....having obscured faces and voices interviewed will demonstrate to the public that it IS a captive org and that their many trapped awake jws whose families have been weaponized and used against them, so they fear to show their faces.
amongst the many jw splinter groups , the "lords witnesses" are amongst the more interesting / amusing / depressing ( delete as applicable ).
the de-facto leader , gordon ritchie , was quite a well known jw in the uk in the past.
there was an amusing article in the times about him a few years ago ( https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh-its-name-is-gordon-g3qxf8w5fn9 ) firewall / free to subscribe.
LOL Stan
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Re:The Lords Witnesses
This is what happens when an intelligent guy is prevented from accessing further education.
His active mind comes up with this drivel.
hi guys.
sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.
just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.
I'd say,
Why is it in so many passages of the NT, when Jesus speaks he prefaces his words with:
"Truly I say to you" or " Truly I tell you"
So why is it when Jesus is on the stake talking to the criminal beside him he says,according to you:
"Truly I say to you TODAY (comma)you will be with me in paradise".
Why after so times using the expression 'truly I say to you' he suddenly adds the 'today'. Doesn't it seem more likely the comma comes BEFORE the today?
if you take the red pill, you'll have knowledge, you'll be awakened, aware of reality, you'll have freedom.. if you take the blue pill, you stay in your bubble, wearing rose colored glasses, and feel security in an illusion.. taking the red pill isn't something that's easy to do.
to accept that everything around you is an illusion built up on lies or half truths.
but hey, it might feel good to be aware and break free from this illusion.
TTATT The RED pill was needed especially because of my Kids, They are young and I HAD to get them out of the cult before their lives were ruined, at any cost.
And the cost is high.
I had to highlight this.
Ttatt you are a beautiful, brave and good person.
https://youtu.be/lfddxzipzga.
Marie 33 that video broke my heart. The opera singer who gave up her career . The 87 year old who had ( prolly his last) chance to sing in a choir. So many talented musicians who won't get to perform again, as they should, in this one life.:'( :'( :'( :'(
if you take the red pill, you'll have knowledge, you'll be awakened, aware of reality, you'll have freedom.. if you take the blue pill, you stay in your bubble, wearing rose colored glasses, and feel security in an illusion.. taking the red pill isn't something that's easy to do.
to accept that everything around you is an illusion built up on lies or half truths.
but hey, it might feel good to be aware and break free from this illusion.
Always reality...always.
But....I have a confession.
I am a secret watcher of JW broadcast videos, and not just any old stuff.
I love to watch the most emotional ones about the resurrection. The one of sergie playing violin in the field after death, of Jesus waking the dead girl-child, of the dead son reunited with his father in the 2016 convention video. Of the paradise video....The old couple as they stare at a cameo picture of a long dead daughter.
And I bawl like a baby.
I bawl for my grandparents whom I will never see young and vigorous. I bawl for the millions of dead children who never even made it to 5. Who were sent up the chimney, or to work in the "dark satanic mills" and whose bodies were thrown into a paupers grave.
I cry for a lost dream that my modern, science loving skeptic cannot countenance .....A world ruled by an egotistical dictator.....but whom we tolerate to have our dead loved ones back.
And the lives that our sense of justice demands from our cruel world... the unloved, unwashed, uncared for, unmourned masses in their unmarked graves.
I can't help it, it's my dirty athiest secret.
was watching this recently done new history of the society - here it is on youtube if you missed it when it first came out:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv82k1z7n_4&feature=youtu.be.
lots of contradictory and nutty comments - for instance stating one minute that 1914 proved such a faith strengthening event because it fulfilled all their predictions, how encouraged they were, and then a few minutes later claiming the opposite - that many were disappointed and shocked because their expectations were not met!.
What does everyone think of how the video presents Rutherford and how he was "appointed" as president "by the brothers".
Can anyone explain his shenanigans as I've never quite understood exactly what he did that was devious, in order to gain control of WTBTS.
Also, what part did Russell wife Maria play in his writing ? I understood she was on the original board of directors.
ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.
you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.
you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.
Ex-jw Oscars would be called the Korahs.
LMAO you kill me girl!!😅😅😆
