not sure if this has been mentioned before so admin feel free to take this down, but i just watched this interview.
i always love exjwfith's interviews but this one particularly grabbed me.
pedro (broken kite) not sure if you are on here but wow, what a story you had to tell.
ExJW fifth is a supreme interviewer bar none.
There are many talented exjw's creating fantastic you tube content. Two of my personal favourites are Susan Gaskin and Lloyd Evan's " Watchtower in Focus".
But when it comes to interviews I believe ExJW Fifth really is up there with any television professionals, since he really allows the interviewee to fully express themselves. He is able to fully relate back to his guest yet never makes it about him.
look what an ex-bethelite has to say about the spirit channeling he saw first hand up at wallkill:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmqnzbyrko.
now i believe rayven's story of horror at brooklyn bethel:.
I am fairly certain that given Fred Franz incredible, narcissistic and total belief that he was the one and only conduit between almighty God the creator of the universe and mankind, there is nothing, literally nothing that he got into his potty head that he would not do.
Just listen to the guy's speeches. He makes Hitler sound calm.
makes me crazy:.
there: go over there!.
their: they own it; belonging to etc.. for the love of pete - use them correctly!.
I have to say, though, I always feel like a stinker complaining about grammar on exjw sites when so many of us have been deprived of a decent education.
Some have been home schooled by online scam schools and my heart bleeds for them.
makes me crazy:.
there: go over there!.
their: they own it; belonging to etc.. for the love of pete - use them correctly!.
If we're going all nutso :
It's not : my BELIEVES
it's BELIEFS BELIEFS BELIEFS BELIEFS BELIEFS
( Oh, and its not : I had ADVISE its ADVICE)
i mean, is it advisable to try to wake a friend up?
what about the risk of he/she falling into depression?
anger?
I think almost everyone goes through a period of, well, at least very deep sadness when they discover ttatt. Most liken it to a bereavement; and the subsequent five stages of grief...numbness, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance.
Do you mean experiences of someone simply not recovering, or getting "stuck" in one of the stages like permenant depression or anger?
I think having support either through exjw sites or counselling would hopefully prevent that. Also the immense feeling of freedom would be a huge preventative for any of the above.
I think its far more dangerous not knowing the truth and risking being DF or just not being able to continue going to meetings through age/disability/depression etc etc. The misery of being trapped feeling "less than", failing god or being rejected by your peers is far more likely to end in tragedy.
how do we explain the marital role with what paul said in 1 cor.
“but i want you to realize that the head of every man is christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of christ is god.” (niv).
read a few chapters earlier at 1 corinthians 7 to see what paul does say about the relationships between husband and wife.
Thank you Doug, that is very interesting. I knew that many academics believe the more misogynistic parts of the NT were much later additions, but I did not know how they came to that conclusion.
I often think its strange that Watchtower got rid of the stoning story at John 8 because it is thought to be a later addition. But they are perfectly happy to accept that Paul wrote the pastoral epistles, when there is an awful lot of evidence he didn't.
Also, I find it incredible they do not let women so much as hold mics. Yet even *their* translation has pheobe as a Dikkonos - Deacon, or ministerial servant as they term it.
it must be pointed out in favour of christendoms religions that they do not discriminate against people regarding their religious beliefs.
many old age jehovah`s witnesses are residents of christendoms age care homes.. isn`t this a conunudrum ?
they, jw`s condemn christendom as part of the world empire of false religion and they cast off their old faithful members to their enemy christendom , to look after them without lifting a finger themselves.. in the meantime they are raking in millions of dollars $$$$ in selling off real estate properties in new york and elsewhere around the world.
My non JW great aunt went into a care home run by Jw's, she had dementia.
When she died her diamond rings disappeared. We also never got some expensive antique furniture she brought with her, some of which they look and placed around the building. It was valued in the thousands back in the 70s. Her brother was the executor and I guess he couldn't be bothered to fight them over the furniture, but how Christian of them.
this is the most weird story.
if you read half way down you will see the protagonists are jdubs.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-family-kidnapping-naked-nisku-1.4398942.
finky Maybe attendance was so low at their Kingdom Hall they decided to kidnap a few people and take them to their Hall for a meeting.
Fear Obligation , Guilt
Finky it's CASE SOLVED LoL!!I I could never work out where/why the kidnapping came in with this story !!
here is a fascinating subject.
according to the bible , one of adam's first assignments was to name all the animals including the sea creatures and dinosaurs of course.
we don't know how long this took but, as all witnesses know, the time period is crucial in working out the timing of armageddon).
For years, I thought the Flintstones was a documentary - Love it - f**king hilarious!
Simon: please introduce a new feature on this forum - 'Comment of the Year', where posters can nominate their favourite comments.
If you did, the above from Punkofnice would get my vote.
Me too!
I've always thought it would be a cool Christmasy kind of thread - post of the year or comment of the year, ExJW YouTuber of the year etc etc 😀
here is a fascinating subject.
according to the bible , one of adam's first assignments was to name all the animals including the sea creatures and dinosaurs of course.
we don't know how long this took but, as all witnesses know, the time period is crucial in working out the timing of armageddon).
This guy is a total and utter troll
LoL "the real .....( pain in the ass!"
No witness would allude to "how crucial the time period (before Adam sinned) is to working out Armageddon"
A) because only apostates know about Fred Franz and his loony counting the 6,000 years to 1975
b) they try to avoid alluding to dates of Armageddon AT ALL now, given their history
There is no way you are an "in" dub!
