Posts by Mad Sweeney

6

WT Library 2012 CD ROM?

by Mad Sweeney in

jw
friends

it is usually out by now.

did i miss a thread?.

A polite way of saying "quit whining and get back to work!"

by cedars in

i was interested to read the life story of leonard smith in the latest april 15th watchtower (now available for download at www.jw.org).

it's not every day i notice a brit getting to relate his life story in the literature, so this peaked my curiousity.. i chuckled to myself when i stumbled on the following anecdote on page 21:.

is it just me, or is that not just a thinly-veiled way of saying "shut up with your moaning, and get back to work!"???.

Mad Sweeney

I bet Knorr didn't say, "Don't worry." These stories are always embellished and cleaned up. Knowing the dude's rep, he probably said something like, "STFU and get back to work!"

32

"Disobedience is very costly"

by TOTH in

wow, i had some words with my father in law.

over the years i have always had such a profound respect for him because he used to speak from the heart and used the bible to express his view, but lately he has become more and more "wt-ish" with his comments.

my wife has been suffering from severe pain for years due to injuries suffered at the hands of her 1st husband.

Mad Sweeney

Her father beat her to within an inch of her life just before her first wedding, he's is unkind and unloving and selfish, she KNOWS the Borg is BS, and she still goes to her dad for advice.

Her family sounds completely toxic. Avoid as much as possible.

13

In this modern information age, don't JWs browse the Internet for information at all?

by DilemmaGF in

i am just curious, there are tonnes of information about the wt and the stories of its hypocrisies in the internet.

are they aware of all these?

or they just obediently go to the www.watchtower.org only, and never feel curious enough to click on other link that mentions about jw, wt etc.....

Mad Sweeney

http://ex-jw.com/web-directory/cult-free-radio-archives-1-6

Cult Free Radio #10 discusses JWs and The Internet. Also a great interview with Paul Grundy of www.jwfacts.com

5

Coffee With Jesus

by palmtree67 in

jw
friends

credit to avishai for this one.. .

Mad Sweeney

Coffee with Jesus is an ongoing comic strip. The Jesus in it is more like what reasonable intelligent people would expect Jesus to be like and less like the fundy thumpers and their self-righteous diatribes. I'd love having coffee with THIS Jesus

http://www.radiofreebabylon.com/Comics/CoffeeWithJesus.php

138

Still a hard line on DF family members WTApr15 2012

by Gladring in

the april 2012 wt study article has some of the most strongly worded statements about contact with disfellowshipped family members.. page 12, paragraph 17: -.

good that can come when a family loyally.

upholds jehovahs decree not to associate.

Mad Sweeney

I got $10 that says the entire story is fabricated.

42

Did you ever "feel" the holy spirt "apon you"?

by highdose in

jw
friends

some jw's claimed that when they were out door to door that they could feel the angels guiding them and jehovahs spirt apon them.. others claimed this when having prayed felt a sense of calm afterwards.

self induced?

physcological suggestion?.

Mad Sweeney

That claim of spirit-direction is what helped me on the path to leaving the Borg. I had told some friends what I thought of the local body of elders' idiotic decision about something and I was soon brought in the back room and told all about how not only does holy spirit direct the body, Jesus Christ HIMSELF does, too. I knew it was bullshit because I knew they made a WRONG decision, which Jesus and the HS would never do.

That was the chink in the armor. I thereafter allowed myself to research and read ANYthing about the WT and the rest is history. I was out within three years.

As for personally feeling it, early in my exodus, while I was working on helping my wife and daughter and planning a fade, I was still very spiritual and thought I felt the holy spirit a couple times. Looking back, I am still not sure what it was but I lean toward a psychological phenomenon more than anything from outside of me. Whatever it was, I know it was NOT the HS as represented by the WTBTS.

138

Still a hard line on DF family members WTApr15 2012

by Gladring in

the april 2012 wt study article has some of the most strongly worded statements about contact with disfellowshipped family members.. page 12, paragraph 17: -.

good that can come when a family loyally.

upholds jehovahs decree not to associate.

Mad Sweeney

I wonder whether there is anything to the numbers game they claim. Do more DFd people return because of shunning? Or do more people leave because of hateful shunning policies? I have to think that even though a few might return to the Borg just to be with family many more leave because the Borg has so many of these pharisaical hateful rules and the vast number of DFd stay OUT.

16

What happened to Milton Henschel losing presidency?

by Band on the Run in

my family often spoke well of milton henschel.

i left when knorr was still president.

looking at the flimiest of personal infos for gb members, i noticed that henschel became president and then was demoted and don adams became president.

Mad Sweeney

Each GB Committee had a rotating chairman but permanent coordinator as of the 1975 GB coup. Maybe that's what you're thinking of, Miz. See page 105, footnote 20 of the chapter Internal Upheaval and Restructure.

3

Freddie Mercury

by stillin in

it's ridiculous that people compare him to god.

i mean, he is good, but he's no freddie mercury..

Mad Sweeney

Butch Walker is his understudy. No Freddie Mercury but damn close.