Shameful really that instead of addressing the Elders concerns or accusations to HIM they go behind his back, alert the whole body that they have a potential apostate in their ranks and look for more 'dirt' than they already have.
No doubt the 'Elder' is long out of the WT
oz
since the internet has been available to people all over the earth, their has been an explosion of information going out that is unprecedented in the history of the world .. and one , just one of the beneficiaries of this knowedge are victims of cults who can relate to people who have undergone similar experiences and can offer help and encouragement to other victims .and this is done on a global scale .with what we are witnessing on this site with newbies joining on an almost daily basis , i live in hope that the writing is indeed on the wall for cults of all sorts.
do you agree ?.
smiddy.
not for those trapped in cults that forbid or control internet use...
Oz
i dont' use my cell phone when with friends, to show them how important they are to me, and i am focusing on them, etc.
i turn it off completely.. i'm doing a free bible study with 2 really nice jw ladies.
but today, one of their phones went off loudly twice, and she had to check each time who it was etc.
its not free aunt bee...they want your life!
but I do admit, you can run out after the meal and not pay the bill....
Oz
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/03/264031.html.
i still have trouble believeing that this isn't a satire from the onion.
only a religion could come up with something so insane.. metatron.
what the males that run these cultures seem to not realize is that they make it plainly obvious to the world that they are monsters who simply have no self control. Essentially they tell the world, "seeing that we as men just cannot help ourselves you must cover up in a bed sheet otherwise we cannot be held responsable for behaving like the animals we are"
see a woman showing her nose...must rape.
see a baby...must molest.
Sheikh Mohammad al-Jzlana, former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, told Al Arabiya that Dauod’s ruling was denigrating to Islam and Shariah and made Islam look bad. NO shit! Maybe that's because Islam IS bad.
sometimes i wish there was a god to fry all these animals
Oz
surely most of you have had this experience at least once .
you start a topic / thread and before you know it somebody has taken it way off on another tangent, completely away from your original topic , and evrybody has gone down that path .and you come back and think wtf ?
happened here .?
Probably because everyone has their own agenda and see's what they have to say as the most relevant.
Now, stay tuned for a bunch of people taking this off topic....
oz
as the title suggests, there is a young man studying the bible teach book and attending meetings.
at every meeting that he has attended, there have been some really cultish comments.
of course i hear them loud and clear now, and for years then were coming through, that is why i woke up.. anyway, at the meeting i was sitting there, hating it, listening to all the emotion comments from the audience.
Find out more about him first. I mean as bad as the WT is, just say he was a drug addict trying to find a purpose and the JWs may be the medicine to go straight. Pull the magic carpet out from under him may make him return to worse.
Extreme example i know, but not everyone should be woken up. I beleive that if you wake up another you are responsable for what may follow.
Oz
my very first topic post, to present myself i only can say i'd been a lurker here for a while.. .
since english is not my mother tongue please just disregard my grammatical faults as well unfluency in the composition of my text.. i felt motivated to post because i'm interesting to now your opinion to the subject below explained .
because myself i could not find a perfect solution without raising collateral questions.. .
As the WT have taken it upon themselves to decide who is a predator of children or not, i imagine the 'paradise' run by these men will be worse as there would not be any law to take them to task for it...
a paradise but for who?
Oz
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good day...so this is the conversation i had with a co-worker of mine i mentioned in an earlier thread...shes a jw and doesnt know that i was associated with the jws before and that im a fader.
sounds like she was rehearsing a part for a convention demo...
Oz
total avoidance of everything you had to say
hello to everyone :) i wanted to introduce myself as a newbie.
i was raised in and i am currently on active status due to most of my family being very much in, but i am so ready to be done and have felt that way for quite some time.
internally i know this is not the right religion without a doubt.
welcome new girl
I am so excited by all the 'newbies' lately!
oz
any body else notice that here on jwn and in fact, all over the internet there are these underlined key words that look like a link or something put in by the poster?.
in fact it seems they are not, they link to bloody adds!.
they are popping up all over the place and driving me nuts!.
Any body else notice that here on JWN and in fact, all over the internet there are these underlined key words that look like a link or something put in by the poster?
In fact it seems they are not, they link to bloody adds!
they are popping up all over the place and driving me nuts!
Oz
