i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.
i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.
i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.
I do not understand why Lady lee being here is a conflict of interest in her mind, this is not a group in oppostion to AAWA nor a rival.
Its only 'to do with' AAWA was various ones (self included) giving AAWA a flogging over its actions and lack of actions.
Good luck Lee...dont burn any bridges...
Oz
well i wouldn't really call it hard work, but i have to come into the office and sit and wait for the phone to ring.
i work every 3rd weekend and it really is unpleasant.
9 hours each day with nothing to do but wait for the phone to ring.
yes, but it would be 18 hours of paid sitting there bored yes?
beats the crap out of working all weekend for nothing...
oz
the watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
c'mon Randy
spill the beans
name names
Oz
link will be below.
there's an email that's been floating around all over the jdub's emails and it somehow got sent to me.
i don't know if there's already been a post on this but i thought i should share.
I think the Watchtower has finally realized that using thick as a brick men who are considered 'spiritual' to do stuff is not working.
'Mr spiritual is' out and say hello to worldly marketing and PR firms i reckon.
This and the new website, graphics and slick cartoons and whiteboard doodles are not coming from JWs brains. (well i may be wrong but i doubt it)
Oz
if one of the current governing body members pulled a ray franz and stepped down/got disfellowshipped then either wrote an expose or something else to go against the watchtower society - would they be forgiven and accepted by the ex-jw community?.
considering they have ray's example behind them i find it more deplorable that they continue in their paths, and personally would find it hard, though not impossible to forgive them - but am interested in everyones opinion....
Thet are likely tied up pretty tight by the legal department with gag policies they had to sign...
probably get their arses sued off if they spoke a word, truth or not.
Oz
not sure if anyone has linked this yet.
go to the old site (lego men and green monsters have done the work it seems) as it redirects you to aawa.co.
http://aawa.co/blog/a-new-name-and-an-apology/.
I always wondered why they settled on the acronym they did.
very often, groups will come up with the acronym first then look for words to 'fit', and google images supplied what i think the reason ing may have been (of course seeing that i am in contact with none of them it is only my veiw)
there i found a picture of a magazine called AAWAKE! by them
and there i believe it is...wanting to use this clever play on words on a 'magazine' came before the actual name...and who would blame them, it is a clever use of the WTs own magazine name.
oz
so i've heard lots of talk from within about the 'new light' in this watchtower...i'm yet to look at it in any detail.
i'm kind of surprised actually...i first heard about it here before it was even available but close to the time it did come out people started bringing it up - even our co.. some say things like "have you heard about this?
" or "big changes," or "allot of things they said we believed, i didn't realize,"(lots of that) or "brain-overload" or " too much information, but i've never felt more pumped up" or "it's soo exciting to see jehovah's spirit lead his organization..." or "it requires time to sink in, but it's a good feeling!
If they GB must all be together to be the faithful slave than it follows they must all be together to be the evil slave...
If one on their own can be the evil slave, then one on their own can be the faithful slave...
which way is it GB?
Oz
oh, i forgot...it is whichever way suits your ends...
okay we've all beat our chest, lamented and throttled the dead horse of aawa.. time to move on!.
i suggest those of us on j-w.n who care about creating something the right way take the trouble to get the framework going.. let's do the grunt work and get the nattering, debates, naming and organizing already pre-approved so that "others" who have the talent, ability, motivation and resources can move in and turn the key!.
because it was not done before.. there is more wisdom on this discussion board in our vast numbers than there could possibly be in a virtual boardroom with 8 people brain-storming.. that isn't an insult--it is just a statistical fact!.
''We don't want the JW's to know it is coming''
You have just told them...
Oz
not sure if anyone has linked this yet.
go to the old site (lego men and green monsters have done the work it seems) as it redirects you to aawa.co.
http://aawa.co/blog/a-new-name-and-an-apology/.
as on now the awaa website is down for maintenance.
is was meant to be out for 48hrs.
it was down over 72 hrs ago and promises to be up in a further 12. .
Now they have a little one eyed monster man watching over the countdown
19 days! not up till May 15 it declares.
Perhaps it will not return at all?
Oz
