does anyone want to tackle the hypocrisy in this article?
here's the link and the text is below.
also, can any former dubs explain how a jw could read or write this and not see how it applies to themselves?
The G/B must be laughing themselves silly. I have no doubt they know exactly what they are writing.
oz
ps. If they actually believe themselves then...
thats really scary, i mean, in the face of a stack of evidence against them, they are either clinicaly deluded or plain evil.
from the 21st century king james version (biblegateway).
2in my father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, i would have told you.
i go to prepare a place for you.. for some reason this verse keeps coming into my mind.
God knows! Literally.
One could start a religion on that one. what if it meant a place for every religion?
I am the messiah of the OZites...hmm, now i gotta think of a few hundred rules. anyone wanna be my faithful slave? You can all come and live in MY mansion!
Almighty Oz
this evening the wife and i went for a walk on the beach, something that never fails to make me feel small and insignificant.
i stand on the edge of this huge island called australia looking out to the curve of the horizon.
this is a small planet, floating in its own blue atmosphere, floating in our tiny galaxie, in its own little solar system, in its slightly larger section of the unmeasurable universe.. we are as tiny, even tinier than a fine grain of sand in the universe, we are, essentialy, nothing.
This evening the wife and i went for a walk on the beach, something that never fails to make me feel small and insignificant. I stand on the edge of this huge Island called Australia looking out to the curve of the horizon. This is a small planet, floating in its own blue atmosphere, floating in our tiny galaxie, in its own little solar system, in its slightly larger section of the unmeasurable universe.
We are as tiny, even tinier than a fine grain of sand in the universe, we are, essentialy, nothing. A speedy blip on the radar of the cosmos.
YET, we humans think we are oh so important. So vital, so unique. BUT IT GETS WORSE, Christianity, especially the nothing JW movement would have us believe that the very soveriengty of the creator of this endless universe depends on US. The very arrogance of such an idea makes me spit.
I seem to have a bit more liking for the belief systems that link us as a life force or some vague thing to the cosmas than christianity,judaism, islam or anything remotley connected to Abraham.
Oz
i just read another thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/186235/1/this-one-is-a-doozie about changing words.
that has some comments on sales meetings starting and thought it (hope it is) worthy of its own thread.
so let em rip!.
i just read another thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/186235/1/This-one-is-a-doozie about changing words
that has some comments on sales meetings starting and thought it (hope it is) worthy of its own thread. so let em rip!
When i was a wee witness lad or 18 i was also recruited into Amway... what totally amazed me was how similar it was to the meetings as JWs.
We went door to door with the featured product of the month, the literature and did demonstrations to each other on how to sell. They had motivational tapes for couples, singles and conventions all over the world. Our local Amway meeting each week was EXACTLY like the service meeting... or was the service meeting EXACTLY like the Amway sales meeting?????????? maybe it was because all the local amway people were also JWs!
i'm a great fan of aphorisms.
zen has some of the classic ones.
the moral consequences of doing whatever you do is that you will be the sort of person who did that.. "it's best to ride the horse in the direction it's going.".
better to be silent and thought a fool than to open ones mouth an remove all doubt...
too busy with skool... i've been out of commission for a few months... did my last bits of homework today, and i am freeeeee!!!!
(for a few weeks at least... but my master's is getting close!).
anyway, worked on a video today.
wow! that is groundbreaking stuff for this newbie!
thankyou so much.
Oz
5/1 1959 wt.
taking pauls illustration of the organization as a human body with its great variety of functions, it can readily be appreciated that the head does not do everything, but it does direct.
it employs the members of the body to do its bidding.
thanks blondie! i posted it and went shite! can hardly read it.
oz
you are told that if you "go back to the vomit" of the world, you will be miserable.. is your life better or worse since you've removed yourself from the organization's hold?.
oh yes, so much so. While playing house with a young wife was fun, eventually the constant battle between the 'spiritual man and the physical man' was just too much and i broke. I was left with such a low self asteem i almost took my own life, almost disapeared from society and my kids and stunned a shrink by how low i felt.
Today, words cannot fully express the love that i have in my life, my new wife is the most incredible girl i have been privledged to know. I have friends that i would die for, and them for me. I have a great lifestyle, free time to do the things i love, to build dreams. The most important change isthat now, i live in the present and not in some pipe dream.
Oz
i can never go back because they would not have me, as i am not taking off my personality for nobody.
i set up the whole gravitar account and seeing that i cant remember or find which email address i used for this forum, i did two join ups, with my email accounts i use.
followed all the links, uploaded a pic, cropped it, it said all good.... but no new avatar?.
what may i still be doing wrong?.
thanks, i searched everywhere for the email! seems hotmail may have cleaned out som stuff?!
oz
i will see what turns up in the mornin'
i actually expected the opposite of what i found.. 50 to 59 3881.
00 to 08 432. seems they really hammered the 'orginization' home in the 50s and 60s.
i thought it would be the other way around though.. oz.
Faithful and discreet slave and related terms also by search of the library show declines in use but searches target all the words not just the phrase so, inconclusive.
the Governing body being a watchtowerism is easier
50s 679
60s 448
70s 820
80s 744
90s 964
00s 629
probably all irrelevant but i was wondering if emphasis's had changed
Oz
