Posts by oppostate

also trying to hear from those who have left, but whose spouse has stayed in the wt and in the marriage.. for me it comes down to my own mental anguish.

i am mentally tortured by attending the meetings, yet i feel compelled to because my wife would kill me with her personality if i had her drag 2 small girls by herself there.

oppostate

My wife continues to be very loyal to the WTB&T$ although I've tried sharing TTATT with her several times.

These times when I push for some critical thinking usually result in big blowouts followed by make-up sessions that often involve strenuously involved and hot marital relations.

I wish the blowouts weren't part of the equation.

I love my wife and do not want to lose her to the WT.

I've gotten some feel good revenge by sending eye-opening TTATT web page links to elders, pioneers, publishers and especially those newly studiying whose email addresses I can get my hands on.

Of course I get an unassuming and theocratic user names like Pioneer2012@... .com or TheGoodNews4you@... .com etc. with one of the free email providers.

If you share a computer with your wife at home it's always good to have separate usernames and password them.

Keep at it, if you can help anyone else open their eyes to TTATT

then being stuck in but acting like an undercover TTATT agent to help others may bring you some satisfaction.

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What is the Biblical Leadership Model for Christian Communities?

by fulltimestudent in

nb: i'm using the word 'community' in lieu of the word 'church' or congregation.. --------------.

i know what i used to believe about organisational leadership in a community of christians.

1 timothy ch.3 was firmly fixed in my mind.

oppostate

Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, by Robert J. Banks.

http://www.amazon.com/Pauls-Idea-Community-Churches-Cultural/dp/0801045541/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

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Fading, Stopping Meetings, DA or DF'ing, Thoughts on Getting the Hell Out Of There

by OnTheWayOut in

so i read some threads about why someone remains a ministerial servant or elder, or why they are still active jw's.

others are telling stories about how they cut back slowly, and some of them got removed as ms/elder/pioneer or whatever.

yet others tell of how they just up and stopped going one day.

oppostate

Once the invitation to appear before a judicial committee for apostasy was given me,

a PDF attached letter emailed to the three bros in the committee and the COBOE worked

very nicely so they don't bother me anymore. In other posts I've described what the letter

said and how I presented what future actions would follow as consequence of whatever

actions they sought against me.

My wife is still very loyal to the WTB&T$, so I also made sure that anything said to her without

my being present would be reason to involve higher ups in their hierarchy and my taking judicious

and stern action against them individually and as a body for slander.

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reading COC for the first time

by This is my tigersuit in

My first reaction when reading CoC was shock and disbelief, but it settled in that I'd been wrong and had ignored so many warnings from family who aren't JWs and they'd been right all along about the "cultish" behavior of the WT religion.

What really did it for me was learning about the double standards, Malawi/Mexico, and the unnecessary suffering people in Malawi went through for following this Publishing Corporation as if it was God's Channel on Earth as they claimed.

Also the treatment of Ed Dunlap made the situation very personal. It exposed the lack of Christian love and fellow feeling among the Bethel bigshots and their blindly following hierarchy.

Continue reading, Timt, and please post your reactions as you progress reading the book. I'd be interested in comparing insights.

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BBC Radio 4 reference to 607 Babylonian conquest?

by 88JM in

was listening to bbc radio 4 late sunday night, and in a programme about migration, they referenced the "babylonian conquest of jerusalem in 607 b.c.

" which caught my attention.. did they not mean 587 b.c., or did i understand it wrong?.

the link to the programme is below - sorry if you're not in the u.k. as you probably won't be able to listen to bbc programmes.

oppostate

I just sent in a complaint and requested a retraction and correction.

I also suggested that they may have a researcher who is biased and is promoting outdated and disproved chronological figures crafted by 19th century religionists to support their hopes of the world ending in the last century.

It would be best, I wrote, to present the view most currently held by scholars who are well researched in this field and give the date of 20 years later, that of 587 BCE.

Let's see what comes of it.

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What is the exact meaning not posting in a language other than English in the Guidelines

by SonoftheTrinity in

in other words, can i use a loanword.

or a parochial phrase of an english based dialect.

or a short motto from another language along with a translation without being in violation.

oppostate

Bien dicho,

Well said,

me parece que puede escribir en otro idioma sin que nadie le diga nada si incluye una traducción.

I think you can write in another language without anyone minding if you include a translation.

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My three days of hell summary - Part I

by cookiemaster in

well guys, i finally got back from the dc or whatever it's called nowadays.

it wasn't really as bad as i expected but still, it was pretty bad.

the first interesting thing happened on the road.

oppostate

e-mail: [email protected]

http://the-true-jw.oltenia.ro/

http://www.kingdomherald.ro/

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Assembly Invitations: A Sad, Pathetic Anachronism

by metatron in

jw
friends

so, witlesses are handing out assembly invitations locally for their gatherings to invite the public to attend...... .

a meeting that's 50, 100, 150 miles away?

there was an era when placards were put in storefront windows and bombastic sermons were delivered by radio.

oppostate

designs says:

People travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles to events they consider important- Peace rally, political event, Woodstock, other.

You said it "events they consider important". The proof is that there's just about no response from the public and nobody but loyal JW's consider the event "important".