i used to be a member of this site, but jumped off a good number of years ago (08?).
i don't have access to my old email, so i'm using a new account.. anyway, i was baptized jw in late 90's.
da'd mid 2000s.. when i left there were three meets a week plus field service.
Former belief - field service is a publishers inalienable right
New belief - field service privilege can be taken away if person styles hair or wears clothing in a way that is deemed metrosexual.
I was pretty much dumbfounded.
Actually anybody could go out and say they are a witness even an apostate. JWs really would have no way of knowing and could do very little about it. Sure if you wanted to go with the group they could probably exclude you but you don't really need a group.
i was visiting with my family and it seems the rc was worse than i thought.
now they all seem to think that "we are so close to the end" and that the "brothers are really preparing us for the gt".
some even saying that soon our message will change to a judgement message for mankind and talking about how we need to improve "everything we do".
Prepare now for the GT by making sure your personality completely matches that of any other WT drone. Plus make sure you donate more, go out in service, and most importantly shun anyone who points out how crazy we are.
all convention videos in english and all talk outlines for download.
http://avoidjw.org/2016-regional-convention/
At the end of the RC there was a absolutely creepy video showing the people from all of the earlier vids in paradise after they had remained faithful. The weird part was they were all wearing exactly the same outfit like some sort of cult uniform. Everyone eating fruit and laughing on the beach while this weird chanting music was getting louder until finally the modern day Job character is reunited with his dead son. And people were crying at this nonsense. I swear if you showed JWs some of this stuff and said it was from another group they would say they were nut jobs. As soon as they know it's from the GB they force themselves to believe whatever comes next, it's maddening.
i was visiting with my family and it seems the rc was worse than i thought.
now they all seem to think that "we are so close to the end" and that the "brothers are really preparing us for the gt".
some even saying that soon our message will change to a judgement message for mankind and talking about how we need to improve "everything we do".
I was visiting with my family and it seems the RC was worse than I thought. Now they all seem to think that "We are so close to the end" and that the "Brothers are really preparing us for the GT". Some even saying that soon our message will change to a judgement message for mankind and talking about how we need to improve "everything we do". How does it not sound crazy to them? How do the videos not seem like manipulation? How can they say they we so encouraged by a convention that was basically a threat not to leave JWs or else.
So basically they are admitting that people come back because they want to be with their family. Not because it's the "truth". It's coercion which they actively promote in their literature and videos like this.
in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.
now, on with the leaks & releases!
first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.
It had better production values and actors than the Jesus one that was offensive and on the level of the Mohammad movie a few years ago that everyone was talking about. Anyone notice how in the first few minutes they equate confidence about Jesus with confidence in the WTBTS as having truth? That shepherd was full of zhit.
Yeah, the movie is supposed to be about Jesus right? Somehow they want you to think believing in Jesus = believing in the ORG. Of course out of my family I was the only one who seemed to notice that fact. I also made a few jokes about the narrator and what a bad actor he was everyone else thought he was great. Go figure.
naturally leads to the question of god.
why does man need god?
why does man create god?
left to himself man serves his fallen flesh
Meaning what exactly?
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
Maybe it is physically impossible for nothing to exist - for there to ever be absolutely nothing. Maybe existence is the fundamental pillar of reality itself.
Interesting idea, then that would mean that matter or energy has always been around in some form perhaps undergoing cycles of expansion and retraction. Universes dying and being reborn. All speculation of course but still more interesting than having all "the answers" in a little book.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
So let me see if I can get the reasoning straight:
Everything that has a beginning has a cause.
The universe had a beginning.
The universe must have had a cause.
The unknown cause must be God.
The God must be a personal God.
The God must be the one described in Christianity.
The God must have inspired 66 books which are now called the Bible.
It all makes logical sense if you start with what you want to believe and work backwards. Just like JWs do with their doctrines.
in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.
now, on with the leaks & releases!
first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.
