recently quit being a jw because i realised that beyond armageddon i was going to be ruled by people who cover up child abuse, not telling the congregations by their letter where the money they donated in the box is going towards paying compensation for legal battles which they caused, and also i was bullied by elders and discriminated against for being homosexual, even though i am not practicing it.
it wasn't until i threatened legal action for a breach of confidence that the elders were deleted.
so through the media and my own personal experience, i realised that they were no different to corrupt businesses in the world.
Welcome from Northumberland. It will be tough for a while. Step one is to get over the whole attitude we were taught to have about "worldly people".
Be open to new friendships and relationships. Don't spend another minute fretting over how unkind or corrupt the organisation or the elders are. They are not worth the time or energy. You will be okay.
i have just seen the film "dunkirk".
do yourselves a big favour and go see it.
(not for kids).
Hitler has no Quarl with the British. He was really about finishing off the slavs, jews and communists
What a bizarre statement!
Is this myth taught in American schools? I bloody hope not.
i have just seen the film "dunkirk".
do yourselves a big favour and go see it.
(not for kids).
There was nothing Hitler would have wanted more than to destroy the British army on the beaches. He thought he could do the job with planes. He didn't count on British ingenuity. Mustering an armada of small craft was genius.
so continuing my review of the current bull shit my family in this cult are subjected to i found this article about professor rajesh kalaria, a jw since 1973 and a scientist who has studied the human brain for 40 years (hmm... so he converted into this cult very early in his career it seems).anyway i also found this jw broadcasting piece about him where he says:.
“and brain is what we are; what i am, what you are.
no brain, no life.
even going as far as admitting in the papers that this research could be useful for other primates on the phylogenetic tree
Good catch.
thought i'd start a separate discussion on the subject.. those who know me know i'm struggling with faith; i want to believe, some days i do but it becomes difficult.. many believers say there is verifiable proof of jesus' existence outside of the bible.. please post this proof..
I have come to believe in The Father and The Son because of the evidence which abounds - Old Navy
What sort of evidence are you referring to? The design of the universe and of living things ceased being an argument for god 150 years ago.
If god made the living world why did he wipe out 96% of all living things in the Permian extinction 250 million years ago? Everything you see today evolved from the 4% that survived. This event that lasted more than 40,000 years was just one of five similar events.
Seeing love or wisdom in the natural world requires a very selective view of natural history.
i have just seen the film "dunkirk".
do yourselves a big favour and go see it.
(not for kids).
One of the best films I have seen.
It is three overlapping stories told from the perspective of The Royal Air Force, the men on the beach and the boats that rescued them.
More than 300,000 British soldiers were brought home by an armada of civilian vessels. Churchill had feared that number might be as low as 30,000. They lived to fight another day and, with the help of the USA, defeat the Nazis in 1945.
i have just seen the film "dunkirk".
do yourselves a big favour and go see it.
(not for kids).
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion"
i have just seen the film "dunkirk".
do yourselves a big favour and go see it.
(not for kids).
Going to see it this evening!
i was a window cleaner, i was at the time unemployed, homeless.
i had no education to be proud of (high school one a two b's rest c's) i was a jehovahs witness.
i had been a pioneer.
Outstanding!
strong family ties & family values did not matter to jesus:.
- a person must hate his or her family and themselves in order to be jesus’ disciple (matthew 10:37; luke 14:26).
- jesus will give a big reward to those who forsake their family, abandon their home, leave their family behind for him.
Fair comment Nevuela. Let me rephrase.
"It is impossible for anybody who does not read the bible through a Christian bias to avoid the conclusion that Jesus was a false prophet ".
