as many on this board are aware- the wt society is losing younger members in big numbers.
statistics show that 2 out of 3 jw's raised in the cult leave between the age of 18 to 35. so like they always do- if the wt society sees a " need " or " problem " arising they address it in wt study articles.
thus notice how manipulative the wt society uses fear, guilt, and put down type comments to intimidate young jehovah's witnesses in this wt study article in nov. 15th issue.. under the titled article " young ones - what will you do with your life ?
I've been saying that instead of prohibiting education, they should start college campus ministries - Like Every Other Religion!!!
Encourage them to be good and educated.
Except... oh... wait... educated people begin to see through the mind control... oh...
Not on race, but origin: country/culture, sure. And I make lots of politically incorrect jokes. And laugh about those things.
The people who laugh are my friends, cause then I know they aren't stuck on stereotypes.
And I love calling northerners Yanks and Yankees.
Long live the South!
a long time ago my husband came up with this.. the wtbts holds out our hope like a carrot on the end of a stick, and we should be motivated to all ways want and try to get it.
if you change you mind in anyway and no longer want the carrot, or just wanna stand and eat the grass, you then will be beaten by the stick.. .
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maybe the US government is taking pointers from WTS...
Include a source page... ;P
jehovah ushers satan into his presence.. jehovah: "listen satan, the thousand year reign is just about up, and according to the bible, i've gotta let you go back to earth and tempt the people, so you'd better go down and see what's happening before you get to work.
damn.
i wished i had picked another book to endorse besides that bible.
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(We need like buttons here, like facebook...)
yesterday during the witchtower study, every one was.
talking about how wonderful paradise will be with no food.
shortages, perfect weather, no pollution, no disease, and be.
oh y'all, now, listen: all those resurrected people are gonna come back and show us dumb modern people how to live in mud huts and survive without modern convenience.
... or maybe rutherford was right and we'll just power our houses with our fingernails... hahaha...
i would like to propose an ethical dilemma for those who believe in the divine inspiration of the bible.. in the following scenarios i am not asking you what you would have done but rather, what you hope you would have had the courage to do.. scenario 1. you are camped on the east side of the jordan waiting for orders to cross into the promised land.
moses is nearing the end of his life but he has some unfinished business to take care of before he hands over to joshua.
he announces that he has had an instruction from god to take revenge on the midianites before he dies.
Wait a sec... forget the morality issues of the Canaanites.
One thing no one has mentioned so far is this: God promised the land to Abraham long before the Israelite nation. Abraham settles there and gets pretty comfortable. He doesn't do a whole lot of fighting. But then his descendants leave and go to Egypt because Joseph is powerful in Egypt, and there is a famine in the ancestral home of Abraham.
Things get bad for them in Egypt after some time, and God says, 'I'm taking you back to the land I gave Abraham in the first place.' And this time he meant for them to stay there.
When they get there, well, lookie, other people have moved onto their land. So, they do what nations have always done when they wanted some land: fought wars for it.
The kids had to die because nations of that time seemed to be extra-fond of holding grudges for hundreds of years. So, these kids posed a threat to the descendants of the conquering Israelites.
It seems kinda straightforward. God led them, but he also made them fight for their inheritance. And, times were much more brutal then.
i want to be disfellowshipped now so they'll stop talking to me!!
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ok, well, it's just my mother, and if she calls, I'm SO not picking up and getting hollered at.
Texting is actually much better. I guess she resorted to that because I stopped replying to any religious emails...
i want to be disfellowshipped now so they'll stop talking to me!!
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I want to be disfellowshipped NOW so they'll stop talking to me!!!
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so a little background i am not dissfellowshiped and my sister stayed in for awhile though so she's treated like she is!.
this is the most disturbing conversation i have ever had with my mother and for the first time i see clearly how deep the control on my mothers mind is!.
Your not alone. My mother acts and talks the same way.
It kinda terrifies me.
