All very good points that they have no answers for. If people don't wake up after this new overlapping generation bullshit came out, they likely never will. It has to be the most ridiculous thing they have ever printed. I don't now how anyone could read or write this stuff and not just laugh. It's a joke and a bad one at that.
Eiben Scrood
JoinedPosts by Eiben Scrood
-
39
My Letter To the Watchtower
by AiAi inthis is an exact copy of my letter to the watchtower.
it never recieved a reply (i did not include 'attn writing committee' in the address however).
please keep in mind that when i wrote this i had just started my intensive research into their beliefs/history, and despite my agressive tone i really did expect a satisfactory answer.
-
-
-
43
2011 district convention
by obarac insomebody know the theme of this years district convention or is still top secret?.
-
-
Eiben Scrood
It's a real treat to sit there and have the privileged read from canned manuscripts. Why not just post the whole program online? Well, there is the (melo)drama where the overacting is beyond laughable. If you view it in a comedic light, it's possible to get some entertainment.
The convention is always a special time for guilt trips too. Can you justify before Jehovah why you're not pioneering? Well, if you can't, then he's going to kill you. Now pick up your mop and move back in with your parents and turn in your application.
-
13
Did You Believe That The World Adored JW's?
by mentallyfree31 inas a jw, i always believed that the outside world adored us.
i knew that many people didn't care for us, and didn't believe our teachings, but i thought our conduct was a "bright light" shining to the world.
from the stage, we heard endless stories of business people and other non-jws praising us because we were such nice people.
-
-
Eiben Scrood
Their endless self-congratulatory comments are sickening. No one likes a braggart. They obnoxious. It's especially noxious when there's nothing to even brag about in the first place.
-
56
"How Awful This Place Can Be!" Life at Bethel by Keith Casarona
by Dogpatch inremember the video of all the nice dudes who were on the governing body in the 70s?
(here's a refresher).. well this is what their lives were really like - the same as when i was there.
by the time it got to the end, all was left was chicken backs.
-
-
Eiben Scrood
I can't imagine a worse hellhole on earth. Why anyone would voluntarily submit to this was beyond me even when I was in it.
-
87
Watchtower's new entrants get to hear the Governing Body share their qualifications
by Dogpatch inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-frdngnwvm .
here's a rare one you'll not find elsewhere, send it to your friends!.
new bethel entrants introduction to the governing body circa 1985. two new bethel boys at watchtower headquarters somehow managed to videotape this introduction to the brooklyn bethel headquarters of the governing body off of the bethel tv screen.
-
-
Eiben Scrood
What is wrong with Klein's voice? I remember hearing a talk of his when I was a kid and literally not understanding one word. I had been trained to take notes and simply couldn't. Why would someone who basically speaks gibberish be assigned to speak to thousands of people?
-
-
-
Eiben Scrood
That is a scary picture. They all have looks of mind-numbed zombies. Makes me want to scream at them to WAKE UP!
-
31
I'm starting to develop a real hatred toward this religion
by man in black inthis past week i flew out of town to attend a seminar for work, then afterwards i drove 150 miles extra to go and visit my dad.. two years ago my mom died, and the lack of concern/caring from the so-called "friends" from two different states was a major reason why i walked away from the jw religion.. anyway, my dad is depressed and his local hall has him doing more fs, and attending the meetings,,, ok so that could be a good thing for him.. but i noticed that service and meeting attendance is the only thing that they are pushing on him.
nobody seems to check up on him, he just jumped at the chance to go out to eat with me.
and the negativity !!!
-
-
Eiben Scrood
I can relate. I was on my way to exiting when my aged parents got sick and died within 6 months of each other. I admittedly could have held my tongue more but it was hard to not talk to them (especially my dad) about the things I was feeling. He finally told me he couldn't take hearing anymore. Poor man. He invested his whole life into this and I think he realized deep down that something was very wrong. The changes in teachings in the mid-nineties really bothered him. He was a deep thinking person who wouldn't just swallow the Kool-Aid without thinking things through first.
It's a tough situation. But, you're doing the right thing by being there for him and letting him have his fantasies without trying to tear down his worldview too much.
-
18
February 2011 KM - no more daily text before service
by Red Piller inheard this today from a good source.
my guess everybody is delaying leaving the service meeting - and this is an attempt to fix this.. that's what i see in our service groups - no one is in any rush to go out (again).
-
-
Eiben Scrood
I used to *hate* conducting meetings for field service. What a nightmare! Everyone was half-asleep anyway, no one wanted to comment and then arranging the car groups was the very worst part of it all.
One time I actually walked out! I was only 19 at the time and the situation so overwhelmed me that I just left.
-
26
A Gem From This Week's TMS
by torn in two son inbefore i get to the gem in this week's tms, let me let any of you newbies here up to date with us jdubs and schooling.
in the february 22, 2002 watchtower, the wtbts released the article titled "how my dream was fullfilled".
it was one of many typical jw stories of a good devout jdub "resisting temptation" and accepting the borg as absolute truth.
-
-
Eiben Scrood
I agree, James. It was an unreadable post by clearpoison.
-
310
Are they really that bad???
by anonymous4 inhad a good look into the doctrine, beliefs and practices of jws and to be honest, i don't really see anything wrong with it at all.. it's biblical and i've had such an eye opener the past year or so reading some of their books and magazines .
is there really any real reasons why i shouldn't want to get involved further?
:-).
-
-
Eiben Scrood
Be sure to ask the person you're studying with about the wonderful new light received about what Jesus meant by the word "generation" in Matthew 24:34. It's changed six times in the history of the organization but the most marvelous new understanding was carted out to members this past Spring. Really *think* about what they're saying this verse now means.