Posts by Heartofaboy

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Anyone Seen This

by lambsbottom in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.

it's a practice that's been the butt of jokes for decades: a pair of jehovah's witnesses turning up suited and booted on your doorstep.. but the days of the 140-year-old religious order's members trudging door-to-door in the rain could soon be numbered.. thousands have switched tactics to stand on street corners in more than a dozen cities across britain - and unusually for public preachers, they are staying almost completely silent.. leaders believe it is a better tactic in modern britain, where people do not like being approached directly and prefer browsing as if in a shop.. three years after the same tactic was introduced in new york, witnesses have been standing on pavements in at least 13 cities across britain and handing out tens of thousands of magazines.. unlike other evangelical preachers, they do not shout or call attention to themselves - instead standing in near-silence until someone approaches them.. 'i guess that's just not our style,' said mark o'malley, a spokesman for the jehovah's witnesses at their london headquarters.. 'we have used inventive approaches down the years.

we used "sound cars" in the 1930s which would relay lectures in the street from megaphones on the roof.. 'radio was used a lot later on and our members wore placards and sandwich boards.

Heartofaboy

The ones I've seen standing suited & booted by the trolleys look stiff & unapproachable.

They should stand much further away as I'm sure they were putting people off.

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Why Watchtower fails young people

by kneehighmiah in

jw
friends

1. no fun.

2. doesn't teach good decision making.

jws cannot choose the color of their underwear without first consulting watchtower publications.

Heartofaboy

'I can remember feeling so guilty in Kindergarten because I knew I had to warn my friends of their pending doom at Armageddon, but I was so shy that I could not start the discussion. I knew they were going to die - but I also knew I was going to die because i did not have the courage to warn them.'

Aah yes NewYork44M the responsibility placed on us JW kids to witness to our class mates & have studies with them............like JW kids don't have enough to contend with.

It's your fault you stupid kid that your friends were killed by Jehovah & because you are blood guilty he's now gonna kill you for not warning them.

Jehovah's happy people.

StillTotally ADD............I said much the same to a classmate when I was about 11 & she burst in to tears & told the teacher. What did my fine witness result in...................... I received a slap from the teacher.

A fine witness indeed.

And finally.............'You can't even rub one out', that term always always makes me laugh 'adjusted knowledge'.............apparently, according to the Watchtower 'rubbing one out caused me to be gay.

So that's my fault too.

Ah well............

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Drama friday 2014 DC

by inbetween in

anyone seen the drama on friday ?.

it was about a pioneer couple, when the husband, also an elder, lost his job, and borrowed money from a fellwo elder, who apparently was considered weatlthy.. the main lesson of the drama was quite ok, even though a bit overdone, touching on the issue of gossip and false assumptions.. but there were at least two subtle lessons, whitch were quite disturbing:.

1) no matter what happens, remain pioneering.

Heartofaboy

Yep barfing too..........

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The Bible Teach book illustration about the child having to be put through a painful operation

by defender of truth in

had you going there for a minute ;).

now you're here... there are several problems with that illustration, as i see it.. ..... 1) god is the one who inflicted the life threatening ailment that requires an operation.

(he supposedly decided what sin would be defined as, then once adam 'sinned', he cursed all of adams descendants to sin, grow old and die.).

Heartofaboy

Definitely worth it dot.............crystalises into words the mush of nonsensical 'WatchTower logic' left over in our heads.

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The hardship of being a gay Jehovahs witness.

by truthwillsetyoufree in

please spare a moment to consider the difiiculties faced by gay jehovahs witnesses.

i was raised and baptised as a very serious jw.

every waking moment of my day was lived for jehovahs and his organization and for nothing else.

Heartofaboy

Now calm down, calm down villagegirl................there, feeling better?

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Watchtowers God cannot see very far into the future.

by Jeannette in

he wanted all his people to be window washers, toilet bowl cleaners, floor moppers, minimum wage workers, not get an education to get higher paying jobs and have some security, and now this country is being flooded by plenty of workers that will do minimum wage jobs.

kind of leaves us begging.

why didn't he see this coming and encourage us to get educated while we had the chance.

Heartofaboy

BTTT

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Abuse survivor Karen Morgan talks about her day in court

by RayPublisher in

it was a thrill talking to this brave lady and hearing firsthand some of what went on in court when sick pedophile and former jw elder mark sewell was finally convicted and sentenced to 14 years for his crimes against young girls and women.. .

interview on jwstruggle:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvwphwx4d2a.

Heartofaboy

BTTT

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The hardship of being a gay Jehovahs witness.

by truthwillsetyoufree in

please spare a moment to consider the difiiculties faced by gay jehovahs witnesses.

i was raised and baptised as a very serious jw.

every waking moment of my day was lived for jehovahs and his organization and for nothing else.

Heartofaboy

Hello Truthwillsetyoufree, I read your op with much interest as I can identify with it completely.

Thankfully the elders I 'confessed' to regarding the struggle to subdue my homosexuality kept it to themselves, however they didn't know how to help in anyway............more fs, more bible study, more prayer, all pretty useless really.

One thick elder even asked if I would like his son to have a bible study with me............I'd been a JW for 50 years & this 25 year old rising star JW pioneering twit was supposed to be the answer to my prayers & get me back on the road to pretending to be straight & acceptable in dubbie land....

It is a lonely life not being allowed to experience the love of another.

Hopefully you haven't left it as long as I have in breaking away from the WT.

Hoab

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