hello friends, i am a fading jw and i am thinking of attending sunday service at a local aog church here, just for fellowship.
i have lots of friends but none of them are spiritual minded.
not that i am complaining but it would be nice to meet some spiritual minded people.
I've found Anglican people pretty friendly, quite family and community oriented.
I attended a few Anglican services and while the traditional churches might seem old-fashioned, the people are very friendly and not pushy when it comes to what you believe.
I think an Anglican or Presbyterian church would be an easier transition to Christian religion for an ex-JW than a Pentacostal one.
i guess the majority of you haven't noticed that being an american, canadian, british, australia... (being involved in the anglosaxon culture) but there are situations in other cultures that make jws seem a bit bizarre.. since the watchtower is quite rigid and bureaucratic, it's reluctant to adapt to different cultures.
so sometimes even the brothers feel very uncomfortable adopting all this "watchtower culture" and even not knowing what to do in some situations.. for example, here in spain women keep their maiden names.
but for some reason, it's the watchtower culture to adopt a particular system.
I'm aware also that the WTBTS when printing their literature for other English speaking countries outside of the United States will continue to use American spelling and not English spelling. I'm not sure though.
When I toured the Australian Bethel branch that is what they told us. And that is why I said their literature is full of Americanisms, because they use American English and pics of Americans in the literature, even though it was printed in Australia.
i guess the majority of you haven't noticed that being an american, canadian, british, australia... (being involved in the anglosaxon culture) but there are situations in other cultures that make jws seem a bit bizarre.. since the watchtower is quite rigid and bureaucratic, it's reluctant to adapt to different cultures.
so sometimes even the brothers feel very uncomfortable adopting all this "watchtower culture" and even not knowing what to do in some situations.. for example, here in spain women keep their maiden names.
but for some reason, it's the watchtower culture to adopt a particular system.
Even in Australia, the JWs are viewed as an American religion. Especially when the pics are obviously American and there are many Americanisms in the text of the magazines and books.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_znktttaxcs&sns=em.
about time good ol' bill gets it right:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhevu64pzsa&sns=em.
She's a classy lady. Good on her!
i do, so i was just curious.. i know the org tends to attract/cause/contribute to people having low self-esteem, so i figure a lot of people must have it as bad or worse than me..
(((((caliber))))
Here's a hug from sunny Australia!
how does one live in harmony with his entire self, or attain "wholeness".
jung used an old technique with some enhancements in his confrontation with the unconscious when he first parted ways with sigmund freud.
this is the most powerful tool in jungian psychology.. http://marie-louisevonfranz.com/b/es1/.
marking
from a recent article at salon.com, mention of 'religious trauma syndrome' as a diagnosis that marlene winell would use for some.. .
psychotherapist marlene winell, who practises in berkeley, california, specialises in recovery from harmful religion and advocates religious trauma syndrome as a psychological diagnosis.
there are so many places in the us that are just saturated with religion.
Well durrr, we could have told her that
it's a little over a year since my daughter was diagnosed with end stage congestive heart failure due to a virus.
her dr. was talking heart transplant then.. i almost lost her 3 times over the past year due to complications.
2011 was a tough year to put it mildly.
Your love and support has had a part in her healing too, I'm sure!
Nice to hear some good news for a change!
does he count this as time on the fs report?http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2316222644238&id=1809656569
I wish I could see what you're posting about.
The link takes me to a guy's page called Jake.
this is a sugestion i have to all members of this board ,members from all over the world, to let the victorian government in australia know that the world is concerned about protecting the children of victoria ,and theirby setting a precedent for the rest of the world, who are interested in the outcome of the criminal charges against the religion of jehovah`s witnesses in refusing to abide by the legislation to get "working with children checks"when required to do so.correct me if i`m wrong but i think if all of us sent letters to the newspapers here in australia ,the different members of parliment here,we would demonstate that the victorian judicial system here is under scrutiny to do the right thing in the eyes of the world.. we all complain that the wtb&ts/jehovahs witnesses is a cult religion that sucks,destroying family relationships,here is a chance to do something about it.
whether you agree with steven unthank or not,here is an opportunity to stick up for the children of jehovah`s witnesses and every other child that a witness calls on in their door to door ministry.. what do you think ?.
smiddy.
Good stuff, Az!
