the society has improved their game.
i just got home from the regional assembly.
it was a well-choreographed, technically excellent affair.
Enh, for those of us that were around for MEPS and color Watchtowers and DVD's.....on and on..........it's the same game.
Like any business, they are always looking for ways to improve on the bottomline: retention and gross profit.
Look no further then the Sparlock video......a look intentionally designed to look like a Pixar movie.
In reality, they are just repulsive copy cats.
i can honestly say that although still in, i have lost the fear of wts dooms day version and in all sincerity i don't care what others inside the cult think of me.
at first i was mad of being lied to, i was sad that paradise is not coming, and i felt fear of death.
i happy to report, that i am now at peace with my eventual mortality and i am enjoying every second i have while i am alive.. .
I still have some triggers that bring on anger.
I could care less what anyone thinks; most are afraid of me when they see me. Some give me a hug like I never left. I couldn't care less about the people's opinions, but I've always had that type of personality.
However, the lying and damage done to my poor old mother brings on anger. Single mom who has had a life long hope of paradise and animals (which she adores)..............I want someone to pay for her pain and sacrifices.
But the biggest onset of anger/frustration is watching people I love continue on in that cult.....and despite being pointed to evidence, they make ZERO effort to study anything.
I hate it. Passionately. I just hate stupidity and laziness.
i just got back from the district convention and watched the new video.
can't remember what it is called but the main family live in a million dollar home and there teenage daughter drives a red convertable sports car.
probably worth about 50000$.
Hilarious.
They robbed entire generations of a higher education......then, hoping they are all dead or gone, release a video like this in a weak attempt to make everyone forget how dead set they were on having a good career.
Is it any wonder people hate this cult?
it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.
i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.
i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!
Love threads like these. So much we can learn from other people.
Mine was a collection...but as a long time elder....and appointed at a young age.....it was my years as an elder and seeing/hearing all the corruption among elders that really made me take a longer look at the whole organization.
When it gets right down to it........smart people leave that cesspool......... its those that are lazy that tend to stay.
this is quite embarrassing for me to share, but as a 30+ year old single female i have lingering doubts as to whether i can still meet a decent man and get married.. you all know how difficult it is for sisters to find an appropriate partner in the congregation.. and now, all the more so that i've learned ttatt.
i still am bound by low self-esteem, and i do have trust issues, especially with men.
i am very lonely and so i just keep myself busy with work to avoid depression (although it is also a great source of stress).. any other single females out there having similar thoughts?.
I wrote an article on this very subject. JW women are totally destroyed in this cult
i didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.
and apparently a video was shown too on it.
we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.
For those that question if the Governing Body is evil......if they know what they are doing..........this thread should answer that.
Sick.
fusion with god natural .
in the cosmos universe or whatever.
all things are made of the same materials etc so humans will always be fused with the universe in life and death because those building blocks are eternal.
Okay.
And do tell....................is he the God of the Watchtower?
How did he get the Judge those caddy's........but needs each publisher to commit to a $$ amount monthly?
this week's study april 15th 2014 was called "do you see the one who is invisible?".
it was perhaps one of the most depressing, controlling, fear-mongering, stress inducing, doctrinally incorrect, hate-inspiring, judgemental, cult-like, irrational, hyped-up, critical, crazy, stretched out, fanciful, illogical, burdensome, inflated, coersive, manipulative, and brain-snappingly weird stuff i have read for some time.... (but i'm sure it was just a rehash and repeat of previous stuff...for the new masses....).
i had to keep up a sane appearance while in the hall, and even answer some garbage while this was being 'studied'... my cognitive disonance must be so strong now, because i found this one of the hardest ones to endure....now that i am home, i have poured a stiff drink and am trying to clear my head...... one paragraph was classic:.
YES!!!! Rely on the God that chose JW's!!!!! he will protect you from the governments of the world during the great tribulation.............however, in the meantime, if you could just commit to a dollar amount every month please....
.................hey, he can knock out governments........... he just needs a little spending money to keep going.
..specifically, the suffering of animals.
you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.
i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.
What???
You people don't accept the insightful answer provided by Fred Franz??? He was a member of the faithful slave!!!!
The all powerful God, creator of heaven and earth, has decided to watch his precious children tortured, maimed, handicapped, raped and murdered for century after century................because HIS name is so important.
What?? You mean, you wouldn't want to watch your children be raped and killed over and over and over and over again......just to make sure you had a good name in your neighborhood?
Yeah..........uh............the absurdity knows no bounds, huh? A human wouldn't DREAM of such a course, but a perfect God would???
Absurd doesn't even define it.
found this on youtube.
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eot8sac9-no.
^ I sure did Scott. I'm currently working on my own story for an eBook...... it's very cathartic. It meant completely turning my life upside down....I have literally left every single person I knew behind. Fortunately, my family would never do that.....but all out side that circle are gone.
TTATT was a devastating.....but also, oddly serene experience...... it's such a strange emotional journey.....a person is amazed at how easy it was, but at the same time totally life altering.
