have been in the austin area for a little over a week in the midst of trying to start over.
i was df'd recently after being in the truth my entire life.
everyone has abandoned me, and i am lost out here.
Let me spoil the party a little.
You are not an Austin elder trying to flush out some local closet apostates, are you?
If not, welcome to the board and I hope you find real friends outside of the borg.
-Yan (who is too far from TX to meet in person )
some have pursued an independent group study of biblical hebrew and greek so as to analyze the accuracy of the new world translation.
they have also held conferences and produced publications to present their findings and to supplement what is provided at our christian meetings and through our literature.. throughout the earth, jehovah's people are receiving ample spiritual instruction and encouragement at congregation meetings, assemblies, and conventions, as well as through the publications of jehovah's organization.
rather, the claim is implicit.
Leo,
Excellent analysis. I had to put my thinkink cap to even comprehend the angles from which the original piece was debunked.
I have a sidebar question - are you UK or US based, if you don't mind....
this past sunday, i was browsing in the kingdom hall bulletin board.. i noticed that the list of "approved" hotels for the dc was up there.. noticed that in the assembly to take place in pennsylvania, only 2 hotels were in pennsylvania................ #3 on --> were in nj.
so, i get on my smart phone and gps a route from hotel #3 in princeton, nj to buckingham, pa.. my little gadget tells me that there is 27.9 miles of driving and 46 minutes of traffic.................... do these sheeples have the stupidity of driving this far to an "approved" hotel?.
are they blinded enough to not look for the 300 or more hotels in the county?.
GPS is controlled by Satan, as is anything not WT approved.
a truly shocking story in the telegraph.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9501478/taliban-behead-17-caught-dancing-to-music-at-party.html.
it makes you realise how fortunate you are to live in a rational society.. .
cedars.
Insane! Idiots blinded by their version of Sky Daddy
What was that quote from the WT saying that "secular laws prevent us from harming apostates" (or something along the lines)? Is that what they have in mind had secular law not put restrains in place...
hi guys,.
i've been speaking with kathleen (candace's mother) and with sami (a close family friend) and they told me the latest news on the candace conti vs. the watchtower society court case.. read it here - http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/jw-lawsuits/latest-on-the-candace-conti-vs-the-watchtower-society-case/.
love,.
OMG! a decision is coming tomorrow. I cannot wait.
Courts are in session on a Saturday? Seems odd to me.....
if he did, then allowing job to suffer is a strange way to show it!.
job's children were completely expendable, no love to them was shown at all!.
how come his wife was still fertile in her 50s or 60s or later
Sin, you know...People lived to 400-500 years at the time, so logically they were fertile a lot longer.
But wait....then as we kept piling on the sin and life kept getting shorter, in the 20-th Century the trend reversed - we started living longer!
Did we start having less sin?
Ah, it's all so confusing...wait on Jah to sort it out....
Number of particles in the observable universe estimated at around 10 80
Unrelated to the topic, but from what I understand, one of the practical reasons scientific calculators are limited to 10 99 ...
of all the lies espoused by the wtbts, perhaps the most seductive, most cruel and downright evil, is to tell grieving people that their loved ones will be resurrected, and will rejoin them in a paradise earth, forever and ever.
of course, the easiest lie to be accepted is one that people want to believe.. but taking someone when they are at their weakest, their most vulnerable, and offering such a false hope is far more cruel than anything contained even in account of the first sin, with the serpent tempting eve with the forbidden fruit.
that was simply the serpent mucking up the divine plan by appealing to her ego: no harm, no foul.
Mrs. Bibiyan is currently a successfully faded JW. Both of her parents have died while she was relatively young and still a JW "in good standing".
KS, your assesment of a delayed grief is spot on - I am no psychologist, but in Mrs. Bibiyan it seemed to result in a depression that still has lingering effects....
The cruelty of the timing was unbelievable, just as you write, when immediatelly after the death of her grandmother (another lifelong JW), the "friends" showed up at our doorstep in an ill-disguised attempt to "offer hope".
this is just my own observations and pondering.
i was thinking about the way the body's immune system.
is under a constant barage from our surroundings and internal problems like cancer, and if you look at hiv sufferers.
..What I am saying may seem like stating the obvious, but we were bought up to believe...
Intentional or not, your lapsus linguae is so very true.
the wt are filming a new 'educational' video at a high school.. wonder if the school knows what wt say about education....?
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http://tarrytown.patch.com/articles/watch-tower-jennie-o-filming-this-week.
" I stopped by to snoop and a suited man asked me, kindly, to delete the photo I had taken..."
Make me delete it, MoFo...
