i am not hot linking to jw borg, but they have a whole section for obviously very small children (become j's friend, with a whole array of caleb-related stuff).
i have actually never visited the site, today was the first time, because i wanted to check a technical information about their websites architecture and came across this sh*t!.
the way they are targeting small kids is nauseating me (i have a 5 year old, still in with her mother).
Looks like Caleb and Sophia might be wearing the special magic underwear that Mormons wear.
But seriously, I think this will backfire when the little kids being raised on this become teens and eventually see through the obvious manipulation and will despise having been made fools of as children.
although i was exposed to the jw's as a child as the only religion i knew, i was not a jw until i got out of the navy as a conscientious objector.
so i was typical "worldly" when i hit 18 out of high school and i got to see the world before personal catastrophy involving heavy drinking made me turn to the lies that i thought were "the truth.
" so just over 30 years ago, i got the special privilege of serving as the original crew of a brand new ship with a crew slightly over 200. i served 5 years on the "uss worldly" and then left to become a jw.. when you are the first crew, you learn together how to use that ship, how to run things smoothly.
There's nothing like reconnecting with friends you made when you were young. I don't think you ever make bonds like that again in life or have too many opportunities later in life to share such camaraderie with others. I'm glad you went and it was uplifting for you.
Nope...neither my wife or I ever wound up on the cover of Disfellowshipped! magazine or even so much as posed for the cover of it's semi monthly companion... Disassociated! .
We managed to fade out successfuly. My last time in a K.H. was a Memorial. After attending the same Hall regularly for over 25 years, it took them nearly 3 years before anyone came looking for us...they knew better. It was the new C.O who arrived one rainy Saturday morning unannounced and I filled him in on what caused us to leave...really gave him an earful. He slunk away and we haven't heard a thing from them since.
ive been speaking with my wife and she feels that its the honest thing to do and just meet with the elders and tell them my thoughts and doubts.
not to rejoin but da if i want.
she brought out that its rude of us for them to expect us to do parts and think alls well, and the.
what would happen if you were able to have a sat down.
with one of your love ones still in the borg.i was told i'm.
blind to spiritual matters, satan have control of my mind.
If JW's are the only ones with The truth and if Satan is in control of the world and Christendom is his empire and he is responsible for spiritual blindness, how could anyone ever become a JW in the first place ?
post some comedy.
we all need to laugh.
i'll start with:.
being a jw is amazing!
who agrees with me??.
the jw is a protection from the world.
Ships are safer when they are kept tied up to a pier...but that's not what ships were made for.
i have always wondered how jws believe about "post-armaggeddon" earth.
question#1 how will jws survivors bury all of the dead bodies.
with about 4 billion people on earth today how can 8 million jw(1/2 of them children and babies) bury all of those dead bodies?
Back in 1974 when everyone was on pins and needles about the start of the Tribulation. I remember a middle aged brother commenting at the Watchtower study saying "Scientists have seen a worldwide increase in carrion birds in the last few years and we know that this is how Jehovah will take care of the dead after Armageddon."
The Study Conductor said "There's no proof of any such thing, lets restrict our comments to the information in the paragraph."
You could have heard a pin drop.
i have always wondered how jws believe about "post-armaggeddon" earth.
question#1 how will jws survivors bury all of the dead bodies.
with about 4 billion people on earth today how can 8 million jw(1/2 of them children and babies) bury all of those dead bodies?
Just like after the flood when Jehovah made the 2 Kangaroos on the Ark hop their way to the Indian ocean and swim south to Austrailia before multiplying, he'll make sure that each of the non JW's to be slaughtered, digs a hole for themselves before he kills them. The next person in line to be killed will fill in the hole for the person before him, and so on and so on. There may be a special loving provision that alows parents to dig holes for their little children or elderly family members before he kills them.
Didn't Hitler do something like that when he first got into the human extermination biz?
i was just thinking about how humans being imperfect and satan's influence was the root of everything bad that anyone has ever done.
well i know that apparently everyone is vulnerable which got me thinking about what "bad" things people have done while they were a jw.
i'll start it off.
My wife and I grew up as JW's and missed out on everything. Although we continued with it well into adulthood, we both suspected that much of the restrictions we lived under were completely unnecessary. We allowed our boys to join the local youth basketball league when they were in elementary school and later the Jounior and Senior high school swim team and wrestling team. They enjoyed it immensely and benefited socially from it. Even though we had to sort of keep it on the down low and got the stink eye from different ones who knew, we ever regretted it or doubted ourselves. None of the elders dared to give us any grief about it.
Evil Monsters that we were, we also used to do something special for them on thier "birth date" even if it was only to bring them home a chocolate eclair and a little gift and give them a rundown of the events the night they were born. We allowed them to go to the Highschool Prom and our youngest Son was the Homecoming King in his Senior year.
We were jilted out of our childhoods in many ways and even though we're now free of the Watchtower's stranglehold on our personal relationship with God, we do have regrets about not having gotten out sooner but at least we can feel good that our boys didn't have their youths totally spoiled by it all.
