i definitely look like a worldly person by jw standards... however i went to my old hall because they are remodelling and they are in the final p[hase.
it was not on purpose.
i had bnusiness on the street and happened to drive past.
Confused.... you are quite the guy.....personality
coming right out of your ears. Congratulations
I think you made it!! Btw at 36, you still have a
lifetime yet to live ....omg many of us would give
almost anything to be 36 again ....
don't waste another second!
clarity
I'm with Sam ... they don't smoke!
i'm cutting and pasting from one of my own posts from some timem ago.
if you're having to go to this thing tonight, pay attention to how the speaker explains the timing of events at the passover meal, and then compare that to what the bible actually says.... an oldie, but one of my better goodies, i think.... .
yes, it's time for that annual ritual...no, no...not the ritual of nibbling on crackers and sipping cheap wine, but the ritual of comparing wt teachings of how jesus instituted the memorial versus what the bible actually says.. current wt theology.... as cut and pasted from their own website:.
Undercover hi ....nice to see you tonight.
I never really 'got' these three points before....
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.."Gospels shows that the WT teaching of the Last Supper is twisted from scripture. And it has to be in order to make their Memorial as important as they claim it is. For only the remnant of Christ's brothers, the 144,000 are allowed to partake. If it was obvious that Judas partook, it robs some, if not all, the significance of the event and the importance of the vow of those who do partake. For if Jesus knew that Judas was his betrayer and still allowed him to stay during this event, then it's not a new institution being set in place for just those in the new covenant, it's just another parable and illustration used to try to teach his followers something. Rob the event of the importance of the occasion and it loses it's place today as a special and significant occasion that has to be observed, thus stripping the WT of some of its credibility as spokesmen for this special group of people."
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Thanks for posting this, I don't put much stock in the bible now,
but others & my family do, so I really appreciate your view!
clarity
anyone who has awakened to ttatt and conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent individual from a prominent multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.
by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dimissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".
nothing blasts a louder, clearer, and more deliberate message to the jws who personally knew you and those familiar with your jw bona fides that you are not merely "not making the meetings" or "spiritually-weak" but that there is a conscientious reason you have rejected the entire watchtower society life than choosing to forego what they know you know to be their one-and-only holy and sacred event of the year, the lord's evening meal.
ok, so here we go again..... those of us still stuck in have to sit through another study today.... any suggestions on comments to drop through the study?.
as i was saying before the watchtower literature trolley has arrived in my little town.... my wife and i were in town this afternoon and i saw one of my former elder colleagues standing beside the trolley talking to a young man and reading to him from one of their books.
ray was one my least favourite people - he was everything that is bad about jw elders.
i went up to them and interrupted and told the man that this is a cult recruitment campaign.
Good for you Cofty
i was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.
i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.
seeing my family tortured.
Oh yeah big time ...... getting thrown into concentration camps,
like the Jews in Germany ...OMG. Maybe have J hunt me down
cause I wasn't good enough. Watching my family get shot .....
what a big relief to know the real truth about that!!!!AND damn you
watchtower for all those wasted days & years!
clarity
in the latest watchtower (july 15, 2014, page 14, paragraph 10) it says; today, jehovahs people are not often confronted with apostasy within the congregation.
still, when exposed to unscriptural teachings, regardless of the source, we must decisively reject them.. so, not often, but occasionally jws are exposed to apostasy within the congregation, and they are instructed to decisively reject it.
as we all know, the vast majority of the apostasy they are exposed to comes from the governing body.. i am meeting up soon with an old friend from the 1970s who i havent seen for decades, who is still an active jw, and who would really like to hear what i think about things.
HeyThere .....going out in serve us? Omg, so sorry for you!
Btw....great to see you here...hope we hear more from you.
clarity
i will never appologize for being a canadian.
my familly has lived here for about 300 years.
we have seen tribulation and tumult ,good times and bad.
Aw yes wild roses ...they grow along the beach in BC too!
Being a Canadian to me means .....I never want to live anywhere
else!
clarity
so the latest clip on jw.org for kids is so wrong!.
it is about the "victory song".
lets all sing songs about how vengeful and destructive "our loving god" can be...along with cartoonish pictures...... all rejoice at the death of the evil people who used their "god-given free will", then got punished for doing so!.
Inciting hate, encouraging murder! Oh wait ain't the against the law?
