what was your crisis of conscience, moment of clarity, epiphany or realization?
i am so interested in what got you thinking.
blessing to you,.
My crisis of conscience happened in Spain after being counselled by an elder against helping African boat people (refugees, mainly women with babies).
I was told not to offer material help but only Bible Studies as they might come into the truth for the wrong reasons.
It was not an epiphaneous moment but it niggled and nagged until I allowed myself to know this was not Christ's messsage of love.
an official jw.org youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,
Prior to getting Youtube to close certain person's accounts down they must have realised that 80,000 views on one of their videos in a week was way more coverage than knocking on doors could ever be.
How long would it actually take for one publisher to reach 80,000 households?
Closing accounts didn't work as their clips have been mirrored more times than they can keep up with so it was futile trying to shut us up.
They are on dangerous ground now and are leaving themselves wide open to ridicule but perhaps a little bit more persecution is what they need to tighten the ranks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ssv2nh0rc.
and two weeks ago i highlighted another video where sparlock helped an ex-mormon.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmesmlhydru.
though it still depresses me to think of all the young ones (including my own relatives) falling under the influence of this dangerous piece of propaganda, it's at least some small comfort that the sparlock video is backfiring so dramatically among thinking non-jws.. .
I like her attitude
an official jw.org youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,
Very low view counts and comments.
I had thousands of views daily in the short time the Sparlock video was up on my account and 100s of comments many from JWs themselves accusing me of making the video myself amongst other things.
Such a low view count is very odd.
she was a 12 year old maltese.
the best pet in the world.
my wife and i never had kids, so she was our only daughter.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Losing a pet is losing part of your family.
so im sittin here lookin through these issues of watch/awake that a jaydub left me, and i just realized, she gave me old mags!!!!!
these are like 2 years old!
she used me as a dumping ground for her old trash, and then counted it on her timecard as placements i just know it.. i remember leaving stacks (30-40) mags at a time on laundry mat tables, and leaving 5 or 6 in a door was not a problem.
It doesn't matter how old the magazines are, the information contained in them never goes out of date.
Do they have that in print anywhere?
because of the membership retention issues that seem to continue getting worse, the watchtower corporation appears to be running out of ideas.
in the past, when the numbers have dropped (membership, fs hours, rag placements, money, etc.
) they always came up with a "hook" that would give them a boost until the next drop in numbers (i.e.
I wonder if they will manufacture a new reason for people to persecute them as they are tolerated very well in the western world now.
So well in fact no-one notices them and completely ignores them Lol
i remember when i was a "devout" jws i could not wait to get the new watchtowers and awakes from the wednesday nite theocratic ministry school.
i would actually salivate thinking of the new information jehovah had in the magazines for us.
i was "franatical" and i would go home still in my three piece suit and devour the magazines that very nite.
I love Blondie's comments and read them every week.
I am not great at critical thinking (probably why I got sucked in so easily) and without these articles I would not have learned so much so quickly about how they operate to brainwash all their victims and twist scriptures etc.
How can we help newbies without keeping up with their ridiculous changes in doctrines if we don't know what the changes are? If our knowledge of WT ended on the last day we attended a meeting anything we said to try and help some-one exit would be considered old light and dismissed without a discussion.
Blondie is great and her work is needed and invaluable!
so i had a conversation with a jw whom i communicate with via skype...the conversation went like this:.
kool jo: hey there, how have you been keeping?.
they're imperfect, but we need to obey them regardless.. kool jo: ok, i see.
I was told that even if we totally disagree with an instruction from either the GB, an elder or your husband but obeyed it any way even if they were proven to be wrong and the result was disasterous jehovah would bless you for your obedience later.
Now you have no excuse not to obey!
on the back cover of july 15 watchtower magazine is an article entitled look at the artwork!
it tells us that:.
"the beautiful pictures and photographs that are painstakingly produced are there for a purpose.
I have a possible explanation for why "other sheep" are not in the illustration.
The bible was not written for them it was written only for the anointed and the other sheep are saved by their show of servitude and worship towards the GB.
