witnesses love to say they are in the best school available---the theocratic ministry school.
witnesses don't want you to express research on a subject when giving a comment during a meeting.
just read verbatim what is in the paragraph.
The Watchtower is a scientific publication, and reading it - together with all the other WTS literature - will give a person the equivalent of a university degree:
- Well, the equivalent of one certain university degree, anyway.
i.e. A Bachelor of Stupidity, from the University of Bulolo (Frog Hollow Campus).
This I have been assured by the university's chancellor, the Reverend Harley Davidson!
Bill.
i'm impressed with sophisticated thinking on this site.
after all it is an ex-witness site.
i wonder what changed in the former witnesses.
Reopened Mind,
Your getting involved with this cult quite closely parallels mine;
- a teenager in the late 1960s / early 1970s, impressed with how "Bible Prophecy" appeared to be acting out in "World Conditions" etc. etc. etc.!
However, the penny started to drop when all this did not continue on as it was supposed to;
- then the penny definitely hit the deck with a crash once I learned that this outfit had done the same things over and over in the past; and with similar results! (i.e. they were False Prophets, pure and simple!).
From that point onwards, I just could no longer keep up the pretence - after finding myself in the position of having to try and defend that which was indefensible.
Bill.
is the wts a false prophet organization?
are it's leaders false prophets?
or have they simply been guilty of poor interpretation from time to time?.
They are both!
Bill
a couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!
not encouraging.
this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!
Notice that oftentimes, these "we did not know where the next meal was coming from" - and by extension "aren't we superior" types are in fact the next ones to give the whole JW thing away:
(i.e. in JW-speak, go "out of the truth.")
Sooner rather than later, they discover that they cannot continue forever to keep up the pretence!
Bill.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re/us_rel_apocalypse_soon.
Thanks for the tip off;
- I will now have to try and jam the next 30 years of living into just three-and-a-half months.
(Could be fun, actually!)
Bill.
port moresby in p.n.g is a very violent dangerous place.
some witnesses told me how much the witnesses on this island "love jehovah.
" "every time they go witnesing they think it might be the last time..." due to the crimes, killings, and kidnappings, but these idiots still go door to door as ordered!!!!
Stephen did not throw his life away peddling literature for a multi-national book publishing concern, while deluding himself into believing that he was doing the Lord's work.
Bill.
all they want you to do is anything that will make you feel depressed..
Sad - but only too true!
Watching TV, playing sport, hobbies, music and other cultural activities; in fact, everything except:
- attending meetings,
- preparing for meetings,
- hawking WTS literature on people's doorsteps,
Add to that the 40 hours a week you have worked at your "secular job" (how I loathe that expression!), very little time for any thing else, anyway.
Bill.
as a jw, i always believed that the outside world adored us.
i knew that many people didn't care for us, and didn't believe our teachings, but i thought our conduct was a "bright light" shining to the world.
from the stage, we heard endless stories of business people and other non-jws praising us because we were such nice people.
What a question to ask!
At the very best, the "world" viewed us a maybe rather harmless - but still definitely on the lunatic fringe:
- and this was at the very best.
As there became more of us about, and we started covering the territory every month or less, we started to be regarded as a straight-out bloody nuisance around the place.
From harmless lunatics to just a plain bloody nuisance - but NEVER (not even once) adored!
Bill.
i attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.
in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.
the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.
Things seem to have changed somewhat in 30 years!:
- in the congregation I was with then, young fellows were climbing over themselves to get used in any way in the Kingdom Hall; just so they might one day be considered for appointment as ministerial servant.
Bill.
port moresby in p.n.g is a very violent dangerous place.
some witnesses told me how much the witnesses on this island "love jehovah.
" "every time they go witnesing they think it might be the last time..." due to the crimes, killings, and kidnappings, but these idiots still go door to door as ordered!!!!
As always, the ones issuing the orders will be making sure that they are well to the rear!
During the time that I lived in Port Moresby, only the "local" publishers went into the extensive squatter settlements around the city:
- these were places so dangerous that even the police would not go into.
Expatriate publishers were restricted to the parts of the city where either the local middle class , or the expatriate people lived.
- these, while not exactly the safest places in the world, were far less dangerous than the squatter settlements.
Bill.
