when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.
which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?
sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.
I was born in. I had no friends, no one my age in the congo-abong-i. I was not allowed to associate with kids at school. I just sat in my bedroom reading and listening to music. If my parents were out, I'd listen to David Bowie and the New York Dolls. These LP's were hidden inside other LPs.
Now I'm out, I'm making up for lost time....a bit late now so most of my dreams are dead.
The WBT$ destroyed my family and my life.
I sometimes wonder why I bother carrying on. They won.
this experience highlights the level of my indoctrination, after 10 years of been a pomo.
a few months back my gf was hinting to me about what we could do for my birthday.
to be honest i just had no idea, that i even had a birthday.
Although I don't really bother about Jobot laws anymore, I do forget birthdays and stuff. It's not that I don't want to celebrate, it's just that I never had as a born in.
I just forget is all. I have no childhood memories of these things so they feel a bit meaningless too.
when is the kingdom of god coming?.
on being asked by the pharisees when the kingdom of god was coming, he answered them: “the kingdom of god is not coming with paratherisis; 21 nor will people say, ‘see here!’ or, ‘there!’ for look!
the kingdom of god is in your midst.” —lu 17:20,21. .
Matt 24:36 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
...if you believe in that stuff.
Let's be honest, none of us really knows what the future holds. We can't even predict our own death unless we jump off our wallets on a given day.
It seems most religious people have this carrot dangled in front of them. They all want panacea in their own miserable lifetimes.
I bet a pound to a pinch of salt that nothing happens.
shouldn't gb tell members to abandon organisation?
surely things are pointing at watchtower being part of babylon the great.
in with way is watchtower being bless and been shown god's favour this days?
The WBT$ is not a religion, it is a Corporation, big business.
Because the GB probably don't even believe this nonsense themselves, they will continue to rake in the money and live in rock star style, protect their like minded paedophiles and get drunk.
It's just a massive scam. I imagine all the GB(TM) are probably atheists anyway.
to maintain the facade of being a jw, when doing the ministry, are you not advocating for the gb?
the bible studies, after all are to get people to understand they can't gain life without the "faithful slave" ( you have to be baptized as jw to survive) .how does it make you feel?
if you are parroting an answer in a paragraph that you know is wrong, how does it make you feel?
nuffy - It is hard to admit to yourself you were gullible for 50 years!
This is the same in my case.
When I was a PIMO, I still believed in God and all that jazz. I used to listen to sermons online from churches on sermonaudio.com.
When I answered(tm) at the meetings based on the bible reading(tm), I'd used what I heard from those sermons. Some of the Jobots used to tell me that my answers were great. One Elder(tm) shook his head once, when I answered. I laughed up my sleeve because I'd touched a nerve without going against the GB(tm).
I didn't go back after the 2010 CONvention that introduced the hilarious 'overlapping(tm)' generations.
with this process, there is no spe&m, no egg, no conception but a developing life.
what is the world coming to?.
https://abcn.ws/3qozsjj.
Vandy - I don't think you're quite getting the nuances of Brit humour, mate
to maintain the facade of being a jw, when doing the ministry, are you not advocating for the gb?
the bible studies, after all are to get people to understand they can't gain life without the "faithful slave" ( you have to be baptized as jw to survive) .how does it make you feel?
if you are parroting an answer in a paragraph that you know is wrong, how does it make you feel?
When I became PIMO, I used to say I was 'going on calls(tm)' and bugger off to a mate's gaff.
No way could I spread the 'good news of the kingdumb(tm)'.
with this process, there is no spe&m, no egg, no conception but a developing life.
what is the world coming to?.
https://abcn.ws/3qozsjj.
Vandy - Fisherman has been onboard JWN for close to 20 years.
Yep. It's Simon.
with this process, there is no spe&m, no egg, no conception but a developing life.
what is the world coming to?.
https://abcn.ws/3qozsjj.
Oy, Diogensis. No mention refuting a spoof account from the underwater one?
Hello, Simon. How's your day over there in Canada?
watchtower lawyer david brumley has been fined for misleading the court during the discovery process of the montana case.
the result was another 17 months of the courts time and the plaintiff having to produce evidence that wtpa did have a pivotal role in congregational business, which brumley had denied hoping that the courts would take his word for it.
he will be personally responsible for reimbursing the costs accrued by the plaintiff, due to his misleading affidavit.. see mark o donnell's twitter statement here:https://twitter.com/mark_j_odonnell/status/1562205475374043136?t=emdh163jnfi8kb6zch-uga&s=19.
Young Dio - The courts really do have Watchtowers number!
I bloomin' well hope so.
