my parents are jw and i'm study.. i'm about to find a host family in europe and experience to live with there as an aupair.
if i have a chance to find a jw host family it's will be great and helped me to grow more knowledge and be a jw soon.. if you've know someone a sister/brother need a helper or a nanny or a caregiver.
just help me to stay and live with you as a family.. i wish i have a chance to find a opportunity here..
Hello Catlover, I think JWs are not the sort of people who have an au pair but try your luck anyway!
This is a site where people have awoken to the cultic nature of the JW religion, so you might try another group of JWs who are still asleep.
Wishing you well.
@ stan: I knew them both. I have asked the same questions and the answer is puzzling.
As a JW, to avoid too much mental conflict I took a lot of the Bible and JW teachings with a pinch of salt and I imagined that others did so as well, especially those in control.
As I was fading (already atheist and evolutionist) I went to a KH dedication led by Bevan Vigo, he was articulate and well dressed in an expensive and stylish tweed suit. A host of local councillors attended poor things! To have to listen to JWs ranting for an hour must have been torture for them but what interested me was Vigo's uncompromising denunciation of evolution. The subject was quite irrelevant to the dedication but it was his sense of being implacably faithful to a literal reading of the Bible which counted for him, even if he knew in his heart it was dodgy reasoning. The heavyweight JWs have to be seen and heard being utterly devout to the cause. Logic and evidence don't even make a showing.
It made me realise the possibility that there is a psychological charade taking place and a need to constantly top it up with JW rhetoric to keep the illusion going. My respect for Bevan Vigo plummeted.
Not long afterwards he suffered a breakdown and I did wonder if his submerged cognitive dissonance had asserted itself.
i remember going door to door in the late 60's with my mother as a 5 or 6 year old.
one time she caught me looking at the wind chimes on a porch.
she told me they had pagan origins, were evil, and were somehow connected to demons.
Which do you want, the innocent sound of wind chimes giving peace of mind or the Watchtower organisation which will destroy your progress in life, rip your family apart and leave you poor, deflated and without any reward?
Millions would rather have Watchtower. Ahhhhhhrgh!
2020-02-19 letter.
italian translation needed to verify if the coronavirus has suspended the preaching activity.
i think that is what this letter is about.. .
I have to rant, the JW org are blatant mind-manipulators. All of their tiresome 'loving' letters to their congregations are larded with a cascade of Bible quotes. The governing body hide behind this facade of quotations!
It is as if they have a form of Tourette's syndrome, they just can't help themselves, they can't write something plainly, they are compelled to quote from the Bible whether relevant or not.
The GB are non-entities and that's why they seek a legitimisation for their mind control through Bible quotations. Isn't the Bible useful!
2020-02-19 letter.
italian translation needed to verify if the coronavirus has suspended the preaching activity.
i think that is what this letter is about.. .
If Jesus' words were true and an increase of natural disasters was the signal for the end of the secular world -- then surely it was when 200 million people died in the Black Death which hit Europe Africa and Asia right in the middle of the 14th century. There are many villages in England, I walked through one nearby the other day, all that remains are green rectangles of grass and a name on the map. Whole populations died. Was that not sufficient to qualify as a sign of the last days?
But no! The world just plodded on until eventually scientific enquiry began and bubonic plague, smallpox, polio, leprosy and even AIDS are now controllable.
It's a hard lesson sorry to say but the scriptures and Jesus' words are frankly a waste of our time and attention.
fear is used by politicians, marketeers, social scientists, military psy-ops tacticians and just about anyone who wants to manipulate or destabilize another.
to illustrate, look at this 1964 political ad by pres.
johnson against barry goldwater:.
Those who have be destabilised through the fear of God are more susceptible to external control. This is indeed why JWs can't easily cope with the normal world and they remain, head in the sand, hearts fixated on mere beliefs and stubbornly loyal to the devils they know.
How sad for JWs who lose out on all accounts -- they don't get to enjoy this world (they gave their life to the governing body of the Watchtower organisation) and they die like the rest of us.
Paradise and heaven are fictions. . . prove to me otherwise.
nobody responded so far on my previous thread.
no problem.
the last sentence i asked if you know of any doctors or lawyers, etc..that left the borg too?
Since more than half of its members leave the JW religion including lawyers, I would assume that before hiring the services of JWs who are qualified at law; they make non-disclosure agreements. Were it not for these measures I imagine the Watchtower would have already died from negative publicity.
i remember going door to door in the late 60's with my mother as a 5 or 6 year old.
one time she caught me looking at the wind chimes on a porch.
she told me they had pagan origins, were evil, and were somehow connected to demons.
How horrific, it's a wonder you got off that porch alive and unharmed....
this week's meeting stresses god's justice and righteousness in destroying the "wicked" people of the above cities.
we are told how patient and just big j was in this matter.
finally with a regretful shake of his head, he dispenses justice .. gen 19:24 then jehovah made it rain sulfur and fire on sodʹom and go·morʹrah—it came from jehovah, from the heavens.+ 25 so he overthrew these cities, yes, the entire district, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the plants of the ground.+.
Yes eyeuse2badub, where is there wisdom in using the vindictive and savage Bronze Age mentality for living today?
this week's meeting stresses god's justice and righteousness in destroying the "wicked" people of the above cities.
we are told how patient and just big j was in this matter.
finally with a regretful shake of his head, he dispenses justice .. gen 19:24 then jehovah made it rain sulfur and fire on sodʹom and go·morʹrah—it came from jehovah, from the heavens.+ 25 so he overthrew these cities, yes, the entire district, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the plants of the ground.+.
"I'm so annoyed -- if you don't do exactly what I tell you to, I'll just have to kill the lot of you!".......... Such is the morality and standard of justice from the Biblical Jehovah. Most humans have a better sense of fairness than this tribal deity.
Are the Chinese becoming the new scapegoat for the sins and tribulations of USA?
