i can't be in the spotlight as starting this because of a family member.
but i wonder why there is no big change.org type petition going on with hundreds of thousands of signatures, etc.
or putting together a nice letter about how jw's religion breaks up families, claims to want religious freedom but those of us born in, or just in, are forced to accept their lies and anything they say or get shunned, and the devastating emotional, etc, effects on people.
@EOM - I like your thread. One of the reasons is this:
"Why has nobody started a petition or writing letters to congress, etc?
I can't be in the spotlight as starting this because of a family member. But I wonder why there is no big change.org type petition going on with hundreds of thousands of signatures, etc.
Or putting together a nice letter about how JW's..."
If not you, then who? Talking about it will not make it happen. Go out and make it happen my friend.
does anyone know where there might be a link to an english watchtower library 2013?
i don't know why i download an illegal copy every year - probably so i can take the mick...... all i can find is an italian version - the only italian i can speak is on the menu at our local restaurant......
Okay then do a search here and you will see all the languages available out there:
as far as i know, the excellent danish film "to verdener" .
("worlds apart") is still not available for purchase on.
dvd in the us.. (anyone know otherwise?).
It's worth watching. It would be cool if they did an English language dubb.
http://truthseekerdaily.com/2013/11/the-single-most-mind-altering-photograph-humanity-has-ever-taken/.
i hope this comes up - if not you can copy and paste.
very humbling and eye-opening to see ourselves in this perspective - how arrogant, self-righteous and oblivious we are as a species.
Very cool.
january km 2014. .
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(wait 5 seconds press next and free download ;) ).
Also here:
@ doinmypart - Can you, or anyone on here, put dates on exactly when they reduced the amount of magazine pages?
Note that the figures below are made up, but something like this:
| YEARS | MONTHLY PRINTING | TOTAL PAGES |
| 1950-2007 | 2 copies of WT, 32 pages each, 2 copies of Awake, 32 pages each | 128 |
| 2008-2010 | 2 copies of WT, 32 pages each, 1 copy of Awake, 32 pages | 96 |
| 2011- PRESENT | WT study edition, 32 pages, WT Public edition, 16 pages, Awake, 16 pages | 64 |
friends,.
who was in any doubt that our jw believe is a marketing model, see this pictures of the still existing hq of jw at columbia heights.. earlier comments on jwn that something is going to change in the organisation, these comments are true.. in a few years we will not talk about the watchtower society, we wil talk about jw.org.
i think the current leadership will make a transfer to a new start.
Let's start a countdown to see how long before the word "Watchtower" is completely expunged from the JW vocabulary... that is definitely part of the rebranding plan it seems.
when i was a kid, it seemed like not a meeting went by when you didn't hear about jonah or sampson and other tall tales from the bible.. now though, they seem to have been sidelined.
i guess the rest of the world caught on to the fact that these stories couldn't possibly be true and were so far fetched (yeah, even by bible standards) that they are just treated as 'stories' like aesop's fables.
saying that you believe in them as genuine accounts just makes you look like a crazy zealot.. but the wts is different.
I think this is a good topic because as science continues to advance and more and more rational people (even religious ones) start to embrace technology and true history they are going to see that the Bible certainly cannot be taken so literally.
A Bible story about Noah, Samson, Adam and Eve, etc. could simply be STORIES and people are starting to see that they don't have to view every word as literally true.
hello everyone.. after months of neglect, i've resumed writing for my website.. the new article deals with the issue of shunning among the jehovah's witnesses.. it attempts to disentangle disfellowshipping from shunning, and demonstrating that shunning is a practice unbecoming of a christian.
i hope you find it interesting the article shunning - unchristian psychological torture.. it's divided into the following sections:.
introduction.
Great job Eden. It's great to have another well written article to prove that the JWs and the WT Corp is a harmful cult-like group.
Don't worry about ones that like to pick things apart they are a dime a dozen lol. ;)
figured i'd give them a shot to explain why i was expelled from the congregation 23 years ago without counsel or a jc.
dear sirs:.
i attended the xxxx congregation in the mid-1980s as a teenaged unbaptized publisher.
Great idea to write this- please update as events unfold SK!
