http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17703018.
following a stroke, chris birch's personality and sexuality altered dramatically.
now he is trying to rediscover who he is and why these changes may have happened.
@Simon - That's funny, but it's also true. We had a sister in an old KH that started speaking in a welsh accent out of the blue and she was from Michigan.
Anybody know that song "I can speak American" great lyrics, from the UK rock/alternative band Screaming Blue Messiahs...
on my way to work (my temp job) i drove past my witness uncle.
there he was on the street preaching to a man.
i knew that stance so well, publication in hand, leaning in towards to hopefully interested person and telling your story.
Welcome Davidl7!
Please preach and post here as often as you can, and know that your comments are so sincerely appreciated by many of us that are here purely by accident and should be spending our time underlining our WT study article for the coming Sunday with a yellow highlighter and a blue pen lol. (My personal favorites)
You may be able to help encourage some lapsed Witnesses, and defend the truth against these angry bitter apostates! Keep commenting here brother we need more like you to come to this forum. I wish more faithful Witnesses like you were on here to help us!
can you post it?what's about it?.
They send these letters out to the BOEs fairly often. The interesting ones usually make their way online. Most are pretty dull stuff though, pertaining to policies and procuedures only elders care about.
Elders can log onto JW.org to read them now too, without needing to circulate them as in the old days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17703018.
following a stroke, chris birch's personality and sexuality altered dramatically.
now he is trying to rediscover who he is and why these changes may have happened.
JWs didn't invent the idea that masturbation would/could make you gay. Other fundamentalist groups believe this too. A reference to this was made in the HBO show about the polygamist Mormon faith, "Big Love" starring Bill Paxton.
The father of a closeted gay man on the show berates him and says, "You finally masturbated yourself into a Sodomite!"
first of all, i really appreciate it when official, especially "secret," boe letters and the like are posted here.
it's great to have that stuff on hand, straight from the horse's... uhh...mouth, when certain "friends" deny the slave would ever do or say such and such.... anyway, there have been some references to a letter they sent out about using ipads and the like during congregation meetings.
could anyone provide a scan or link to this letter?
The letter says that they don't want them being used from the platform, ie, while giving talks.
It does not say they can't be used during meetings from a person's seat. Some of the publishers have their WT on PDF, even underline ti and make comments, etc. on their tablet.
i didn't ask why they don't because their own literature makes them out as horrible frauds!
my question is how do you get a hold of stuff like the "finished mystery" "the divine plan of the ages" and other pertinent false doctrine that has been swept under the rug and locked in the coffers at wt headquarters?
i feel so helpless because if i show my wife info on the net she will just write it off as apostate and altered like we have all been trained to think.
@Black Sheep - Golden Age, Consolation, and Awake prior to 1970 are the hardest ones to find in my experience. There is a place online that for $99 will scan and convert to PDF about a hundred books large books and return PDF files, including images, with OCR included. I was thinking if I could get a large library from an older one that didn't need them anymore that would be ideal.
@The Crushed - I went through some similar things. Hang in there it gets better- it really does.
what ever happened with the lawrence hughes lawsuit?
has anyone else ever sued them for ripping off a familie's inheritance?.
Welcome LuckyLou to the site. Have you lurked long?
Sorry but I don't know anything new on your question...
heard a new rumor that:.
the borg is going to phase out big district assemblies - so they can fit 'em in assembly halls.. they will reduce the size of circuits.
they will synchronize c.o.
I think this may fall into the "Pioneer hours are going to drop again", "COs are being phased out", etc. rumors.
Unlikely both...but possible, certainly not substantiated yet.
the unsaved dead die and sleep like babies for ever and ever - that's what we were told.
only problem is; its a lie from hell.. "the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.".
the mind is an amazing thing.
All that are "in the graves" are in sheol, the first death by JW reckoning, a place of simple inactivity but alive in Jehovah's memory.
Those in Gehenna though, the SECOND death, are not in the common grave of all mankind. They have skipped over that one, do not collect two hundred dollars, do not pass Go, and land directly in jail...FOREVER!
the reason i ask, is that if you search the wt publications, you will see that it is spelled with only one "p" over 600 times, but also spelled with two "p"s 600 times.. .
very confusing!
any linguistic experts out there that know which it should be?.
@Black sheep - good point! Can't use the ex-communicated word it's too much like ex-JW.
