Thank you so much for sharing Barbara.
I want to thank Daniel L. Hall again because he wrote the section in his book...all I did was read it on camera!
from the video description:.
a heartbreaking situation is played out every day for many grandparents that are former jehovah's witnesses or mormons: their precious grandchildren grow up without knowing them, and in some cases the little ones are told that their grandma or grandpa hates god and is serving satan and will be killed at armageddon.. .
why would such a terrible thing be done?
Thank you so much for sharing Barbara.
I want to thank Daniel L. Hall again because he wrote the section in his book...all I did was read it on camera!
well it took a loooong time to do, but i have typed up all 29,000+ words and made a transcript.
it has been a year and a month actually since i went in and let me them df me, and it feels great to be out of watchtower!!!!.
a picture of the first page is here:.
"I am not a Trinity! And the word does not even apear in any Bible!" Oh wait I flashed back and thought I was card-carrying JW for a moment oops...
BTW I have been getting great feedback on this one and it has drawn several new JW Trolls and apologists to go onto the blog and castigate me for "Making Satan happy" as one of them put it!
YAY, SATAN IS HAPPY BECAUSE OF ME AND MY TRANSCRIPT! Now that's power...
from the video description:.
a heartbreaking situation is played out every day for many grandparents that are former jehovah's witnesses or mormons: their precious grandchildren grow up without knowing them, and in some cases the little ones are told that their grandma or grandpa hates god and is serving satan and will be killed at armageddon.. .
why would such a terrible thing be done?
@ Solomon & Apognophos - There very well may be more details to the story. But one thing is for sure: THE ELDERS CAN DF YOU FOR ANYTHING if they want to. This has been commented on before here on JWnet and is a fact. I saw it happen many times during the years I was an elder.
And I am working on a new video right now that has the entire story of a couple that were DFed at the same time and never even found out who accused them or what they were accused of...nothing! It is a shocking example of this very thing in action.
i just wanted to chime in as a loving atheist father, divorced to a jw, and what plays as far as educating our children.. we have shared custody but the kids are mainly with their mom - 11 and 14 respectively.. the problem i face is keeping a balance for my children.
i have turned atheist during our marriage, so my ex didn't have the spiritual support she signed up for anymore.
i can understand it is not easy.
BTTT
Great story from a reasonable man of science.
from the video description:.
a heartbreaking situation is played out every day for many grandparents that are former jehovah's witnesses or mormons: their precious grandchildren grow up without knowing them, and in some cases the little ones are told that their grandma or grandpa hates god and is serving satan and will be killed at armageddon.. .
why would such a terrible thing be done?
From the video description:
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A heartbreaking situation is played out every day for many grandparents that are former Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons: Their precious grandchildren grow up without knowing them, and in some cases the little ones are told that their Grandma or Grandpa hates God and is serving Satan and will be killed at Armageddon.
Why would such a terrible thing be done? It is because of the Mormon Church and Watchtower Society's harsh shunning policies. Some Jehovah's Witnesses have used this terrible doctrine as a weapon against their own parents and it is a tragedy and a horrible loss for all sides. Once a person is indoctrinated into a cult, they will even turn on their own family members and this is one example of it in action.
The video is based on a book that Daniel L. Hall wrote in 2000 called "The Armageddon Cult: Nothing in Watchtower is right!" It was recently recommended to me by two different friends, and I began an effort to obtain a copy. Unfortunately the only way to get a look at it is by contacting Mr. Hall directly, which I did. The book is out of print and the author is working on ways to get it back in circulation and available for order via Amazon.
Anyway, I have enjoyed many sections of Mr Hall's excellent and thoroughly researched book. I share a few pages with you now, entitled, "The Great Grandmother Tragedy".
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is anyone aware if this project is already being done by someone?
if not, perhaps we can brainstorm how to go about this, now that the pdf for the revised nwt is out.
a couple initial impressions:.
This is a fascinating thread and idea- thanks to you guys for working on this.
well it took a loooong time to do, but i have typed up all 29,000+ words and made a transcript.
it has been a year and a month actually since i went in and let me them df me, and it feels great to be out of watchtower!!!!.
a picture of the first page is here:.
@ Faithful Witness - I can't tell you that or I'd violate the forum rules hehe....
But seriously not having to worry that every little thing I do is gonna bring the fires of Armageddon down upon has been nice!
well it took a loooong time to do, but i have typed up all 29,000+ words and made a transcript.
it has been a year and a month actually since i went in and let me them df me, and it feels great to be out of watchtower!!!!.
a picture of the first page is here:.
Well it took a loooong time to do, but I have typed up all 29,000+ words and made a transcript. It has been a year and a month actually since I went in and let me them DF me, and it feels great to be out of Watchtower!!!!
A picture of the first page is here:
http://www.jwstruggle.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/page1_transcript.jpg
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A short introduction and then the transcript is here:
http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/10/one-year-since-my-judicial-committee/
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And here is the playlist of all the videos I posted last year:
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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnkc1RBYAtN-n7HJDcI53nEaK-i5Pnny8
most of us here on jwn, while we can get a bit narky at times, can put forth intelligent arguments and sound observations.
sure we can get bogged down with our opinions, but generally we back up our opinions with examples and evidence, and if someone has a different opinion with examples and evidence, we accept that without recriminations.
that's what adults do.. so my question is, why in the last week or so, have a couple of posters claiming to be jws come onto this forum and berated, spewed hate and judgement, and in some cases verbally attacked members personally?
JW apologists are stepping up their "push-back" war against us. It has been happening on my YouTube channel and blog a lot and I made a video on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzgcpewzFy0
But it's happening to many of the ex-JW YouTubers too of course.
so with everything else being dissected, i want to know why it's important to have a font that can be copyrighted?.
the font used is very similar to a number of others, like tahoma, ms sans serif, and arial etc, so what benefit is there to employing (in the loose sense of the word) a team in japan to create a brand new western set of glyphs?.
will this help with their prosecution of those who copy/paste nnwt verses?.
It is often done to make it easier to retain copyright, as they own their unique font. It's a common practice by content creators.