i was married with 2 small children (an adult) when someone came to my door.
i can't figure out how i ever got invoved !!!
i can completely see how one can be easily brainwashed being a child and raised as a witness, but i'm angry at myself more than the organization that i was so easily duped... i feel i lost 9 years of my life and missed out on so much for being stupid.
Don't worry about your children Jurs, I should think they'll be fine. I was a child when my mum was "contacted", but don't blame her for anything, not even now that I'm an adult and have left the borg. It all helped to make up my lifes experiences, and has made me really look into things for myself. These JWs are very convincing people, aren't they?
Cheers
hi!
could you tell me about the jehovah's witness belief in a prophetess?
thanks!!
Neither is a reliable source of the truth. Both sides are prone to embellishing the facts. Personal research is the best bet.
Well put COMF!
here are a few notes i took at the friday session of the 2001 "teachers of god's word" district convention.
i thought i would share these upbuilding theocratic point with my new friends, along with my thoughts as i was listening to the program.
1st instruction of the day: sing loudly and listen to the prayer!
Hi LMR
Many thanks for your notes, reminds me why I don’t go anymore. They are still sprouting the same information as they did before I left.
I found the talk on the warning about Satan very thought provoking, the part of your notes that said “Are we easily provoked, critical of elders and their actions, resentful of counsel? Do we have a complaining self-oriented spirit? These things make us prime targets”. I used to take this to heart, thinking they were trying to protect the “flock”. These days this seems, in my own opinion, to be a way of warding off questions about the way things are being operated in the WTS. That way they can say what they like and the “sheep” follow trustingly.
Please keep it up LMR, it helps to keep us going. Thank you
an appendix in the book contains some 120 questions along with hundreds of scriptural "proof texts" that the proselyte is then expected to study.
12 jesus commanded his followers to baptize new disciples in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit.
the following quotation shows what the proselyte is expected to study just prior to baptism:.
Hello Alan
Like Esther, I guess I didn't listen to the questions asked at my baptism either. I was "dunked" at a district assembly at the ripe old age of 14, very nervous, and very trusting in my loving brothers.
Thanks
Loki
Not so trusting anymore
i've heard the borg alot.
one of the recent posts had the matrix.
some the firm.. i think that i like the matrix, so far.. what's yours?.
Okay, I can't be original on this one. I like the Borg.
.....Take us out of here, warp 10.
Loki
Still at warp speed
i've heard the borg alot.
one of the recent posts had the matrix.
some the firm.. i think that i like the matrix, so far.. what's yours?.
Riz
Disgusting image, but so accurate.
i'm not being a pervert, really.
i was just wondering whether there was a psychological explanation for why people (women, i think) experience sex, when there's nobody physically there.. there's a lot made of this in dubdom, so i'm thnking there couldbe a connection with the dub 'culture'.. just curious.. philo (honestly, but still a male)
How else are they going to keep a clear conscious about it? Hope they didn't get the guilts too much to enjoy it!
i know that the answer is yes, but it would help me to hear your sentiments on this.
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after you decided that the wbts, and thus jw's were not god's chosen earthly organization did you feel like you wanted to leave and forget god altogether?.
Need Time I like your comment “I don't believe in God as I used to any more, the God of the bible. I do believe there is some higher form, but as yet haven't figured it out”. I’ve been looking myself for a while now, haven’t found any answers, but am enjoying the journey.
I do know that I don’t want to have anything to do with any Abrahamic based religion.
i saw kevin yesterday.. we met almost twenty years ago.
he's not overly blessed with a .
he had a life free from the pain of ever knowing that had been played for a .
Ah, but doesn't everybody live in their own reality? We just have to find the best place to experience that reality.
i know i've brought this site up somewhere along the line in the past 2 years, yet i am sure many lurkers have not seen it.
it has much in the way of detailed "jw reporting".
it has articles that perhaps don't get seen as often as they should to all involved or related to this kults "activities".. "good news reporter...your online international news forum":.
Thanks sf - I've only just found this site recently, and I've learned much since then about an organisation I used to belong to. Their writing style hasn't changed, has it?
