i always found this bible acct to be puzzling.
it's found in the book of acts.
it starts by mentioning that in jerusalem a need arosed to care for some christians who lived together as a community.
I always found that scripture a bit odd too. It just does'nt seem to fit with the new more loving god of the greek scriptures.
Seems more like a warning not to say you did more than you realy did rather than lying to cover up your mistakes.
I'd be very careful filling out my monthly time sheets if I was a JW.
nope, bungi bill's interesting statement from this post didn't take, so i'll start its own.. from my own experience, i hated the field ministry.
it might just be because of the kind of character i am, whatever, i never was able to overcome that feeling of dread every time i went door-to-door.
i felt aware of how much people disliked having strangers cold-calling trying to sell them something.
I'm not sure they know it's BS, but certainly many of them are not nearly as confident as they appear.
If you believed something with all your heart and sole you would have confidence. It would show in every aspect of your life.
The majority are hedging their bets at best. We don’t believe in hell anymore, the morals are ok here and if it works out we get to live forever.
nope, bungi bill's interesting statement from this post didn't take, so i'll start its own.. from my own experience, i hated the field ministry.
it might just be because of the kind of character i am, whatever, i never was able to overcome that feeling of dread every time i went door-to-door.
i felt aware of how much people disliked having strangers cold-calling trying to sell them something.
"Deep down inside even they know it is BS."
Hey that was my commment from that thread!! How did Bungi Bill's get credit for it?
It's ok, I'm just happy to be quoted even if it credtied to somebody else.
Is is proof? Yes
Will it wake anyone up? Probably not.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17186092-2013-yearbook-of-jehovah-witnesses.
the 2014 reviews were there too but not nearly as many as the 2013 yet.. .
more interesting than the reviews of the yearbook were the number of other reviews and ratings posted by the various users.. some of them were quite impressive with the number of books they had read and rated.. .
Honesty, I agree the YB reviews were a little nausiating but I thought it was interesting how many non JW books some of the people have read and reviewed. For example Levine has read 370 books with 190 reviews and only a few of them were WT books. I even noticed she gave a couple awakes 4 out of 5 stars. The awakes were listed under audio books.
I found it encoraging that the young people seem to be open to things other than the WT literature. Some of her's were kiddy books but some seemed more young adult. There were a few other members with a healthy list of non-WT literature as well.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17186092-2013-yearbook-of-jehovah-witnesses.
the 2014 reviews were there too but not nearly as many as the 2013 yet.. .
more interesting than the reviews of the yearbook were the number of other reviews and ratings posted by the various users.. some of them were quite impressive with the number of books they had read and rated.. .
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17186092-2013-yearbook-of-jehovah-witnesses
The 2014 reviews were there too but not nearly as many as the 2013 yet.
More interesting than the reviews of the yearbook were the number of other reviews and ratings posted by the various users.
Some of them were quite impressive with the number of books they had read and rated.
hey guys i am new to the whole forum thing (long time reader, first time postererer) and i wanted to get some other opinions on something that has bothered me ever since i first became a jehovah's witness.. i was always taught at the kingdom hall that friends inside the orginisation were the only ones i could count on and that the ones out of it (mainly at school) were just being controlled by satan to trick me into leaving the religion.. however, i always found it to be the opposite.
my "worldly"friends were all accepting of my religion (back when i was ok with being a jw) and are the only ones i have really opened up to about wanting to leave.
the only things i have in common with the other teenagers in my hall (3 boys, 3 girls) are that we've all been raised in the truth and... well that's it.. i was just wondering if anyone else found the same thing when they were a teenaged jw or if anyone still in my age finds the same thing..
yup, after leaving I realized that even my best JW friend wasn't much of a friend in real life.
He was a very good JW i.e. he was very good at codeming people for doing the same stuff he did then decided it was wrong.
And the JWs I looked down on for being weak were probably more sincere than the "mature" witnesses.
Very sad that I had to give up people I had stuff in common with to hang out with JWs.
was it being able to join the theocratic ministry school?
being a regular pioneer?
"handling microphones"?
I did a 5 min bible reading at a circuit assembly.
It's odd because I don't remember feeling nervous but I don’t remember even one second of the experience almost like I blacked out for it or something.
just browsing the jw survey website and looked at the above article.
i am constantly being amazed by the disgusting bs the gb spew out.
this time it's about all the people "slain by jehoover and how the bodies would lay end to end of the earth......and the birds of heaven called to clean up the slain.
Makes me glad I never realy paid attention at the meetings.
even now I tend to be oblivious to things going on around me, I can't tell you how many dates I have missed out on becuase I didn't know the girl was flirting with me till 5 days later.
Not sure if it was because of not being able to deal with the JW stuff or not, but it certainly seems to have protected me from the imagary described in this post.
jw's are suckers.. they got fooled.. they devoted their life to a fraud.. they have been ambiently abused.. they have been used for the money.. they are stuck in a sick mindset.. with sick people.. in a sick temple.. and (the real estate fraud) makes money off the sickness.. i say run away fast.. get your family.. get your friends.. get your kids.. run as fast as you can.. don't look back.. eventually you will heal.. eventually..
Seems fitting
