i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .
i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.
so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !
I have thought about going back just to see some old friends and faking it but those meetings are soooo boring, pure torture, worse than a 24 hour Kardashian marathon with my eyes taped open.
But I never quite understood the hypocritical part. If you no longer believe it why would it be hypocritical? I can think of a million reasons not to go back but worrying about being a hypocrite isn't one of them
i have seen this photo several times but never any back story on it.
was this at bethel?
was this before or after the prohibition?
He kinda looks like WC Feilds to me!
LOL his name didn't pop into my head but when I was looking at it I kept imainging someone saying something in WC Feilds voice.
Now I know why
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
resurrection.
the lives of the people of arcadia, missouri, are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.. .
so far it seems to be an interesting take on the subject.
Is it just me? It seems like Jacob isn't very confused by how much things have changed since he died. If I went to bed and woke up the next day to a flat screen tv, smart phones and parents that looked more like my grandparents I’d be a bit confused.
When I heard the name Caleb started looking around for sparlock.
i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .
i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.
so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !
If you ever consider going back just remember, these are the same people you are going to have to spend eternity with.
i just noticed on jw org they have a publication called the 2014 jw research guide.
browsing the topics, you can see it's the up to date doctrine.
one category for example is 'recreation and entertainment' and it's filled with gems referenced for research for jws, articles such as, "keep leisure in it's proper place", "why won't my parents let me have fun?
"Why won't my parents let me have fun?"
Was the answer "because then getting a new tract at the DC wouldn't be the most exciting thing in your life"?
resurrection.
the lives of the people of arcadia, missouri, are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.. .
so far it seems to be an interesting take on the subject.
I'm getting ready to watch episode 2 on my DVR tonight....
the ressurected can't be children and such
What? So children that die will be resurected as adults or not at all? Bet you'll never hear them mention that in the door to door work.
That was something that creeped me out thinking about the new system. It would be weird if there were no children.
The show made me think how much more reasonable it would be if God were to resurrect people and reverse the aging process for the ones that were going to live forever. But the ones that aren't going to survive will just grow old and die naturally. Hey if we are fantasizing might as well make it a happy fantacy. If that were the case the dubs wouldn't have any use for their disturbing armageddon pictures.
as the title says, share what you love about the truth!.
we know that the gb or anything else in the truth is all true and nothing is false!.
love u guys xxx.
how would you feel if the end came soon? Like next year?
The real question is; how would you feel if, after spending your entire life as a JW, you find out it isn't true?
If you are ok with that then you might be in the right place.
I personally didn't have a bad time as a JW but there came a time for me to start living my life differently.
this sounds familiar-.
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http://gma.yahoo.com/fla-woman-says-church-scientology-ripped-her-family-165522676--abc-news-topstories.html?vp=1.
I remember watching a Tom Cruise interview a while back. When they brought up the scientologists you could physically see his defenses kicking in. Exactly the same way it would happen for me when I was a dub.
1 cor 10:27. if an unbeliever invites you and you want to go, eat whatever is set before you, making no inquiry on account of your conscience.. .
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i suppose that would mean it's ok to go eat with unbelievers?.
Island Man,
Couldn't you apply this to the ever-dreaded Birthday cake? Lol
That is exactly one of the places they\we used it. If somone brought extra cake to work and we didn't know it was birthday cake we could eat it.
before the recent change, faithful and discreet slave represented every anointed individual that partook.
anyone who was or claimed to be anointed was part of this faithful class.
however, a problem arose with this.
Regarding the captcha It is odd because on all my browsers, except one, it is always easy to read numbers plus the little image.
I am wondering if they keep track of me and make it easier since they have seen me before. This seems to be the case anyplace I have to use a captcha.
Also on a side note you don't need to type in the little image that has lately looked like house numbers. If that is the letters you are having problems with.
The reCAPTCHA service supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites (whose purposes are generally unrelated to the book digitization project) present these images for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words, as part of their normal validation procedures. They then return the results to the reCAPTCHA service, which sends the results to the digitization projects.
Does Simon get paid for that? If so i'll start entering them otherwise if I'm not getting paid I'm not helping out :-)
Are any of the FDS even anointed anymore? From their own rules that isn't likely. That does seem to be quite a problem for them. How do they justfiy it? I guess i never much paid attention to it when I was in so maybe it has never been the case.
