for me i think it was the sunday meeting.. just wanting to stay home and sleep in.. but i think the watchtower study was the hardest to sit threw... you had to have it studied before hand.. and highlighted.. then sit there and listen to it all over again..
I I too was bored out of my brain during the meetings. The best meeting was the Sunday talk when the speaker didn't turn up and they couldn't get anyone to do a rerun of one we'd already heard. The pure joy of being let out an hour early was delicious! I suppose the book study was the worst of all though, cause we used to do the same books over several times. Unlike the other meetings where fresh inforamtion was presented each week. NOT!
Marilyn
i have a question:.
if the wtbts is so into deceiving everyone and trying to reel in as many newcomers as possible, what does it actually have to gain from this?
why are they always trying to switch teachings to make themselves look "believable"?
That's easy. They get everlasting life!
They believe their own crap remember.
Marilyn
does freedom of thought really obtain in this forum?
are those who have left god's organization and jehovah god himself actually now more open-minded and unbiased?
if those who espouse atheistic thoughts or those who believe every vile utterance spoken against jehovah's people think they are now speaking from some olympian perspective, i beg to differ.
An excellent question, and one that often pervades my thoughts. If I may quote the great AF, who once said "there's their truth, our truth, and the truth"! Isn't it great to be able to talk about it though? Would the elders approve?
Marilyn
teeheee....... anyone recognize the total happiness pictured here????.
remember how happy we are all supposed to be????.
here is a reminder!!!
The two at the front look like they are concerned that the one with her back to us, can't quite remember when she put the winning lottery ticket.
Marilyn (I'm not sure what the best time is to phone you??)
i don't know about the rest of you but i was one of the stupid ones lugging bricks around and cleaning them up for the jw's shortly before i left.. how many others here have done the same???.
how many of us have at one time been construction workers for the borg???.
esther...you set my brain working on this one with your thread .
Hi Iadonna, Depends what you mean by helped? Hubby and me were newly married - without a penny to bless ourselves. However I cashed in an insurance policy that my mother had taken out on us kids when we were little. She faithfully paid in a few dollars every three months to some guy who used to visit for the payment. This when she wouldn't waste the money on a bus fare to the shops, insisting on walking all the way there and home again, carrying supplies. So when they called for donations I got the full amount due from the insurance company and handed it over to the KH fund. That was in 1973, and we were living on love (a bloody miserable existence - give me an adequate income any day!!!!)
My husbands father was an architect and non believer, so we conned him into designing the KH and on reflection he would have done anything to get his son back. He also came to the opening ceremony (forget the name) of the Hall, and the elders didn't deem it appropriate to thank him for his many hours of unpaid labor on our behalf. HOW RUDE! My husband also worked many weekends on the project. Generally speaking the building of that hall caused a lot of bad feelings and resentment in the congregation. But that wasn't anything unusual in a congregation that seemed to thrive on bad feelings and resentment. Ho hum.
Marilyn
us and our neigbhours have a guy who trims our trees annually.
he's a jw.
for the last 2 weeks our neighbours have engaged him to pave their driveway.
Yeah Prisca (why aren't you watching the tennis?)
The guy I was talking about was a total egg head! - Or should I stop digging at this hole?
Marilyn
us and our neigbhours have a guy who trims our trees annually.
he's a jw.
for the last 2 weeks our neighbours have engaged him to pave their driveway.
Love, tolerance, and caring.....it is an unfortunate fact, that the championing of these human qualities, fall mainly on the so-called religious.
:::: It is interesting to note poster's like six of 7= Dave,
Well you can't trust anything Dave says - he makes it up as he goes along!!! :-) We spent a great weekend with Dave on the Portland Coast a few years ago. We went over to JF and AF (we went to their wedding) and they introduced us to Dave. What a riot of a guy!
Look with regards this guy Spong. My BS detector must be faulty, cause I just loved listening to Spong talk (this from someone who only every heard the opening sentence of the public talks). This is a quote from a write up on him "Asked if he has received death threats for championing the rights of
women, homosexuals and blacks, he replies, "only sixteen". With just a
trace of irony, he adds: "And not one of them has been from an atheist.
They've all been from true believers."
Marilyn
us and our neigbhours have a guy who trims our trees annually.
he's a jw.
for the last 2 weeks our neighbours have engaged him to pave their driveway.
Mr Ozzie, I knew when I wrote that that there'd be some wise guy who would pick me up on my lack of political correctness!! Trust an Aussie to fill to shoes!!
Marilyn
us and our neigbhours have a guy who trims our trees annually.
he's a jw.
for the last 2 weeks our neighbours have engaged him to pave their driveway.
:::::::::::::::As for the really disingenuous, looking for a way to take advantage of someone or a group for
their own personal gratification, yet have the cunning ability to continue to be perceived as
innocuously popular within the organization, not necessarily always the WTBTS hierarchy
either.
Flip, Have you met my brother-in-law????
Marilyn
if you remember, i've been inquiring about how to discuss jw issues with my boyfriend's sister.
it appears she is accepting the watchtower driven interpretations of the bible, but we are still not giving up.
if you are willing, would you respond, in a nutshell, to the question, "what is the doctrine or belief that the jw's hold that was most instrumental in leading you to abandon this religion?
::::::what about the scripture that says that for unrepentant sinners " you must not even eat a meal with them"???
So, somehow we take a scripture that's aimed at people who repeatedly rob banks or molests children, and we apply it to anyone we don't like? Innocent people, who in all conscience, can no longer be JWs ??? Or we apply it to someone who commits a sin, confesses and repents, but we don't like them so we shun them for a year or until we're satisfied that they've suffered enough. Cause we love them so much..... yeah right? The WTS one size fits all shunning arrangment!!!
Marilyn
