i was always curious about what they had to say.
(i guess i was an apostate in the making)..
I've seen signs with a string of many dates, going back to the 1840s, that I never understood.
I now know that these dates represented Watchtower's failed predictions. And the 1840s dates, which I knew were pre-Russell, were the failures of the second adventists and William Miller, whose works Russell later studied.
okay, i don't know lots of people that were df'd, but of all the times i've encountered df people when i was a dub, they actually blanked me!
it was always something that i had fixed in my mind that the jws had dead wrong, even when i was an uber dub.
i remember several times when i used to arrive late at meetings, and i'd make a point of getting eye contact with the poor dub at the back sitting on the naughty step.
In my younger days I did, and I later felt horrible about it.
For the last few decades that I was active, when I saw a DF'd person on the street I would talk to them just as I would any body else. Even at the Hall I wouldn't shun them. No one said anything about it.
It felt so much better that way.
if anyone would like to listen or call in to my show "the razor swift" here are the details..
hi all, i'm a long time lurker, ready to join in and add my two cents worth now and then!
i was in the religion for 25 years, out now for 8, along with my husband, daughter, and son!
i would have to say pretty much the whole time i was in i didnt want to be, pretty much "dreaded" all aspects of it, meetings, service, assemblies, and talks, i hated talks, man o man would i be grouchy the whole week i had a scheduled talk.. we didnt have much family in, but lots of friends and many jw employees, pretty much lost all that, down to just one jw employee left(thats a good thing).
Welcome Blackbird Singing,
It's always great to hear a success story that the entire family is out. No stress and worry about shunning from family; what a life saver that is!
Looking forward to your posts.
if anyone would like to listen or call in to my show "the razor swift" here are the details..
middleman,
Thank you for this post. I've never heard Bill Bowen in an interview and am looking forward to this.
As to the link,
- When I click on the details link in the OP it takes me to a WorldPress.com page advertising the interview.
- There I find a link to the live broadcast, http://www.cyiworldwide.com/chat.html#.UDO166llQtR. This link gets me a "404 - Page Not Found" msg.
I'm thinking the link will work when it's time for the broadcast to go live. Is that right?
if anyone would like to listen or call in to my show "the razor swift" here are the details..
Is the link broken? "Page Not Found."
Or maybe it just isn't active yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ued0olrd54.
"I might make some funny stories from the publications artwork soon..."
Looking forward to those!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ued0olrd54.
"...irreverence toward God, but I don't think this was."
I agree with you drewcoul. It was poking fun at the GB and the way they perceive themselves as being directed by holy spirit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ued0olrd54.
That was very funny. Thanks for posting.
discussing the recent boe letter regarding child molestation this morning with my wife (she actually brought it up) , and she commented on how absurd it was - it just did not make sense!
but there was one way that it could make sense.
she said "what if someone at the top on the governing body was a child molester and wanted to cover everything up?
"What if someone at the top on the Governing Body was a child molester and wanted to cover everything up? That's the only way this would make sense - in a perverted way of course!"
It might be a good time to bring up an admission the Watchtower made in the 80s,
“Shocking as it is, even some who have been prominent in Jehovah’s organization have succumbed to immoral practices, including homosexuality, wife swapping, and child molesting.” (W 1-1-86 p13) (bold added)
