lol.
so my parents are studying how to convince one of their bible studies that jws are not a cult.
they just checked two different dictionaries, realized that the definitions given could, indeed, apply to jws.
Anyone who honestly looks at what the definition of cult means, will find it certainly applies to JWs.
This causes two questions......
Why don't the WBTS say that they are a cult leadership, and that it's ok to be a cult?
Is it because cults are not healthy, and they are not a healthy leadership, but actually rather passive aggressive?
my youngest is studying law.
browsing through one of her books i came across a chapter freedom of association.
it covers the well known categories, colour, race, religion, sexuality etc.
D_F ....it's stage 3, because the WTBS constantly attacks via insults in the Watchtower, desperate to keep control of it's flock that it has kept naive.... it's like the communist Eastern European governments trying to keep the people down.... but the situation there was different - a few rebelled, and America supported them..... here, again a few JWs rebel, but America is neutral.... the JWs are a respected religion.
last saturday morning, i ran to the hardware store.
a former co (retired in a circuit provided house) was in the hardware store.
i stopped at starbucks....more jw's.
Yes, I seriously think some 'housewives' go out on the service because they want something to do with their time. Kids are in school, done the house work, no job... hmmm how about hang out with some other sisters. Why don't they go for a walk in the forest? or to the shops? or just get some hobby together? I think it's because they are pressured to do ministry, so they go with the others.... peer pressure.... and passive dissidence makes one accept it, because they enjoy the association; lonely at home. It really struck how much less contact I had with people when I stopped doing the pioneer hours.
feedback is always welcome.
i have to do something to make some money.
i've included links to some of my recent (business related) writing.. www.soundnumbers.biz.
just needs some graphics ....a logo, some photos
when france was invaded by the nazis, they established what was called the french resistance, which attacked the nazis.
the cause was to fight evil, so it was called a guerilla movement.
in each town, rebels would meet together secretly and sabotage the nazis, doing things such as blowing up railway lines, though they didn't attack civilians who were oppressed.. i don't see for us to fight the individuals in the organisation, because many of them are just misled, confused, brainwashed.
Well, maybe just ditch the reform idea, and instead aim to make the world aware of how bad is and also the people with, so that they will leave.
ps. The reform on child abuse, i.e. abusers can no longer be elders (except some exceptions do exist!) only arose out of the pressure from the new reports! Reform can be influenced by the outside, though that is never the given reason for it.
see:.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1091/566/nasa_whistleblower:_alien_moon_cities_exist.html.
there are so many people with rank and deep experience in government coming forward with these sort of stories, it is hard to believe that the media ignores it and the world goes on as if we were all alone in the cosmos.. metatron.
The Van Allen radiation belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth
have awakened to what fooo-king sh1t (sorry!
) i've been living in these last years.... well since i was born.... i am left if quite a weird state.
i have some weird friends.... jws.... i used to think they were normal.
Thanks Flipper.... I used to watch your TV series as a kid It used to bother me that you didn't go to meetings
I really have difficulty to trust people. Well, the brotherhood is not what it portrays itself to me as, and well, people outside are taught to me as immoral, and that lack of goodness causes wars, etc.. It is difficult to not be looking over my shoulder, expecting guys to rob me or something, but then brothers have robbed me, so is a worldly guy so different
when france was invaded by the nazis, they established what was called the french resistance, which attacked the nazis.
the cause was to fight evil, so it was called a guerilla movement.
in each town, rebels would meet together secretly and sabotage the nazis, doing things such as blowing up railway lines, though they didn't attack civilians who were oppressed.. i don't see for us to fight the individuals in the organisation, because many of them are just misled, confused, brainwashed.
I'm in the "what if they' re right after all ? " phase but I don't want my family or others to die from refusing blood etc.,
last saturday morning, i ran to the hardware store.
a former co (retired in a circuit provided house) was in the hardware store.
i stopped at starbucks....more jw's.
Most Witnesses have no passion for the ministry.
Why?
Do you think....
last saturday morning, i ran to the hardware store.
a former co (retired in a circuit provided house) was in the hardware store.
i stopped at starbucks....more jw's.
These cartoons are fantastic !!
was the only pioneer, and was going stir-crazy doing so many hours alone, or going to the field service meeting and oh, it's the same single sister out again (about my age) who had permanent bad mood she took out on me (now it's found out she was ill) and no one else..... I remember that after I went around got some to pioneer and some pioneers to move into our cong... well, got the pioneers up to about 20, to the lazy service overseer's annoyance (!?)
....but the weird thing was that I would go out, and seriously could knock a few doors and get studies (not that any got baptised), but these guys would go out for the month and between them get nothing, even loose studies I gave them - but then they honestly didn't seem to cover any territory either! One map would last them months, they didn't place anything, didn't have many calls, no studies... so I really wondered if they were faking the hours. I took a sister back to hand over a study with a woman, and this sister at the end of each paragraph, would ask the person if she had seen yet that Jehovah's Witnesses had the truth - well, the lady asked us to leave. I got two guys to the stage of unbaptised publisher, but they left because the elders were giving them to many humility lectures - this really put me off; elders were hindering my ministry. One of these guys was in the audience at a meeting, and an elder told him off for no reason, then the next meeting, it started late, because the elders was taking his temper out on me, in front of everyone... well, the unbaptised publisher never came back again; refused to speak to JWs again!
