why is it soooo important to be a regular meeting attender when you can read the publication simply, at home?
they don't want you elaborating on the material.
they don't encourage doing extra research.
It's all about SACRIFICE
The more a cult can make you sacrifice, the committed you will be to the cult. So asking for your time, or a promise to die for the cult or allow your kids to die (blood card), represents a huge SACRIFICE. People who have sacrificed for the cult are less likely to challenge the cult. For e.g. if you let your kid die over the blood issue, would you ever be able to admit it was all for nothing for a bullshit cult? Highly unlikely.
MORE SACRIFICE = MORE COMMITMENT
i would like to know how jw's reconcile their world view with the fact that there exists creatures that live solely on blood.
bed bugs are in the news at the moment so they serve as a good example.
bed bugs live solely on the blood of animals.. ok, please explain to me how you reconcile the belief of creation by jehovah with the existence of bed bugs?.
Hellrider, good points old bean. But I was hoping to hook a few fish before whacking them over the head with facts!
Reniaa is the only JW type who has answered, but she isn't even defending the belief at all! Reniaa! You are to sit on the substitutes bench until your team arrives!
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i'll post more as i get it but according to the 'mail on sunday' this serial killing monster has "become one of jehovah's witnesses".. sick.. .
see http://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/
Good. Now he has two prisons. One outside his body and another inside his mind. I hope the cognitive dissonance fucks him up even more, if that were possible.
Great advertising for the Witlesses too.
it is with great pleasure that i have found this forum, being an ex jw myself.
after leaving when i was 17 i still held some belief in the notion of a "god," even though i didn't believe in jw teachings, then when i was about 21 and thought about it properly; i realised that evolution is the only real alternative to all religion.
when you get to this point its very liberating to see that its not just jw's that are clouding and brainwashing peoples minds, but all religion, whether organised or not.
Why do YOU keep repeating "the" Dawkins?
it is with great pleasure that i have found this forum, being an ex jw myself.
after leaving when i was 17 i still held some belief in the notion of a "god," even though i didn't believe in jw teachings, then when i was about 21 and thought about it properly; i realised that evolution is the only real alternative to all religion.
when you get to this point its very liberating to see that its not just jw's that are clouding and brainwashing peoples minds, but all religion, whether organised or not.
BTS - I stand corrected. Explain "the Dawkins" please.
alot of you maybe stuck for choice so you can say as many as you want.
Marriage should be banned until you are 40 (Elder's public talk)
No kissing before marriage.
Snakes will eat literal dust in the new system.
Lions will eat grass just like they used to!
(To householder) ...but the Wholly Babble is our main textbook!
it is with great pleasure that i have found this forum, being an ex jw myself.
after leaving when i was 17 i still held some belief in the notion of a "god," even though i didn't believe in jw teachings, then when i was about 21 and thought about it properly; i realised that evolution is the only real alternative to all religion.
when you get to this point its very liberating to see that its not just jw's that are clouding and brainwashing peoples minds, but all religion, whether organised or not.
Welcome SSN! You took the red pill, hmm?
So, all the creationists jumped on the newbie eh? Why don't some of you reply on my bed bugs thread - still waiting for ya! And there is BTS's odd turn of phrase again "the Dawkins".
SSN, you will find a colouful mix of characters here!
i posted a thread earlier this week about a conversation i had with my jw ex-wife.
the next day i sent her this e-mail.
one should never be afraid of ideas.
Great email & I hope it hits the target!
Oh, and for anyone who even considers taking JCanon seriously, just read through a selection of his posts to get a glimpse of the inner workings of this troubled individual's mind, and then read The Gentile Times Reconsidered by Carl Olof Jonsson.
Here's a taster: http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/chronology.htm
i would like to know how jw's reconcile their world view with the fact that there exists creatures that live solely on blood.
bed bugs are in the news at the moment so they serve as a good example.
bed bugs live solely on the blood of animals.. ok, please explain to me how you reconcile the belief of creation by jehovah with the existence of bed bugs?.
Hahaha! You dudes kill me!
Hmmm... but football is much more fun IF THERE IS ANOTHER TEAM TO PLAY AGAINST!
Awww, c'mon my creationist friends, come and play with us! We promise not to foul!
after seeing h4o's thread today (about hassans book), i decided to open up this one.
i have only been out of the org since 3-29-08 so i have a lot of reading this past month and a half.... i'm halfway through reading the "signs of the last days" book.
in some ways it has impacted me more than some of the others i have read.. as i read cofc, for example, i could see that the inner workings of the gb showed that there were not spirit guided but very misguided.... as i read isofcf i could see logical biblical arguments that refuted jw syances on blood, holidays, jesus, etc.... i read the gentile times reconsidered, and was very impressed with the logic about 587 bce.
"A religion that teaches lies cannot be true" (WT Dec 1, 1991, p7)
... and the drunken whore rides her lover the wild beast....
