there is no doctrine required for kindness.. you can't get it "wrong".
there is no judgement.. there is nothing to memorize when putting your hand out to a suffering person.
the human touch on a fevered brow and the comforting squeeze of the hand is irrefutable.. you don't have to graduate from a seminary to offer a smile and ask somebody how they are---how they really are.. there are no grounds for debate or rebuttal in visiting the ill, the dying, the widowed or the orphaned.. .
There are jobs that nobody wants.
Nurses' aid or orderly in a hospital, Salvation Army recruit, garbage collector, military chaplain. Whistleblower.
Somebody needs to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, to dig up dirt and corruption.
Truth-telling is a cursed job; this is why prophets usually got killed for speaking out; killed or outed.
God has His own way of honoring those who do the "dirty-work" nobody else wants.
I have no complaints in this regard.
Shech--
many of us needed time to get away from this religion.
i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.
after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.
Little Mac, sounds as if your family never was attached to the world; nor are you, now.
That's my position too: permanently out-of-it, both the Society and the World itself.
I'm a stranger in Capitalist Ideologies Land.
I'm permanently attached at the hip to the Cosmos itself.
Shech--
many of us needed time to get away from this religion.
i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.
after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.
They were clueless that they were not teaching Truth as they claimed.
They treated wise women like dirt; and they indulge stupid men.
Single-parent families are seen as sinful even if they're not.
There's no protection for widows nor orphans nor unemployed nor bankrupt.
It's all dogma, with very little heart.
Shech--
these comments and the references to the old publications are a true find.
have a read of this and you will never become one of the jw's!.
don't associate with outsiders (non-jehovah's witnesses).
Okay, just talk to and between yourself. That's HOW you'll know everything, THE TRUTH, eh?
Never mind, physicists, chemists, geologists, archaeologists, the ones reading old, old documents and molecular behavior!
Astronomers can lie about the Cosmos all day long; why not? They get paid, don't they?
You don't need their knowledge anyway!
Never mind outcomes of technology! Transhumanists can distort God's DNA, and who cares?
Monsanto can produce destructive and fatal sterile-seeds! What do you care?
Let's all just LOVE IGNORANCE, and call it worship!
That's why I left.
which generation are you?
and do you overlap with any or all of them?.
generation y has become the popular nickname for current teens and young adults.. .
Technically I'm Silent Generation; but in reality, I make a great deal of noise.
I bring up unpopular topics; unpopular judgments; unpopular norms.
It's like: Somebody has to take out the garbage, and somebody has to remind people--
What may be true MAY NOT BE what people already think they know.
I'm a pest. :)
Shechaiyah
she attended a local club for her company's celebration party.. they were saluting her for doing an outstanding job.. she wore a pretty little black dress and those heels again.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/212671/1/baby-girl-gone-to-the-convention.
i tell you, that girl is getting bolder and bolder, or is it more and more brazen?.
We are totalitarian if we try to take our children's lives away from them.
They have to see the outcomes of their choices; no parent can know what outcome his/her child gets,
psychologically, emotionally in terms of self-competence.
Safety, yes, is a huge issue now, and lots of parents are so busy they don't even know what unsafe is.
Vaccines are unsafe, antibiotics cause problems, GMO can't be digested; fast food is unsafe, sugar is unsafe.
Public schools are unsafe (completely), tv, video games & media are all programming-unsafe.
Even people outside the Organization are banding together to protect themselves from Corporate Not-Sees doing business-as-usual.
My kids are not witnesses; none of them and none of my grandchildren watch teevee. It insults intelligence.
What's missing from our lives is what is Sacred--
values, rituals, habits and friends that make us remember who we are in the sight of God.
Constantly being in "ministry school" never gave me the feeling that I was a beloved child of God.
So I turned to being silent, taking walks, writing down my ideas, listening to tones & sacred music.
Different ways helped me to keep a balance at different stages in my life; but the JW "GRIND" wore me down.
I have to admit that. The constant and never ending judgment: "You're not good enough and you'll never be good enough"
made meetings a real trial after a while. I went there to get built up, not cricitized to death.
So, maybe if we actually provide down-time for our kids that makes them feel happy, maybe they'll STAY happy Witnesses.
But a continual grind of just meetings, meetings and more meetings is a real drag on the Soul.
Shechaiyah
that would be pretty awesome.
knowing what you know now about the watchtower and the cult.
you wake up and you're back in time when it all started.. it would make a great twighlight zone episode..
Daydreaming as well as sleep-dreaming give us a window into the soul.
Sometimes we have a dream that presents a reality to us we didn't know we're CARRYING.
For this reason, dreaming is useful, to infer our own hidden agendas.
That how I use dreams; and I avoid making prediction for other people, based on MY dreams.
Why? I'm responsible for my reality, not theirs.
:) Shechaiyah
it has been some time since my last post on here and its been hard for me to post much since i'm still in and my fellow dubbies are always poking there heads in my business trying to find something wrong to get me into trouble, but i do enjoy lurking on here from time to time... and i do plan to post here much more in the near future!.
actually, being on this site and reading all of your threads (mostly on my phone) has become my favourite thing to do at meetings and on field service and pretty much anything wtbts related!.
you all have been such a great help and comfort to me when i feel down, seriously even the trolls that come around here every now and then leave me with a sense of tranquility, for it reminds me of how i used to be just like them at one point, it gets me all "happified" to know that i have now awakened and see the "truth" about the truth and feel quite at peace with myself at times.. as some of you that have read my first post may know... i've been working on a really, really long fade, and so far its been going steady to say the least.
Wow. I thought the Covenant was about Sincerity and speaking from the heart.
I simply don't know how one can put up such a charade, and feel at Truth in one's heart.
Couple of things come up.
1. Being out in the world is not freedom; it is slavery to the money-cycle.
2. Cutting oneself off from one ideology that no longer fits may be a good thing;
but what will replace your focus on being Other-Centered and not just ADOPT Self-Centered LIFE?
Isn't that just jumping from the frying pan into the fire?
3. Have you talked to your associates about how you feel? Or are you acting phony with everybody?
I feel very sorry you, young woman. You don't appear to know your own mind very well yet.
When I was in your situation (similar), I went ON RETREAT in silence, and just talked to God about it.
Shechaiyah
how many times did i hear this or its variations from householders and return visits as i preached the jw message:.
in a nutshell, what keeps most jw's together (and the group as a religion) is the validation of their own ideas.
hey, at the meetings in those kh's, it didn't matter what anyone else thought.
People who validate their ideas together are INTO Ideology.
I'm not into ideology; I'm into law-abiding behavior because I like the effects and outcomes of good behavior around me.
Torah-Law is good behavior if you treat it sensibly; Sermon on the Mount is good behavior.
But thoughts clanking around in somebody's headbone don't qualify as "behavior"--not yet. Dogma & doctrine are just thoughts.
The Will of YHVH God is that we get along, steward the planet, survive problems, keep our history, develop good Law and Ethics.
Those are ALL behaviors; in fact, they presume a lot of experience, work and the cultivation of wisdom.
I guess this way of thinking is probably not the most popular one on these Boards.
Shechaiyah
hi friends,.
it's been a long time.
i check in about every five years.. .
There's no way to wish it away. The Wormwood system does a traffic merge with this system every 3616 years,
which is about SEVEN instances every Galactic year, which is 25,900 earth years (GOOGLE "precession of the equinoxes")
That's what Joshua had to deal with, when he and the Israelites were wandering around in the Wilderness.
It was while I was a JW in the 1960s that I read Emanuel Velikowsky's "Worlds in Collision," which corroborates Joshua's account.
Every civilization on this planet has evidence that catastrophes have occurred over the millennia; in fact, history records
there was a time when this planet had NO MOON, and another time when it had TWO.
I find paleantology and anthropology fascinating because our history has been so chopped and mucked up by Academia.
Shechaiyah
