is it me or is the un no longer the enemy?
when i was studying all i heard about was the un banning religions.
do any current articles discuss this anymore?.
Yes designs, that awful Revelation book just about sums it up. It truly was awful. I'm just glad we left before my kids had to study the rubbish. How can they be a charitable organization and publish shocking trash such as that.
To think I actually sat there and gave serious attention to it's content.
how many of you have ever visited one of the branch offices or world headquarters of jehovah's witnesses?
i was an active witness for nearly thirty years and was associated with the cult for more than thirty-five before finally walking away for good last year.
during all those years i never made a trip to brooklyn bethel.
I've never been there personally but I eagerly await seeing it in the new system as that is where our direction will come from ;)
i have just started my new course to be a qualified counsellor.
naturaly i am studying this because of my own background and now i want to help others who have had similar strains on their lives.. i know the pressure that the jw organisation puts on its members, so i was wondering, if you dont mind saying so of course, did any of you attend counselling sessions due to the pressures and problems that the jw life brought along?.
i can imagine that the majority of my old congregation (myself, my dad and my brother included) would need some form of counselling or medication in order to remain sane.
Yes, I too have seen a counsellor. Didn't go for years after I had left the borg and just struggled on doing what I felt responsible for. Psychotherapy does help one to see that they are/have been a victim of an extremely controling influence which affects the way we view ourselves and the world around us. There is no magic bullet and it's a long road to any sense of normality. When I look at the damage they did to me and my family I wish I could sue them.
Like discreetslave, I am looking to study psychology and help others as I feel it is all that is left for me to do.
I think many on the inside are a ticking time bomb.
the watchtower ?
december 1, 2011 7. when severe calamities occur today, god's.
servants respond similarly.
This is because Jehovah is the God of the one true religion and always cares for his own. Now, the nasty, wicked people on the other hand (that's us) will be completely destroyed at the great battle of armageddon in which we will fully realise our own weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Who ever said that the future was bleak!
disturbing divine behavior:.
troubling old testament images of god.
by eric a. seibert.
I can't actually bring myself to take the bible seriously or even read it. That used to trouble me but not so much now. I'm sure there is a creative force or inteligence but in what form I know not.
Just got my son a book on the Hubble Telescope photos. WOW!
What wonders!
i really resent the fact that the wt looked down upon alot of music.
rap was considered violent.
heavy metal was satanic.
Ahhh, I remember when Nirvarna headed Reading Festival in around 1990 or so. Magic!
That's before I became knotted up with the Jobies. They put an end to all my fun-temporarily.
They even stopped me going fishing. They have no fun in them do they.
the watchtower ?
december 1, 2011 7. when severe calamities occur today, god's.
servants respond similarly.
Every word of it.
in case you haven't heard, the november 15, 2011 watchtower, page 5 made this comment.
"today, no servant of jehovah uses physical force against opponents of pureworship.
"vengeance is mine," god says.
As if they haven't dug themselves in to a big enough hole they're still digging!
Someone lend them a JCB or a CAT.
They must be driven by their own arrogance.
i've never read any, so i'd like to know everyone's opinion..
Oh yes, and James Penton's book is very good as has already been mentioned.
Sorry if I have left any out. I think things have moved on a bit since I left the WBT$
i've never read any, so i'd like to know everyone's opinion..
Ron Rhodes did a very interesting and informative book entitled 'Reasoning from The Scriptures with the Jehovahs Witnesses'. If indeed it is possible to reason with them.
I do not have it now but I found it very helpful at the time.
Franz's books are the obvious starting point I suppose.
'Gentile Times Reconsidered' is interesting but I no longer feel that it is relevant because Jesus didn't show up in 1914 so to me the issue of when the Jewish temple was destroyed is of historical interest but little more.
Happy reading!
