ive been lurking for quite sometime and now feel the need to come and noob it up.
it's taken a lot to bring me to read anything critical of the wts.
i used to glance at these apostate sites and shutter in fear because of the obvious demonic venom that can be found :) i am still an active witness and have been in this struggle to stay both in and be removed mentally from this organization.
What you have hung your hat on is spelled out in a book "Captives Of a Concept" by Don Cameron it goes all into detail about how the
JWs could not have been selected in 1919.
It is out there for download if you would like to see it all laid out for you.
NJY
my dad recently found out i wasn't coming to meetings and going out in field service.
he found an excuse to get me alone in his car and just lit into me about it.
he said that if i'm not going out in service that i'm not one of jehovah's witnesses and the brothers won't be able to trust me when the time comes to go undercover due to being attacked by the authorities.
And if someone was truly undercover and was trying to keep track of where the Jws were meeting, don't you think that THEY would be at EVERY meeting. So if you were missing meetings, you should be considered MORE trustworthy than the ones that never missed at all.
Kinda makes sense in a weird sort of way, shich kinda scares me. lol
NJY
if i understand it correctly, strollers are not allowed at us conventions.. in sweden, a letter was written to the congregation, introducing this new rule.
however, quite a few families wrote letters to the society,.
asking if they wanted families with children to attend the assemblies or not... it was stated that they would not go unless strollers were allowed.. the society pulled back, allowing strollers in designated areas.. in norway, they didn t even bother to introduce the rule in the first place... .
I must say that the last 2 DC were the best that I "n ever" attended!
NJY
howdy guys and gals!.
forget the word "generation", the watchtower society has completely spun another word - "soon".. how many times did you (do you) hear jehovah's witnesses tell each other "the end is coming soon"?.
i talk about this word spin in our latest article - the jehovah's witness definition of "soon" - http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/jehovahs-witness-beliefs/jehovahs-witness-definition-of-soon/.
Sometimes I think that they meant to have a "space" in there so it should read "So on" instead of Soon.
You know like the comma that was put in the wrong spot when Jesus told the criminal next to him that "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise" It was just a typo.
NJY
a jw brother has setup a bookstand in a shopping mall area (outdoor) near my work.
i must say he's put some effort into creating the counter, and display stand.
at first i thought it was a coroprate stand selling insurance or something, then i saw "awake".. he had a really comfortable chair, and looked bored watching people walk past.. the local gov allow market stalls there three days per week.
I say have someone go in and record some of the conversations where they ask some thought provoking questions and then put them on Youtube.
NJY
how many of you have ever worked on a quick build?
here's a good one.
i am a professional pencil pusher by nature.....but many years ago i decided i would volunteer at quick builds so i could help "build a house for jehovah".
Used to go to a few in the Southern part of the USA and one night when we were getting ready to go to sleep on the floor on a blanket I hear a few of the key brothers in charge in the living room ( they were drinking) starting to get loud and start using the N word. I looked at the brother I rode with and asked if I could use his car to ride to a local Hotel to sleep instead of being in that house of prejudiced idiots. Of course the guys that used the N word were white and the hall we were working on was mostly black brothers and sisters.
They were the key people in charge of putting the building together!! Not administration.
Njy
on jwtalk.net, the jw apologists are all over the conti case, about how "dumb" the jury was, how it is certain to be overturned on appeal, how jehovah will vindicate his name, blah blah blah.. meanwhile, on another thread about the sandusky verdict, you will find these comments:.
so sad that it took all this time and ruined those young boys lives.
but what about the school officials, didn't they have a responsibility to report this to the authorities??.
If Jah will vindicate his name in the near future, why didn't he just "sway" the jury the first time?
I mean is it better for JWs that this made the courts and media and then get overturned in the future after the damage is already done OR just keep it out of the media to begin with?
Jah,.. if your listening, Holy Spirit is still on break!!
NJY
of course everyone knows about the news of the candace conti child abuse case which has gone viral , ( one would have to live in a cave, under a rock, or another planet not to know about it ).
that being said - it may very well be that those jehovah's witnesses who do not use the internet, or read newspapers, or in simple english are neanderthal's, still living in the 19th century or before , out of fear of negative reprisal from wt authorities may have not even heard about this case because they are in the habit of not watching the news or using the internet.. so- with those particular type of people in mind my son flipper jr. & myself decided to print up about 20 copies of the candace conti child abuse lawsuit from the england daily mail issue , here's the link : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html?ito=feeds-newsxml .. so what we did is since we are doing some out of town jobs in several counties we figured we'd leave these child abuse news releases under jw car windshields at kingdom halls while they are out in field service.
we left about 15 so far at 3 different kingdom halls under car windshields .
I hope that some of the seeds you sow wind up on soil that is fine,... oooops so sorry,...
NJY
hey people it's been a tough couple of weeks for me, my wife and i have seperated i expected this, but it has been much more difficult than expected.
my family has gotten a million times more distant because of my inactive status and questioning ofthe org.
i do have wordy friends but still feel pretty bad being alone i have even contemplated returning to meetings for the sole purpose of not losing y family and life, but i cannot fathom the thought of bowing down to their rules and sacrificing my own integrity.
Keep fighting the fight for what you know is right!!
You would be miserable going back to something that you know is a lie, not a easy choice but it is the best in the long run.
If you did go back, you would more than likely end up at this same spot in the future, after even more heartache.
Hang in there.
NJY
finally - i get it.
oh my gosh.. .
why did the chicken cross the road?.
Q: Why did the Chicken cross the road?
A: Cause he saw a JDub coming down the sidewalk.
NJY
