the may 2018 watchtower is now out and thought i would make a few observations.in this article we get a story about gb sam herd.
the recurring theme throughout is the struggles he has had as a black man.he was born in 1935 in a one roomed log cabin in liberty indiana.
his mother raised him in the baptist church.
“I don’t try to cash in on my talents or attempt to climb the corporate ladder. Instead, I’m investing time and energy in spiritual goals.”
Imagine a world if everyone thought like that.
Imagine if these people "didn't try to cash in on their talents": Mozart, The Beatles, Picasso, Freddy Mercury, Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Spielberg, Bruce Lee, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Roy Lichtenstein, Steve Jobs...
It'd be a very dull world indeed.
just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?
(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).
with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.
I'll never set foot in a KH ever again. Even when I was a JW I hated going the KH.
Curiosity my ass, the meeting will still be boring no matter how many videos they show. I'd rather go to work on a Sunday morning for free - no exaggeration.
something occurred to me today.
quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.
here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.
Based on this Watchtower analogy, Jehovah should have told Satan that if he could do a better job to do so. Jehovah should have created a parallel universe, transported Satan to it, and told him to run it for a few thousand years. At the end of that time they could compare results. Everyone liking the prime universe gets to stay and everyone liking Satanville gets transported over there.
Now that sounds like a God i could understand. You should start your own religion.
the last post about the violin for sale got me to looking at their ebay account which says it's based in wallkill.
they've got over 200 items for sale, most obsolete electronics that are grossly overpriced.
among them are used hard drives, like this one:.
Watchtower now have an eBay account. This is priceless.
I wonder what Jesus would do?
2 boe's arrived.. .
2018-01-20--chelmsford visitor centre update.
https://we.tl/wkfhroydcs.
ALDI have accomplished the same thing here in Liverpool. There's ALDI supermarkets popping up all over the place. Is Jehovah blessing them too?
Surely this is evidence of our creator, the great and powerful German discount supermarket chain accomplishing fantastic things in these last days.
something occurred to me today.
quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.
here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.
Something occurred to me today. Quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the Bible Teach book in which Satan claimed he knew better than Jehovah about ruling mankind. Here's the illustration from Chapter 11 of that book:
12 Let us consider an illustration. Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that he knows a much better way to solve the problem. Some students think that he is right, and they also become rebellious. What should the teacher do? If he throws the rebels out of the class, what will be the effect on the other students? Will they not believe that their fellow student and those who joined him are right? All the other students in the class might lose respect for the teacher, thinking that he is afraid of being proved wrong. But suppose that the teacher allows the rebel to show the class how he would solve the problem.
13 Jehovah has done something similar to what the teacher does. Remember that the rebels in Eden were not the only ones involved. Millions of angels were watching. (Job 38:7; Daniel 7:10) How Jehovah handled the rebellion would greatly affect all those angels and eventually all intelligent creation. So, what has Jehovah done? He has allowed Satan to show how he would rule mankind. God has also allowed humans to govern themselves under Satan’s guidance.
14 The teacher in our illustration knows that the rebel and the students on his side are wrong. But he also knows that allowing them the opportunity to try to prove their point will benefit the whole class. When the rebels fail, all honest students will see that the teacher is the only one qualified to lead the class. They will understand why the teacher thereafter removes any rebels from the class. Similarly, Jehovah knows that all honesthearted humans and angels will benefit from seeing that Satan and his fellow rebels have failed and that humans cannot govern themselves. Like Jeremiah of old, they will learn this vital truth: “I well know, O Jehovah, that man’s way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.”—Jeremiah 10:23.
Now lets try this in reverse. Suppose the Governing Body come out with some new shite light. Brother Jones doesn't agree with the new light and claims he knows better. What would the Governing Body do? Would they, like the wise teacher in this illustration, imitate Jehovah and allow Brother Jones to get up in front of the class and explain why? Or would they dismiss him from the class and tell the other students not to listen to him?
What would you think of a teacher that did that? Even the Governing Body claim that for Jehovah to do this would cast doubt on his wisdom and make it look like he doesn't really know what he's doing. And yet it's exactly what the GB do.
i've been out almost 2 years now and consider myself wide awake to watchtower propaganda and well on my way to recovery from the mental abuse we've all experienced.. one thing that just will not go is that i constantly think of jwism and watchtower and get myself all annoyed at their lies and blatant twisting of facts in their broadcasts and magazines.
it's so bad that it's the first thing i think of when i wake up, then i have these mental arguments in my head proving the jw teachings false and then getting annoyed because no jw will listen even if you tried to tell them.
i call this constant thinking and mental reasoning and mental arguing "mindchatter".
Did they live long happy egg laying lives before they entered the stew pot?
LMAO!!
not being a witness has been a plus for my sex life.
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what about you!
A few months ago i had a 2 month casual arrangement with an active JW pioneer sisterAWESOME! She yell "oh god, oh god oh god" a lot:)
I hope her ambitions were not limited to missionary
She was a deviant. Shocked even me. Sexual repression must bring out the worst (or best) in people, depending on how you look at it.
Sex was mind numbingly boring with my ex, same thing every time, practically no foreplay and same position, only ever in a bed and rolled over and went straight to sleep afterwards. I'm pleased I had lots of fun before I became a witness. I haven't been in another relationship.
Now's the time to fill your boots!
i attended my first jw meeting recently.
first, i would like to say what i agree with about the jehovah's witnesses beliefs and practices.. 1. they don't consider israeli's as "god's chosen people" and they don't worship israel as some holy land filled with righteous jews (although there are some there) as most so-called "christians" (christian zionists) erroneously believe they are instead of the "hypocrites" and "vipers" that it is actually filled with.. 2. they don't celebrate "holidays" like easter and christmas which are, in fact, remnants of earlier pagan practices.. 3. they don't put nation before god and christ.
they don't believe in war or going to war because of some crazy government/cia secret agenda.
not being a witness has been a plus for my sex life.
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what about you!
When i was a JW my then-wife suffered from depression, anxiety and OCD (yay!). So after a year of marriage sex gradually declined from regular, once a week, once a month and eventually we went the last 3 years not having sex at all.
Now?
Upon leaving i made up for lost time and lived a somewhat libertine lifestyle i don't regret a single one. I've been with all races and a variety of ages. A few months ago i had a 2 month casual arrangement with an active JW pioneer sister. She's still a JW and in good standing, she just didnt tell anyone.
My current girlfriend of 4 months is 22, i'm 33 so im very regular in that dept.
So, you lurkers, if you leave you get to have great sex. Come on out, it's great out here. Pillows are optional.
