i know i already created a post about this a week or so ago, but i have a little more to add to it.
i was watching it again and taking some notes this time.
the speaker lists these reasons for people having anxieties:.
I was exhibiting signs of PTSD in the final years of my JW-life.
Pregnant disfellowshipped wife with OCD while being pushed to do more for the org while being scrutinized for not being on the ministry enough while having no friends and no free time.
Anxiety dissappeared when I left the cult.
And my ex-wife's OCD significantly diminished when she left.
someone on facebook is claiming to have reliable information that the gb is about to announce new light on the 144,000 -- that it's symbolic, not literal.. one person suggested that they will retain the two-class teaching and just change the meaning of 144,000. his idea was that the change would avoid three problems with the current teaching:.
1. embarrassment over more and more partakers at the memorial when the number should be getting less and less.. 2. embarrassment over 12 symbolic 12,000s somehow equaling a literal 144,000.. 3. solving the problem of running out of "anointed" ones who are old enough to be on the gb.. thoughts?.
If it’s come via Facebook I wouldn’t pay much attention to it. Usually the juicy stuff comes via here by leaked letters or talk outlines.
However, as others have stated NOTHING would surprise me about this org. They’re gonna have to do damage control sooner or later regarding the anointed or 1914.
Stephen Lett could outright claim to be the reincarnated John The Baptist and they’d go with it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7025371/grieving-mother-lost-20-year-old-son-suicide-finds-jehovahs-witness-pamphlet-grave.html.
a grieving mother broke down in tears after she found a jehovah's witnesses pamphlet asking 'can the dead really live again?
' left at her son's grave.. the woman and her daughter were visiting the 20-year-old's grave at penrith cemetery in western sydney during the first mother's day since his suicide when they found the pamphlet.. 'can the dead really live again?
Can you imagine if a JW was visiting a JWs grave and found a "Chick Tract" about hell on the grave?
They'd be pretty livid.
"when you set someone up as an authority, never forget that the belief that you have in this authority is just your opinion.".
from still the mind; an introduction to meditation
Love Alan Watts.
just released to the general public -via- reddit op.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/bmj8j6/leak_2019_love_never_fails_convention_videos/.
alligator wisdom (aka brother not exerting vigorously).
Videos don't seem to be available for download anymore :(
I'll wait till Lloyd Evans does a rebuttal on them. Thanks anyway.
for helping with relief work.
maybe am the iii was sending the scotch to hurricane ravaged lands to help comfort them?.
https://tv.jw.borg/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-pk_34_video.
Few things.
1. Like any kid would voluntarily watch JW Broadcasting. There's nothing on there even remotely interesting or engaging for children.
2. What they're not showing in the video is that even if that money does go to help hurricane victims, it's only be Jehovah's Witness hurricane victims. Everyone else gets a magazine.
3. If we can all help by praying, why don't they all just pray? Since when has god needed money to rescue his people?
Why, it's almost as if the money is being spent elsewhere.
these images were posted on one of my fb news feeds.
they are legit.
looks like an upscale commercial bldg.
Oh this is just so blatant.
so i just finished watching the latest cedars video on spanking children.
i like lloyd, and think that overall he does a good job covering issues in his videos.
but i've gotta disagree with him on this issue, to a point.. i don't agree with beating your children, but i do believe in spanking, when appropriate.
I used to agree with spanking. My dad was old school and would hit us full force with a slap across the face. On at least one occasion I was picked up and thrown at a wall. I used to think this was good parenting, that it's "just what kids need these days". But I've since changed my position. Looking back I behaved myself because I was scared of getting a beating - not because I thought what I was doing was wrong. Also, it looking back my dad was unapproachable. I'd fear owning up to something simply because I knew I'd like get the shit kicked out of me.
after reading a few comments here, i thought it was time for me to get a copy of "the silver sword" for my own occasional research and occult practices.
so i thought i would see if jw.org would offer a way that i could purchase a printed copy (not digital) of the new world translation.
as i browsed, it occurred to me that i might also like to have a copy of the... what was it?
I smoked my bible after I'd left. Used it to roll joints (it was a poor smoke).
WT also had rights to the Emphatic Diaglott. I think they'd still support this as it about the only basis for their translation of John 1:1.
I bought a copy from the Christadelphians from their website. A snip at £5!
https://thechristadelphian.com/8460-the-emphatic-diaglott-greek-english-new-testament.html
The photodrama was not produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses, it was produced by the Bible Students (who are still going and would be rather pissed at JWs stealing their credit). Jehovah’s Witnesses didn’t exist until 1931.
How misinformed can one be about their own “religion”?
