do y'all remember the young people ask tape that came out in the late 90s about "bad association"?
i was a fairly small child with teenage siblings and watched it often (with family and alone cause i thought it was the inside scoop on older kids).
that was back when worldly was still very much so a part of dubspeak (i think they started encouraging people to stop saying it in the mid to late 2000s).
I remember it.
First thing that struck me was "wow, American kids really dress like that in school? Hey, what's he got on his head?"
Here in Liverpool, UK if you dressed or acted like that in high school you'd get the living s^it kicked out of you by lunchtime.
what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.
now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.
little kids in suits.
Reminds me of a time a middle aged bachelor brother couldn't locate his shoes before leaving for the meet. He turned up suited but not booted, he had trainers/sneakers on. The PO/COBE was visibly shaking with fury. The Pharisees.
Oh i dont know, i think this fella's got it down to a good look. And i bet he's a better speaker than the PO as well.
i recently had to accompany an older family member out of state to a family reunion.
it was a big reunion and not much was overtly made of the fact that i am "misguided" and not attending meetings (lost soul that i am) which was nice.
the thing i noticed that i was most struck by was all the dietary quirks in evidence during our 3 days together.
We had a CO that wouldn't eat "foreign" food. Make of that what you will.
This is the same CO that said from the platform that JWs shouldnt go to pubs. The entire congregation thought he was crazy... except that one sister who agreed with him and her husband did too, he was trying to be an elder at the time.
what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.
now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.
little kids in suits.
praying out loud at the end of the meeting. especially up on the platform. i hated it.
The thing about giving the prayer was, we're all trying to "pad out" the prater to make it sounds really good. When in reality the prayers in my head were to the point and direct.
what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.
now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.
little kids in suits.
What a breath a fresh air to be free of Watchtower. Now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.
In no particular order:
by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..
Manchester City stadium 1991. I was about 8yo. It pissed down with rain and if you were one of the silly people to have sat in the front few rows that weren't under the shelter you got soaked. And that was just in the opening song!
yes, my family had been one of the silly ones. I still remember sitting on a wet plastic chair completely soaked and my books all wet too. My mum and her sister under an umbrella.
yesterday’s watchtower talked about how by becoming a jw it enabled “worldly” people to ‘strip off the old personality’ and make really significantly good changes in their life.. paragraph named 4 individuals (anonymous names of course and probably embellished tales)) sakura, ribeiro, stephen, and hans.
their lives changed for the good because they found god or because they became jw’s---right?.
so on the way home from this wt meeting, my wife commented to me how wonderful our brotherhood is and how it helps people who would otherwise be ‘lost’ n this world.
Scientology apparently has a drug addiction course that works too. As do the Mormons. And I've heard many testimonies from Born Again Christians that tell me they recovered from drugs or pornography.
All it takes is for someone to replace their addiction for another one, or for them to hand over their thinking abilities to an organization that will tell them what to think, feel and believe.
the sky is so dark here in the south of the uk.
could be armageddon starting.. or then it could be dust particles in the atmosphere..
The sun was a reddish orange here in Liverpool around 12pm.
Or was it the moon turning blood red?
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; - Revelation 6:12 (KJV)
(I refuse to quote the from New World Bastardization unless absolutely necessary).
hi.
only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.
I have a suspicion that the JWs are in for some new light in a few years. Perhaps many are starting to realize that the 1914 teaching was built on sand. That maybe armageddon isnt gonna happen in their lifetime.
The convention video about 1975 stated "i remembered that i was serving Jehovah, not a date" (or words to that effect).
Next it'll probably be "paradise is an internal state". Or something like that.
a man can be a father .
a man can be a son.
a man can be a husband.
I cant believe people leave the JW and actually still believe in Jesus, or God.
This is the same guy that said:
"Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." - Matthew 10:37.
Cult leader at it's finest.
