any other reason than the arbitrary explanation that you were brainwashed or seduced by a millenarianist doomsday cult?.
Had seen the bs in other religions and was looking for God. Saw some of the bs for what it was and let them move me forward in the study without really answering the ?. My fault and if I would have had the internet would probably had more info and never joined if the first place. Youtube of witness at the door would have probly been enough to turn me away.
Ron
you may be a jw ........if you spent last saturday traped in a car with at least 4 other people you may be a jw.. if you have sat through a sheparding call where you were told you are unworthy you may be a jw.. if you have alienated your worldly relatives with your preaching you may be a jw.. if you have ticked some one of buy knocking on their door on one of their religous holidays you may be a jw.. if you think the governing body is goods direct channel you may be a jw.. if you have no clue when this system is going to end you may be a jw.. .
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ron.
If you take antidepressants like they were in a pez dispenser.
Ron
does anyone here have a copy of the book a guide to reinstatement by anthony crispin?
if so, can you share?
marvin shilmer.
try looking for it at the library. even if your local library doesn't have it, they may be part of an interlibrary loan service so you can get it from another library. Finally Awake just borrowed Crisis of Conscience from a library 150 miles from where we live.
any other reason than the arbitrary explanation that you were brainwashed or seduced by a millenarianist doomsday cult?.
Finally Awake's uncle became a witness because he met a witness girl who wouldn't date him unless he studied and got baptized. So he did, and they got married. They are still together 50 years later, and they are both still uber-witnesses as far as we can tell.
i am new to this board.
i have never really been in touch with jw until just recently and have a question:.
uk congregations: are the trustees at the same time elders and can a trustee or elder be inactive?.
In our former hall, one of the elders who was also a trustee got deleted from being an elder. Later on, he was also deleted as a trustee and a different elder was appointed to take his place. He's not disfellowshipped as far as I know, but he doesn't attend meetings anymore. So at least in the US at the present time, a trustee must be an elder and probably also is required to be active.
one thing that i have always noticed even when i was a jw is that the jw org has lots and lots and lots of rules for allsorts of stupid petty rules which make no difference.
when you read the bible you see how they are clearly in the wrong here and are acting like the pharisees themselves, who imposed so much pressure on others to conform to the law.
am i missing something here!?!?
So my take is by standing up to them an getting labled an apostate should be an honor because that means you are like christ.
am finishing darrell ray's book "the god virus - how religion infects our lives and culture.".
beliefs that do not appeal, are not compelling, die out because nobody cares about them to pass them on.. like an infection, these ideas are passed on from one person to another.
viruses that kill their host too quickly die out because there is a shorter time window to pass it on.. ebola, the earliest mutations of aids viruses, even plague kill their victims so quickly an outbreak soon passes.
Another good post on the virus got most of the same thoughts from his youtube videos.
Ron
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/304267/28/jehovah-witnesses-hurl-bibles-at-pit-bulls-attacking-grandma.
Didn't they have one of those ultrasonic dog things everyone in our area does.
Just happy for every one that helped that lady expecaly to the one that didn't stick around for the fame.
Ron
We should vote for him and give him 4 more years then.
noroomforgeorge must be drooling over this wt illustration.
the (1950s) woman of his dreams.... .
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pict 1 If you are a good boy and take out the trash while I'm gone to meeting. I'll do that nasty thing that you like so much when I get home.
pict 2 You wont belive the nasty thing he asked me to do to him when I get home will jehovah for give me if I do it.
Ron
