went to a bar with a friend a few days ago.. we were sitting in the outside garden and i went back inside to get another round.
on my way back out i passed some tables with a family of about 6 or 7 people sitting and celebrating a birthday.. i overheard the name jehovah mentioned and i stopped and asked if they were witnesses to which one of them replied 'yes'.. we got into conversation about the latest watchtowers and the governing body.
none of them had a clue what i was talking about.. they new nothing of the 8 men brooklyn being the faithful and discreet slave, nothing about c.t russell or rutherford, nothing of how jesus came and selected them as his chosen people in 1914-19, in fact the only thing they knew about 1914 was that that was when the first world war started, nothing about malawi and mexico, never heard of candace conti or any of the sex abuse scandals, nothing about the 2 witness rule, nothing about the elders being chosen by the holy spirit, nothing about 'new light', nothing about the orgs involvement with the un, nothing about the blood fractions changes they knew almost nothing at all about the majority of their own organisations core teachings.
Thats just too funny. i would think the G.B. likes it like that, by that i mean those in association, who know nothing about their failed prophecies, lies, flip
flopping of doctrine and so forth.
When they finally get baptized and their behaviour doesn"t change, they will be in for a rude awakening wont they?
so i hadn't talked to my friends on facebook for a while because i had been too busy on my page (now two pages) and my job, and my girlfriend.
so i go on my fb account yesterday and i start talking to a "bible study" i had had while in mexico... after learning ttatt, i have dreamed of ways to tell him and his family to stay away from jw's, but i hadn't had the courage to do so because of a) wanting to get my family awakened first, and b) noticing the horribly bad reaction of the very few people i have actually talked to (three persons).... but anyways, i felt the need to tell him, the "bible study"... he is around 15. his mom was inactive for many years until we found her in "service" and then we started her on a study and she came back... at the time, i thought i was doing a correct thing, if i had known ttatt, no way in hell i would have done that.
now it hurts my conscience, although to my credit, i had no idea of ttatt.. so his mom, him, his brother and sister are all in some way or another associating with jw's.. i wasn't intending to talk to him about ttatt, it just happened.... yesterday we started a conversation (a is him, b is me):.
The book is "Reasoning from the scriptures with the jehovah"s witnesses."
so i hadn't talked to my friends on facebook for a while because i had been too busy on my page (now two pages) and my job, and my girlfriend.
so i go on my fb account yesterday and i start talking to a "bible study" i had had while in mexico... after learning ttatt, i have dreamed of ways to tell him and his family to stay away from jw's, but i hadn't had the courage to do so because of a) wanting to get my family awakened first, and b) noticing the horribly bad reaction of the very few people i have actually talked to (three persons).... but anyways, i felt the need to tell him, the "bible study"... he is around 15. his mom was inactive for many years until we found her in "service" and then we started her on a study and she came back... at the time, i thought i was doing a correct thing, if i had known ttatt, no way in hell i would have done that.
now it hurts my conscience, although to my credit, i had no idea of ttatt.. so his mom, him, his brother and sister are all in some way or another associating with jw's.. i wasn't intending to talk to him about ttatt, it just happened.... yesterday we started a conversation (a is him, b is me):.
ilovettatt: You did the right thing in telling him,even if it doesnt turn out the way it should. i'am currently reading a book by Ron Rhodes who is not a
witness and never has been,but he says that it is our obligation to try to help as many as possible to see TTATT.
I hope it turns out for you and him. keep up the good work bro.
link to Truth be told http://www.tugg.com/events/6195
they said i needed help in selecting appropriate music to re-adjust my thinking.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_trsibcgf0.
love it!!!
My sister and i have reserved our tickets already
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i have both of Ray franz books. you can also download it.
from 1968 to mid 1975 jehovah's witness books, magazines and public sermons stretched the truth, quoted out of context cherry-picked secular scientists and social critics' words to assure every reader/listener history was closing in fast!
millions of people worldwide were put on high alert!.
when the non-event passed with only an embarassing silence, the purpose of the watchtower faltered, sputtered and almost died, but only momentarily.. like a veteran boxer knocked to the floor for a 9 count, things in the local kingdom halls shifted into "downtime" as policies relaxed until the men at the top of the jw foodchain could find their legs again.. ridicule, humiliation and a demand for explanations became an avalanche piling up in the local kingdom hall.. this was the moment of truth for "the truth".. it was now or never.. would this religion look itself in the mirror and see wrong-headedness and self-delusion?.
As usual Terry, you are spot on.
i have a page on facebook and it made some controversial posts (my page is similar to the quotes website, except it translates the quotes to spanish).
i post that we believed in the cross before: meh... "thank you brother for showing us how the light has increased".
i post that we banned organ transplants and were against vaccinations: "you're an apostate!!
Ilovettatt: j-dubs are taught to be very afraid of Apostates. If they only knew that their Governing body were THE REAL APOSTATES, they would
totally lose it. But then, they just might say they are just imperfect men. Brainwashing 101
