first of all, i want to say thanks to all of you guys who gave me advice on my first post.
it really helped and i will try to use all of it.
now, i been doing research on what is false about the jdubs.
@Dubstepped Wow.
Just... wow.
I hope you don't mind, but I saved a copy of that final email you sent your mother. It was just so powerful and beautifully written. Thank you so much for sharing it - it means a lot, and it was beyond sincere. I loved it.
9 days to go until i hand my d'a letter in.
its extremely short, as in one sentence long.
i'm not giving them a reason coz i don't need to coz it's my life and my choice and i don't have to answer to the boe or gb.
@PPPS: "In the event of my death, I do not wish to be remembered as having been one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Was going to add that you do not wish for your children to be proselytized to, but then I remembered you share a child with your ex who is a JW. Did I get that right?
i’m in australia so i wanted to know if it’s possible to obtain information on the companies that the wbts invests in currently in the us?
is there a legitimate site where this information can be found as i prefer to look it up myself than just go by what other people say.
that would be no different than running my life according the the wt and i’m done with that..
Here's one legal document from WTBTS about their investment activity from the New York government Website:
https://www.boyfriendpillow.com.au/.
with all the focus on the new anti-masturbation vide telling all bethelites not to sleep inappropriately with a pillow, surely this has to be the very item that will send the gb into fits of despair?
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@jwleaks That pillowcase looks a little snugly fit. Must've been designed by those flamin' 'omosexuals.
"No. It's not appropriate, brothers."
I tell you what, though - that pillowcase design is perfect for bed wetters. Super absorbent with a thirsty cotton design. Tony will lap that piss right up.
prompted by one of our fellow posters- jrjw who started a thread asking how to remove "kingdom melodies" from our head, this song title came to mind!
(sorry for the earworm everyone😉).
it got me thinking.
Taaaaaake siiiides with Je-hooooovah
Maaaake him your de-liiiiiiiiight
Heeeeeee'll ne-ver forsaaaaake yoouu
Waaaaaaaalk on in his liiiiiiight
Telllll, tell the great tiiiiiii-dings
of freedom and peeaaaccccce...................
Sorry, @stuckinarut2. Just thought I'd return the favor.
been baptized for two years but being in the truth for longer.
one thing i have always noticed is the lack of young people in the congregation.
does anyone feel the same ?.
Hey @IAmJustMe. It is true that the organization seems to be holding onto mainly the older generation. This is largely in part to Generations X, Y and beyond having a sharper aptitude for analytical thinking and a wealth of information at their disposal on the World Wide Web. Many of us on here have fearlessly undergone an examination of our faith and have come to the heartbreaking conclusion that the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society is not who it claims to be :(. For these conscientious reasons, we have taken a step back from meetings. This may be a contributing factor to the missing demographic of younger ones you are noticing. We're right here :).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-25/quantum-physicist-named-2018-australian-of-the-year/9363206.
Awww, everyone's a winner....
Except you, Geoffrey Jackson. You're f*cked.
Better luck next year, you butterfaced sphincter.
im currently reading a book called jehovah's witnesses: portrait of a contemporary religious movement (https://www.amazon.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-portrait-contemporary-religious/dp/0415266106).the researcher is a social scientist, was never a jw, who studied with the witnesses solely to write this book.
his research has been quite thorough and objective which is commendable.he mentioned in the book how rutherford didn't want his colporters (pioneers) giving their own sermons or bible interpretation, but instead he had them going door to door with his records.
(i have some converted to mp3, they're very boring).
JW proselytizing then and now...
Same, same but...
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oh, hold on.
one of the most common "defences" of jw organization is that "the brothers" are imperfect yet still strive to follow god's word.
"sure, they make mistakes," so the argument goes, "but so did god's people in the past, including in bible times.
" the key point is their readiness to keep studying god's word and learning from their mistakes.".
I'll never forget what @doubtful1799 once said to me when I complained about the "but they're just imperfect men" argument. He said something to the effect of:
"That's the thing. NO ONE is asking them to be perfect. We're just asking them to be accountable."
“if adam and eve hadn’t sinned they would have lived forever and we would all now be still living in paradise” is how watchtower theology goes, right.
(well not us personally, as history would have turned out completely differently and there would be different people on the planet, not us.
when you think about it you owe your very existence to the fact that they didn’t obey.
What if Adam and Eve hadn't sinned but we all got to exist, still. Stephen Lett will thank Jehovah for removing that extra chromosome and granting him some of that "mental int-a-lact" he talks about:
