just curious..
I have not received a phone call, letter, or even a surprise pop-in visit in over 3 years.
Am not sure exactly what I would say, but I know that I would keep the convo limited to family and friends.
If it was a surprise visit I would also make it clear that a pop-in visit will not happen again. When you are at your home or residence you have the control, they only have the power or control you allow them to have.
hey people,.
as for myself, after extensive study i have concluded that it's not possible for me to trust the bible and so i am not active anymore.
however, let me please add something to the discussions here:.
I think of the saying that I heard, could have been from this site, that "fish rot from the head down". The bad that exists in the Watchtower Corporation comes from the leadership. Period. They are responsible and accountable, and from the fruitage of their decisions they are being held to account by those who truly love what is fair, true, and morally right.
when i was a kid, i researched the origins of the religion and realized that the witnesses were an offshoot of adventism.....we're you surprised to learn something about the witnesses that you didn't realize?.
whathappened - The Mexico/Malawi fiasco hit me hard also. I was young and newly studying and I remember writing letters in a vain hope that it would help their situation. When many years later I learned that the whole scenario could have simply been avoided, and that a hypocritical double standard was being applied, all because a corrupt leadership could cry "look how we are being persecuted", it quite literally made me ill. I knew that only truly evil people could do something so devoid of morality, of true concern for another person. And later when honest people brought up the inconsistancies involved and their concerns would be dismissed without concern, it showed that they had concern only of maintaining their power and the status quo.
I remember reading the details about this, and thinking that I had to be reading it wrong, and surely I was missing something. So I read through it again slower, trying to find flaws with the reasoning, but it was to be a vain attempt. Sincere people were being killed, raped, and tortured so that a group of incompetant corporate directors could maintain an image.
I remember getting a bottle, turning off the lights, and sobbing for quite some time. I knew that this was a turning point and there was no going back.
seeking info on the rogers family from llano, texas.
anyone?.
B***n Rogers?
the temperature of the earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun 9900 degrees farenheit.. .
below the amazon river lies another river called the rio hamza.
only 14% of the earth's species have been identified.. .
Listened to an radio interview with Peter Gabriel briefly about some recordings he did with monkeys accompanying him on the piano. Now before we get the snark and ridicule hear me out.
The conclusions that they were reaching was that there was a much stronger degree of sentience that was previously thought. To further expand, maybe they are much more like us, but limited by there comunication skills.
It certainly raised more questions than it answered, and the musical recordings were amazing.
Oh, and another aspect of the interview dealing with this, if I remember it correctly dealt with the need or idea of having an Interspecies Internet.
Found it, here is a link.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/09/gabriel-interspecies-internet
someone mentioned to me the other day about going door to door back when i was a jw.
"weren't you scared to do something like that, knock on a stranger's door?
actually it's been so long that i had almost forgotten.
Been bit by dogs, threatened with guns, shot at by N. California marijuana growers, same as many others. Verbally assaulted regularly.
But one that came to mind was not an experience of mine, but of my first serious girlfriend when I was active.
Her family lived about an hour and a half drive south of San Francisco at the time in a relatively rural area. She and her father went out in service about 45 minutes from their home. Her father was a real nice guy, great father to his family, but was kind of absent minded. I got along really well with him, and the mom.
After they had been out for a while, and they had been working separately, he decided that it was time to head home, and left her in the territory. And as she explained to me it was not that great of an area. This was before cell phones were common and she said that she was there alone for about 2 hours. She really stood out in the area that she was in, she was a blonde Swede wandering the streets in a migrant farming area.
When her father arrived back home, the revelation hit him, no doubt by his wife, that he had left something important in the territory. He raced back and quickly located her, a little bleary, but unharmed. After a couple of years passed they were able to laugh it off.
I think about her often, though I have not spoken to her in years. She still lives in the same area, though on the coast, not far from San Simeon.
It is amazing what memories some unrelated topics can bring back.
personally, i respect that everyone has choices to believe whatever they want to believe.
i have no interest in joining another religion....what about you?.
Nope.
Edited: I guess my standards, both moral and ethical, are too high.
i remember when i was a "devout" jws i could not wait to get the new watchtowers and awakes from the wednesday nite theocratic ministry school.
i would actually salivate thinking of the new information jehovah had in the magazines for us.
i was "franatical" and i would go home still in my three piece suit and devour the magazines that very nite.
I personally am glad that she is "taking one for the team" so to speak. That she can stomach going through them is much better than I can do.
The best that I can do is peruse her reviews of the study articles. Thanks for your hard work Blondie!
i like her videos about self-injury and other mental and physical problems, that could happened to young people.... she say that she is an active jw and regularly visit the meetings and go to service.. http://www.youtube.com/user/idranktheseawater.
but... what can you say about her wearing and hair style?.
it's cool, but it's "non-spiritual" style, not for "true" jw, isn't it ?!
A warm welcome idranktheseawater !!
Very courageous and noble for you to be making videos addressing issues and problems that the organisation would rather not acknowledge that its members suffer with at a far greater rate than the public in general.
Keep doing what you are doing. It is certainly a great use of your time and energies. Keep it up!
i've been active on the jwr site for a few months now and thought i'd introduce myself here, as well.
long story short we served in ecuador and south korea, and in several "need greater" (vomit) places in the usa.
we got our necks cut off for putting ourselves out there, which was a good thing in the end, since it helped us to see that the gb is self-serving.
Greetings and a warm welcome Xpine!
