while you still were jws did any doubting jw ever try to talk to you about the flaws of the org and instil in you some doubt?
someone had told me that he didn't believe the gb members were straight and honest people that many of their ideas were wrong and that they had a secret agenda to pursue beyond the one they publicly proclaimed.
at the time i thought he may be right since they seemed to control everything and didn't allow anyone to contribute even the (so called) anointed.
I had one show up at the door, after we had been gone for a few years. She started by saying "I want to know what you know. I know you wouldn't have left if you didn't know something". I was cautious but told her a few things anyway. She left, and is now a Mormon. Who can figure?
Mulan. That was hilarious. Yep there just is no figuring some people Pub
back in october 1983, there was a craptower study article that effectively banned disco, rock, and funk music.
it also spelled the end of those rollerskating parties that the congregations used to organize.
now, i can see their reasoning behind the rock (backmasking satanic messages) and funk (dirty), even though it is very specious.. however, the "evil disco" strikes me as weird.
what the heck.
i'm sitting here with idle time.
ok, so what's so great about that?
what the heck.
i'm sitting here with idle time.
ok, so what's so great about that?
last friday i was hagning out with my buddy whose family has faded from the wts, anyways his uncle is a co or so i thought, when we started talking he mentioned that he stoping being a co and now only goes to meetings once in a while with his wife.
when i asked his why he stopped being a co he mentioned three things.
1. committese meeting should not be done.
i was thinking about my 1 and only visit to a sunday "service" as an invite, to a kh a few years back.. it never dawned on me til now, but we showed up in collar shirt & slacks / casual dress, and immediately felt way under dressed (& uncomfortable due to that).
and now i think that relatively, there's probably not a lot of new faces that are seen in these small congregations, and although i felt like i was initially just going to another "church service"...i really wasn't, was i?.
now i'm thinking that silently, everyone was probably so tuned into my wife, my daugther and i when we showed up and throughout the service.
warning: don't read this if you are easily depressed!.
here's how it is for me right now - no frills:.
its pants, sh*t, black, doom, gloom and don't spare the melancholy (pronounced mel-ankley if you are me).. what's brought this on?
warning: don't read this if you are easily depressed!.
here's how it is for me right now - no frills:.
its pants, sh*t, black, doom, gloom and don't spare the melancholy (pronounced mel-ankley if you are me).. what's brought this on?
several conversations with current jw's have thrown up this validation of their faith.
i can think of several lines of refutation: .
1 - ask 'is increase proof of gods blessing?
In my experience - as soon as you point out that others preach, they dismiss it and say "yes but what do they preach" and the whole discussion is now about the CONTENT of the message not the actual preaching work.
That's why I'd agree with them.
Might as well discuss what they really mean instead of wasting time on a straw man.