humankind has for centuries sought truth outside of themselves.
the soupmix of teaching ,ideas,philosophies and religious dogma had failed to see that the truth is within and if we seek ,knock and ask we find it within us.
the truth is that we are all light and pure love and that is buried deep within alll the layers upon layers which are being stripped away to reveal the true inner self .
Socrates about 350b.c taught that all real knowledge is already present within the person.
Only critical examination, question and aswer is needed to call it forth.
Socrates also said "The unexamined life is not worth living."
The Greeks killed him made him drink poison for making those truths known.
my friend's daughter, who was baptized at 14, has decided to leave the witnesses.
she's in her early 20's.
she's stopped going to meeting a while ago and moved in with her father who is disfellowshipped.
Wow.
In my opinion, the first mistake was signing for a registered letter.
I never signed for registered mail. I told my wife and son that and all my family.
A registered letter is the first page in a legal proceeding.
Curriosity killed the cat.
When I left, I didn't answer the phone or the door and I didn't even talk to the friends at the grocery store.
What good ever comes from a registered letter?
If you win the lottery you have a ticket.
If someone is trying to contact you with no malice they will send you a regular letter.
I even found out about lost investment moneys and bank funds by regular mail.
It sounds like the JW's are playing hard ball nowadays with the disfelloshipping.
http://www.naturalnews.com/036112_sociopaths_cults_influence.html.
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My first hand experience locking them up in the county jail is, they suck their thumbs when they sleep.
And they wet their pants at night.
If I see them suckng their thumbs at night, I end up having to give them clean drawers.
And I look at their charges and they have animal cruelity and abuse on them.
David Icke.
I read about 4 of this books about 10 years ago.
He is not good about documentation and footnotes.
He trys to be a reality writter but is more fantasy fiction.
If you are familiar with the bible, then things he says will resonate.
Icke is like Alex Jones but much more loosely wraped.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_19a.htm
Sitchin has much better documentation for alien intervention.
I think Icke read and heard about a lot of things and forgot to or doesn't know
how to footnote and document.
He was a soccer player/ sportscaster who tried to find a better way to make a buck.
i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .
i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .
uun.
I found my way out at 31.
I have been out for 31 years.
I was born in.
what do you call a person who keeps promising to do something for you--but won't get up off their ass and do it?.
what do you call a person who needs money from you all the time and doesn't pay it back?.
what do you call a person who keeps you waiting and waiting and then, they don't show up?.
I call them trouble and history.
They are not in my life.
here is a personal question:.
is it disturbing to you when an author jumps into the flow of history and radically departs in order to drive an important lesson home to the reader?.
in this novel i have several watch tower leaders meeting incredibly violent deaths at the hands of --well, i won't give anything away.
Terry it sounds like you are writing historical fiction.
My favorite author in that genre is James Michner
Have you read him, Terry?
It seems like you are already inspired and motivated.
I was just wondering if you have been inspired by Michner.
I'm not much for reading fiction, but when I do, I read James Michner.
He has a format that he follows in many of his novels that is enticing and works and captivates
over and over again.
To bad hes dead.
i think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
There is a saying "There is a sucker born every minute"
By David Hannum. And I think there are a lot of wolfs aware of it.
I think there is always room for new and better religions, Like Scientology.
The founder said a person could make a million dollars by starting a religion.
i'm not talking about a individual, but a congregation as a whole.. i'm talking about a brother or sister that really hit hard times.. have there ever been an occasion where the brothers (elders).
decided to dip into the kh funds and help one in need????.
example, brother loose his job, get evicted, family of four or.
There is an old blues song that the witnesses embrace.
"Nobody Knows you when your down and out."
by Bessie Smith
Eric Clapton and a host of others.
Once I lived the life of a millionaire, spendin' my money I didn't careI carried my friends out for a good time, buying bootleg liquor, champagne and wineWhen I begin to fall so low, I didn't have a friend and no place to goSo if I ever get my hand on a dollar again, I'm gonna hold on to it 'til them eagle's grinNobody knows you, when you down and outIn my pocket not one penny, and my friends I haven't any ...
i am inactive for about 10 years now..
Inactive since 83. Haven't been to a meeting since 83.
