would you do a ray franz deal and write a book or keep quiet and live out the rest of your life in bethel?.
would you keep reading the watchtower magazine?.
If you are 80 and living at Bethel. You don't want to be looking under rocks or behind curtains at that point of the game.
I don't think at that point in your life you would want to entertain any new ideas or possibilities.
It would behoove you to delude yourself for the remainder of the voyage.
Life could be brutal or soon over standing on a street corner begging with a tin cup at 80.
i remember the days when jws were proud of their religion, they walked tall and carried their big stick, their bibles, proudly.
now, it's embarrassing for a witness to admit their faith to others.
the average witness can't explain their beliefs, as they have changed so many times.
I think the old days defines one as an individual.
When we are young we think we know everything.
When we get old, if we are conscious we realize we don't know all the things we thought we knew.
I was born in. 1952. I don't ever remember being proud of it.
It was always a curse.
i have thought about how ttatt came full circle for me.
how the connecting the dots was simple and just made sense,.
how silos of information are literally at our fingertips today.. why is it that the ones we love cannot get ttatt?.
People don't like change. They are in their comfort zone and don't want to leave. And some have a vested interest in maintaining the lie.
Their work life and all their friends can be tied up with the deception of the watchtower.
So they live their life in denial.
I think some must also believe. They do not entertain information that disproves their position.
They are closed minded.
They feel if they were to peek behind the curtain, their house of cards would fall down and they
would not know how to cope with life.
They need the structure of the organization. They need the unnecessary business of being a witness
to give their life meaning.
this point was raised in another thread vaguely, and wanted to try and expand on it.. the wt has said (and rightly so in my opinion) "that excessive use of drugs and alcohol can ruin your life".
in my eyes this is a fact.. this is where it starts to get a little suspicious, as they also say (or subtly hint at) "that if you leave the wt you will becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol and will ruin your life".. its almost like a self fulfilling prophecy.
as there are a lot who leave the borg and they do start drinking heavy or smoking, or taking drugs...or whatever.. the wt capitalizes on the fact that people want more freedom, and they subtly ingrain the thought that.
I drank more as a witness than I do now knowing the truth about the truth.
Back in the 70's many of the JW's I knew were heavy drinkers.
when i was young we were taught to refer to other adult jws as aunt or uncle.. was this also the case in other countries and does it still happen?.
was it just a custom or has the literature ever commented on it?.
thanks.
oh, the possibilities!
there is a lot of wasted talent.
I did what I would have done Jw or not.
I was born a musician and I played music all my life.
If I was not a witness, I would have financed my music making by being a school
teacher not a deputy sheriff.
question: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.
i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.
it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.
Actors act.
Anybody can play anybody. Whites can play blacks, blacks can play whites.
After the show people judge how good the acting was
You are only as good as your last show.
this ain't your grandaddy's governing body!.
dubs have been saying this a lot lately in my area.
i haven't said this yet, but all i can think is, "yeah, i wonder if that's what xtians were thinking after the apostles died back in the day.
Your grand daddy did not have a governing body.
They just had a president back in the old days.
When I was a witness back in the 50's, 60's and 70's
Brother Knorr ran everything by himself.
I never heard of a governing body.
not able to do so... the posting progress is just stuck and nothing happens.
first i thought may be the pics were too big.
re sized them and still nothing... any ideas?
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