There goes my summer
plans.
prudent decision even if the pandemic is over you are going to have people that.
lost jobs can't afford to go.
not allowed any vacation time rest of year.
There goes my summer
plans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/frnku0/jesus_is_your_source_so_give_me_money/.
zing.
No different than people funding themselves on Patreon for “content”. Are the “leaders” of this whole exJW thing telling their followers to hold off on the donations for now?
currently reading: jehovahs witnesses and the third reich by james penton.
a wonderful book written by an ex jw, born in 1932. i find this book very informative, interesting specially coz i was not around then.its thorough, lucid factual,every detail referenced and analytical data is provided to authenticate the veracity of assertion.
a pretty good read indeed for pimis n pimos alike!.
Penton’s works are by far the most scholarly and professional. Nowadays it seems everyone leaving the JWs just HAS to release a book detailing their own story and mixing in their counterpoints to the theology of Jehovah’s Witnesses as if we just don’t know what’s wrong with their teachings. Penton actually manages to avoid his own story as much as possible, even though he was a high ranking elder who had led a splinter movement out of the organisation back in the 1980s.
not only do they want everyone dressed up for the zoom meetings( which i won't do) they decided to keep the zoom meeting at 1pm sunday!
so they don't upset their spiritual routine!
ugh!
Whew! So glad JWs are still not bringing reproach upon Jehovah by dressing up in their own homes during a worldwide quarantine. Because nothing brings in followers impressed by Jehovah’s people than knowing it’s mandatory to dress like you are attending a 1950s business meeting.
they started this whole thing off by saying it does not spread from person to person.
but the left wing press suppresses the blame china for its wrongs.
who gulped this crap down and spread the same bs lies because they are in league with the chicoms.
It used to be that the news told you what happened and you made your own opinion on it. Now the news tells you their opinion and you have to decide if it even happened.
as sgt pepper sang, "it was 20 years ago today" ... that i made my first post on my first forum.. i obviously didn't put too much thought into what it should say although i must have burned 45 posts testing things and was too lazy to reset the counter before going live (?):.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/46/welcome.
but somehow, it worked and grew and here we all are, 20 years on.
Thank you for creating and maintaining this site without a demand, either implicitly or implied, of being compensated for your time and effort by the members of this forum. It’s nice to know that something great can be created and built to last on its own merits, rather than guilt or oblige people to support you so you can drop your secular job. You are a great example to your own children. Bravo!
i think the american people need to get help on the coronavirus and leave it at that!
forget about adding things from the liberal agenda!
the house and the senate need to work together now to do their jobs..
Someone please justify the 300 million to refugees to me whilst 3.3 million are filing unemployment claims. Keep in mind I am the holder of a Resident Alien card in the US. Go.
oh my goodness!
how come we never thought of this before?
if the israelites had animals to sacrifice to jehovah in the wilderness, then how come their god jehovah had to give them manna so they wouldn't starved to death?.
Try donating manna to Lloyd Evans, but I believe he only accepts cash.
who needs a press secretary when the president details what is happening every day to keep us informed?
i think he’s doing a very good job considering what is happening in the usa and the world..
tv trailer: ‘leah remini: scientology and the aftermath: the jehovah’s witnesses' two hour special event - a&e, 9pm et/pt, tues, nov 13, 2018. https://youtu.be/yzdege5im90.
didn't see a post about it yet.
will you be tuning in?
I’ll find a way to watch it, and it certainly is great to get exposure if the victims aren’t being overly dramatic and sensational about it.
Speaking of which...
My first experience with Lloyd was typical of the many that came after it. First there was a debate about the Malvinas issue which he felt he was the best suited to swat away what he perceived to be a lame shot on goal. I kept engaging him, which as you know he does not like. It was fine until he started blaming me for taking him away from his wife and ruining his marriage because he felt somehow compelled to refute every single point I had made.
What is lost in the shuffle is that a huge part of Lloyd’s schtick is how he is shunned by his father and sister and how his father has never visited his granddaughter. If you go back in his posts in this forum you’ll find a thread where he announces that he had begun writing a book - about 4 years before the eventual release in 2017. In the post he detailed how “unique” of a selling point his book would have in attracting a publisher. He was going to write under his own name and come out with the release of the book as an apostate. He opined that it would bring on a judicial committee for writing the book and disfellowshipping - the precise thing he wanted. He then went on that further editions would be necessary to fill the reader in on his expulsion. In essence, his disfellowshipping was to be used as a publicity stunt to get himself published and produce subsequent editions. Needless to say no publisher was interested and that idea was dropped when he came out with his apostasy voluntarily and self-published by means of crowdfunding. He even refused the lady who set up his first book signing in London a sneak peak at the book without first paying for it and openly wondered if he was going to run out of pens at the signing.
If the disfellowshipping was to be part of a book deal, you had to wonder what exactly Lloyd was giving up by doing so?
Fortunately in the book he provided more details in his relationship with his surviving family members. He was close to his late mum and felt she was more on his level intellectually. His father was referred to as some kind of dunce who couldn’t hold down a regular job. His sister was revealed to have emotional problems. Cited as evidence of this, he relates how she broke down completely when informed by Lloyd that their mum was terminal. It was a cheap shot as anyone who has lost a parent can attest to.
It’s clear that he had little regard for what was left of his family. But we are made to believe that shunning has affected him and his family in the worst way. He just HAD to drag his daughter for a photo op at his father’s door - a door he very well knew would not be opened. He’s more about self-promotion than anything. I can only hope that Leah’s producers can edit his worst tendencies out and stick to a genuine telling of the facts.