Lose the rest of the weight I packed on after my car accident in May 2013.
End the year with zero debt. Making headway there, too.
Give more.
Feel less sorry for myself for lost opportunities earlier in life because I was in this cult.
Also, I've finally sworn off Facebook and have gotten back to letter writing.
ive not seen him on this new site--or do i need new specs.?
its usually hard to miss the old bugger
I would gladly affix my name to the "Free Muttley" petition. Where do I sign? :)
as we all know, the internet is a real game-changer in allowing us to know the truth about the watch tower and its history.
i always had doubts and it was the internet that presented me with the ever-growing number of individuals who were going through a similar struggle.. i give the internet a 9 in my awakening.
what about you?.
Zero, like some of the other pre-Internet people out there.
My BS meter pinged every single time I was with a brother or sister. Mostly the brothers, though. Plastic smiles and forced happiness. Bible studies where nothing was questioned and nothing made sense. Being chastized for even thinking about going to college. My turning point was the blood doctrine. Reading celebratory accounts of Brother and Sister X losing a child because they withheld a blood transfusion utterly disgusted me. I realized that if I had a child, and that child needed blood to survive, I'd be in the next room rolling up my sleeve before you could say "Armageddon".
The Internet has been invaluable as my wife and children have no idea what I went through as a Witness. I've enjoyed (virtually) meeting several of you as you 'get' a part of me no one else in my current life does. I'm glad my family doesn't know even half of what I was like back then.
i'll wager that the number is close to 100 percent.
what number?
the number of jws who have lists--lists of things that make them go hmmm or even wha'???
Going door to door: I believe that truth doesn't have to advertise itself, and the louder it tries to speak, the more it's hiding.
Blood transfusions: Every parental instinct is to care for and save your child at whatever cost to you, including your own life.
The cover of the May 15, 1984 Watchtower, "The Generation That Will Not Pass Away".
Subsequent waffles on the approach of the New System with repeated "new light".
Stealth editing of prior published literature.
Rampant hypocrisy, favoritism and politics in our Kingdom Hall.
The suicide of a brother in our KH who had been counseled and threatened with DFing. He left behind a young wife and three children.
The stance against evolution disproved by the fossil record and pretty much every scientific authority anywhere.
The stance against higher education, a transparent attempt to keep younger members stupid and gullible (and trapped, with the recent encouragement to baptize much earlier these days).
Callous disregard for Jesus's exhortation to perform acts of mercy for *all* people. The Organization absolutely ignores the suffering of those who it considers 'worldly'.
Merry Christmas everyone!
i have some guests coming over to spend xmas with me for a couple of days.
they are my friends family and i have a larger place than them and am playing host.. dilemma.
they are christians and i have some postcards in my bathroom that are slightly naughty.
I would just take them down for the time your guests are there. Christian or no, it's the considerate thing to do if you have young people over.
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/12/america-is-launching-giant-world.html.
imagine for a moment that the world is dominated by an ugly, arrogant, brazen bunch of sociopaths who have contempt for the rest of humanity.. the picture says it all.. .
metatron.
At least they're finally being honest about being a 21st century Stasi.
the society are at it again.
witnesses at a local congregation are getting rid of old literature that predates the early 90's.
you can imagine why.
There ought to be a project to scan all of the old literature and magazines. I could see the Society appealing to nostalgia, having everyone turn in their old stuff - don't worry, we'll scan the old stuff and put it on JW.org for everyone to see - and have those scans not quite match the text of the originals through some artful photoshopping.
Wouldn't be the first time.
i've been lurking for a while,but figured i'd introduce myself.
i was born in, and i'm 30 years old.
it's hard to just read as a guest, and not share with anyone eventually.
Welcome! Wish you were my younger brother, who's about your age...I would love to see him start to break free like you are.
why can't i say something without someone immature trying to be a smart ass or trying to fight everything i say and use it against me?
comments welcome.
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I'd like to institute a Buy One Get One Free for all pints of draft beer & ale to go with the free hors d'oeuvres.
I'm not such a beer guy. Now, buy one get one bottle of Islay single malt...then we can talk.
