this was my first post on here...... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/177753/hi-hope-am-welcome .
there have been a lot of changes since then .. i am healthier, happier, wealthier.
i have put the jw's well and truly behind me.
I am healthier, happier, wealthier. I have put the JW's well and truly behind me. I no longer care about any of their opinions, their teachings or their existence.
It sounds like you're living the life of Riley. Good for you!
but who needs toxic people in their lives?
Yeah I agree, a lot of people would like to get rid of their toxic family and we had it done for us. Result!
Congratulations on moving on!
in piccadilly in the west end of london there sits a church called st james and most mondays they hold free lunchtime concerts.
i went yesterday and marveled at the coming together of so many cultural wonders.
the church itself was built under the direction of one of england’s most celebrated architects sir christopher wren, who also built st paul’s cathedral.
Arrive a bit early say at ten minutes to one so as to get a front seat for full immersion in the performance.The programme of the day is found on the internet under St James, Piccadilly.Thanks HB.
late yesterday there was a phone call from an old friend who i had not seen for some 5 years.
let's go out to dinner to celebrate the spring festival.
i should explain that my friend had just arrived that morning from china, had slept for a few hours and then called me.
I'm glad you had a good meal and caught up with you friend. I was in my city last week to go to the theatre and the orange Chinese lanterns were strung across the street from the clock tower. We have a large Chinese population in Leicester.
in another corner of the internet someone stated that witnesses are proclaiming that this system will be no more than 40 years now... that "gog of magog" will start the great tribulation.
can anyone confirm this latest "prediction"?.
Waton I don't think they ever put 1975 in writing as the end of the system. Dragging my mind back thirty years since I was in I think it was something like the end of six thousand years, six creative days so it would be an 'appropriate' time for it to happen, blah, blah, blah.
in piccadilly in the west end of london there sits a church called st james and most mondays they hold free lunchtime concerts.
i went yesterday and marveled at the coming together of so many cultural wonders.
the church itself was built under the direction of one of england’s most celebrated architects sir christopher wren, who also built st paul’s cathedral.
That sounds sublime Half banana, thanks for telling us about it. A little slice of heaven indeed. I am going to London sometime in the summer to see the Leonardo drawings and cartoons exhibition at Buck House so perhaps I'll get tickets for a Monday.
ex-jehovah's witnesses participate in this study of psychology!.
dear friends,.
for some time now i have had the desire to conduct a study of jehovah's witnesses, a religious movement i have known for 30 years.. for this to be possible, i enrolled in a phd in psychology at the university of algarve and applied for an unpaid leave for an indefinite period.. the subject of the investigation revolves around so-called psychological abuse (or psychological manipulation) in a group, motives for the departure of jehovah's witnesses and possible consequences of this disfigurement in people's lives.
Any idea how long it should take?
in another corner of the internet someone stated that witnesses are proclaiming that this system will be no more than 40 years now... that "gog of magog" will start the great tribulation.
can anyone confirm this latest "prediction"?.
I'm just trying to confirm if they have made an actual, current, "40 years" prediction
Dynamiterose you won't find it in writing, it will be sneaked into COs talks and hinted at in elders meetings which then gets out to the elders' families, then spreads further.
Just like the 1975 fiasco, and all the others before it, nothing will be in writing it will just be absorbed by the congregations by osmosis. Then forty years from now the GB will say we never said that, it's not in any of our publications.
"congregation picnic"2.
"congregation gathering"3.
"spontaneous gathering of jws”.
If they're worried about litigation it begs the question who or what is the congregation? Is it the body of elders, legally?
while watching the annual meeting videos on the official jw channel, i was struck with this scriptural expression:.
"they strain out the gnat, while gulping the camel" matt 23:24. this section was full of condemnation for the wicked religious leaders who were focusing on minor silly things rather than deep important topics.. the amount of silly things the gb focuses on is amazing!
they pedantically focus on things like proper pronunciation of words, (such as s lett joking about how isiah is best said), while missing major issues and topics like the proper handling of child abuse issues, or the court cases being lost worldwide!.
This section was full of condemnation for the wicked religious leaders who were focusing on minor silly things rather than deep important topics.It's called projection in psychology. Projecting your faults onto others and not being able to see that you have them.
i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
Actually he leaves the god question open as many have said on this forum we cannot say for sure there isn't one, we can only say the Christian God or any God who gives a damn about us doesn't exist.
'These things' don't always turn to magic at all, people are trying to suggest rational explanations, are you sure you have read a) Hawking b) this thread?
