hi to everyone, my name is jerry, i am 56 and i live in tralee, kerry ireland.
i will not bore you with the all too familiar details, suffice it to say i was a prime candidate for indoctrination/ brainwashing.
the surprising aspect is that my wife, a staunch catholic started a study soon after i did.
Hi Jeremiah1958, You are in a beautiful part of the world. How are things, in Glooca Morra? lol
I am sorry your wife felt she needed to be loyal to a cult, instead of you. It must be very painful. And you have 3 daughters caught up in it all, as well.
I am glad you found us. Welcome.
LL
PS The good news is if you are free for the following weekend, July 11th, and can catch a plane out, you are just in time for Flipper's Great Northern California Camp Out, held annually at South Lake Tahoe.
me and the spouse decided to not go to the dc and it takes place tommorow.
all our jw friends are headed down there tonight.
feeling lonely and left out but know this is the right choice.
Wow Lambsbottom... I never thought to use your method of text messaging just, "TTATT?".
I 'know' some JW's who must think the creative days of 7,000 years each, stinks. Add that to so many other things such as "The story of Noah and The Flood", without adding all of the organizational garbage and I wonder why they are still in.
There are other places to make friends besides the KHall.
I wish you and your wife a happy day away from WT/JW.org propaganda.
LL
me and the spouse decided to not go to the dc and it takes place tommorow.
all our jw friends are headed down there tonight.
feeling lonely and left out but know this is the right choice.
Possibly... some of your friends might be thinking exactly like you. You never know...
LL
PS A couple of nights ago, I was reading on the thread about "JW's... Persecuted worse than Jews?" The poster Kalk's last comment was 24 hours ago. He and his family have been through a lot. After watching the YouTube videos he suggested, I had nightmares. If I was alive at that time and lived in those areas, I would not have survived all the horror of war. I am not Jewish, or a gypsy, or a homosexual or anyone on their major extermination lists. It didn't matter if you were on the lists or not. If the Nazi's didn't like you, you were dead. So much cruelty. So much madness. People in uniform, having too much power. It is so heart breaking.
Just in case you do want to get some sleep tonght , I suggest not watching Holocaust videos.
a loud get well grace from all of us to you.
everyone, grace has been in and out of the hospital and i'm sure she would love to read your get wells.
we miss you grace:) wish i could post pictures.
Grandma Mouthy. It's good to hear from you!
LoisLane
the elders say "its very wrong to donate blood because you never know what the medical community is going to do with that blood.
" i asked one of the brothers who is a consultant at one of the medical centers, "why are we allowed to take blood fragments if were not allowed to donate blood?
" he/she refused to answer, just shook their head and walked away all red faced!
Since when did anything Watch Tower or JW.org say or do that ever made sense? lol
It is just a religious corporation aka business that enjoys all the free labor and the tax breaks.
LL
this morning, i received the following email through my website, watchtowerdocuments.com.
i have no information other than what is stated in the email.
(the information provided in the links has been translated into english.).
Three years ago I didn't know any of this. ^^^^^
I was still in WT/JW.org drone mode .
I believed I had the true religion... because they told me so... lol
LoisLane happily awake and no longer listening to lying religious people.
http://gotoby.com/news/article/2245/watchtower-buys-former-faa-training-facility-in-palm-coast-for-$7025000.
watchtower buys former faa training facility in palm coast for $7,025,000the facility was owned by embry riddle and had been leased to the faa.
watchtower plans to use the facility in much the same manner as did the faa.by toby tobinadd a comment palm coast, fl june 30, 2014 watchtower, an entity ofjehovahs witnesses, purchased the former faa training facility in palm coast from embry riddle aeronautical university for $7,025,000.
In 2010 the population for the City of Palm Coast, Florida was 75,000.
Good thing they have 75,000 other people there ready to pay the city's taxes.
JW.org won't be paying a penny.
My Aunt lived her summer's in Maine and her winters in Florida.
I wonder if JW.org will be wintering in Florida, as well. lol
LL
bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.
it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.
After posting and seeing what millie210 wrote ^^^^^ I had to watch.
7:00 minutes in: "Stand By Me".
12:00 minutes in: " Turn Turn ".
16:30 minutes in: "Up On a Roof".
23:50 minutes in: "Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer)".
30:00 minutes in: Like millie210 said... "Happy" with line dancing sisters on the Kingdom Hall platform and little children doing the 1965 dance called 'The Jerk' and the 1964 dance 'The Swim'.
My 2 cents worth, no comment.
LL
^^^^^ All of the singing, playing of instruments, dancing was on the platform at their Kingdom Hall.
Looks like a nu -lite Pentecostal type religion to me too.
bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.
it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.
The dear drone children singing We Thank You Gehovah at 3 minutes 4 seconds, was all I could take, It was hard at 10 seconds, at 30 seconds, for my edification I held out for 2 min 30 seconds. Sorry. I have a strong constitution, but not that strong.
Thank you for posting though.
LL
this topic has been discussed before but it is interesting to look at it in the light of the new book god's kingdom rules.. 1903 news paper sermons.
1914 photo drama of creation.
1922 radio.
I was visiting JW friends in a Canadian Province in the 1970's and I saw one JW 'production' acted by local JW's. It seems to me it could possibly have been 15 minutes long . It was awful and embarrassing to watch. It was a long time ago, but it seems to me I was told there were, for a better word, screen plays, sent out from Bethel. The Canadian or American one, I don't know which.
There were a series of these TV shows. At least 6 maybe more. This conversation and me viewing one 'show' was 40 years ago. I am sure it was before the 'epic' 1975.
I don't recall much of what was acted on TV, the sister was telling me amusing stories about the 'players' in real life. Some of them she knew personally and they were big headed, egotistical a$$holes, hypocrites!
She sent me the obituary of one of the 'players' who died last year. Funny, it never mentioned his acting career on TV. Maybe he was embarrassed. Naw , he was an a@@hole.
LL
