looking back over my life, the only thing that i can say i truly enjoyed as a jw was meeting and becoming friends with a number of jws who were fine musicians and had experienced various measures of success in what used to be called the "music business.
tommy reynolds, from the vocal group hamilton, joe frank & reynolds ("don't pull your love out on me, baby" and "baby, baby, fallin' in love, i'm fallin' in love again") recruited me to play drums in his dallas circuit assembly orchestra in the 1970s.
in 1977, i became friends with legendary jazz composer/arranger/band leader benny golson, whose life story appeared in the oct. 8, 1980 awake, and who appeared opposite tom hanks in steven spielberg's "the terminal.
@Roger Kirkpatrick
I found your OP a better than good read without one thought of "bragging".
Unfortunately, some JW's had a rather dull little life. Not always their fault.
Others such as yourself have a very intriging life.
You are sharing interesting facts about famous people. I would not call that bragging or name dropping. You come off as balanced and happily sharing with us, information that none of us would have ever known without you stepping up to the plate, as it were.
Thank you.
my pms won't open and i can't get "see topics posted on.".
is anyone else having this problem?.
Hi Simon,
Someone has sent me a PM this week.
Would you mind fixing the glitch that blocks the key to me opening my private messages please?
Thank you so much!
i don't have kids, but i recently found that someone with kids that lives in my town is also an ex-jw.
she just happened to post on an apostafest thread on facebook for an event that i attended, saw that we lived in the same place, and i met her for the first time tonight.
pretty cool.. she has a 14 year old boy that is super smart and very articulate.
Since her smart son is only 14 years old, if I was the mom, I would lean heavily on the plea that he wants to go to College or University to study _____. At this age he wants to be involved in ______ to help him get a scholarship towards his goal of becoming ______. Instead of going to meeting and field service he wants to study and be involved in sports or whatever it is he is interested in which is opposite to what his father wants for him. He wants to volunteer at the local Red Cross Blood Bank and that is against his religions rules.
I have no idea what this 14 year old young man would be interested in but two things come to mind that the Judge will think is logical and alright and the JW father who's mind is stunted by WT control will hate it. Being interested in Political Science, and wanting to work for his Congressman or Senator at the local level and eventually the State level. Then telling the Judge that JW's are forbidden to vote or run for office and are forbidden say the Pledge of Alliance. When the National Anthem is played, JW's must sit down and not stand out of respect.
If the young man is interested in sports and tell them that the religion is against competition and that he has never been allowed to play in his neighborhood Little League games or hockey or wrestling or any type of martial arts to learn to protect himself.
JW's don't allow after school curriculum or joining any school clubs. He won't even be allowed to go to his prom or ever date unchaperoned.
If the young man is interested in studying Earth Science and tell them from their own literature that JW's believe mankind has only been alive for just over 6,000 years and that that kind of misinformation, messes with his young mind.
WT is against so called higher education. Any educated person hearing that will instantly know someone is bonkers.
I also strongly suggest, she needs an avocate for herself and her son. She needs a professional of some kind to show up in Court with her. Can she really stand up for herself and her son and be articulate and not crumble under the pressure her husband's attorney will most likely shower her with?
And dubstepped, thank you for having a heart and being a true friend and going out of your way to help some one in need.
Excellent!
@21 minutes in he starts speaking about JW's.
@34.25 minutes in quoting from the Bodies of Elder letter dated 1 Nov 2016: (Relating to Kingdom Halls) Break-ins, thefts, incidents of arson or other vandalism should be promptly reported to the local authorities.
When they talk about child sexual abuse, WT says they will never change their 2 person rule. If two people didn't see it, there is nothing to report. If the abuser does happen to apologize, the wronged party must accept this and then go home with their abuser... It is all swept under the rug.
But property damage to a BUILDING, should be promptly reported!
A little child, who's innocence is lost, who has been damaged and hurt, deflowered, paralized in fear, doesn't know who to trust, finally speaks up to be told, you must have at least 2 witnesses to this event or it didn't happen and the child is accused of being a liar.
This video's closing remark is: You know there's something wrong when a group that claims divinity, can't even demonstrate humanity.
... they've accepted me!
finance is already sorted - they're waiting for me to give them my new student number so that they can start paying me.
just need to formally accept bristol's offer and sort out accommodation.. accommodation should be ok - i've been told priority is given to new students, plus i'm enrolling onto a program for a real degree as a postgraduate - i won't be studying gender studies or some crap like that.
Congratulations to you, LUHE!
All the very best in your future endeavors!
So happy for you!
https://international.la-croix.com/news/jehovahs-witness-leader-urges-elders-to-destroy-sex-abuse-records/8188#.
a california court fined only $2,000 to the wt for not releasing records of 775 sex abuse cases?
they should have made the fine 20 million +.
OMG hahaha
Imagine. The WT's dreaded CATHOLICS, reporting in their own newspaper, La Croix International, "The World's Premier Independent Catholic Daily" date line August 1, 2018 written by their International staff for the USA, truth about Jehovah's Witnesses and their cover up of child sexual abuse.
And the dishonest JW.Borg aka WT, the ones that blasted Brooklyn with their sign, Read the Bible daily, are no different than any other religion.
Hypocrites. BUT, The Catholic International daily newspaper, is at least REPORTING this horrid way WT handles perperators and children. Dismiss and deny, deny, deny and then WT continues to beg for MONEY to cover their sorry asses with their on going payouts for their covered up child abuse cases. All the while, JW.Borg aka WT, claims innocence, never happened, all of Satan's lies. JW.Borg aka WT... Who is LYING here??? NOT the Catholics but Jehovah's Witnesses are!!! And who is head of Jehovah's Witnesses??? The GOVERNING BODY. Liars, fakes and cheats! The GB does not care about children. Never has. They don't care about the lying way they coerce the adults into DONATING their hard earned cash to pay for WT's sex abuse cover ups.
WT aka Governing Body you are disgusting filth, hiding in your upstate New York compound, paid for by who? More donations to keep you feeling like intitled elitist's??? Narcissists to the core. Only care about yourselves and your supposed "spot less" image.
Well WT aka Governing Body, the Catholics are reporting on you! Under WT aka GB's rules, shouldn't all of the Governing Body, Legal department, all Circuit Overseers, and who ever else is involved in this sex abuse cover ups... wouldn't that be ALL ELDERS???... should all be disfellowshipped for lying, cheating and obtaining donations under false pretences. They are not building kingdom Halls. They are selling them off!
it's hard for me to think that the watchtower it department must be fully aware of wt duplicity as in they are experts in using the internet and are fully aware of what the internet is saying about their boss.. so why not hack them and make more public their utter bullshit in a humanitarian concern expressed by what ever powers he has to reduce guilt.. as the reputation of the watchtower goes south and more dirt is revealed the more likely it is for those in position of trust like watchtower it department to be forced into a very precarious position of helping a bunch of frauds and so why should it be of any surprise that some type of corrective vengeance is planed by many members of the it..
The WT lawyers get paid. They know NOT to sign a vow of poverty.
The WT IT specialists? Does anyone know any personally?
What perks do they receive? Are they going to IT exotic seminars on WT's dime? Are they getting an extra degree paid for by WT?
Besides being WT elders, what prestiage do they receive that they would want to stay loyal to WT?
just got word one of my favorite friends died a year ago!
only now have i heard about it.
he remained a devout jehovah's witness--so--he could not/would not speak to me.
Terry, So very sorry for your loss.
I used to like a lot of people, most everybody in fact. I was a people person, caring and interested.
Several weeks ago, I decided my old friends are not going to show up here on this site.
For obituaries, I did them by the whole country by only using one key word in the search. I used Jehovah. Never less than one hundred deceased members of US KHalls show up when I did a weekly search.
Some people I have yearned to talk to, to see once again, to hug but the fickle way life really is, I have decided, I most likely will only hear of them when I read of their demise from their obituary.
How many ways can I say I hate you WT for your controlling, stupid rules. Your man made up religion that messes with human beings lives.
WT you are shameful.
just had to share some good news in our family - my granddaughter has her car packed and she's getting moved into the dorm at her university tomorrow morning!
all day i've been thinking about how fantastic it is when you know without a doubt that a precious kid has absolutely made the right decision for their life.
we have hoped so much that she would be able to attend college.. she graduated high school this past may and qualified for a scholarship to a wonderful school.
So HAPPY for all concerned!!!
Hugs and Best Wishes all around!
according to its own statistics, the jw organization in germany had 1075 kingdom halls in august 2011, 997 khs in november 2016, and 940 ones in august 2018. .
the average decrease was 1.25 khs per month in 2011-2016 and 2.7 khs per month during the past two years.. .
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16znuhftwpwq1nf_9jidc_srarst0errjssgcuxkbl8a/edit?usp=sharing .
Do you know how the "work" is in Frankfurt?
Maybe 20 years ago there was a small street in that city that had numerous kingdom halls built next to each other.
