my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.
i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.
in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.
@QMI,
Imagine a person making money selling cherries.
He has a basket full of cherries. Half of them healthy, half of them poisonous.
He picks out the healthy cherries and eats them. He tells you about how healthy these cherries are, and how the guy who grows the cherries is such a nice guy.
Then he wants to force you to buy and eat the whole basket including the poisonous cherries. "Because the guy who grows the cherries is such a loving and kind guy."
So, no cherry picking of any kind please.
my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.
i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.
in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.
Results of shunning in my case:
Now, since about September I found out JW are not the truth (and I am confident to say neither are Christadelphians or any other religion)
Religious mandated shunning is evil.
Any religion that practises shunning and makes people 'kill' their own family, blame it on the victims, and then call that 'loving' is a cult.
now that i'm free to bet, i figured it would be neat to start a pool on when the watchtower is going to change light bulbs on the prophecy about the united nations turning on worldwide religion.
there is no doubt in my mind that this prediction will be dropped.
not only is this the longest-running unchanged prediction in the wt's history (1925 and 1975 had much shorter gestations) it's the last detailed concrete prediction the society has left in its bag of tricks.
Yes, and yes.
So, what can we expect will happen during the coming great tribulation? Jehovah will “cut short” the attack of the United Nations on false religion, not allowing true religion to be destroyed with the false.
4 How will the great tribulation begin? The book of Revelation answers by describing the destruction of “Babylon the Great.”
[...]
But who will destroy the harlotlike organization? Jehovah God will put “his thought” into the hearts of “the ten horns” of the “scarlet-colored wild beast.” These horns represent all the present political powers that give support to the United Nations, an organization pictured by the “scarlet-colored wild beast.”
just a few observations from this morning.
.. this morning as i was trying to choke back the bile that kept wanting to come up during the wt study one comment in particular screamed cult.. towards the very end as comments were being made about "counseling" others with "gracious" words one of the uber-dub minstral-serpents made this comment, "we see in the last image that the brother is holding a bible as he counsels the other brother.
we look closely at the picture and we can know exactly what he is counseling the brother about.
How Christian of those taking issue with your personal grooming not to speak to you first.
Or were the elders just lying?
One could check it out by politely asking 'which one of my brothers has something against me, so I can make it right with him?'
this is just meant to be a fun topic.. what are some tv and movie snippets that summarize the conformity and extremism of watchtower life in general?.
i found this trailer for the giver to be dead on :-).
it shows what happens when you start to openly question the organization and its policies.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etspwr5deek&feature=youtu.be.
@jw07,
Thanks, I'll watch that one with my still-in wife ;-)
just as i think my loathing for the jw cult has peaked, it goes higher and higher.
i wish this cult would just go away.
i wish my wife would just wake up.
@tornapart
Maybe your husband should watch the broadcasts. Or even better, you could drop some comments on them.
No better way to wake up...
i have been perplexed as to how to brung my wife out of jws and to exit the religion... but i had an idea last night.
i know that elders will legitimantly meet with brothers who have doubts and encourage them... not df them .. this is a sheperding call etc.. thus since my wife knows i have doubt s i could say: i want to have two brother over to discuss this ... she will agree.... of course i will hit these guys with biblical textual issues, an biology to where they are stunned and still ask... "so brothers... can you solve this conflict...?".
in this case they will not think of me as an apostate but may question their own beliefs... .
Thanks for the update!
You're a lucky guy it turned out quite OK with your wife...
a gilead student from thailand.
a young thai girl who came to new york to attend the gilead school in upstate south lansing, new york, had a mental breakdown.
staff members pleaded with president knorr to send her home by plane, under supervision.
@Makemeanunbeliever,
Yes, apparently you have two choices in this:
i came across this novel way of preaching on facebook.
probably one of the easier ways to get your hours in.. https://www.facebook.com/jwbrothers.org/videos/538251706351890/.
i came across this novel way of preaching on facebook.
probably one of the easier ways to get your hours in.. https://www.facebook.com/jwbrothers.org/videos/538251706351890/.
Some with 'weak conscience' will write letters to Santa....er I mean the holy GB:
Are these brothers allowed to play music while preaching with a cult cart?
What's next, juggling bibles ffs?
And then a BOE or item in the CLAM will follow:
Some of our brothers have made creative use of heavenly music while preaching the good news.
While it is true that Jehovah's worshippers have used music to praise Jehovah throughout the ages, it is not appropriate to use music while preaching.
Why not?
First, the music distracts from our beautiful literature trolley, and might negatively effect the apathetic reaction from the public.
Second, playing music brings undue attention to the person performing the music, while this attention should be on the faithful and discreet slave.
Third, the only approved way to bring praise to Jehovah using music is in the kingdumb hell.
Also note that just a single piano is not acceptable for our holy worship, as we are now using orchestral arrangements.
Note to BOE, don't read to Congo:
DF all suckers who continue to play unapproved kingdumb music. Also let us know so we can serve a cease-and-desist and sue them for monetary damages on our copyrighted music.
