i know its a bit old, but i thought it was interesting and i only found out about this yesterday.
http://cornwallfreenews.com/2017/05/30/cornwall-bans-baptist-pastor-after-jehovah-witness-ribfest-complaints-may-30-2017/.
i was going to those conventions in cornwall before (ontario, canada), and i had seen that pastor who was preaching.
Doesn't it make your eyes all misty for the good old days when JWs, incited by Judge Rutherford to do so, would picket the Catholic churches in Quebec? Which, in turn, compelled the Catholics to contact the authorities and have those JWs arrested? Which is what The Judge™ wanted, so they could Legally Establish™ The Preaching Work™ as a fundamental religious right....
/nostalgia
lol
posted here:.
https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.
biggest changes:.
the jehovah’s witnesses community in the netherlands will not hold an independent inquiry into the sexual abuse of members, despite being urged to do so by justice minister sander dekker.read more at: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/05/jehovahs-witnesses-reject-calls-for-independent-inquiry-into-sexual-abuse/item in dutch news on tv (english subs available)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvtll8wjca&feature=youtu.be.
It sounds like they know exactly what is happening in their congregations, and are digging their heels in, refusing to open their records to their government's investigations.
"We have nothing to hide, so go away and leave us alone!" doesn't sound fishy at all.
we just enjoyed a wonderful evening seeing richard dawkins live in sydney.
it was an event to promote his latest book, and was another opportunity to expand our "god given" brains!😜.
https://thinkinc.org.au/dawkins/.
JEALOUS!!!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.
revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.
lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .
So rather than helping two people whom they claim are mentally ill, plus the two children they have together, they reject them, refuse to speak to them or have any contact with them.
“By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” - John 13:35
i heard laurel and the wife heard yanny.
maybe someone can post the spoken word..
I've heard it both ways, actually.
so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.
i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.
i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.
So she calls you, *twice*, clearly with the intention of scolding you and yelling at you, over a promise you made to a complete stranger when you were in high school? And then she tells your brother that you upset her???
If I could diagnose that $h!t, I'd say your mother has bipolar disorder.
The thing is, if you do as your brother asks and cease communication, they control the narrative of the relationship. "Silentbuddha doesn't call us, doesn't speak to us anymore." All this behind your back and turns you into the bad guy.
If only for your own peace of mind, maybe write a letter to your mom/dad/brother about why the "promise" you made under duress (in a room with other people who had expectations of you to answer the way you did) as a high schooler is not valid. You weren't old enough to drive, vote, get married, get a job, buy or drink alcohol, *enter a contract* (promise), etc. and the law exempts you from those *adult* things because you are still considered to be a child, without the benefit of full brain development. There's science behind that.
You were in an unfair situation. The adults in the room took advantage of you. That was not okay. It's not okay now for your mother to give you $h!t over it. She's likely more upset because she believes that Fred Franz thinks less of her and her parenting.
look at the dogs face, i can't stop laughing at this!!
and he's peeing right into the holder part of the literature, so they are going to have manually wash that out haha.
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I want to know why she's wearing tap dancing shoes.
the first part was all about the the evils of higher education.
i couldn't stand it and left.
was anybody there today?
Guess what?
The WTS has been railing against Higher Education™ for over half a century. They bullied me out of it on my first go at learning a vocation after high school.
Twelve years later I went back to college, against cries of "But Armageddon™ is Right Around the Corner™!" and three years following that, I graduated with Honours. In a few weeks' time I will have graduated 20 years ago.
Armageddon™ is not coming. There is no New System™. Everyone is going to grow old and die. I don't say that to be discouraging, but to emphasize that THIS is the ONLY LIFE we have, and it's up to each person to make the most of the life they have. If you have talent, develop it. If you have a thirst for knowledge and a drive to achieve goals and a career, then GO FOR IT.
The only reason the WTS has been successful at getting people to delay or forfeit their education and career and even marriage and family, is because they've convinced their followers that there's plenty of time for all that in the New System™. They're LYING. It's what they do.
They've convinced people to live as though they'll never die, which makes people believe they can put things off indefinitely. Living with the certainty of death helps people set goals for themselves, to do or try things when they have the opportunity, because those opportunities may not come again. Plan for your future, because the one the WTS offers is a worthless pile of crap.
do you remember the first time you found out "the truth about the truth"?.
yes, it was confronting, shocking and life altering.
yes it was hard to deal with.. but, along with that, many have said that they experienced a sense of thrill, euphoria, or joy when realising the facts about the religion that held us captive mentally and physically for so long.. it was liberating to learn some of the controversial teachings etc.
I don't remember it being much of a "high".
I was angry about being lied to for almost my whole life, angry at my parents for getting involved, and scared that I would lose my husband and kids if we didn't leave as a family.
I was angry that I refused a blood transfusion after a postpartum haemorrhage when my firstborn came along, and spent months trying to recover from that.
I was angry that I was bullied out of my first run at education after high school.
I was angry at all the normal stuff I missed out on growing up, and being a socially awkward person as a result of being fearful of Worldly™ people.
As time went on, though, I channelled that anger into making up for lost time. Going back to school and graduating with honours. Getting my dream job. Being financially comfortable for the first time ever. Not worrying about whether I was doing enough, because I stopped giving my power to people who didn't deserve it.
Then, I discovered this place. Finding people just like me who had figured out the WTS and its lies, its game, its bullshittery and who had found ways to deal with the lost years and lost friendships.
Surprise, surprise, I was able to help some people along the way too.
