Well done Jared.
Do what Mr.Tate said.
i wrote a letter some time ago and to my surprise and despite the elders manual saying that a letter is sufficient for establishing 'wrongdoing' they would not announce me as no longer a jw until i met with 2 elders to verbally acknowledge that the letter was written by me.. .
well yesterday i met with them and the meeting lasted 2 minutes.
"did you write the letter?
Well done Jared.
Do what Mr.Tate said.
translation:"inside the "destructive sect".
antónio madaleno was a religious leader in jehovah's witnesses.
on the eve of a demonstration of strength of the organization, which in the next three days promises to fill the estádio da luz in an international congress, this former leader characterizes it as "a group of high control" and tells us his personal drama to get rid of it.".
Good!!
The silence of the lambs can turn into a roar.
i took a break from posting, but i'm back, and i wanted to share a story.
i grew up in a fundamentalist baptist church, i was never "one of jehovah's witnesses.
" what i know about jehovah's witnesses i learned from books, from attending services as a researcher, and from ex-witnesses like the posters of this site.
JW salvation depends on the compulsory recruitment programme.
You seem to be back in their cross-hairs. They'll forget all about you if you start asking about the org's "inconvenient truths." Or simply tell them to sod off and leave you alone!
Knowledge frightens them far more, though.
over the past few days i have twice visited screwfix - a uk nationwide company which sells tools & fixings.. on my first visit, i informed the store assistant of the item i required.
she immediately said, "post-code?".
i informed her that it was a cash sale and there was no need to give information.
GORBY, good idea -
Postcode? SW1 2AA
House Number? 10
:)
over the past few days i have twice visited screwfix - a uk nationwide company which sells tools & fixings.. on my first visit, i informed the store assistant of the item i required.
she immediately said, "post-code?".
i informed her that it was a cash sale and there was no need to give information.
Over the past few days I have twice visited SCREWFIX - a UK nationwide company which sells tools & fixings.
On my first visit, I informed the store assistant of the item I required. She immediately said, "POST-CODE?"
I informed her that it was a CASH SALE and there was no need to give information. "OK" she said, and then called out to a supervisor to key in a code number on the computer terminal in order to process my order. (WHY?)
Two days later I returned. Same girl. When I gave her the order, she said "NAME?"
I said, "It's a cash sale, I don't want to receive love-letters from Screwfix." She had to request the code number again!
If I buy a newspaper or a Snickers bar, I don't get asked for my name, address, & postcode.
Maybe next time I go into Screwfix I should just wear one of these -
when i walked into a large b&q diy store, a big guy in an orange overall came right up to me and said, "do you want decking?".
i thought i'd better get in first, so i punched him as hard as i could..
When I walked into a large B&Q diy store, a big guy in an orange overall came right up to me and said, "Do you want decking?"
I thought I'd better get in first, so I punched him as hard as I could.
so my brother who never got baptized went to the convention today (went to make mom and dad happy since they are devastated that i am out) and he got very upset during the baptism talk and walked out because 3 of the candidates were under the age of 12 years of age.
he said they have no clue what they are committing themselves to and will face what you faced (referring to me).
i really wish the usa government would start cracking down on this cult..
waton - Svengali
i should preface my comments by pointing out that i have no aversion to being disfellowshipped.
i fully expect that to happen.
all of my immediate family and a great deal of my extended family have moved on with me and we all enjoy a full and satisfying life.
A simple statement which I'm prepared to use if my still-in friends ever confront me when they visit:
"I'm very willing for us to discuss the various scriptures which I feel are not presented as current truth by the "slave." J.W.'s are averse to discussing scriptures which another JW sees in a totally different light.
Simple example:
Brother/sister, Revelation 7:14 speaks about a "great tribulation." Do you think it's accurate to say that it refers to the great tribulation at Matthew 24:21, or would you reason that the angel is referring to the great tribulation which he'd mentioned only a few minutes earlier in his conversation with John, at Revelation 2:22? How can something which Jesus said would never occur again, have a greater fulfilment?
Rabbit-in-the-headlights moment, followed by incoherent ramblings from the cult's literature.
I wish you well as you try to help your friend see what the org is really all about.
have you see the latest fashion for jesus in the wt?.
he's sporting a cape, just like superman!maybe caleb can get a t-shirt with a j logo instead of an s.. .
The WTBTS cult applies this verse to Jesus Christ -
(1 Timothy 6:15, 16) He is the King of those who rule as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords, 16 the one alone having immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. . . .
So why does their art department falsely depict the most powerful creature in the universe whom they've never seen, as an aged caped crusader holding a light-sabre?the last lines from the movie platoon.
"i think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us.
the war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.
A truly happifying movie quote:
"We have looked forward to this next fiscal year...in doing the math, we found that the amount of money flowing out will be much greater than the amount of money that we have coming in at this time." (Stephen Lett in the JW Broadcast video "Silence of the Lambs - the Fleecing Intensifies." @ 12 mins. 15 secs.