Great summary. No punctuation and misspelled. Typical of everything you post.
When you can't be bothered to take even the slightest care with the written word, why should any of us be bothered to read what you write?
Your lame "sorry about the spelling lol" tags that you put at the end of some of your posts serve as flags for just another worthless piece of drivel from usravens.
i am just watching my neighbours across the road putting up christmas lights while their children run around bursting with excitement.
i am feeling all christmassy now.
can't wait for my daughter to come home from uni next weekend so we can go and buy a tree from the garden centre.
When I first left the dubbers, I pretty much ignored Chrissy. But then I met someone who, despite being an atheist, introduced me to the wonder of Christmas. I love it now and embrace it wholeheartedly. The lights, the tree, the baking, the feasting, the gift giving, the family. That's what it means to me. Getting together with family and everyone being at their best. You don't have to embrace the religious side of it to enjoy it.
About to head over to the US again for a (hopefully) White Christmas in Boston. Can't wait!
a month to go until 2014. .
it's quite a big year (2014) for ex-jws.
you can tell because if you search for 2014 on the forum, the significance of it being 100 years since 1914 has not been lost on ex-jws some of whom pointed out the proximity of it, around 10 years ago.
2014 will be much more significant to the ex-jw communty than it will be to the jw true believers.
The wts laid the groundwork for this when they made up the overlapping generations confection, back in the 90s.
2014 will come and go, and the wts will go on fleecing its members, speculating on real estate, avoiding taxation, and banking the profits, just as it's always done.
maybe its just me , i`m just curious as to how many people on this site are from australia as i am .
how many from germany , italy , zambia , etc.
etc.. do two or three "countries " seem to dominate the threads ?
Australia.
i observed how they were always "helping others" by applying god's word and helping people to make adjustments, but who helps the local elders to see things more clearly?
his answer?
circuit overseers, of course!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
the other day an elder mentioned that not following the gb direction is the same as rebelling against god.
this in harmony with the ominous tone set forth in the respect jehovah's authority video.
in this thread i'll point out several gaping holes in that argument as time allows.. 1. the gb/fds does not speak "mouth to mouth" with god as did moses.. jehovah condemned and punished mariam for speaking against moses.
Feel free to disagree with the gb.
But find a god who agrees with you. There's millions of them.
<<----- That's me
today watchtower study encourage simple life for pionears.
i am live in a asian country.
the bethel provide luxury facilities for their bethel family.
Bethel sucks dude. You gotta eat all your meals with the same people every single day. You gotta sit next to the same boring married couple who hate each other, every single morning at 7 am. You gotta go to the bethel family watchtower study on Monday nights and listen to the same dicks try to impress the bethel brass with their brilliance. You gotta work your arse off for your $75 bucks a month. Your underwear gets washed with everyone else's and you end up with fungal infections of the groin.
Bethel is the most fucked up place on earth.
think about it, myriads upon myriads of do-nothing, never lift a finger angels floating around, ignoring all the untold pain and suffering on this planet for thousands of years.
what have all these millions of angels ever done for anyone?
occasional random materialisations in ancient israelite times?.
They cause elders to drive by the cinema so they spot you waiting in line to see a r-rated movie.
so many of you here have suffered from the borg and it's twisted and ever-changing teachings.. some of us turned atheists, others hold on to jehovah god and his son jesus.. both have and still suffer from all the lies, the mind-control, the loss of individuality to conform to the cult.. may i offer a personal observation, for which i could be totally wrong, and would welcome rectification if i am.. as some of you know, i became an atheist long before i questioned the borg... which at first, i still considered a loving "mother".. my aha!
moment was thru my ardent personal study; and the issue i battled with was nothing else than god's character.. now, before i continue, please be aware that i have hated god until i was convinced he was a figment of the imagination and folklore in human literature.
many of you here may cringe at these words, and i do apologize if i seem to be insulting as i would hate to be guilty of that.
Thanks for a thoughtful thread topic Brainy. Your reasoning closely resembles my own. My atheism is firmly rooted in the impersonal cruelty of nature.
