so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!
first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.
he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
What the hell.
Why would he say that "once a child molester always a child molester" is a demon inspired expression?!?
That is just freaking nuts.
Of all the evil things that are said and done in this world, not showing pedophiles proper forgiveness is one of the Satanic attitudes we need warn peolpe to be aware of. Okkaaaaay...... The food at Jehovahs table is starting to smell real rotten.
....watching their videos?.
i am a subscriber to quite a few of the ex jw youtube channels and i enjoy many of the videos.
i do cringe a bit when i hear the person in the video remind the jw that they "should not be watching these videos as it is against the rules and council of the wtbts, gb, elders taking the lead, etc,..".
I think it so they don't have to engage a JW apologist in an endless debate, where the JW just goes round and and round with circular reasoning and refuses to listen to the sound reasoning and clear logic that the 'apostate' is using.
Have you seen some of the comments on these YouTube videos? The JWs are deluded and arrogant, they will never learn and they refuse to take an objective and critical look at their religion. It is frustrating.
So by putting that reminder at the start of the video, all observers can see that the JW who is engaging the 'apostate' in a debate has automatically made himself a hypocrite by disobeying the rules of his own beliefs.
in just the several months i've been lurking here, i have benefited from many of the posters comments and viewpoints.
this is truly a special place for the unique community that has been created here.. after years of holding off my exit from the org (that may be another post) i recently became officially out (by letter of da), but it was a very difficult process as many of you know.
thankfully, i now have my wife (was also a witness) onboard and we support each other.
Hello and welcome. Good to hear your wife is out with you.
so it used to be that all dramas were ot.
period, that was it.. then they started incorporating a "modern day" application of the ot drama where actors in the present day reflected on the story.. then they started using some highly fictionalized nt characters in dramas (never jesus of course).
in the past few years we've been getting more "modern dramas", just about people in the present dealing with their "problems".
The last DC drama was so pathetic it was hard to watch, I literally felt uncomfortable in my chair trying to listen to that crap. And I was not even awake to TTATT at that stage.
How they could get any worse from that I don't know, but taking a stroll on the beach with the resurrected Job sounds like a start.
so my mum excitedly calls and tells me how the brothers are now told to pack a survival emergency bag, so the tribulation is coming!!!
talk about clutching at straws.
shes packed her bible of course and the some non essential stuff like food...he he.
I was thinking about how the WTS predicts how Armageddon and the GT will unfold. It is really just fear mongering that encourages the cult mentality.
They want JWs to believe that survivng the impending disaster, is dependent on them belonging to the group.
It is not just Gods war on mankind they have to worry about, it is the authority's turning on JWs as a group. They teach them that they will have to be close to the congregation when this happens, which could be anytime, and this keeps many JWs scared and involved with the group.
It is totally bizarre when you are out of it and so obviously a cult, but the poor JWs are trapped in this cult thinking.
verily, thus saith the creator of all things of life and light which are good.
behold the time of tribulation draweth near and is soon at hand; i am in the sun, and the light of the sun and it shall soon darken in the day you perceive not.. .
let this be a sign unto the world that tribulation cometh quickly, the day which darkens soon cometh upon the world.
Thou laughter bellowed forth from thy mouth as I readeth thy thread.
did you get baptized without being dedicated?.
why did you allow men to come between you and jehovah?.
why were you serving jehovah at all?
Oh dear.....
this is the letter i wrote back in '96 about the parousia.
following the '95 watchtower that disconnected the "generation" from 1914 i began to look carefully at end-time prophecy and soon discovered what i knew were basic errors in what i had been taught.. i was a loyal jw at the time and was still serving as an elder.
i used only watchtower publications in my research.
Mkvlevari, posting on this forum makes you a hypocrite. Being a WT apologist on this site is not going to get anywhere. It will just confirm in everyone's minds that JW's are delusional, no matter how sincere they may be.
Cofty, your expiernce with your in-laws is incredible. It confirms that it is best to just keep the truth to yourself when awakened, no matter what the friendship or family relation you have with someone. They will turn you in if you display even the slightest bit of dissent to the WT dogma.
Why are they all depicted as white people?
This is exactly what I thought when I first saw it. So the OT Bible characters look Caucasian? They could get a job on the Governing Body!
Now all I see is the baby-alien-turban-face-shoulder-creature.
the wtbts asserts that the great crowd of [ other sheep ] teaching arose as an answer to the confusion of the rank-and-file, correct?
what confusion?
does anyone know any specifics?
There is no reason to believe that Rutherford was even sober at the time of dreaming up this doctrine.
Unless evidence is presented otherwise, I will assume he was heavily under the influence of alcohol. Not fit to drive, let alone think up religious dogmas about heavenly callings and a pet lion paradise earth for others.
