here's a few guesses.... the brooklyn waterfront is a convenient place for the society to make their videosgrowing up as a jw when your friends have cellphones and you don't is "kind of rough" and a "kind of sad story"suddenly it's ok for jw youths to "go out" with worldly friends?
?you should listen to what your "peers" say, so long as they're jws on a society video.
anything else is peer pressure.playing by yourself with a frisbee is the preferred sport for young people (no teams or competition involved)young jws don't have a clue how to communicate with the opposite sex via text messages"it's really up to you how you choose to communicate with this wonderful tool that you have"... even though it clearly isn't.the society's video-making department are already running out of ideashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se_iuspg_14.
This video has a real Mormon flavour. They are trying to project the image that Mormons, I mean JWs, are normal, well adjusted, young adults who have a spiritual view of mobile phones and sexting.... sounds stupid? It is.
The music sounded like it was out of Napoleon Dynamite.... Wasn't that movie made by Mormons?
i know this is an odd idea.
maybe it is even silly.. but, i do daydream..... .
what if you were informed that you are disfellowshipped and you flashed a huge smile and said, "nah.".
It sounds a bit like George Costanza when he gets fired but then just shows up to his work like nothing happened.
the may 15, 2013 washtowel has a cute little piece of artwork about what an impact they make out in serve-us.
i thought some captions might help make it clearer!.
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Since I am fading.. .. I went out Saturday
Man I feel sorry for you, I realize your circumstances are different to mine. I am fading to, except my fade is more of a complete stop, I always found d2d work painful, and now that I know it is irrelevant, I enjoy my weekends doing other things.
The sad thing is for the kid in that caption, he will have this feeling deep inside that his parents love is conditional on his continuing to peddle the magazines. . . . . for the rest of his life. They love him SO LONG AS. . . . it's sad, but this is how it is for many JW children.
i love this topic.... stole it from a female talk radio host dr. sonia freeman in the chicago area decades ago.
think and post a creative (not damaging, violent, or illegal) action that would piss off those who shun us.
here is an example: many years ago when my hubby was still an elder he collected the mail for the kh.
I just bumped an old thread where someone looked to have a genuine Sparlock. I would take a dozen if they were available.
Bttt
We need genuine Sparlock toys.
addressing the false claim that jehovah's witnesses do not think "independently.. .
http://defendingjehovahswitnesses.blogspot.com/2013/02/addressing-false-claim-that-jehovahs.html#.
from a wt apologist.. .
I think JWs experience severe cognitive dissonance when they try and reject and accept independent thinking at the same time. That's understandable, the poor people are being manipulated by fools like Anthony Morris the terd. He explains it so well, JWs are the thinkingest people in earth.
co want to talk to me.
first of all, i am very apologize for my english- i am studying this language nearly 2 years, so it's not that good yet, unfortunately.
also, it's my first topic.
I intend to write pretty clear letter about my feelings, confusion, hard times and ect. without any mentioning about teaching or WT at all. I don't have to be sincere with them. I don't have anything against them, but they are blind and I am not a doctor
Well said. All the best with your step down and exit. Like Aussie said, it has to be a cult when you need a strategy to leave.
many of you refer to wts as a rich publishing corp. since the mags they pass out are free i don't understand how they make money from them?
sorry for the dumb question - curious newbie....
Finkelstein might chime in soon, he always puts it succinctly.
many of you refer to wts as a rich publishing corp. since the mags they pass out are free i don't understand how they make money from them?
sorry for the dumb question - curious newbie....
Members contribute money, time and free labour in expanding the religion and recruiting new members. The WTS buys land and builds halls with the free labour and money that are donated. The WTS does not make money from literature anymore (hence the downsize of mags) but the literature is supposed to attract new members who will donate time, money and labour. The Society would have a staggering amount of $ in realestate, many many billions of dollars.
this youtube video put out by a once member of the jws, goes into concise detail the extraneous efforts the watchtower corporation intentionally goes into luring people into their organization to only exploit them as its own controlled and subservient sales representatives for their publishing empire.
its a bit long to watch in both parts, it might be a good idea to just not watch it but rather listen to the audio portion alone.
as the video plays along, how many points does this guy hit the nail on the head as to correctly identifying what is really happening and going on in this religious corporate hybrid organization ?.
It's really well done, except I think it would be better to be written as transcript rather than delivered as a talk. He chooses his words carefully and speaks fast but he isn't speaking he is reading, and it gets a bit exhausting to listen to. It is still a brilliant analysis, just needs to modified for a verbal delivery I think. The more of this bad advertising for the WT the better, and this guy is great at advertising the negative aspects of the WT org.
