km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.
"the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.
for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".
I had this conversation with a JW recently, their eyes just glazed over. Essentially WW1 started before war in heaven started and satan was kicked out of heaven, which of course makes no sense.
BTW, the OP said "But This war started in august", it was actually end of July
this might be my last post.
i've had quite a few things on my mind over the past few years, mainly my belief in god.
i've tried to move on from the jw past but that's really being foolish.
I don't think it'll make you feel more weird, it should help get things into perspective for you. Don't worry, I'm sure a lot of us experience the same anger and frustrations at times over the hold they had, other people have difficulties to deal with too.
andre gide its is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.. the words of wisdom from the deceased french author echo through my mind every day, and they make me think, would the people in my congregation give me their unconditional love if i was not doing well in the congregation spiritually?.
spiritually as in giving well in the congregation, making nice comments, doing parts in the service meeting, reading during the book study on stage, working at the literature counter, and recently becoming a servant.. of the 20 or so young ones in the hall only me and 4 others are progressing spiritually.
ive seen the way brothers and sisters have treated those in the hall that arent progressing and dont take the truth seriously.
So true. I'm glad you are finding your way and wish you all the best in finding true friendship.
best clip i've ever seen on why it's no exaggeration to say the organisation is morally wicked.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8elawms60.
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Fantastic video.
jw's walk like this, they eat this way, they look like this,.
they have sex this way (lol), they talk this way and etc.. are we excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential.
details??.
I found it astonishing how JWs analyze every minute detail of Greek and Hebrew (allegedly) to work out the days we live in and yet don't even know how their god's name is pronounced. It just seems weird to me.
i just found out that a good friend of mine has past,after a long sickness.
she had the strength and the moral fibre to call herself a servant of the most high.
don,t look into your own inflictions for it is a path well traveled lited with broken life's but look at the good that you can do right now.
Sorry for your loss. I'd agree we need to see what good we can do today to help even just one person. I believe that if there was a most high they would have been the same, I see no evidence to show me that.
hi guys, my name is yondaime,.
my will to remain in this relgious sect is fading, i'm about to be a freshman(just turned 18) in college.
, i have seen so many terrible things happen to good people in this cult and i'm sick of it!
Welcome, it's good to have you here and I wish you all the best in your journey. I'd agree with jwfacts about making sure uni is not blamed for you leaving the organisation. It sounds like your dad is a sensible and logical person. Remember he's in a cult.
this is a quote of a quote taken from anthoney mathenia:.
" for organizations like the watchtower, absolute control of their message is paramount.
it will not even allow its own adherents to spread their good news online.
I predict that this website will be taken down as soon as the CO finds out about it and reports it to his bosses at HQ.
I agree. I made a website many years ago for the congregation I was in at the time and it was pulled after a strongly worded KM about 6 or 7 years ago.
i used to be very impressed with convention experiences regarding how worldly employers would hire jws because they were known as the most honest workers.
i was too indoctrinated to realise these were selective experiences, and there are plenty of experiences of jws being dishonest in the workforce.
i have received a couple recently by email.. i have cut quite a bit out of the following email i received so that the person and company cannot be indentified, but you will get the message.. .
I once employed a JW, was fine for a while until they wanted to live a double life. When it was found out I told them it didn't bother me as I am in no position to judge, and I didn't care what they did outside of office hours and that it would not affect their employment as far as i was concerned. Trouble was they were hounded by the elders, they had a breakdown and they stopped working costing me several thousands of pounds (no exaggeration!) to rectify the problems they caused by their breakdown due to the harrassment they were getting from the elders.
I was once employed when I was a teenager by a firm owned by JWs, also a disaster, never again will I ask a JW to do anything for me.
i took my family for a weekend trip to a lake in oklahoma a few weeks ago.
the area is right at the end of where the "trail of tears" (i don't know if human atrocities should be in paretheses, italics, or underlined.
yes, i have a dark sense of humor.
It's great fun to research your family tree and can be quite revealing. It can have it's sad moments too. We're a' Jock Tamson's Bairns apparently
