yes, there’s a post on reddit.
it says that after a zoom meeting a request was made to baptized publishers to give $20 apiece to fix this elder’s car.. while this sounds highly irregular to me and not necessarily approved by the religion, i am not at all surprised at the nerve.
this, unfortunately, seems to be the direction that things are going there!
We had in the late 90's a CO, asking the congregations to pay the costs of a motor revision on his car.
When the local jw's asked questions about it, hé told us from the platform he was not happy with the questions, because "do you think I have a donkey just like Jesus?".
G.
haven't been to a meeting in 13 years.
family that lives 1300 miles away doesn't know.
just visited them and here is what i observed.
Our grand parents turn in their grave.
🙏
G.
Some understanding took a while...
G.
i believe this list which many of us worked on needs to see the light of day again...and added to if possible.. you know you are in the wrong religion:1. when the all important question is not: "do you believe in the lord jesus christ?"....but....
"do you believe in the "faithful and discreet slave" appointed in brooklyn in 1919?"2.
when you will be refused baptism if: a. you don't believe jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bc (whereas all non-jw scholars, all encyclopedias and all history books say this event took place in 587 bc.)b.
The 1995 generation change opened my eyes (and because of many deep conversations with a then good jw friend at university, some other trusted friends and a phd professor from University) and after I read Franz books, I lost all my trust in the Watchtower organization.
It was a special time in my life, I remember now. Investigate the religion, 4th generation Witness, asking questions and evenings of discussions with good friends, humour and wine. It was in the coming out of age in my youth years, from 1995 to 2000.
It changed me for good. Later on our group of best friends fall apart and we live our own lives.
So thankfull, became PIMO and now POMO.
Followed university and life blessed us with 2 children, stable family life and good jobs.
52 years of age now, and very thankfull.
Realise that choosing the path to exit a group like jw.org, is not always easy. It felt scary, heavy, sad and I had to go through many stages of feelings.
Sometimes I miss the old group of jw's be ause of the social activity.
Don't think that you can switch from jw.org to another group. Good friends are rare. You will be on your own and through the years you will find people that connect.
But, after all we are so thankfull to be independent. No group thinking anymore and no more confrontation to nonsense and anti science, anti democratic and anti everything in the Kingdom hall.
A sometimes happy (because life is not 365 days a year happyness), proud and thankfull Gorby
a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.
were you more happy pimi?
are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.
How more you know, how more you realise you don't know.
The same with your state of mind. How more you realise, you see that you can not always be happy.
Always happy says a lot about someone. It is not realistic, it's fake.
So, since being out of jw.org, i'm happy about many aspects of life, and less happy about some other subject. And try to grow, make choices, and learn from things that went wrong.
Life is that what goes unexpected.
G.
is it an original from the graphics department?.
anyone know?.
Thanks ART department to wake me up in the early 80's!!!
Since this picture I knew what I wanted, and they warned me for the poor cows in our Congo.
G.
i ran across this episode of jay leno's garage on youtube today.
all i know is it seems very similar to j f rutherford's much-vaunted 16-cylinder cadillac.
watch the episode and let us know what you think.
Ofcourse one is not enough for a humble servant.
G.
elder friend of mine texted me asking what my rc attendance was 2 weeks ago (family and i streamed it since wife is not well).
he told me that his rc in the jersey city assembly hall last weekend was low.
co told them that around 2600 were the total from 16+ congs that were assigned.
Many elderly jw's don't attend anymore. The oldtimers see no reason.
The conventions have the seize of a circuit now with no old friends to find.
So what is better then stream in the comfort of the living room.
G.
article from the last days newsletter (june 5-11, 2023).
it has been said that by reading the watchtower and awake!
magazines, along with other publications of jehovah’s witnesses, a person will receive, over a period of years, a considerable and broad education.. …would you like to grow in knowledge, obtaining an education of even much greater value than can be received in any college?
It's Orwellian double speech.
G.
article from the last days newsletter (june 5-11, 2023).
it has been said that by reading the watchtower and awake!
magazines, along with other publications of jehovah’s witnesses, a person will receive, over a period of years, a considerable and broad education.. …would you like to grow in knowledge, obtaining an education of even much greater value than can be received in any college?
This is an act of loyality to the GB. He has to, and the GB needs it to silence the AMIII issue.
G.
