why would the wts want to get rid of fence sitter?
as in, why are weak ones a burden to the cong, isn't that the whole point, to shepherd the flock?.
does anyone know if the gb gets a paycheck, flies first class, how they vacation?
I believe the main purpose is to spread false doctrine, and destroy any shred of faith outside of that religion. I can't think of any other religion that creates ex members who are heavily atheist and agnostic.
Here is one that has had their faith vertually distroyed due to this cult but then again I think regradless of my religious upbringing I would have come to the same ultimate conclusions.
after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.
since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.
to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.
Why would anyone want to be in a religion that does not approve of their life style in the first place? Eventually if they start losing membership over these practices, they will have to rethink their polices on gays.
i lost my mother some time ago.
today my sister throws up 3 john 1:4 "i have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
" don't any of these cult people undestand when something is emotional black mail?
I refuse to stoop to my sisters level. If she brings it up again I will say that if I went back because I was guilted in, I would not be doing it for the right reasons. My mom used to use those tactics on me but the last 10 years of her life she accepted me for who I was unconditionally. I do not believe it to be the truth as I do not believe in man made relgion period. It is all to do with control.
i lost my mother some time ago.
today my sister throws up 3 john 1:4 "i have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
" don't any of these cult people undestand when something is emotional black mail?
I lost my mother some time ago. Today my sister throws up 3 John 1:4 "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." Don't any of these cult people undestand when something is emotional black mail? If I was to go back to the relgion just to make my mom happy then I would be doing it for the wrong reasons. I just wished they would leave well enough alone but they never stop the cheep black mail tactics. Any thoughts here? Has anyone else here had similar experiances?
Maybe the driver dies in this universe but he still exists in a parallel universe.
friends.. i'm sure you will all be encouraged by this nice story related to me by a brother in my old congregation.
4 year old "jana" (not her real name), is from a witness family in a middle sized city.
she has faced many challenges in her pre-school class.
One of the most terrible things that WT did to me growing up was not allowing me to fit in with the other children. It is very important that we are accepted by our peers but in every aspect of my life growing up I was made to feel different, to not fit in. The religion puts my self esteme down so low it took years to build it up after I left the cult. I only feel sorry for these youngs ones that have to put up with these man made beliefs.
I read once when my hypocritical brother in law was the watchtower servant and then after that he would not use me. I do not know to this day but I think it was because I was not a big brown noser like the other teens that were my age in the cong. I had good news the other day when I found out my dear brother in law now has leukemia. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
oh wow..... i have just seen the cover picture for the november awake!.
sorry, i don't know how to post a picture here....(perhaps someone else can assist?).
it is just plain creepy.. the article is called "keys to a happy life".... but the looks on the faces say something different!
No creepier than any other picture the WT has used in the past. I do agree the smiles all looked like they are forced/pasted on.
take a look at this fellow that says it is religious right as a pastafarian to wear his holy colander for his drivers license picture.
opens up the whole debate as to who is the one that determines what appropriate religious head dress is.
i might join this religion myself as it makes as much sense as any other religion.. http://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-pastafarian-officially-loses-driver-s-licence-over-holy-colander-1.2041499.
Take a look at this fellow that says it is religious right as a Pastafarian to wear his holy colander for his driver’s license picture. Opens up the whole debate as to who is the one that determines what appropriate religious head dress is. I might join this religion myself as it makes as much sense as any other religion.
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-pastafarian-officially-loses-driver-s-licence-over-holy-colander-1.2041499
who thought in the early months of 2012 that such a rebranding would take place in only a matter of 24 months?.
they managed to go from an antique looking and boring website (watchtower.org) with hardly any attractive content to go to a fresh looking new website with stuff for everyone, families, children, teenagers.. movies, and short videos about almost everything and new ones added every month.
cartoons, animation video's , interviews, picture activities all kind of projects, many audio files like dramatic bible readings, dramas and music, online research tools, new brochures for kids (off and online) etc.
The WT still can't get away from their history of failed predictions. I know for a fact what was said on the buildup to 1975. The WT can lie all they want but this is a fact as I lived through it. So big deal a multi billio dollar corporation, book publishing company, not too many average working, tax paying individuals can compete with this money.
