how many times did we hear the worn out expression "that anyone who accepts the "truth" needs to have the 3 h's".
yes, they must be "honest hearted.
hungry for truth, and humble enough to accept that they need to change".
Honest? No, not with themselves, nor reality.
Humble? No, not humble enough to change their mind when presented with facts.
Hungry? No, not for data, evidence, facts, or anything else that doesn't fit their preconceived notions.
What they are looking for in their canvassing is the two Ds. Dumb and desperate.
choose freedom, choose happiness.
after finally leaving, it can be tempting to “hibernate”.
we attempt to turn the page, “move on” and create a new life for ourselves.
God gives a person the power to choose the same way a mob boss does.
so, i did a thing today.
i officially launched a podcast called "this jw life".
people keep saying that i should write a book, but i don't even read books, unless in audio format.
Bravo!!!
we were just musing that jws act in a "flirtatious" manner with people in the community.. they show such "sincere" interest in people when they call.
they seem like such kind, caring and thoughtful people - really interested in their lives and welfare.. people are often quite impressed with the jws manner, and their well dressed presentation.
people (especially vulnerable ones who are going through difficult pressures in life), are drawn in and made to feel special by the witnesses as they call back.. return visits take place.
I bought a shitty car one time because the sales lady was hot and flirted with me subtly. Not immediately, not aggressively, but in controlled moments. She did it right.
How many times has some hot young JW lady gave me an RV and be like: "this shit ain't goin' nowhere with me".
Google "flirty fishing" if you wish to see the most extreme example of religious recruitment.
tragic occurrence:.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/steve-scalise-shot-in-virginia-aide-also-hit/ar-bbcfakv?li=bbnb7kz.
i saw another report indicating that the gunman may have targetting gop members.
Hopefully the Republicans can get silencers legalized. A bill they are working on right now. It sucks that spree killers have to make so much noise once they get going. Easily available silencers, that's the ticket!
the world's oldest person has died in italy at the age of 117, reports say.. emma morano was born on 29 november 1899 in the piedmont region of italy.
she was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living.. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39610937.
Looks like the generation of 1914 is dwindling fast LOL
how many times did you hear that gem?
it often went along with "the truth is a protection" which is their way of saying "living a moral life is good for you ... and you can't do that without us".. but think about what people are really saying.
i think the real message is "i know it's not the truth, but i chose to follow it anyway".. it seems like a pre-emptive argument because they know they can't defend it as "the truth" so instead they switch to defending it as a lifestyle.. of course any kind of lifestyle that has a decent moral ingredient to it, respect for law and order, discipline etc... probably increases people's chances of doing better in life, but they don't have a monopoly on it.. so just remember, next time you hear someone saying "even if it's not the truth" what they are really admitting is that they already know it isn't..
If, The best way to live = shunning family members, fomenting homophobia, no higher learning, dead end jobs, celibacy for single people, not celebrating birthdays, and on and on and on ....
I don't think so.
i've listened to quite a few but for some reason, this one has me really angry.. my heart goes out to the young family dealing with this bull shite.. give a listen.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifkpiqigq9c.
"You've been disfellowshipped for apostasy, we have a few Scriptures we'd like to share with you ... "
"Here's out letters."
Beautiful
There are hundreds of thousands of people all over the earth that, even though they haven't associated with JWs in a couple of decades, will rat you out if let on about your own apostasy.
what i noticed during the memorial is the over organised ritual aspect.
for a non jw is must be hard to follow.. for me, i noticed that during the memorial there is no attention for the historical jesus and the historical events.
it's all about the kingdom arrangement with it's central point, the governing body of jw.. do you noticed this also?.
Once I got a few years of pioneering under my belt I stopped asking Bible Students to come to the memorial. I wanted to put off the whole "god needs 144000 humans to judge other humans cause He can't relate to being human" bullshit that I hated talking to students about.
1987 attended the memorial for the first time, and the last time?
2016. it was a big step for me to not go last night i'm convincing myself that i really do have the strength to never return to this living nightmare of a religion.
you may recall i'm a fader my last meeting was 9 months ago and i have deflected a number of attempted visits and dozens of phone calls they now just hang up on my answering machine, as a matter of fact they did it again this morning.
"this living nightmare of a religion"
Well said, kudos, well said.
