in reading through many posts over the last few months, i have started to form a viewpoint towards at least some of those witnesses/witness families, who are abusive and overzealous in their thinking.. arguably, many, if not all here, would say all pimi witnesses are overzealous in their thinking, but i sort of disagree with that.
without revealing too much about myself, my parents who are still in (father long time elder, mother regular pioneer), i consider stable and balanced in their views.
while i was shunned to a degree, after being disfellowshipped (they didn't go out to dinner or the movies with me or socialize with me publicly or very often privately, they didn't attend my wedding) they still spoke to me on the phone every few months, as i checked in on them and let them know i was doing alright (i moved out of state in my late teens).
Becoming a JW many times just adds insult to injury.
I know a single (long time) pioneer that became a Witness while finishing up her bachelor's degree at Berkley.
She's been miserable ever since.
It appears that she thinks she's happy, but she exudes misery and loneliness.
we have recently been in asia on vacation, travelling to a number of countries in this part of the world.
whilst in thailand, my wife, totally pimo, wanted to go to the english speaking convention in bangkok.
although i haven't been active for a very long time, i went along with her.. the first thing that slightly surprised me was the attendance, well over 900. i hadn't expected that many but they were from all over the country, which is a pretty big place.
Surfing where the greed is great.
whatever we think of it, you have to admit that it's quite "genius".. the door to door ministry as done in western developed countries where the jw quirky religion has probably reached their saturation level was a complete and utter waste of time in terms of the effort expended to recruit people.. at the same time, it was rarely something that anyone enjoyed which led to people being labelled as inactive, being pressured to doing more and maybe ultimately deciding jwism wasn't for them and leaving.. there was also the issue that many jws are actually pretty bad at knowing and articulating their beliefs so were pretty incapable of getting any meaningful message across.. they solved all this with the cart witnessing.
the real point isn't to recruit, it's to make life easier for jws.
now they can stand and chat with their friend, have a coffee, not talk to anyone or make eye contact and still act as a walking billboard for jw.org.
At this point, cart witnessing is just mostly for the pioneers and "exemplary publishers" in my congregation.
Have yet to be asked to do any.
not to offend or impose my opinion.
but simply i would like to see just news and insights from the local congregation to the top organization level of: downsizing, closings, c.s.a.
personal experiences,unscriptural doctrines of the org.and direct commentary of the above.
Idea: If a topic is political, keep it off the "hottest" query, but let it run long and hard in its category and be at the top of it as long as it is merited.
in all of the art i`ve seen in christendom, angels always have the form of a male, and in the bible those that are named always have a male name such as michael ,gabriel , etc, .
nowhere in the art world that i have seen do angels have the female form, and in the bible they don`t have female names.. so if the angels are neither male or female why then are they depicted as males with male names ?and not female also ?.
the watchtower illustrators also follow this line .when they illustrate an angel it is always in the form of a male and never a female form.. the anointed who make up the 144000 comprise of male and females right ?
The angels that became men with penises in order to get the freak on with chicks were the first transgenders.
if you were called before the muller probe, could you come up with the small amount of $100,000+ dollars to get an attorney to represent you?
and that's just the start!!.
after you've exhausted, everything you've got, but haven't given in and made stuff up, about trump.
he got into a fight with someone over a parking spot and popped him good enough to get arrested in nyc.
geez, maybe robert deniro was the other guy.
i’m waiting for a skit on saturday night live regardling this!.
Have you any idea how many tens of millions of people the Left starved, brutalised and killed in the 20th century?
Dear LUHE,
Look up whataboutism and learn something.
when eloise dupuis gave birth to her son in 2016, there were complications where a blood transfusion would have saved her live.
however, she refused and died; to the horror of the medical staff and the entire province of quebec.. two years later, there was a change in politics and the topic came back up in the media.
the parents of eloise dupuis, obviously exhausted by the media coverage, wrote a comment to a well known news paper in quebec.
I see their comment as more of a reflection of Christianity's (and JWs) basic message:
"Serve God or be annihilated (tortured?) forever, it's your choice."
They imagine that's giving you a choice.
Legally she had a choice, and legally Watchtower could have it's tax exempt status revoked, etc.
Like the girl that egged on her boyfriend to commit suicide, I believe any person/institution whose words or actions lead directly to death should have their day in court. At the minimum, they shouldn't be state sponsored, which is what charity status is.
banks create money “out of thin air.”empirical studies have been undertaken to prove this thesis and this is the conclusion:.
in the 5,000 year history of banking, banks have been thought of as “deposit taking institutions which lend money”.. 1. what is the legal reality?
banks don’t take deposits and don’t lend money.the public is under this false impression on purpose because the language of banks is not legal language.. so--what is a “deposit”?a deposit is not actually a deposit.
Hillary Clinton gets paid 700k by Goldman Sachs, Trump appoints Steve Mnuchin, and the ill informed masses don't care.
take a look at this, fellow forum members .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5d7eoodv3e .
f**king brilliant xd.
thoughts?.
