after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
SBF: Sorry I should offer some explanation. But can I point out I have actually been gone for two years. It's not like I was just messing around. It was for a reason.
Tell us what you want, leave out whatever you think you need to leave out. You don't OWE US anything. I for one am curious though, but that's it.
It's just good to have you back!
october 14, 2015 .
re: signs announcing meeting times .
https://infotomb.com//38v6n.
a hilarious stupid wa message is being circulated amongst jws in my area / country.. i had a hearty laugh at the ignorance and stupidity and brainwashed mentality, different people may express different emotions so you have been warned.
day one after armageddon it seems ages since we last heard the gunshots and screams, today has been really quiet.
the last few weeks have been sheer terror.
first, i'd like to give a big thank you to the anonymous person who provided me the files.
second, if you have the rest of the english videos, or anything else you would like to leak, please pm me.. download links in the descriptions and here.
english:.
Those guys are just strange.
They obviously don't make much use of the white board.
who won, and why?.
the rebel..
how many of you would return to jehovah, wt?
better yet, how many jws would walk???.
i do believe it will happen one day....
If Baskins-Robbins quit serving Raspberry sherbert, how many of you would return to Jehovah?
Is just as relevant a question.
The answer though is this: you can't "return" to a non-existent, fantasy being.
no other organization has so many written and unwritten rules like the jws.
so it comes to no suprise that there are a lot of double standards.. even though the end is "near", wt is building new and bigger offices.
while the small jw should live in a closet and should make plans to have a bigger house in the new world.
In the matter of Paul v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, opined that:
"The Witnesses … have developed an elaborate set of rules governing membership."
Now if a judge from the US Court of Appeals says the have elaborate rules, then you really know they have elaborate rules!
researchers have found evidence of ancient microorganisms that lived in what is now western australia at least 4.1 billion years ago.
if confirmed, the discovery suggests that life originated on earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
.... the ancient microorganisms in question were found trapped inside zircons formed from magma in western australia.
Cofty, thanks for posting this, very interesting.
The article referenced in the OP also had a link to this related article:
what an interesting weekend.. went to a "worldly" conference for work.
i met the most amazing people with so many different beliefs.
even so i shared and spoke about god freely and without being judged.
in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?
)- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.
wow.
We were clearly talking about how compelling it was to independent 3rd party observers, not what impact it had on the people concerned.
Not so.
I just re-read the first three pages of this thread and none of the comments were concerned with what "3rd party observers" would say, not even your first comment on the thread on page 3. They were all concerned with the internal effects on congregation members.
I just think a few extra rules about fashion is a tough sell.
How is it we are on page 36 of this thread and you STILL think it's about clothing?
