https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hczHlrOVQxU
Having the mindset of "Alice in Wonderland" & the elders are "just like a pack of cards"
Pretty good idea, to "let the people know"... I like the fact that she gave them sealed envelopes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hczhlrovqxu.
having the mindset of "alice in wonderland" & the elders are "just like a pack of cards".
pretty good idea, to "let the people know"... i like the fact that she gave them sealed envelopes... .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hczHlrOVQxU
Having the mindset of "Alice in Wonderland" & the elders are "just like a pack of cards"
Pretty good idea, to "let the people know"... I like the fact that she gave them sealed envelopes..
i don't understand the relevance of the first picture in this weeks study article?!?!.
wt week of december 15-21 "cherish your privilege of working with jehovah".
can someone post the pic?.
You will agree that it is amazing that Jehovah has invited imperfect humans to have the honor of serving as his fellow workers.
Wow.... now he won't have to use the perfect angels to build it!
Simply amazing! How can you pass an opportunity like that up?
My husband "Make Lemonade" was an elder from age 27 (?) to 58 (?) and dealt with some of the hardest, weirdest things you have ever heard of all of our married life.... constantly.
Elder's meetings all the time, controversy, KH buildings, RBC's, GB letters, always trying to do what the Bible said... even tho other elders or NY disagreed... Always fighting against the wind. Trying to help people in their personal lives, really, actually doing things. Helping people move, going to the hospital with them, trying to get their kids off drugs, helpling people get into programs, helping marriages... as much as a person can do, if not trained. All of our family were nice people... We all cared. We all helped & cared in so many ways.
But, it did take away a lot of our life together... being an elder takes away time from your kids, your family... and then, who is there for you? Those people you invested so much time in? ... no..... your family... and that's it... and fortunately, our family (my husband, myself, my children & sister) made it out of their grasp, tho we all still are affected by the evil of the WT.... some more than others.
march 2015 study article learn from the illustration of the talents.
brothers and sisters worldwide will be overjoyed to know that the governing body finally has the.
courage to admit their mistakes .
They are very evil.... They know the power they have over you... Your life, your friends, your family... they will all be taken away from you, if you do not "comply."
for a while i have shaken my head after learning how jw's interpret (rather corrupt the meaning of) matthew 8:11. i thought it couldn't get any worse.
i was wrong.
the following is an extract of the march 2015 watchtower in pg 27. the writer is explaining the meaning of mathew 25:31-46. enjoy!.
He describes the sheep as “righteous” because they recognize that Christ has a group of anointed brothers still on earth, and the sheep loyally support the anointed
OMG!!! Creature worship at it's finest
http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=a136641.
12/19/2014order filed.
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Hmm? They forbid us to watch the NBC Dateline show 5/28/02
had a coversation with a very close friend (of 15 years) and understands how i feel about the wt org.
he himself is a serious doubter.
i on the other hand am not a doubter, i know with every living ounce of myself that this is a cult!
That's right, LongHairGal!
They do not want you to have fun, have memories, or build relationships with family that will take you in when you wake up!
I am trying to put my life back together with family, realizing that they have made their own "family" of friends that have shown love to them and become 'family' when I wasn't there.
And yep, Pete, it's the old Red Pill/ Blue Pill choice.... If you just keep taking the Blu Pill you can keep having that comfy life, living in paradise, even tho it's not true.. it's just a fantasy.
Thanks Phizzy for boiling it down, making it obvious: The WT uses the word "doubt" to make you feel bad, when really we don't 'doubt', we know the truth about the truth.... it is a lie.
so im at the meeting after its over and this elder says to me that god needs my voice because he, the elder, feels that my singing is not loud enough.
i did not tell him this, but singing just is not my thing.
he then went on saying how gods people are better singers than "the worlds singers".
Sorry & hugs to you.... elders can make such big deals about EVERYthing but what is really important.
Will you ever hear them getting mad about the pedophile not being reported? NO...
not singing loud enough? yes.... That way they can feel very important... 'sticking up for Jehovah'
They don't need to stick up for the kids though, do they?
CRAZY!
i've been out nearly two years but it's not out of me.
i am on school holidays now til february so i thought without work to worry about i can come off my medication.
i phased it slowly, starting in early november to avoid the physical side effects of coming down.
Hey Julia, You are a sweet, caring person, from what I have learned of you on this forum.
When 'we' leave the cult, we can not let it take our self worth, our ANY thing from us.
I think that, because they shun us, or try to make us feel left out or 'bad', BECAUSE we are actually good, loving, honest people, we want to 'fix it', 'clarify it', have 'justice,' explain it or help them..... To say that that is disturbing is A.O.K, because it is reality.... and reality is good.
Maybe it's like the Borg on Star Trek.. the people that have been made into robot like creatures... they cannot feel, they cannot think, they cannot realize the situation they are in, they USE to be human....
and then, there is the one... the one borg that has a slight chance... that listens and changes (they had one on Star Trek) and understands, and gets human feelings back.
Coming to grips with this is hard... the people I use to laugh and share things with have reverted back to their borg-like personalities... I ask myself this: "Just because I left the borg, am I less human? No, I am more human. I am going to try to find some small special thing to enjoy at different times throughout my day... the fire I am sitting beside, my cat on my lap, my husband & I being able to be realllly together.
I like to think of the many people here on this forum who really do understand what it is like, and offer their support.
((hugs)) to you! cha ching
leave it in jehovah's hands.
is there a more disgusting phrase in jw land?.
the abuse, harms, thefts, suicides, family destruction - leave it in jehovah's hands.. why would anyone with a more than 2 neurons say, "oh that makes sense," we do not need to change or intervene in any way.. sooner or later, god will take of things.. .
HaHa, thanks LisaRose, you put a smile on my face in the midst of all of this "leave it in Jehovah's hands" stuff...
The simplest illustration is the hardest to refute.