i was raised a jw and am currently pioneer in a foreign language congregation.
i have been unhappy on and off with my involvement in this religion and am ready to step back again.
growing up i was always active but extremely reserved and a low hour publisher.
There is a lot of good advice here. You may find some of it harsh, but you will realize that facts sometimes come in those packages. You'll get used to it, and even welcome it.
Yes, there is so much that you could be doing if you worked a good paying full time job. If you were to get your own place then I think you will have more room to think things clearly. And with a decent income you could save money and think of other plans.
ever since i had become an atheist and started to listen to podcasts such as the one by sam harris or shows like the atheist experience, i began to think that it is my responsibility to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.
in order to ensure that my beliefs are rationally justified, i started to follow logic, reason, and evidence.
i cannot say that all my beliefs are true, but i can definitely say that i make the efforts to ensure that they are at the very least reasonable.. i also became willing to debate people.
Actually, I don't mind the long post. I found it very interesting. I too have found that the majority of JW's have a one track mind when it comes to their beliefs. You could tell them that the earth is round, but if the Watchtower said it's flat, then there's no talking to them about it.
hello, all you damn dirty apostates!
please, allow me to join this community of diseased minds.
i have been lurking here for over 2 years and tonight i decided it's time to come out of the shadows.
Silent Knight, be careful about someone PM'ing you for more info, it could be the very elders who want to find out who you are, so be careful.
maybe it's complete in light of this sundays wt study...“what you vow, pay”.
it is all about paying your vows and especially focuses on three types.. 1 your dedication vow (baptism).
2 your marriage vow.
Yeah, they say pay your vows to Jehovah, but then after 20-40 years of that service, they "lay you off" and say they don't need you anymore and now you have no job experience except making cheese for 40 years and now you are 60 or 65 years old and told to go make a living some how.
This is NOT what God meant when he said he would look after us. The Shaft doesn't really play into the picture of it all, but through Watchtower, some how they think it does.
What happened in the last couple years, the laying off of older ones really tics me off.
i did!
even when i was in junior high school i would go to the library and look for anything that was about charles taze russell or millenial dawn or jehovah's witnesses..... maybe i was an "apostate " in the making..
For me, it was in 2004 when I first ventured out to any so called apostate site. I don't think there was jwfacts.com yet. I can't really remember what was there, but I remember reading about how Russel was saying vaccinations were nothing and will always be nothing. I thought What?!
At the time that was about it, I never made the connection between that material and what we can see today on the internet. It's strange really, I mean what the internet was in 2004 and now today, 13 years later in 2017.
may 14, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: public reading of study material at congregation meetings.
which replaces.
april 22, 2012 to all bodies of elders re: reading scriptures at the watchtower study.
Repeat after me, eye before E except after sea. I think they are splitting hairs here.
i've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.
you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!
what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.
Hey, this is a great thread. It helped wake me up more. I still have copies of his info on my hard drive.
last week we had a reassurance ultrasound with our ob.
she was just supposed to check heartbeats on the two little ones and they were going strong!
but because she had extra time and she can be quite anal about her work (which is a good thing) she decided to take some measurements.
My heart goes out to you and your wife.
as far as i know, i did a search, and you may not know this but, the last song play during a music video of the regional convention, was not of watchtower.
it's stolen from a group called audiomachine off their album epica.
the song is called eternal flame and it is exactly and i mean, note for note the same as the music video.
As far as I know, I did a search, and you may not know this but, the last song play during a music video of the regional convention, was not of Watchtower. It's stolen from a group called Audiomachine off their album Epica. The song is called Eternal Flame and it is exactly and I mean, note for note the same as the music video. I have links to both the videos here, the convention video and then the Audiomachine video from youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfkedVv6NvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hBBTPmNATM&index=12&list=PLBdTmmVhVoiE_xSl-EjVZ5iMKsyiBC_j-
got this in my inbox today, thought it was kind of interesting.
i like the wording "all proceeds go to non-profit programs.
" i wonder what all exactly the "branch resource recovery team" gets involved in?.
There are a TON of pictures there with thousands and thousands of dollars in tools and trailers/equipment! This is no small thing here. It's as if they know they won't be doing any real building from now on, or they will contract everything out from here on.
What the hell is going on? This is the third auction I have seen like this.
