as a contractor i travel around for my job, i was stopped this morning to buy some milk at a store in a small village i guess and as i turned a corner i saw 2 elders i know personally manning a cart in the cold outside the store with not a soul in sight and an unlikely place for much traffic even though it was outside a country store.
1 elder is my brother in laws father and the other was in my old cong when i left, i said hello, talked about the weather and general chit chat and was my usual self, they were pleasant also but nothing was mentioned to me about anything spiritual etc.
i know they will be aware of some of my reasons for leaving (the few that i talked about initially before shutting my trap) but they were unwilling to engage in saving my life with their work!
Norm - where do you live because you said, "I saw 2 elders I know personally manning a cart in the cold outside the store..." in particular I noticed you said, "manning the cart in the COLD".
Could you name the country? It's 95 here today in the lower midwest in the U.S.
well guys, after a spiritually encouraging convention, i’ve decided to return my heart back to jehovah.
i realize i was just being too negative and i need to adjust my attitude.
just kidding suckers.
Well you survived and we live on for yet another day. Thanks for sharing. You are right about them not talking much about Jesus. From Genesis to Revelation the Bible is all about Jesus. But the JW's throw him in the back seat and tell him to speak only when spoken to. Sad.
i watched about 2 hours of the regional assembly and these are my thoughts.
the video's and songs did stir my good memories of when i was a jdub elder and very happy in the religion.
i can see how these two things would make it difficult to leave the borg because of the emotional buy-in.. now getting into the talks, the cults true colors show and i wonder how in the hell was i a part of that for over 40 years.
There is a LOT of thought that goes into their programs/conventions. It's just devious thought.
march 10, 1876: “mr.
watson —come here—i want to see you” the voice of alexander graham bell is transmitted.
he wasn't the first to invent it but the first to own a patent.. in 1910 telephone "subscribers" had 4 digit telephone numbers.soon, larger cities had 5 digit numbers.mark twain was one of the first to have a phone in his home.. the first phones had no dials or buttons.
Totally cool. I remember using a payphone. At first I had to drop a dime to make a call. That's where the expression came from. Then it went up to 25 cents. Then went out of existence.
videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.
paranoia rules supreme!.
curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.
My God, that's great!
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/victims-advocates-abuse-not-just-a-catholic-problem-20180625.html.
victims' advocates: abuse not just a 'catholic problem' .
by peter smith, pittsburgh post-gazette .
This is a very appropriate news article to show any JW, even if they are really indoctrinated. I say that because the article points out that it's pretty much happening everywhere.
So an indoctrinated JW may say, yeah see, it's not just the JW's it's everyone. But little does that JW know that while JW's are not alone as far as child sexual abuse is concerned, they are alone as far as their response to it.
They are the only ones left to join the redress scheme of the ARC. They are the "worst offenders" and the organization that was considered to have the worst approach to CSA according to the ARC.
Case in point, how do you NOT call the authorities on even one case of CSA in 50 years?
videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.
paranoia rules supreme!.
curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.
Wow, dubstepped and cobweb, right on the money. I couldn't said it better myself.
so, i managed to squander a way into jwtalk dot net.
they are a pro jw discussion group.
i found this post in there as regards to 34 chille priest resigning due to csa child sexual abuse coverup: (a "senior member").
diddo.
we apostates have the goods on the watchtower.
we have all those wt and awakes, all the news media clips, the arc, everything.
it's just a matter of time before some lost soul will ask, what the?.
See, all in time...All in time WATCHTOWER!
we apostates have the goods on the watchtower.
we have all those wt and awakes, all the news media clips, the arc, everything.
it's just a matter of time before some lost soul will ask, what the?.
We apostates have the goods on the Watchtower. We have all those WT and Awakes, all the news media clips, the ARC, everything. It's just a matter of time before some lost soul will ask, What the?
And we will have the answer.
So just hang on....it will come.
