what was your wake-up call(s) before you left the jw s organization?
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When I mentioned to Branch Committee that John 3:13 is not really what Jesus spoke--it is an interpolation. Hence our teaching about 144,000? One member personally told me: 'If we admit one verse is not inspired, it will cast doubt on others verses too.'
This was one of the many wake-up calls I had before leaving JWs
i am not dyslexic, though it is in the family, and i am kinda referring to the joke about the agnostic dyslexic wondering if there really is a dog.. my question is sincere though.
there are kind of "top" dogs, some are bigger than others, some are stronger, and yet really they are all dogs, and there is not really an almighty dog, a canine supreme being.. so, there may be other beings in the physical universe, superior or inferior to us, or just differnt, who knows.. but let us assume there is a "spirit world" not part of the physical universe, and it is peopled by "beings".. is it philosophically necessary that there be a supreme being ?.
Seven Reasons Why a Scientist Believes in God
By A.CRESSY MORRISON,
Former President of the New York Academy of Science
Here is the link
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/nave-html/Faithpathh/Morrison7.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amobor6pdbo.
even though this is an appendix to the main series, i thought id share this.
likely, it is not the most riveting video, but im hoping it can empower those interested in starting research into astronomical diaries like vat 4956. some might think its too complicated, but i believe such research is within everyones reach.
Who will be in a better position than JEWS themselves to keep record of their captivity accurately? They have no idea of 607 BCE. Here is the link:
( http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11407-nebuchadnezzar )
is this just another example of the bible being inconsistent/contradictory ?
or is it screwed up wt.theology.. what`s your thoughts.
smiddy.
Dear BobFlanagan007
Before you declare, there is no God, it will be interesting to see this site http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/nave-html/Faithpathh/Morrison7.html written by a scientist, A.CRESSY MORRISON,
Former President of the New York Academy of Science
i heard a rumour today to the effect that there is a new gb member in his late twenties/early thirties.
i stress that this is unsubtantiated and requires confirmation or quashing.. can anyone confirm or definately deny it?.
It is certainly possible. Because, very recently they inducted two very young men (in their late 20's) into the Branch Committee of India Bethel. This may be a foreshadow of greater things to come!
at the thread about jaracz steve2 made the following interesting comment.
by now, ted should be finding his heavenly posting a routinized bore: 4 years and still counting.
he will have chaffed at the notion that all decisions are made by jehovah god who consults no one and who brooks no questioning or independent thinking.
Bottom line? Jehovah wants to be a FAIR judge and He does this by stepping out of the way and letting experienced magistrates do the job.
Terry’s bottom line has the punch—Leaving everything to the experienced humans would mean whatever Jehovah had been doing before was wrong—something that will never happen.
Hence what Terry meant was this: the whole affair of using 144,000 persons who are BETTER than Jehovah is the result of some wild imagination of somebody! It is like saying PART IS GREATER THAN THE WHOLE which is, of course, meant to redicule the reason!
as october 22, 1844 slowly faded into october 23 a great weeping swept the countryside as 50,000 true believers in the accuracy of william miller's.
prediction (of christ's return to earth) faced the stark reality of total soul-crushingly great disappointment.. .
how had they come to this bizarre conclusion and what would they now face by way of recrimination and disconfirmation?.
Classic case of JWs hating the apostates publicly; yet loving their teachings in secret!
Thank you, Terry
so i have been replying to letters from a jw friend who suddenly started writing to me after i've been out for nearly 25 years.. i have mentioned things like the poverty that pioneering causes from my own experience, worrying about having enough money to buy food.. i also said that the scrimping would have been worth it if we had been saving to buy a home or go on lovely holidays.. instead we ended up with nothing materially and we were living in a tiny rented flat when we left.. when i think of all the places i wanted to visit with my husband but couldn't because we were pioneering and had no money and now it is too late because my husband has died at the age of 54. we did get to visit some beautiful places but we ran out of time.. what i was trying to say to her was - life's too short.
stop waiting for the new system, get on with your life.
stop exhausting yourself in that religion.
Most of them who take up pioneering are forced into it on two counts:
1) Relentless prompting from the platform and publications that if you do not preach "blood-guilt" is upon you. Then special articles in the km specially in the school vacation time entitled: "Will you do more in these months?"
2) The clapping the pioneers receive when someone's name is announced as new pioneer from the platform (which is of course against the spirit of what Jesus said in Mathew 6:2-4.
i've often thought about it.
are these people witnessing jehovah or the watchtower.. in the abscense of solid proof that god is backing the watchtower they are only witnessing a group of men who beleive they have god's backing.. .
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Scot77,
Which is a sort of falling romantic towards one’s own captors.
as we all now know, once you leave the watchtower religion you are exposed to the possibility of education for the first time.. an ex-jw discovers that the theocratic lessons they have learned were not all they were led to believe , i.e.
"accurate knowledge.".
is this story actually true?
Terry, you are wonderful (your keen eye saw: “ Who was the one "listening" as Jesus poured out the heartfelt prayer in Gethsemane? Everybody was asleep! ”)
I never thought this way!
Really, you are opening a great road—which very few have treaded so far!
Looking forward to you next post
