i've only learned the truth about this society over the last 5 months or so, so i'm not sure what the difference is to say - 2 years ago.
do you think the society will now get even more cultish in it's methods of teaching and more heavy handed if they feel things are slipping?
i don't feel i'm being over the top here because i've experienced very heavy handed talks at the assemblies and kingdom hall in the past that are just plain scare tactics but this just makes people ask more questions ??
puttng old farts in brooklin that have never seen a vagina before family.
but as the mean age of the JW population in the more developed countries continutes to increas they will be less capable of "birthing new members" in said countries. ;-)
...reporter scratching head... I'm trying to find out how men who have never seen vaginas (vaginae?) could cause birthing ...oh never mind
Oh well GB, you cant put the Hulk back into the test tube!
i finally decided after being here for over two years now, that i would finally get down in writing my jw history.
i've posted it in my new profile, but since there are so many new people here i thought i'd go ahead and post it too.
i do this to encourage you to pen your jw history.
Before I read your story, you were one of my favorite posters, because of your outstanding, mature insights into various issues. Thank you for posting your story.
I can see now that we even have backgrounds that are similar...except in my case, family is reunited the best it can be, and that is a great relief and blessing to be sure. I hope that you experience similar reconciliation in time. That's cathartic, too.
I reread your story and I'm missing something...you said you were in Missouri, and all of a sudden, you moved back from Hawaii? I must have missed something in there.
Anyways, you said: After I graduated from high school, we moved to Wichita, KS. That’s where things went downhill fast. All of the friend, love and support I’d had in the Hawaiian congregations was suddenly gone. The personality of the Wichita Linwood congregation was very legalistic and judgmental compared to Hawaii. The elders seemed hardnosed, unloving, and at times not even friendly.
That's the type of cold congregation I was in before I left, too. Pharisaical to the core.
Personally, I think that some congregations are actually practicing a different religion entirely than that of the JWs because of their warmth. It's almost like some of these congregations don't even know Brooklyn exists. I've heard great stories about Hawaiian congregations, as well as Fiji, Tahiti, etc. It must be because of the people in those Pacific Islands. It's like a different world. Rural Kansas, or rural Ontario, same s*** different pile, as far as legalism goes. It's like night and day.
please feel free to download anything you wish from these soundbites, etc.
which i will be hosting on a regular basis.
i come across some wacky stuff from time to time, jw and mostly non-jw and bush related, and if you need them emailed to you as opposed to using the links (which can be fickle), please email me at [email protected].
Please feel free to download anything you wish from these soundbites, etc. which I will be hosting on a regular basis. I come across some wacky stuff from time to time, JW and mostly non-JW and Bush related, and if you need them emailed to you as opposed to using the links (which can be fickle), please email me at [email protected]. If you click on a dead link, it is most likely that it is taken down to conserve my webspace to make room for new ones, as time goes on. I intend to delete them after a week or so, to give most people a chance to hear them. If you get a dead link, just ask me and I can email the file to you.
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Well, I don’t know about that. Many people feel like JWs are terrorizing them by coming to their doors uninvited often. That is why so many would like laws preventing it. JWs terrorize each other at their meetings, scaring them into serving God, holding death at Armageddon over their heads. Can you think of more ways?
For starters.
Spiritual terrorism: "marking" talks, CO and elder "do more, do more, do more, and when you're done that, do some more" pep rallies
stealth bombs: WT literature filled with "loaded language" like labeling -- "apostates", "table of demons", and "weasel words" like "evidently", "apparently", "it is logical to conclude that...", etc.
MOAB: "...so and so is disfellowhipped from the x congregation..." without further explanation or charges or chances to explain your side
F-16s: the weekly and daily assaults on people who have said "NO" dozens of times but they just keep coming.
Suicide bombers: those that assault through mental gymnastics and guilt trips into thinking the big "A" is just around the corner therefore any of life's activities should be cancelled (1975)
Physical terrorism: the JW pedophile paradise (arguably you could throw spiritual and emotional terrorism into that too)
you guys said i need to listen to him.
(talk radio & fox <yawn>) .
------ him or loath him, he nailed this one right on the head............. .
I'm lean liberal mostly, but this piece by Rush Limbaugh is spot on. I despise the entitlement mentality, and, this IS an affront to the troops.
Yes, it is possible to be liberal but take on conservative values, like running deficit-free limited government and being anti-entitlement. Call it being centrist, if you like.
I think a key quote is this:
No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11.
Unless you're a Canadian, like me. I have and continue to question everything about September 11 here, maybe perhaps too much in some peoples' eyes.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/14/54359/787589/post.ashx#787589
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/14/55043/800929/post.ashx#800929
"Nukuler"?
this is bush bragging about having lots of allies in the operation against iraq.
here is bush informing us how he is going to restore chaos and order...uh ok.
in this soundbite, dubya bites down on the word "co-operativeatively"!
bttt, to relflect new material posted
this is bush bragging about having lots of allies in the operation against iraq.
here is bush informing us how he is going to restore chaos and order...uh ok.
in this soundbite, dubya bites down on the word "co-operativeatively"!
Priceless! Now listen to this one:
this is bush bragging about having lots of allies in the operation against iraq.
here is bush informing us how he is going to restore chaos and order...uh ok.
in this soundbite, dubya bites down on the word "co-operativeatively"!
Hey! I missed the emissions admissions part!
And, my wife already had the Dead Ringers material on the computer! Excellent!
this is bush bragging about having lots of allies in the operation against iraq.
here is bush informing us how he is going to restore chaos and order...uh ok.
in this soundbite, dubya bites down on the word "co-operativeatively"!
bttt
