Ciao Roberto
Enjoyed your posts.
anche io parlo italiano
hello everybody,i've been lurking for a while and since i really adore reading the biggest part of the posts, especially this italian ( american) guy about his experiences at bethel in the 70's, i feel a little bit guilty for not participating with my contribute.
i am really so sorry for the people that are suffering because of the wts.my story is a " happy ending " story, i married a jw almost 30 years ago and i am here to tell that we are still very happy.
she is very liberal and our 3 kids are " normal ".
Ciao Roberto
Enjoyed your posts.
anche io parlo italiano
what is it about making friends in the organisation am i the only one who had found it tough?
don't get me wrong there was some good people but unfortunately there was also a lot of egotism, back stabbing, jealousy and gossiping.
i could never really fit in any group, everytime i thought i had found a group it was as if i would be sidelined or ditched.
Jordandemm: For the most part, there are no good friends in the organization. They are all fake. I found that most were just acquaintances and willing to turn you in the minute you took a misstep.
Don't feel discouraged, you really don't need a lot of friends in life. Only one or two. I used to think that those social butterflies who were always surrounded by people must have been the happiest people on the face of the earth. But, I've learned through the years, that those very extroverted people were generally the most unhappy.
this may be old news to some while most won't even know who he is.
in case you don't know him, he was a jw that defended many of the jw doctrine publicly.
he did this mainly in the form of two books, jw's defended and three dissertations on the teachings of jw's.
i am very interested in getting crisis of conscience being fully available as soon as possible.
march 12th will mark exactly three months since the cease-and-desist letter was written.. i understand that things are slow and that deborah may be sick, but i was just wondering if anyone knew the status.
i have been asked twice already where the book can be obtained in spanish and i have told people that the book is not available.. there are ways to make ebooks extremely hard to share.
there has always been a hierarchy among elders.
now it's been validated by kenneth flodin in this talk about the word "princes".
so not any elder can be a prince in the new order.
There has always been a hierarchy among elders. Now it's been validated by Kenneth Flodin in this talk about the word "princes". So not any elder can be a prince in the new order. Oh no, you have to be a governing body helper, or a district overseer etc. Have a look at 3:30 if you don't want to listen to the whole thing.
http://tv.jw.org/#en/video/VODProgramsEvents/pub-jwbmw_201603_1_VIDEO
i have been reading john bechtel's blog.
someone provided a link recently and it is brilliant.
anyone that enjoys personal experiences including bethel tales will love this.
okay, they've posted their 2015 return - i am very confused.. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/t3010form23-eng.action?b=119288918rr0001&fpe=2015-08-31&n=watch+tower+bible+and+tract+society+of+canada+%2f+la+tour+de+garde+soci%c3%a9t%c3%a9+de+bibles+et+de+tracts+du+canada&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cra-arc.gc.ca%3a80%2febci%2fhaip%2fsrch%2fbasicsearchresult-eng.action%3fk%3dwatch%2btower%26amp%3bs%3dregistered%26amp%3bp%3d1%26amp%3bb%3dtrue.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/311690001/canada-branch-finances-whats-going-on?.
It looks like they may be shutting down the TO Bethel?
I don't know about this. They still have 350 members. But then again, with this organization, anything is possible.
jworg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a telly award.. i don't need to add to the jworg website hits, so here is the award listed on the telly award website:.
https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=b.
2015 online video bronze winners.
Can the hating stop already?!
No hating of the people but definitely a hating of what this organization does and the hypocrisy it continues to display. That I will always hate. Always!!
all warm and fluffy this month after the utterly laughable 'bread' broadcast.
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i'll always be grateful to the australian royal commission for allowing us to see this duplicitous, lying, creep, shown up as a snivelling, suck up, asshole, taken completely out of his self appointed authoritarian comfort zone.. anyway, a not too interesting broadcast i have to say..
So now they want the sisters to make the bread???? Store bought isn't good enough??
there was/is a sister in my old hall who was a pharmaceutical sales rep and she was a huge proponent of anything in the drug industry.
when someone had a headache, she was the first to say "take an asprin.
" now my husband and i are what you might call old hippies.
I try to be balanced. I don't take natural products, because really there are not regulated. I try and cook from scratch. I try to minimize anything that comes from a box or can. I serve my family plenty of vegetable and fruit everyday and when I can I get locally grown. Not much of a fan of organics