As someone once so accurately stated, "Let's review! IT'S A CULT!" End of story!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
we're all familiar with the organisations claims (and have seen the flow diagrams in books and mags) that the gb is "directed by god".
in turn, the local elders are "directed by god".
so, how exactly do they suppose this happens?
As someone once so accurately stated, "Let's review! IT'S A CULT!" End of story!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
the innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.
attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.
now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..
How f**ked up was the world when, according to the Bible there were only 4 known people on earth. Bad boy Cain murdered his brother. 25% of the world's population is wiped out by one act of violence. Worse yet is that jehober knew that of Cain's murderous intentions and did not even warn nor protect his "loyal servant" Abel!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
on the book of hebrews, the believer's bible commentary says regarding those who leave the jewish faith:.
"now when a jew left the faith of his forefathers, he was looked on as a turncoat and an apostate (meshummed), and was often punished with one or more of the following:.
disheritance by his family.
The wtbts starts every wt study with an example from the hebrew scriptures. What a waste of time. The jews were a bunch of whacked out, rebellious, stubborn, sex maniacs and jehober still loved them?
The wt likes to use the hebrew laws to guilt jw's and then tell them how loving jehober is! Are we christians or jews? are we jehovah's witnesses or jesus' witnesses? I know that rutherford liked the hebrew scriptures much more because of it's harshness and vindictiveness that jehober dished out.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i know that logging in has been a problem for some.
i hardly post any more.
i figured there would be more activity than this.
I agree with dozy.
The capcha entries are very screwed up. Can't logging in be simplified?
just asking!
eyeuse2badub
over the years, i knew some individuals that were pretty bad witnesses.
they broke more commandments that most.
I grew up in southern California around the huntington beach-downey area. As teenagers we were all "bad". Lots of parties during the 60's and lots of drinking before and during the parties. Not a lot fornicating but we did do everything but actually fornicate. Yes there were many, many very pretty young sisters around that were, 'theocratic' young girls during the week, but were "bad" girls on Saturday night. The 'brothers' and I that ran around together with liked drinking, surfing, and 'bad theocratic' girls on Saturday night.
As I think back, I had, even by 'worldly' standards, a fairly normal teenage life. I wasn't an ubber dubber except when I needed to be. You know, token service on Saturday morning and then off to the beach till dark, then drinking and going to parties. Token comments at the WT on Sunday and then off to the beach. We were always polite the the young girls' parents.
For a long while a bunch of jw's from all over the LA area used to go ice skating on monday night in Pasadena. It was a good way to meet other 'theocratic' young girls and find out about parties that was coming up. Of course, me and my buddies would always show up (drinking). I often wonder how we got away with all the sh*t we did.
Baddest thing that happened was in 1976 when a very spiritual brother, that I actually looked up to, was caught molesting his12 year old daughter. I was on the judicial committee. From that time on I realized that jw's are the same as other people and sort of lived my life accordingly.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
justin bieber has beliebers.
benedict cumberbatch has cumberbitches.
surely the ego-stroking gb worshipping fans deserve a name.. gbsters?
The British Bee Gees were a very successful rock group in the 60's and 70's. They had a great hit in '77 called,
"Stayin' Alive"!
The American wtbts Gee Bees were also successful in the '60's and '70's. They had a 'not so great' hit called, "Stay alive till 75"!
"Stayin Alive" by the Bee Gees is still a popular song.
"Stay alive till '75" by GB well, no one wants to listen to that old song anymore!
The Fan Name for GB fans could be "The He Be GB's"!
just sayin'!
eyeuse2badub
hey all,.
i was just thinking back to the first time i found this awesome forum...years before i eveni joined up and starting posting myself.. i was so encouraged and happy to see that i was not alone!
i was not the only one who was observing the org, and all of its aspects and thinking "seriously?
It was my mother's religion just like so many of here. What a sap she was! Double damn
just saying!
hey all,.
i was just thinking back to the first time i found this awesome forum...years before i eveni joined up and starting posting myself.. i was so encouraged and happy to see that i was not alone!
i was not the only one who was observing the org, and all of its aspects and thinking "seriously?
After 60 years of being a dub and hearing the same stuff, repeating the same stuff and somehow knowing that it was bs, I started looking around to see if others felt the same way and why did they feel that way. I was willing to go it alone but it's nice to hear how others woke up and realized ttatt. What a sap I was! Damn
just saying!
i was thinking about being "brought up in the truth" as opposed to joining.. as a child's brain develops, it builds connections based on what it is taught.
these connections are inseparable from the person in that our thoughts and memories actually become part of our personality (who we are).. a very simple example, might be being taught *not to do something* because it "displeases jehovah".
the understanding of right and wrong is then set in the child's mind and built upon.. there are several points of thought i have about this fact.
ballistic
no jw is brought up in the truth. they are raised as a jw but not in the truth.
just saying!
hello all... i currently studying the bible teach book and i'm just curious what information does the study conductor record about the student and is it passed on??
and they keep on saying "the truth" which is starting to get on my nerves.
lol.
"An investigation of Truth should do not harm, if it's not the Truth it should do harm."
Ask the jw who is conducting the "study" if you are free to investigate JW's and some of their past teachings. He or she will definitely record that little tidbit of info.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub