warning lots of compartmentalization going on, with huge leaps in logic and a whole lot of just beleive me because i say so.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhyfm-zikbq.
I think this is a very poorly made video and a bit misleading.
First the music in the background is just annoying.
Then there is a delay of about a second between image and sound, which makes the appearance, that his words don't match.
Thirdly it is poorly cut. There are cuts everywhere.
Why not show his whole speech?
Ok... i saw now konceptual posted a good video about without the things i criticized. Before I referred to the version posted in the beginning.
it's been at least a couple years since i've posted anything on here, and much longer than that since when i was active.
ten years ago i first came here all in turmoil over my disillusionment of my beliefs.
i've been through lots of ups and downs since then.
Daniel
It is good that you told about your feelings. I can understand your feelings more than you might think.
My marriage broke because of a similar situation. My wife left, because she couldn't accept, that I got different feelings about JW teachings like blood, shunning, inspiration of bible etc. She said if I don't accept it as the gb is teaching, she can't live with me any longer. Now we are divorced, she tried everything in her power to limit my time with our wonderful little son and she is indoctrinating him strongly. But my son and I have a strong bond of love, which cannot be torn apart.
When I read your experience, it seems to me that despite all problems, you and your wife love each other. That is the best basis for your marriage. You said your wife isn't that active with jw things. So there might be a chance that her feelings might change about this religion.
I would suggest not to overwhelm her with anti JW reasoning. But slowly you can sow seeds of doubt. For example birthdays.
Make it known to her, that the birthday of your children are days worth celebrating, because as parents it was the most important day of your lives when your children were born.
Maybe ask her how she feels about the day when they were born. Make it known to her that she is a good mother and that you are thankful for everything she endured on the day your kids were born and that it is a day worth remembering even celebrating.
By the way the bible doesn't say anything against it. On the contrary. Romans 14:1-5 says that it is a conscience matter which days to remember. Even Jobs children celebrated birthdays according to Job 1:4. That the day of birth was meant is confirmed in Job 3:1.
If the tension in your marriage persists, marriage counselling would be a good idea.
Anyway I think of you and I hope that you find solutions that work for you and your family. But don't rush. Be patient.
I wish you all the best.
it's a 2014 movie and i'm only watching it now.
it reminds me strongly of the life of jws and ex-jws..
These books by Veronica Roth have a lot of parallels to JWs and cult control.
I think Veronica Roth (the author of the series) has a JW background. Wikipedia says the following:
"Her maternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors, whose religious convictions pushed her mother away from religion."
In the second book of the series Tris is somehow looking at a religious ceremony and then thinking of her own upbringing.
Tris remembers the religion of her parents and admits that one part of her still holds on to this faith and another just finds it ridiculous - "the prayers before meals, the weekly meetings, the services, the poems about a selfless god."
Then they invite Tris to a religious ceremony, they give her a hand, talk about God's peace which is undeserved. She frees herself and runs as fast as she can to the trees. She stops and is fighting with tears.
i say take care of the needy ones first like our veterans and homeless and mentally ill, and then....take care of those not from this country.
What about not being partial and help / care for ANY human being in need?
We humans are one family, no matter from which country we are.
In a Kindergarten in Germany, children where asked if they have refugees or foreigners in their Kindergarten group. The answer of a child. "NO, THERE ARE JUST CHILDREN."
i had a problem with four cruel "sisters" from three different congregations.
i was learning how to manage my emotion to these women because they were strong emotion to me.
i know the scripture inform me to not to hold against them as god will take care of them.
Just forget about it and live your life.
looking back we had been fading without even realizing it.
life happened...and we weren't regular.
then we woke up and have actively been fading for 9 months.
"... we don't run a police state..." G. Jacksons words.
If they talk to or text you just reply very friendly. "My husband and I are perfectly fine. If we need your spiritual guidance and help we will contact you as soon as possible."
They will make efforts to meet you, because you stopped reporting fs. After 6 months of no reporting you are officially inactive in their statistics. When the CO comes he will pressure the elders and ask what happened to you and what they did to help you.
If they wanna meet you and say: "We would like to talk to you about our relationship to Jehovah." you can answer.
"We have a very strong and cherished relationship to Jehovah. This relationship is personal and we don't discuss it. If we need your spiritual guidance and help we will contact you as soon as possible."
Congratulations for not reporting anymore. Doesn't it feel liberating.
this is a counsel point in the tms guidebook.
the guy who did the reading last night was supposed to be working on that while he read the account about how jehovah fought the unfaithful isrealites for judah.
jehovah killed 500,000 people that day.
for over a century, delightful, correct words of truth covering every aspect of life have been presented in the watch tower society's publications - wt 1990 december 15 p 26.
welcome to canada from one immigrant to another !.
calgary is welcoming it's first refugees from syria and iraq so tomorrow i'm going to take all the winter clothing that we have and donate it to a women / children's charity.
it's not much (well, actually, it's a huge pile ... everything from when we first moved over!
It's heartwarming to see that many Canadians are welcoming them and want to help.
I volunteer in a project to help integrate refugees in Switzerland. I meet a Syrian refugee every week to speak the local language with him, to show him different places and to help him with different things like searching for an apartment and paper work. He is such a kind person, learning amazingly fast and only after a few months making big progress in the German language.
People don't need to be afraid of refugees. They are just normal human people. Some might be traumatized. If the political situation in our home would be different, WE WOULD BE THE REFUGEES.
It is a narrow gap. It all depends where you are born and how the political situation changes.
the usa is undoubtedly the strongest military power in the world, and has often been willing to use that power against other nations, some historians count 187 foreign wars in 200 years, and this youtube video lists the wars the us has fought in the twentieth century, most of which, (in the earliest part of the 20th c) it can be argued, were won by the usa.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51nfakme-g. this is not an argument about the rightness or wrongness of any war.
the argument is why the mightiest ever military power, a political power that controls overwhelming destructive forces, a power that claims to stand on the side of its god, does not win wars?
have you thought about this question?
Maybe because you can't solve most conflicts with military power and force.
I am convinced that you can't get rid of IS and solve the conflict in Syria and Iraq with bombings and air raids.
With any civilian casualty, with every innocent child being killed by air attacks new terrorists are created.
I believe most importantly it should be cared for that IS can get no more financial means, that they can't sell their oil, that they can't get more arms. Then the Iraki government should be formed by Sunni and Shia groups, both being equally and all respected. The IS then might be like fish in a pond where their water will dry.
