The Watchtower Boy
JW Mama said......that dinosaurs were ornry, because they had all them sharp teeth and no tooth brush.
in our jw bible, they placed a friendly dinosaur on the inside front cover on the old time map of the middle east.. you look at that, and see where the placement to where the garden of eden is and that was the image i got in my mind.
dinosaurs lived, but were too big to save in the flood, and besides they had outlived their purpose of fertilizing the earth.
i feel stupid for the thinking i had when i was 'in'.. is that how you 'thought' when you were 'in'?.
i found this picture while searching through the old watchtowers.
this one is in the july 15, 1975 (spanish).
i don't know what date it would be for the english edition.
version 1. john denver at his concert asks "if there are any jehovah's witnesses in the audience can you please leave.".
version 2. on the johnny carson show he said the same before singing a patriotic song.
johnny carson told denver "see that cameraman there..and that lighting guy...there jehovahs witnesses, alot of witnesses work for me because their honest people..so now you can leave.".
this morning's wt study almost made me vomit, stand up, pick up my bag and rush to the door.. of course it never happened.
instead, i was able to make some nice drawings on my tablet and notepad.. if you replace the name jehovah with watchtower, or the governing 8 men, it would really make sense.. what's up with all that nonstop guilt-mongering about education and having a decent job?!.
most people look down on the uneducated, and i remember, when i didn't have a job, nobody cared!.
i conducted the wt study tonight on higher education.
i wondered what the reaction of the bros and sis would be.
there was no deviation from the idea that a university education is not a good idea.
Meanwhile, in my mind a change was happening. It's the first time I started thinking of it as a CULT. I cannot see it anymore as a mere religion with some false teachings.
One of the most profound comments I've ever read on this board.
Good luck young hijosdealwatch on your university studies and on getting out of the CULT.
a sure guarantee that this was bogus (really, any reasoning is required at all?
) was that it did the rounds applied to john denver, annie lennox and others.. basically, they relied on satan (oh yes) for their musical ability (i knew it) and any jws in the audience would be asked to leave because ... (drum roll) ... they blocked the signal to satan so couldn't perform with them present!.
anyone else remember that gem?.
Is it me or are jw's the absolute most egotistical bunch there out there? Everything is about them isn't it? Even the devil spends all his time trying to get jw's.
You are absolutely correct. Remember how arrogant & egotistical we were as JW's, and thinking every world event related to us, and all the angels & demons watching us.
Absolutely bat-shit crazy cult.
a sure guarantee that this was bogus (really, any reasoning is required at all?
) was that it did the rounds applied to john denver, annie lennox and others.. basically, they relied on satan (oh yes) for their musical ability (i knew it) and any jws in the audience would be asked to leave because ... (drum roll) ... they blocked the signal to satan so couldn't perform with them present!.
anyone else remember that gem?.
One of my BS's was a big John Denver fan. Later in the studies I noticed he had all of John Denver's albums. I related the story about how John Denver hated JW's and ask them to leave his concerts. The guy took and threw all his JD albums away. The guy's wife became a JW, but he had "issues".
these guys are real company men when they have mass lay off of older bethelites tossing them to the curb and making the congregation they are assigned to carry some of the load, so that the watchtower corporation can cut costs of providing for these nolonger young people who have devoted theirs lives to the corporation.. they are heartless bastards aren't they?
i wonder what kind of undercurrent this is causing at headquartes?.
Like any other unethical business corporation......the knowledge of Bethel layoffs coming was probably known way in advance, but only announced when it suited the Watchtower. Other opportunities probably passed many Bethelites by while they didn't know that the Watchtower had already decided their future fate.
I swear the evil Watchtower is like a wild beast that will turn on and eat it's own litter.
paragraph 1 & 2:.
we all enjoy life even now due to jehovah's tender mercies, for if it were not for his slowness to anger all humans would not have lived into this 21st century of out common era.
even those crippled severly cling to life thus demonstrating the will of humans to live even in adversity.
jehovahs witness elder arrested for sexual abuseposted on december 10, 2013 by wtleave a commenta man serving as a jehovahs witness elder minister in oklahoma was arrested on 19 counts of sexual abuse, according to authorities.
authorities said they had received numerous reports of other children being molested by ronald lawrence, 76 years of age, from more than 30 years ago.. it is believed, according to lawrences arrest warrant, the kingdom hall church where lawrence was an elder, chose not to inform law enforcement of the abuse.
authorities said that if the jehovahs witness church withheld information from authorities that they too could face criminal charges.. .
Had a conversation with a relative not too long ago during which he made a comment about pedophilia within the Catholic Church.
Ah.....that was the good ole days, when we could go door-to-door with the Watchtower or Awake preaching against pedophilia in th Catholic church.
Now......I would be embarrassed as hell to be a JW and somebody bring up the JW pedophile scandal.