my sister has a co-worker who's studying with jws.
he told her today that he was being told the the wt society was going to stop printing the awake this month.
and stop other publications soon.
The only way they ever act that fast is if money is involved and without the Awake they would lose all door to door placements.
Face it...when you went to the doors did you offer the Awake with the title...Seatbelts why are they so tight or the WT with the title...Are you worshipping Satan! Well are ya punk!
i was curious as to what a large cross-section of you friends like music that automatically plays when you go to a website.
please rate your feelings on a scale of 1 to 5, .
1 hate it!.
1..I hate it..but not truly hate it
If it were rock and not christian rock it would be ok...even a little Prince tune would be ok.
i can honestly say that there aren't many that i truly hate.
however, there is a small list.
it used to contain only two people, but a third is making it's way on that list.
Czar, how could you hate Aladdins monkey..I never knew his last name
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
My father, but even though I truly hated him.... somehow I loved him a small bit at the same time.
in defense of its fundamentalist approach to the bible and especially its belief that the bible is the word of god and inerrent, the wts frequently quotes from 2 timothy 3:16: "all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness".
we must've heard this scripture thousands of times as witnesses.
the words from eldad and modad quoted in hermas, vis.
Damn you Leo..I was just about to post when I saw you stole the words right out of my mouth.
I kept getting confused by spelling Apocryphal as Apocketfull
I'm thinking you might have all the brain cells I've lost over the years.
my mother has been expressing to us how she reluctantly is beginning to see that the organization indeed has some problems.
she is starting to "feel" that things aren't right.
this past thursday, they gave a "marking" talk for my daughter who hasn't attended a meeting in years.
I think your mom does have somewhere to go, of course she'll have to put up with a pesky son who asks all the right questions but it will be worth it.
Hope it goes well Minimus
having been taught that dating is only when you are ready for a marriage mate and then you get married forever, i was so quick to commit.
almost got married after 6 months to the first boyfriend i ever had when i was 18, a jw of course.
then i saw the light and didn't do it.
Karategirl
You do realize that loud Hiyaahhh you give just before you flip them and stomp on their groin is what messes up the relationships.
Seriously, CG is right and don't let it bother you that she called you a whole or half a whole...she keeps calling me a whole as well.
Truthfully I have found that growing up a dub and getting out at the age Moses was just starting to herd sheep has left me feeling uncomfortable with almost everyone, dubs because I am a non-believer and non-dubs because...Not sure exactly, I'm just not comfortable...must be the remains of cult control still in my brain.
Hang in there your still a youngin.
about 4 years ago simon developed a timeline to chart the history of the jws and their beliefs, but didn't have time to maintain it with the latest stuff.. .
i have now finished bringing it upto date with all the lastest things such as the child abuse issues, un etc, and i've also added some more older stuff as well.. .
any further suggestions for additions are welcome.
The idea was to highlight how things have changed over time
Yes Simon, seeing the light bet brighter and watching Jehovahs celestial chariot on the move is thrilling indeed.
Great site, Thanks for all the hard work your family continues to put into educating and helping ones see the real truth.
about 4 years ago simon developed a timeline to chart the history of the jws and their beliefs, but didn't have time to maintain it with the latest stuff.. .
i have now finished bringing it upto date with all the lastest things such as the child abuse issues, un etc, and i've also added some more older stuff as well.. .
any further suggestions for additions are welcome.
Vey nice...I like being able to see the timeline and then click and see the quotes to back it up...excellent
One bit of advice...it really messes up the effect when you show info on Christs Invisible presence...I mean really shouldn't that be invisible too...you could simply tell us it's there but we can't see it...like the wind and electricity.
wouldn't you consider a "doubt" to be a very weak word for how you felt upon learning what really is going on with the wts?
i was really giving that term a lot of thought the other day, and it really is a term to keep control, because it makes it sound like heck, you're just confused and don't know what's going on.
of course they're not going to say "friends are going online and looking at apostate material and are becomming thoroughly convinced that what we're teaching is wrong.
Kwin...doubt is really a play on words, theocratic warfare so to speak. As long as you express just doubts the Elders are required to try and readjust you or help you. Your family members are also a little more compassionate as the WT even talks about doubts being normal human behavior.
It only takes a short time for the doubts to become substantiated facts through research. When I'm asked now if I have doubts I say no, they were only doubts until I researched into them and found they were facts and only the tip of the iceberg.
at least i think it might be a ghost .
here is the story: hub and i went to bowness on windermere for a holiday last week.
we had a great time.
Don't listen to them Sirona...I'll tell ya what I see.
A cheap date, you go away on vacation and end up in the Graveyard...I'm not sure what you two were doing that had the camera shakin enough for apparitions to appear but I hope the entire trip was fun.
