my first art job 1975 (a weird memory).
______ as a jw who woke up, i knew i had to leave texas and take my family with me or i'd be stuck in janitor jobs the rest of my natural life.
we drove in 1974 from texas to los angeles and my purpose was to get employment as an artist.
Today, looking back through time, I'm struck by the number of cultists under one roof!
Weird memory. That's why I shared it with you.
Perhaps creative and artistic people tend to be a little bit "out there" and maybe they are more open to religious ideas that stretch the imagination .
probably everyone here knows something about the photo drama of creation.
but i wonder how many know anything about other early watch tower films.. https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if anyone knows where we can find the cedar point films, please let me know.
They used to show this Watchtower film at the Sunday meeting at least once a year during the 60's and 70's
no doubt this has been discussed before, but if the 1975 event had never happened where would watchtower be now.
comments please..
Their credibility would be in better shape and their faces wouldn't be as red.
if watchtower has no reason to df ones.
they have just become inactive.
do you all think wt will begin a witch hunt (df'ing) for these inactive ones?
As the organization declines over time, desperation might make their rule harsher as they attempt to cling to the reins, and they might.
It seems to me that if the organization was truly in decline, they'd lighten up on the reins in order to lure once contributing member$, back into the fold.
If anything, I see a future where they realize that their harshness isn't being tolerated by the general rank and file who, because of the Internet, are beginning to see them for what they are.
i was told this during my judicial committee (some five years ago) when i brought up concerns i had with the "truth.
" in addition one of the elders (who was an engineer) said once you've accepted a proof of pythagorus' theorem you don't later start doubting that theorem.
i thought that argument was a weak analogy then.
Once you've proved that the truth is the truth, why do you have to keep going to those damn meetings for the rest of your life?
so after three years of fading, my elder father has never really asked why we have chosen to stop attending.. today, after a mixed discussion, he starts talking about the "solution to all the world problems" and says "i don't know what you now believe, but i believe gods kingdom will fix everything" i let the comment go, and didn't respond.. then he goes on about the video "remember the wife of lot" because he just came from the convention last weekend.
"don't get caught up in this system...blah blah".
i couldn't help myself, and said one thing "dad, that video failed to show the next chapter of that account.
I couldn't help myself, and said one thing "Dad, that video failed to show the next chapter of that account. It didn't show anything about how Lot, a "righteous man" had sex with his two virgin daughters! How odd? Wonder why that awkward part was neglected?"
Don't be like Lot's wife...linstead, let's all be like Lot who's life was spared.
You: So Dad....what ever happened to the children that Lot fathered by his two daughters. How was it for them growing up having to explain to everyone that their grandfather was also their father. What happened to the two daughters who were unwed mothers in a time and place where such a thing was the woman's fault. Did they ever find husbands willing to face that stigma and take on their inbred children?
He responded by shutting down the conversation and saying "your apostasy has clearly gone too far. I will NOT allow you to subvert my faith! This conversation is over!"
How come you find it faith strengthening to hear the first part of the story but thinking about the rest of the story might be enough to subvert your faith?
i went into my mother's office to leave her a small note to say that we love and miss her and would love to get together.
i found this on her desk.
this is jehovah's witnesses.
A few things seem rather odd about this Will that make me think she may have wanted you to encounter it :
If my suspicions are correct, she truly is someone to be pitied rather than to be hurt by or angry at.
i went into my mother's office to leave her a small note to say that we love and miss her and would love to get together.
i found this on her desk.
this is jehovah's witnesses.
It seems to me that anyone reading this after she's gone, will realize how coldblooded this Will is. Not a very nice thing to leave behind as ones last message to the world. In the end, by her own words, she will demonstrate what kind of persons she was and you will be vindicated.
the great pyramid and the flood of noah.
_________________________________if your world view rests firmly upon the foundation of bible accuracy matching the reality of history, sooner or later you’ll crash into the question of when the great pyramid was built.why?let’s see why…2 peter 3:5-6 complete jewish bible (cjb).
5 but, wanting so much to be right about this, they overlook the fact that it was by god’s word that long ago there were heavens, and there was land which arose out of water and existed between the waters, 6 and that by means of these things the world of that time was flooded with water and destroyed.________________________________________________.
The dinosaur was in the early versions of My Book of Bible Stories and was omitted in later editions.
Since the Watchtower Society believes that mankind has only been on the earth around 6,000 years or so, I'm surprised they didn't omit the Woolly Mammoths from the illustration as well because (except for a small group of them that lived in the arctic until 4,000 years ago) I think the rest died out somewhere between 10,000 and 11,000 years ago. Then again, they also believe the arctic didn't exist before the flood so why the need for the woolly coat.
As long as they continue to teach that the flood was a literal event, I'll know they aren't the true religion.
when i was a kid, i was occasionaly attend to baptism at conventions, and i remember that brothers who immerses candidates in the water, said: "right hand to nose, left hand to right hand, and i baptise you in the name of the father, son and holy spirit, amen".
i remeber that same mantra at my baptism too, back in the eighties.
but, some years ago, i was asked to help to move some props around baptism pool, so i attend to baptism after so many years - there was no "in the name of the..." part.
there was no "in the name of the..." part. I asked a nearby elder, why is that? and he gave me look like I said something nasty, and he said: "we don't use that phrase for decades, dude...
Snarky Elder: "we haven't used that phrase for decades, dude...
You: Was that because it wasn't correct to baptize people in the name of the holy spirit?
Snarky Elder: Yeah...there was new light about that years ago...(duh)
You: So I guess that means the baptisms of all of us who were baptized in the name of the holy spirit, was never valid....good to know !
