i found this interesting topic on the current views among jws regarding the overlapping generation.. the posts are hilarious.
how do most jehovah's witnesses explain the overlapping generation?.
i've asked a couple of jws to explain the overlapping generation and they directed me to the website jw------org.. either they don't know, or they do know but don't want to discuss it because they know it's bogus and embarrassing.. either way, surely they must know that this just extended the last days another 80 years from the time fred franz died.
How do most Jehovah's Witnesses explain the Overlapping Generation?
Is it possible that instead of referring to the "Anointed", the Governing Body was once again talking about masturbation (aka fapping) and the problem this is generation is having with addiction to it, hence the term "The over-fapping generation"?
i've posted a link to an article that contains important food for thought.
as we search for information to free our minds and hearts of cult-like thinking which entails being able to critically think, we need to ponder research that is available to help us to make important decisions.
we need to allow ourselves to consider other possibilities, something that jw’s are discouraged from doing.
we should always acknowledge individual variation that is typical of all humankind and be respectful of others with a view to doing our best to make the world a better or nicer place to live in.
While I agree, I am reminded of the way the Watchtower, instead of simply presenting information to us as individuals and letting us draw our own conclusions, used to always follow up by telling us what we should be thinking or striving to to, in light of what they’ve just told us.
”As true Christians me must always strive to…
”As thinking persons, we realize that…
“Lovers of truth will agree that…
what is your story?
we would love to “hear” from you!
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Always tried my best through the good times and bad. Then no one really notices when you are fading away.
Yes...that's a real eyeopener. It does make it easier to fade that way but it hurts just the same doesn't it ? Like you, after 25 years active and regular at the same Hall, it took 3.5 years before anyone noticed we were gone. The Circuit Overseer and an Elder friend of mine showed up at our door one rainy Saturday morning. He said, " I understand you folks have been missing quite a few meetings lately and we wanted to see if we could encourage you in any way". He was shocked and embarrassed to find out that I was a former Bethelite and both my wife and I lost our fathers at early ages, from not taking blood. My father was only studying at the time and the JW's convinced him to sign the no blood papers. The nonsensical blood fraction rule came out just shortly after he died and fractions would have saved him or at least made him realize how feeble the JW's reasoning on the blood doctrine is. Also, our young Son was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks after he and his fiancé' were unfairly disfellowshipped after having gone to the elders about a matter that they (like most) could have easily kept to themselves. I told the C.O that the last meeting we all attended was the Memorial over 3 years ago and the entire congregation shunned our Chemo ravaged son who they've known since babyhood and they rushed up and welcomed visiting strangers with open arms. I told him no one had even called us or looked in on us and if it wasn't for our worldly neighbors and Coworkers, we'd have been alone. I'm sure the Elder friend got an earful on the ride back to the Hall.
The other thing you find out is that the "world" isn't watching JW's and doesn't hate JW's. In fact, after all these decades of door to door work, they barely know who JW's are and are either very open minded about them or couldn't care less about them .
Anyway...sorry this happened but you sound pretty well adjusted already and it seems as if you were able to make a break of it quite quickly. The best thing you can do to cement your resolve is to disprove everything they've taught you, using their own literature. JWfacts.com is a good place to do that.
There is a mourning period that takes place after leaving and like any other form of mourning, they say it's best to allow/expect a month of mourning for every year you were involved with whomever or whatever it is you lost. I've found that to be true and have found that there is life after the JW's.
nasa hiring religious leaders just in case they found extraterrestrial life, at priceton university's center of theological inquiry.
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just of curiosity, if nasa find something, how do you think the borg is gonna spin it.
Just of curiosity, if NASA find something, how do you think the Borg is gonna spin it.?
They'd call it "proper food at the proper time". They'd say "Yes Brothers...just as this old system is about to end and Jehovah's faithful servants are beginning to tire out, this new discovery is a timely and exciting fulfillment of Luke 21: 7. ( fearful sights and great signs from heaven) . Rather than being afraid, Jehovah servants know that he has allowed this new discovery to take place and it is inspiring proof to believers and unbelievers alike, that he exists and that he intended for the other planets to be inhabited. ". They'd marvel at his wondrous creation and proclaim that as "the Faithful Slave who are Stewards of his belongings" it will be our duty and privilege to teach these new ones the "Truth" and make sure, in the spirit of unity, they become part of his earthly organization". They'd immediately ask for donations so they could build a space alien translation center on Mars and ask for volunteers who had college degrees in any space related field and who were free to travel (at their own expense of course).
so, i was wondering what are the funniest insults i've heard/been called.. the woman who taught me the arabic alphabet did a lesson about insults in colloquial palestinian arabic.. the one that stuck out to me was iniqbir or ini'bir.
literal meaning: bury yourself.
"go and bury yourself".
Called on a kid from school while out in service.
The following Monday he said:
Ha! That guy is a Jehovah Shit-ness!
Me: “Say that again and you’ll be laughin’ from the other side of yer face! ”
He found out the nice JW boy wasn’t always so nice and that’s all it took.
hello to all you good people.
an elder who i knew in my jw days has just been employed at my place of work.
now i want to be prepared for him when he encourages me to return to jehovah.
Don’t bother trying to enlighten him. If in fact he’s foolish enough to try and save you, give him one warning. “ If you speak to me again as if I’m some kind of condemned lost soul or if you talk to me about your religion, I’ll be contacting the personnel department.”
did your congregation have cliques?.
usually centred around two competing elders (or the elder's wife).
it could made obvious by whether you got to answer in the wt study.
Looking back, if you were lucky there'd be a Clique in your congregation made up of the more "normal" people...the ones who were JW's but didn't go overboard about it and who liked to do things other than what was JW related. Sometimes it was only a few people in the congregation that you could relate to and the rest seemed to be misfits for one reason or another. One way or another, we always managed to be in one of those cliques and had friends from all over that were in the same kind of cliques in their areas and that's what made being a JW tolerable. The Conventions were a big Clique meet-up. What they were talking about on stage was secondary....it was all about what would happen after the assembly.
funny but this show has all the current events we have today, nut bar hippie cults, gay issues, and many more and i get to see the old car classics drive around.
anyone ever notice how things do not change all that much?
the big issue is so many idiots mostly left over old far hippies and young idiots who do not know how to tie their own shoe laces are imo much bigger in size than in the 70s.
Funny but this show has all the current events we have today,
Noticed the same thing when I watch old talk shows such as Dick Cavett.
I used to love the Rockford Files as a kid. As a teen, whenever I had to make some crazy move while driving, I'd claim I learned it at the Jim Rockford School of Driving. I always thought it would be great to live in an old trailer by the sea and I've been in that parking lot in Malibu at Paradise Cove where he had his parked, a few times. There's a restaurant adjacent to it.
I always wondered how he'd would have been allowed to live there and where he had his utilities hooked up. There's an episode where someone asks him about that and he claims that California beaches are public access (or something like that).
i have a daughter of a old witness friend that i knew since she was born.
she obviously has mental problems like her mom did so i just go with it .
she is a sweet kid but was recently hooked on pain pills bad.
"When you see crazy coming....cross the street ! "
this 19 minute talk by “governing body” member samuel herd lacks enthusiasm, energy and mostly reads his script.
looks like he was forced to talk about something he no longer believes, but goes along what was written to appease the rest of the ''governing body.''.
mr. herd says, ''sometimes we have to make adjustments.
It's amazing how Jehovah so often sends them the wrong message in the first place and then agrees with whatever change they make...until the next time.
So the last I heard, the number of those partaking of the "emblems" has been increasing every year so I presume that these ones are younger than the ones who had already partaking. If they all have to be dead before Armageddon, it seems to me there could be a bit of a wait ahead. Maybe this is why they went ahead and built those Movie Studios even though everyone else believed when they've been giving everyone the impression that the end was "right around the corner".
I'm glad to hear it because I bought a bunch of very green bananas yesterday and I'd hate to see them go to waste.
