guided by gods spirit district convention of jehovahs witnesses.
friday.
the spirit will guide you into all the truth john 16:13. am.
Let's see, this years delightful, refreshing spiritual feast resembles Rotting meat, stale bread, maggot infested biscuits and cold lumpy gruel all washed down with something yellow and stinky. In other words, the same old regurgitated bilge.
As you can tell I've had to endure many of these mind numbing drivel fests in the past. It's a terrible way to treat a child, I know, I was there.
much has been commented here on how jw's rely on an ever-changing membership for keeping their 'the sky is falling, the world is ending' doctrine fresh.. recently it was posted that fully 2/3 of born-in jw's leave at some point, and i thought you might like to see how this works in practice.. so lets take sam and i and our extended families - we were both born and brought up jw's.
start with me.
mum and dad were converted in the 1950's.
I was raised in the "truth", I have 3 daughters and 2 sons, when I left they did too.
I can honestly say that we're all glad to be free.
i got this in an e-mail from a childhood friend that is still an active jw.
i found it to be very upsetting and was wondering if anyone else gets the kind of e-mail forwards from friends/family that are still in?
and how you handle it.
A JW poems that's a hit
Is making us vent quite a bit
I read it today
And I really must say
The whole thing's a big load of S**t
i have a thoughtful question.
when a jw dies and there is a funeral or memorial for them, just how much of that person is 'remembered" or talked about?
do they just have a funeral service for them, or do they turn the memorial into a wt study?
Whatever the occaision the WT can turn it into a scripted infomercial.
the reason i ask this is because when i was on the field way back in the day - i really couldn't be bothered if the householder was interested or not.
if they took literature and paid for it (we asked a certain price for literature before it all became on a donation basis) it was a bonus, plus meant money for a cooldrink / tea & cake afterwards.. actually i would prefer it if they weren't interested so i could get away from the door - sometimes their ""conversation stoppers"" made too much sense and i couldn't answer back.. that meant i didn't convert anybody.
do you think most of the jws' are like that today?
When I pioneeed I can honestly say that I hated field service and conducting bible studies. I tried to not let it show. But I figured I'd made a dedication to God so I should do the best I could but the conformity in the way you study and what you study didn't sit well with me. It felt wrong. How can I explain it,... I cared about people but not for the WT forced indoctrination. They always seemed heavy handed and lacking in genuine love. You will do as we say otherwise you will be punished.
Then I began to see the lies and deciet of the WT and I realized I was being manipulated by them. Talk about loading people down with heavy burdens...
(One of my studies did get baptized...oops, sorry.)
thank you, danny, for that information on the sale of brooklyn properties.
i commented on dr. brenda upton's lawsuit against the society.
below is further pertinent information:.
It's always about the money. Always has been, always will be. The watchtower has more in common with Scrooge than Christ.
Whatever happened to the "Bethel Family" concept? Oh yes, that's just their feel good - look good slogan.
Once you are inside and the door slams shut watch out, you are just another piece of machinery to be used until worn out or no longer needed.
the reason i ask this is because when i was on the field way back in the day - i really couldn't be bothered if the householder was interested or not.
if they took literature and paid for it (we asked a certain price for literature before it all became on a donation basis) it was a bonus, plus meant money for a cooldrink / tea & cake afterwards.. actually i would prefer it if they weren't interested so i could get away from the door - sometimes their ""conversation stoppers"" made too much sense and i couldn't answer back.. that meant i didn't convert anybody.
do you think most of the jws' are like that today?
The facts speak for themselves:
Few do, most don't (Care enough to put real effort into FS)
A fraction will, The majority won't (Try to convert others)
If Field service became a conscience matter who would still go out? 5% 10%...
is there anything to prove that rutherford had the custom to be drunk ?.
thank you in advance.
Being drunk or high on canabis may explain the utter rubbish that he penned. I can just see him and his buddy Freddy Franze knocking back the booze and rolling their dope as they prepare to scribble the next isue of the Watchrag. Now it all makes sense.
i was hoping for some help on proving that a paradise earth is in fact a true teaching.
i've only found 3 that use the word "paradise" - but not sure if it refers to an earthly paradise.. thanks!.
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This is how it works...
Torture the Bible and it will confess to anything...and you know the Faithful Slave is really the Twisted Inquisitor.
Can you believe that the dumb scriptures fessed up to Millions now living etc. etc.
Paradise on earth, no problem, Pile on more weights, turn the screws tighter, yank out a few more verses. Almost there.. Insert stupid logic where the sun don't shine...
Bingo! there you have it, New Light.....oooohhhh
he said he was just checking addresses because my house was on the "do not call" list, and he was checking to see if the same people lived here or had moved away.
so i told him that nobody that lives in this house has asked jw's not to call, and that it was probably at the request of my ex-wife who knows i don't attend anymore.. so he gives me that ookaaayy look..... i'm out working in the yard and so we sit down in the garage to have a chat..... he doesn't know me, but i remember him from a different cong., and he doesn't know i da'd myself over 5 years ago.
he also doesn't know how much i've learned and how long i've been waiting for this day!.
Nice one,
You do realize that they want you on the "do not call" list so that other feeble minded JW's won't speak to you and actually wake up from their stupor and start to think for themselves.
