| Written by Dorothy Banks | | Thursday, 08 July 2010 13:31 |  As far back as I can remember, I always believed in God. But, where He was I could never figure out. I believed He was `out there somewhere`, but whether He was interested in us I could not tell.I lived a normal family life with my mother and father and my two brothers and a sister. I was the youngest of four, my brother George being twenty years older than me, my sister Irene being ten years older than me, and my brother Jack being five years older than me. When I needed something pretty bad I would pray and ask God to answer my prayer, but He never did, and I got on with life as normal children do. |
| Written by Farkel | | Monday, 04 January 2010 17:33 |  Mark 10:45: "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."1 Timothy 2:5-6: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." |
| Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:20 |  What is it going to take before my Jehovah’s Witness mother realizes there is something seriously wrong with her? What is it going to take for anyone in the family to realize children are not safe in her car? Oh my mother isn’t the abuser. She is the enabler. My mother has been married twice and in one common-law (c-l) marriage (she lived with and had a child with a man she was not married to). All three men had histories of sexually abusing children. My father sexually abused me. She abandoned me and left me in his care for 3 years. |
| Written by Mary Woodard | | Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:16 | This is written in response to many inquiries over the years from so many of you who struggle and wonder sadly why the organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses is not a good place in which to pursue mental and emotional healing. Each section below discusses one feature of an emotionally and mentally healthy Christian. Since the Christian faith is 2000 years old, it should be no surprise that over all these centuries, a certain Christian psychology has developed. I am going to talk about this in very basic terms, not getting into the weeds, but just to outline some of the characteristics of a Christian psychology. Then I contrast that with the JWs approach to the topic. And finally each topic has some suggestions for how you can incorporate a more healthy outlook into your own life and thinking. I am presenting these things as they come to my mind in no particular order. (This is very brief treatment and by no means comprehensive.) |
| | Written by Terry Walstrom | | Friday, 06 January 2012 13:11 | In July of 1973 the Watchtower said:
WT 7/1/73 p. 402 "How very much true Christians appreciate associating with the only organization on earth that understands the deep things of God!"
Something about that phrase (the deep things of..) may seem familiar. Why? Where have you heard it? What could it have been?
Let's look in Revelation, shall we?
However, I say to the rest of YOU who are in Thy·a·ti´ra, all those who do not have this teaching, the very ones who did not get to know the deep things of Satan, as they say: I am not putting upon YOU any other burden. Just the same, hold fast what YOU have until I come." (Revelation 2:24-25; NWT)
Could the Watchtower writer subconsciously mean that they know the "deep things of Satan"? That is far-fetched, right? Or is it? |
| Written by Englishman | | Monday, 01 November 2010 10:23 |  On 6 July 1946, two soon-to be-famous persons and 1 future apostate arrived in the world. They were:
George W Bush
Sylvester Stallone
Mike Hooper... and moi!
Mike and Christina August 2010My place of birth was Bolton in the County of Lancashire in England. Close to Manchester. I was the #2 son. I’d had an elder brother who died just a few days after his birth in 1944. I mention this because this sad occurrence led to a series of events that were to have a major effect on my own upbringing. |
| Written by Mark Z | | Saturday, 21 February 2009 13:57 | (Background: I’m 23 years old and the only girl I’ve ever loved was a Jehovah’s Witness. We dated in the summers of ’99 and ’00 [since I was away at school during the rest of the year]. I sent this letter with Crisis of Conscience and a tract of a Paul Blizzard sermon. My main purpose was to relate to them as much as possible and take them through my thought process and experiences from the time my relationship began with their daughter. I cautiously hoped that this would some how trigger some kind of logical thought process within them. I know there are things I could have done better, but I guess that’s just the perfectionist in me. Here it is… |
| Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:41 |  Sometimes we allow others to set the stage for their propaganda. Jehovah's Witnesses must have the stage set just right, so only their key spokesmen will do the PR, and tell Witnesses others things from the Service Desk. Here is an example, one of many. More soon.
Jehovah's Witnesses made taking a blood transfusion a "sin" back in the 40s-50s. Then they continually, CONTINUALLY change what they want to say when and to whom. All to protect the Mother Organization from lawsuits, and due to the fundamentalism of Gene Smalley and Fred Rusk at Bethel. |
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