Why don't you sit down and stay awhile Brittney? You might learn something.

I think it's great that you have such a strong faith, I'm sure it takes balls to come into a place where you know no one will agree with you and state your opinion anyways.

Alovejones however is seeking to leave your organization. Our purpose here is to assist people in this process, because it is a difficult one, it is more difficult than you could ever possibly imagine. I think you should spend some time on the story board and read about what many of us here have gone through, we have some very eloquent writers who have done an excellent job at describing the emotional roller coaster of leaving your faith with gut wrenching accuracy and detail.

Unfortunately that probably won't happen. It's your life and your loss in the end if you don't. Knowledge is never bad. Reading the other side of things is never bad. And if the apostates are all lying, it should be pretty easy to tell. They aren't, but you wouldn't know because you haven't read what they have to say and actually thought about it and considered it for yourself.

My personal favorite WT quote is this:

"Colored people have less education than whites - many of them quite insufficient to permit them to profit by such reading as we have to give forth. Our conclusion therefore is based upon the supposition that reading matter distributed to a colored congregation would more than half of it be utterly wasted, and a very small percentage indeed likely to yield good results. We advise, therefore, that where the Watch Tower literature is introduced to colored people it be not by promiscuous circulation, but only to those who give evidence of some ear for the truth. We avoid, so far as possible, putting the pearls of present truth into the hands of the vicious and depraved .. {ZWT Apr 15 1900 122}


Now that's just wrong.



"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it." This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."   -Douglas Adams



Dave
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