Hello all, appreciate all the comments. and Linda..we have a similiar story. I wonder what made you leave, doctrinally? I do have alot of disagreements now. I think all the prophesy is completely off. I don't agree with the strict of judging of people, disfellowshipping as they do, being so afraid of association, forbidding to marry or have children @ times, and higher education and neutrality. I just went to a peace demonstration today. Maybe I made it sound like I agreed with almost all of it...but alas no.
Watchtower has been wheat with weeds?
by Star Moore 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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yaddayadda
I absolutely agree with you Star Moore. JW's are a bizarre paradox, having got so many doctrines correct in comparison to other religions. Ignore those on here who might try and get you to imagine that the trinity, etc, is a true teaching. Cobblers. Yet JW's have got some things so grossly wrong. I believe it is this concept - the fact that they have got so much right, and that therefore the wrong can be overlooked - that really keeps JW's captive to the organisation.
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jwfacts
I too feel that the religion Russell had in mind was far better than how it ended up after Rutherfords perversion of it.
Now you are out your understanding of some things you mentioned is likely to change as you start to learn more about both sides of the story.
I believe it is hard to leave, not because the JWs are nice, but rather that they conform most closely to the standards of right and wrong that the Watchtower constantly indoctrinates its members to believe is right and wrong. Once you step away a lot of the behaviour that seemed righteous becomes irrelevant, unrighteous, even evil. i.e. shunning. knocking on empty doors rather than forming charities and preaching to everyone everywhere.
I find obesity an interesting issue. A JW will condemn a smoker but not an obese person. However the bible speaks far more directly about gluttony and greediness than smoking. A seriously obese person has a lower life expectancy than a smoker. This is a WTS illogical double standard. So when a JW believes other relgions are bad because they allow smoking they show their standards are not their own but that of the WTS.
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Apostate Kate
WELCOME Star Moore
This Forum is a welcoming melting pot of beautiful people. Glad your here, glad your out, glad your free. Love~Kate
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Benjamin Belial
Wheat with weeds? More like meat with seeds!
Okay, sorry, that doesn't make sense. Think about it though.