help with my question please

by MUNKAFATS 15 Replies latest jw friends

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    By no monetary gain, do you mean no collections at meetings and no charge for literature?

    While it is true that they don't "pass the plate", as some churches do, they do remind their members of their obligation to support the organisation, and expect those who distribute the literature to contribute for it themselves. They also suggest asking for voluntary contributions from those who take their literature on the door to door work if they inquire about cost. If you go to the theocratic ministry school/service meetings on a midweek night, that is where they usually read out congregation accounts reports and reminders about contributions from members.

    Also, a feature every assembly and convention I ever attended, and I attended a lot, is an announcement by an elder on the final afternoon, that the "cost of this assembly is £.....", and the "contributions are £....". The contributions are always well below the cost, and this announcement is followed by a plea to those present to make up the shortfall out of their own pockets. Many of the assemblies I attended were in halls owned by the watchtower society, where the only real expenses would have been amenities like water, gas and electricity, but even so the cost was always allegedly over £1,000 more than the level of contributions.

    There is a financial cost to being a jw, and it's not the only cost. If you become one, you will be expected to give up your time and ultimately your freedom of thought to the organisation. However well-meaning these people seem to be, their leaders are out to control you. Stay well clear of them.

  • MUNKAFATS
    MUNKAFATS

    i am so glad ive found this site, ive always had doubts and was feeling rather guilty about never attending a meeting (although i did go to one with an ex's mother about 20 years ago, i was 17 and remember them all smiling at me like robots)as ive been reading and talking but not really studying for 5 or 6 years now , i find it totally boring except for the book gods word or mans which i just cant seem to forget, had a witness show up last week while i was sipping my beer with a smoke and i said to him why would i want live forever praying day after day after day when i could just enjoy what ive got now and then die?

  • jwfacts
    jwfacts

    Try http://jehovah.net.au/datedoctrine.html - 1914 is the most important of all, because not only did they falsely say the world would end in 1914, but now the Watchtower dishonestly claims that they "were not wrong" about 1914.

    http://jwfacts.com/index_files/1925.htm is also interesting, as Rutherford said that the end would be 1925 and the resurrection would start then.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Munkafacts,

    Greetings and Welcome!

    The WT organization is very deceptive. If I had known in 1973 what I know now, I would never have joined it. I am a Black female from the Deep South; lived a deprived life as child of sharecropper parents; studied hard and earned good grades in school; graduated at the top of my class; but if I had found out those bastards were teaching in the past that Blacks were inferior in any way to their White asses, I would have told them where to stuff their teachings.

    I found all of this while researching on Freeminds. It nearly blew my mind! I have a suspicion the no-blood doctrine was formulated because of their fear that they could receive blood from a Black person. I may be wrong about this, but given their racist history, nothing would surprise me.

    I am glad you did your homework. It's just as Jesus said, nothing hidden that will not be revealed. All praise to Him for delivering us from deception and falsehood.

    Snowbird

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    Here's a great link to ALL failed prophecies, not just the Witnesses.

    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/index.html

    Sites like these convinced me that ALL apocalyptic religions are taking us down the garden path.

    except for the book gods word or mans which i just cant seem to forget,

    Rather than the witnesses, who tend to drown God's message of love under a mountain of rules, you might enjoy sites like these:

    http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb.shtml

    http://www.interviewwithgod.com/playprayer.htm

    http://www.rbc.org/bible_study/answers_to_tough_questions/home.page

    We're probably going to drown you with links. By the way, I'm not a Witness but I married one. So I think my view is at least moderately balanced.

  • garybuss
    garybuss

    I wouldn't have minded any of the Witnesses' promises . . . if any of them had been true.

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