Funny things you used to believe (page 2)

4digitcode

i didn't know the elders lived large!!!
so glad i almost never gave contributions!!!

towards the end of my stay in the witnesses i thought the governments were going to turn on us and torture us because of our faith!
i was in such a heightened state of paranoia that i used to sweat buckets during the meetings and feel dizzy and sick.

FadingAway

That I actually knew more about the Bible after studying the "Knowledge" book than all of Christendom. At least that what the elder who studied with me told me.

journey-on

I actually used to think the WTB&TS needed money!!

REBORNAGAIN

needed money? Actually it was the local KH's that needed the money more so. GRRRR!

I never contributed much. *ThankGod*

LINDA

Dorktacular

I spent most of my high school years scared to death that we were all going to die. My dad did his JW math using 1914 as the reference. He figured that "this generation" that was alive in 1914 couldn't live much longer, so the end was supposed to come at the very latest my senior year of high school. He even said that the first Iraq war was a sign of the end and that the whole world was going to gather together to fight and start armageddon. Thanks a PANTLOAD, dad! Needless to say, I didn't die. Not yet.

Tatiana

I believed that if you mistakenly had a birthday card/Xmas card/watched a horror movie in your house, the demons would visit you.

5thGeneration

I also believed that we will cozy up with lions and tigers and bears (oh my) even though the Bible clearly states that animals were created domestic AND WILD!

Bonnie_Clyde

I used to believe that only JW's were honest. I read so many stories in the WT about people losing a wallet or purse, how a JW found the item, returned it, and the owner was so impressed that anyone would actually return it. This was because of their Bible-trained conscience.

One day I got home from the grocery store and got a phone call that I had left my purse in a grocery cart in the parking lot and that I could come back to the store and pick it up. I raced back to the store, went to the manager and offered a reward to the person who returned by purse. He said, "No big deal." This happens three or four times a day. I went home and told Clyde, "There must be Jehovah's Witnesses hanging around the parking lot all the time." I said this "tongue in cheek." It finally occurred to me that you don't have to be a JW to be honest.

REBORNAGAIN

To: Bonnie_Clyde

JW's did make us think that the world was soooooooooooooooooooooo dishonest and only the JW's were honest ones. *barf*

That's another thing they deprived us all of, loving our neighbors. How can you really love dishonest and corrupt people? But now we realize the world is just as good and many times, ever better. Amen!

LINDA

flipper

I thought it was always weird and funny ( strange), that in the resurrection there was supposed to be no marriage ! Not an easy prospect for Mr. Flipper ! I mean , was I supposed to lose my sexual urges and be like an ( angel in heaven) ? with no impulses in the paradise ? Can't believe I used to fall for this junk ! Glad it wasn't true. I could never be a forever celibate ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper

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