BURNING AT THE STAKE SOON TO RETURN.

by hamsterbait 23 Replies latest jw friends

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    I dont just mean in the Islamic world but in the world of EX JWD.

    I am so thankful that at the time I was seeking help and new ideas this board did not ritually hang draw and quarter those who wanted to hang on to thier witness views (even thought they were already swimming alone in a Pacific ocean with no boat in sight)

    We need to be kind to those we disagree with, not make them feel like SATAN.

    Why complain about shunning when we treat those who disagree with OUR views just as badly.

    Reniaa is now going back to the cult because there were too many judgmental posts - some of which I found very offensive because they disrespected her as a person.

    All of us matter. So many come here hoping for support. They may not want the real thing at first. like a junkie coming off heroine it is very distressing. LOVE. LOVE LOVE.

    Jes us said it after all.

    HB

  • Awakened at Gilead
    Awakened at Gilead

    Very well put HB. I enjoy sparring with Reniaa, but I also have taken offense at some of the anti-Reniaa rhetoric! She has every right to support the WTS, and we can have great fun with her!

    H*****y posted a particularly nasty thread about her that apparently got removed. I know I defended her on that thread but the thread is gone...

  • Jeremy C
    Jeremy C
    Reniaa is now going back to the cult because there were too many judgmental posts - some of which I found very offensive because they disrespected her as a person.

    Is this true? She is going to pursue getting reinstated?

    How we deal with Watchtower apologists is a tricky balancing act. When a Watchtower apologist makes inaccurate claims, attempts to throw around Watchtower slogans and one-liners, and ridecules other Christian denominations; I have no problem taking them to task. I have seen some Watchtower posters on here in the past who were just asking for their heads to be handed to them.

    But there have been others who did not warrant that kind of treatment. I remember briefly interacting with an active elder on here one time. His only point of contention was the blood policies. He got chased off the forum by a couple of nasty posters which was a real shame.

    Often, behavior on ex-JW forums only solidifies the claims made by the Watchtower that "apostates" are hateful, and filled with spite toward "Jehovah's people". One visit on this forum has actually proven to a few JWs that "mother organization" was right about us.

    I don't know about reniaa. I really didn't engage with her and didn't know much about her. But I do know that some on this forum claimed that reniaa had engaged in some unacceptable behavior toward them on other forums.

    I will say this though. If anyone who has thoroughly investigated Watchtower doctrines would actually go back to the Watchtower fantasy world because of some mean posters; they obviously lack true rationality and intellectual honesty.

  • Locutus of Borg
    Locutus of Borg

    speaking from my own experience . . .

    Pre-internet . . . .I was out for 10+ years. . . came upon some hard times/personal demons . . . I bolted back to the kult because it was a familiar place with very well defined boundaries.

    I fully understand why she is doing what she is . .

    Some of the posters here SHOULD be burned at the stake for being such A$$holes.

  • jamiebowers
    jamiebowers

    Reniaa is now going back to the cult because there were too many judgmental posts - some of which I found very offensive because they disrespected her as a person. Per her biography, she was thinkng of going back to begin with: Ex-jw exploring life and asking questions again :) now I'm older, i'm trying to look at everything from a fresh perspective. I like Reading, Art, computing (sometimes)and talking to interesting people. Thinking of becoming a witness again and be warned my questioning posts reflect this. These are her own words about JWD: Ps you really won't be seeing me much more and defo not in the new JWD forum, I have made my choice now it's Jws and I've appreciated your responses the nice and the ehh not so nice, I appreciated being able to put my viewpoint without being booted which considering this is a total anti-witness forum now that is surprising :)http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/168662/1.ashx

  • jamiebowers
    jamiebowers

    Sorry, couldn't get the previous post formatted.

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    No one will go back to the cancer solely because of a few bad posts on this, or any, forum. True, it might well drive them away from this forum--but it will not drive them back into the cancer unless they already were thinking of going back.

    Now, in case anyone is tempted to go back to the cancer because of some bad posts about them: What is waiting for you is even worse. You will have to believe everything, 100%, what is taught in the Washtowels no matter how far-fetched it is. The material there doesn't even need to be backed by scriptures, or it can be backed by out of context scripture snippets. And, if you don't believe every last detail and teach it, you will be ridiculed and scorned even worse there than you ever could here.

    Plus, around here, if you don't agree with something else that is posted, you are free to dispute it. You can (and should) cross-reference any advice that has any significant weight and you have any doubts about. That includes anything about health issues, money, religion, and politics. And you are free to post dissident viewpoints about those things, even right on the same thread (and, if you have sources, that's even better because people can then verify them). Try that with the Washtowel!

  • ex-nj-jw
    ex-nj-jw

    I don't think Reniaa ever left the cult. But from her own words she has been upset by the way "worldly" people have treated her. Childs father was christian and up and left her, bad realtionships with "worldy" men, blah, blah, blah.

    Reniaa has been judgemental and condescending to everyone that didn't agree with her JW views. If you can't take it don't dish it. And I don't buy for one minute that she won't be on JWN, she's said that before and she keeps coming back.

    nj

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Very well said, Hamsterbait.

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/168690/1.ashx

    Sylvia

  • I quit!
    I quit!

    You couldn't say enough rude things to me to make me ever want to go back but that's just me. I know some go back after being here but it will never be the same. I would think the reality of sitting through five hours a week of information you you now know to be false would set in pretty quick. Living a lie would be harder to deal with than anything said to you by someone online

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