One elder actually asked me this question out in FS "Even if all of this wasn't true, isn't this a much better way to live?" Now at the time, but I held this question back to him, "If that is the way you feel....then why do this?" At the time if I felt all of this wasn't true, I wouldnt of wasted my time preaching stuff I had doubts about!
WHAT STRANGE THINGS WERE YOU TOLD WHILE IN JWS?
by badboy 32 Replies latest jw friends
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White Dove
Living a lie isn't necessarily the best way to live. Pissing off the government and your neighbors for reason of a lie surely isn't the best way to live, either.
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kurtbethel
The whole Revelation ClimaXXX (spiritual pornography) account of the terrible plagues and judgements that would torment the world being some rancid screeds that no one outside of the WT noticed is a bit over the top for me.
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Meeting Junkie No More
That if you didn't go out in service on the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday, or preferably, BOTH, and give Jehovah his 'tenth part', there would be no blessing on the rest of your time spent in other pursuits....talk about a GUILT TRIP every weekend...
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Alpaca
How about all of that type and antitype sh*t???
And, wjhat about the way they shoehorned every possible thing the BORG did into some prophecy? And, the more obtuse and ambiguous the prophecy the better!!!
Remember the Jonadab Class? WTF was that all about.
It actually feels good that I can't even remember the weird interpretations the BORG spun on everything.
I especially loved the justifications that the BORG offered for Jehovah overlooking the grossest and most perverted stuff committed by his servants. Like Lot knocking up his daughters, David having a nice young chick to keep him warm (sure???.... she was doing a lot more than warming him up) when he got old, Judah sexing up his daughter-in-law.
What about the reasoning that oral sex is wrong because it immitates the acts of homosexuals and lesbians?
The one that takes the cake is Beth Sarim and that it was provided for the imminent resurrection of the prophets and the patriarchs.
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badboy
BTTT
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cameo-d
That prior to the flood people lived to be 800 and 900 years old.
COME ON????
Why not? Have you never heard of making a deal with the devil?
Next offer is living forever. Will you bite?
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frozen one
I was told by a CO in 1980 that I would not finish a Bachelors Degree before Armygetton. I actually finished it in 2001. While it was a strange thing to be told, looking back it is stranger that I believed that bullshit.
After a major earthquake in Mexico during the 1990's killed hundreds and left thousands homeless, an elder told me that the news of the quake filled his heart with joy because it proved how close the end was. Sick, sick, sick.
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Alpaca
How about this one--I mentioned this on another thread last year to the utter of disbelief of the posters who read it:
Back in the late 60s and early 70s when a VW beetle was one of the standard issue pioneer vehicles, I witnessed some of the GB arriving like rock stars at the District Convention in a verrrrrrrrrrrry stretched chauffer-driven Lincoln Continental limo.
When I asked the sister (she and her elder husband were in the twoof forever and were very well connected to the BORG heavies) who studied with Mom, why the GB didn't show the kind of humility that Jesus did...why didn't they drive vehicles like a VW Beetle....like all of the self-sacrificing pioneers I knew???
Her answer: They are princes (as the anointed and future members of the 144,000) among us so they deserve to be treated like royalty and supplied with the very best in accomodations and transportation.
Wow!!! I swallowed that (although in my defense, I was only 14 years old).
How pretentious, pompous, and self-righteous can you get. Talk about the Pharisees.....
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StAnn
"Baby roaches grow into big roaches" and so it's okay for Jehoover to kill off innocent children and babies.
StAnn