A witness is a person present at an event and able to give information regarding that event.
My question is: What event have the JWs witnessed that classifys them as witnesses of Jah?
Have the JWs actually witnessed anything?
What have the JWs witnessed?
by LouBelle 7 Replies latest jw friends
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WingCommander
Well, I can tell you what I've witnessed in my almost 30 years of life:
1.) WT allows organ transplants.
2.) WT disallows large gatherings, parties, congregation picnics, etc. The joy starts to decline to nothingness from there.
3.) WT allows blood fractions.
4.) At 5 years old, I witnessed a series of WatchTowers and Awakes! dealing with the topics of prophecy, generations, 1914. (See 1984 Bound Volume)
5.) I saw the Berlin wall come down.
6.) I saw the end of the Cold War, which completely threw the WT's guess of the King of North/South into disrepair.
7.) I saw the long-held understanding of the generation of 1914 fly out the window in 1995. Hardly anyone noticed. Millions who were living in 1914 are now DEAD.....
8.) In 1997, I graduated high school, which my parents and the WT promised would never happen when I entered school back in 1984. What the hell was I supposed to do now?
9.) I saw the end of the millenium, something no one was supposed to see this side of Armaggedon.
10.) I saw 9/11.
11.) I saw my entire JW family die in the span of 8 years, leaving me to pick up the broken pieces of my confused, sad, heartbroken mind. Why does YHWH allow all of this to continue on?
12.) I saw most everyone I grew up with as a JW (that are my age) leave their JW upbringing behind and go out into the real world. Only a very select few of the braindead, brainwashed, lower IQ ones whom were raised by tyrant Elder fathers and/or pioneer mothers stay in. They are like zombies now with no individuality or personalities of their own. I'm totally serious on this one.....it's down right scary.
13.) I saw the end of the "Book Study" something that when I was growing up was talked about as the only important meeting and quite possibly the only one we could attend during the Great Tribulation. They even practiced with special passwords in the 70's. I remember my now late parents talking about it. Unbelievable.
14.) I see the iron-fisted, rigid, heartless way in which the WT taps around the blood issue and also the handling of just about any questions now. The policy when confronted with anything is to ask, "Do you believe the F&DS is God's sole channel of truth to mankind on earth?" If you dance around this, you're disfellowshipped, end of story. So much for being flexible, huh? Can you feel the Christ-like love oozing from this religion?
This has been a summary. I could go on and on. The JW's talk of progressive light, and now the new catch phrase is "refinement". Yeah, I have to say that in my short time on this earth, the religion that I grew up with has now been "refined" into something I barely recognize from when I was a child. The promises that were made to my family and I have not been fulfilled as the WT promised. It's always the same with them...."The End is soooo close.....just a little while longer.....attend all the meetings and go out in the Field Ministry more, don't question the food from the Faithfull and Discreet Slave....more, more, more......over, and over, and over again.
My question to any of you reading this is: If you are eating food at a table in the dark, how are you to tell if it has become spiritually rotten? No one asks that question because they aren't allowed to.
- Wing Commander
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wobble
When God said to the Israelis ,via their prophet Isaiah "You are my Witnesses" I believe it was an appeal to them to show by their lives that they believed He alone was the true God. yes they had seen things that convinced them of that, in their nations history, their deliverance from Egypt etc, but mainly it should be what they did with their lives, living by God's law etc, that made them Witnesses.
The modern day religion called Jehovah's Witnesses has nothing in it's history that convinces one that their God is the true God, and do they truly live according to his Kingly Law ? Or is their name a misnomer ?
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Wobble
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Witness 007
Witnessed my life crash and burn....Witnessed Armagedon not coming in 1975 or during "this generatiion"....Witnessed the society comramise on blood.
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Heaven
They have witnessed the involvement of their 'Mother' in the United Nations.
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flipper
LOUBELLE- Good thread and thoughts. They have " witnessed " a magazine printing company offering them false hopes - illusions called "paradise" . They should really be called more appropriately " Watchtower Witnesses "
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WTWizard
I have witnessed a God that just sits there like a dope and does nothing to help me, yet claims that it is not asking too much out of me to waste all my time in field circus and keep from settling down.
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kurtbethel
In a legal sense, nothing. Their doctrines are told to them in publications, which make them hearsay. Hearsay evidence is not admissable in a court of law.