Watchtower DVD:
"What Will You Do With Your Life ?"
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Those last two words are a sham in the JW mindset. It's Jehovah's life, not yours.
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Jeff, are you a moderator now?
Among the Most Destructive of JW Core Ideas!
by AK - Jeff 41 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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cantleave
Interesting post Jeff. I have been thinking about this too. I am sure I would have made dfferent choices had I not been a witness. I am now 42 (43 on November 2nd), and I feel I still have time to do what I want. The problem is, I don't know what that is!!!
I probably would have worked in conservation if I wasn't a witnesses, I can still volunteer in conservation, but couldn't start a career in it now, I couldn't afford to go back to the beginning of a career path. (Likewise I could have been a Porn star, if I wasn't in the troof, that's a career that I could never do now as a tubby, balding, middle aged man!). In all seriousness, I don't think the decisions I made were any poorer for being a witness, just different. I have my own buisness, which allows me a great deal of me and my family time. I don't make a great deal of money but then I'm am not particularly materialistic (I might have been if I wasn't in the org, but that's not a bad thing).
I made an excellent choice of wife and two great kids..........No I wasn't detrimentally affected by the JW philosophy. BUT, I am sure many have been. They have made choices they may not have because of the religion, and it hasn't worked out for the best. But that isn't unique to JW's. People in all walks of life make bad choices because of their belief systems, their personal values or some other paradigm. People put their lives on hold for all sorts of reasons. I know people who are so sure they will win the lottery one day they are are relying on it. I know others who are waiting for an inheritance and their approach is similar, they get into more debt than necessary because they are hoping to be able to pay it off when the money comes.
Yes the JW philosphy does, indeed, have a destrcutive effect by encouraging people into a "I can do that later" mindset, but that is often because they are content to procrastinate, and they would probably find some other reason to do so.
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JWoods
We also have to include the MENTAL destruction that this religion causes. Being a witness is in many cases sort of like being on Zolof or some other anti-depressent drug that results in a sort of zombie-like state.
Not only is the mind of a JW told not to ever think through any of the doctrines on it's own, but also they are told to never read opposing points of view (or strangely enough - even agreeable points of view - like other churches anti-evolutionary writings).
Internet is largely off limits. Public libraries are houses of Satan.
It is like being on close house arrest from the state mental asylum.
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Hiding Questioner
I miss the lost opportunities I had to nurish great relationships I had over many years with "worldly" friends and co-workers who reached out to me. Yes, while in their presence, I would be their friend...but when circumstances changed (job change, moving, etc.) my JW-mindset would quickly justify abandoning them under the notion that time was limited in this "old system" and therefor no need to maintain these great friends. I now feel so guilty that I missed keeping them close and I console myself by telling myself that they are all still in my heart.
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Hiding Questioner
Hey everyone...my JW persecution complex is starting to kick in...why is it every time I post the Thread suddenly comes to an abrupt end? Is it something I've said? I take showers
HQ
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deep-blue-sea
How true what you expressed AK Jeff! Same feelings for my husband and me of being a lot of steps...behind this world!
Being in the org since the birth for him, from teen-age for me up to 60, sure we had a simple life, fortunately also 3 kids despite '75 and the end always at the door....but also lost lot of things.....
Claudia
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Satanus
The words from a pink floyd song often come to my mind:
"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"----
TIME
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say----
S
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