The fact that they highly discourage independent research and any outside education whatsoever.
There are thousands of red flags throughout the WTS. Pity it took us all so long to actually see them :(
-Sab
I Should Have Known Better Simply From.....
by OnTheWayOut 44 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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brotherdan
I should've known when:
My mom took me in the back yard with the bright red YOUTH book and taught me that masturbation was a sin before God and that if I practiced it, I would start to obsess over penises and become a homo sekshule!
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undercover
My mom took me in the back yard with the bright red YOUTH book and taught me that masturbation was a sin before God...
She had to take you outside to tell you that? Was it sin to talk about it inside where Jehovah couldn't see you?
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sabastious
I would start to obsess over penises
Reading the OT will do that too.
-Sab
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ReallyTrulyAthena
I Should Have Known Better Simply From.....
...the fact that my brain could not get around how come we could celebrate people's wedding anniversaries, but not birthdays?
...how I had to give back the Barbie Doll that some kindly "wordly girl" gave me in 5th grade. She felt sorry for me as I had to sit in the classroom all by myself during the Christmas celebrations down in the gym where everyone else was. There was a big holiday sale going on and she bought it for me out of her own money. I will never forget her kind, caring face as she gave me the doll. I'll also never forget Dad's wrath at me even taking the doll in the first place and him ordering me to give it back the very next day. I did, tears streaming down my reddened face. I couldn't ever look that girl in the eye ever again, I felt so dirty and ashamed and embarrassed.
The WT society claiming that there is no marriage in the resurrection. If your mate died in this system before Armageddon - you wouldn't be allowed to welcome her back and be man & wife again. Yet we were told that Jehovah would take away any feelings in both mates so as to be able to cope with the pain of not being together. Yet we would be happy to welcome back a mate in the resurrection ?
Oh, that old chestnut! I totally agree, Mr. Flipper. My father re-married another JW very quickly after my Mom passed on. Off and on over the 15 years she has been gone, he used the "don't you want to see your mother again in the resurrection?" line on me. And I shake my head in bewilderment at his utter lack of...what? Cluelessness? Or is it heartlessness? Mr. Clean's Magical Emotion Eraser or no, this is just insane thinking.