5 hours ago I just didn't know what to say, so I put ?
So thank you IsaacAustin for using such a great expression, which I second:
Do you intentionally say stupid things or do they just fall out of your head by mistake?
Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade 38 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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fokyc
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isaacaustin
Fokyc, I could not think of a better way to say it. Wonder if he also goes to Jewish discussion boards and posts that he highly doubts that there is anyone on the board who ever had any relatives who were victims of the Holocaust?
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isaacaustin
I have to say I doubt his story of being someone never associated with the JWs, and his wife being a Witness..and thinking 'he' is simply here to stir people up. Here was his supposed exit from this forum due to all the 'hate' here:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/199643/1/This-information-source-not-for-me
Well, I'm outta here. I initially started researching Jehovah's Witnesses because my wife has been studying with them so I can't digest anymore of the religious hate I'm reading here. I was shown this by someone here and told I needed to protect my wife:
http://www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com/whoweare.html
As our Bible reading and research intensified, the ever-changing doctrines of the Watchtower Society began to "raise red flags" with us because some of their doctrines could not be reconciled with the Bible. Such as the elder arrangements, no independent thinking, the cross, their definition of "Christendom", education and employment. The major doctrinal changes regarding the 1914 generation, blood, and disfellowshipping could only be found through Watchtower dogma, not the Bible.
After discussing these and other concerns with a member of the Governing Body on a personal invitation to Brooklyn headquarters, it became more apparent that the Watchtower organization is nothing more than a business masquerading as a religion. Through spending a full day at Bethel, as well as having numerous phone conversations with this member of the Governing Body, it was easy to see the control that the Watchtower organization has over its members. The glue that holds the organization together wasn't godly or spiritual, becoming transparently obvious that the Watchtower Society's key to locking in members is the undeniable form of mind control. Our exit from the Watchtower organization began around the year 2000, and we had to carefully consider our exit strategy. Having five children, two of whom are still active Jehovah's Witnesses, we had to consider all the repercussions of leaving.
One of our daughters is married to a ministerial servant and is regularly pioneering by putting in 70 hours a month of time in field service. The other is also married to a Jehovah's Witness and they have one son (our grandson who we have not seen for many years). Rick's mother and several of his other relatives are also Jehovah's Witnesses. With many close family members involved with the organization, our departure from the Watchtower had to be carefully considered. As a result of leaving, of course, we have been shunned by all our Witness relatives and two of our children.
Due to our grave concern for our children, their mates, our grandson, and all other relatives and friends who are still loyal to the Watchtower organization, we have carefully and painstakingly put together the Six Screens of the Watchtower. Along with the website, we will continue to develop exposure seminars entitled "Six Screens of the Watchtower" attempting to help ex-Witnesses as well as active Witnesses see the real "truth" behind the Watchtower organization.
See our ministry website at www.upperroomministriesnewengland.com
Upper Room Ministries smacks of a religious hate group. This stuff won't alter anyone's thinking. For starters, I don't believe in a higher power, so whatever adverse consequences a person experiences as a result of blind faith in intangible, invisible beings isn't resolved by exchanging one religious ideology for another or being born again into another religion and engaging in illterate religious psyche warfare. All I could find in the book being studied with my spouse is some doctrinal differences from the way they interpret religious text.
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miseryloveselders
IsaacAustin, you've been long overdue for going into troll exterminator mode. I miss the days when you used to call Spike Tassel, "boy."
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isaacaustin
MLE, LOL the good ol days. They re-create themselves in different ways, but always use the same tactics.
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garyneal
Yeah, I remember this guy. It appears he does not fully grasp how dangerous the witnesses are.
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isaacaustin
or is pretending not to...
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Magwitch
" how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?"
I talk to my JW parents at least once a day and I see them socially at least once a week. They are the salt of the earth, and the dearest parents one could ever hope for. They are always "witnessing" to me. 99% of the time I am extremely respectful, kind and loving. I realize that they have inadverently been duped for all of their 80 years. If the occasional hateful "rhetoric" does show up on this site, at my work, in the street on my drive or anywhere else - I simply ignore it, I do not spit it back at anyone!
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TD
I seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a Jehovah's Witness here.
Funny....
But if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?
I was at a JW meeting where the speaker declared that anyone in a romantic relationship with a non-JW was "...kissing a corpse."
You do realize that the JW's believe that paradise will initially be littered with the bones and carcasses of the likes of you and me while the birds of heaven pick the flesh from our bones?
I would say you handle hateful comments made against the JW's the same way you would handle hateful comments made by the JW's themselves. You don't "Absorb" any of it; you shrug it off like "water on a duck's back" as the saying goes.
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tiffy12
My husband is a witness and life is hell. He lies to me all the time and treats me like shit. I'm not on his patient advocate card nor on his blood card and only found out about this about 6 months ago. He doesn't trust me and told me he resents me because he was removed as a elder in 1984. Married 44 years and this is how I live now. If I only knew how he felt about me I would have divorced in 1984. The elders at his hall know what is going on and he has lost alot of his priviledges, I almost think his seat is getting closer to the door. He gives me no money and I am not allowed to know what is in the bank, checking or savings. My name is only on the accounts for legal reasons. His whole life is the organization. I sleep in the basement and have for almost two years. If he doesn't trust me I will never lay in a bed next to him. 64 years old and I still work and collect social security. I have to buy all the food and take care of my own needs. So much for those loving JW's.