JW Quirks

by snare&racket 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • snare&racket
    snare&racket

    Were you ever told........

    Women have one less rib,

    The human skin is made mostly of dust,

    Nobody knew before job that the earth was round,

    Jerusalem was destroyed in 607bce,

    Aluminium is evil, (seriously!)

    Ageing is down to one process that if switched off could stop ageing....

    The internet is 98% porn,

    If evolution was true why dont monkeys turn into men now, (painfully ignorant)

    Dinosaurs were used to flatten the earth,

    The flood made the mountains,

    All species of animal could have originated as 200 'kinds',

    Neanderthals are human (latest evolution brochure)

    Masturbation can lead to poor health and even child abuse/homosexuality/ etc ... erm LOL,

    The photo by NASA was the first time we knew the earth was round for sure,

    Atomic bomb testing causes earthquakes and tsunami's,

    Psychology/Psychiatry is dangerous,

    All these lies were said in the JW cong and JW meetings, all are untrue. Any others? I remember realising so many untruths as I became more informed but I dont remember them all... Can you think of any quirky (non biblical) JW beliefs ?

  • snare&racket
    snare&racket

    Oh yeah... the smurfs, simpsons, dungeons and dragons, harry potter, lord of the rings, star wars, were evil.............

  • Morbidzbaby
    Morbidzbaby

    Most of those are theories/beliefs that were told to me growing up. Here are some more:

    Buying items at yard sales will open you up to demon attacks. I actually asked my mom "If I bought a Truth book at a yard sale and the person had a Ouija board for sale as well, would my Truth book attract demons?"... The response "*crickets*".

    In the New System, women won't have any pain at all in child birth. But wait a minute, wasn't Eve's curse an INCREASE in labor pain? You can't INCREASE something that's not there to begin with, can you? Even animals have labor and birth pain, they just know how to tap into their instinct to ease it and make it tolerable. Humans have gotten away from that with the advent of mainstream medicine and trying to "doctor" a mother when SHE actually needs to be mothered herself during her birth.

    Jesus took the throne in heaven in 1914. This actually goes hand-in-hand with the 607 crap.

    Christmas shouldn't be celebrated because Jesus never said to celebrate his birth, only his death...December 25th also isn't Jesus' birthday and all things having to do with Christmas are Pagan and from Satan. It's unfortunate that these people are so blind and closed-minded that they wouldn't even research this for themselves. Pagans don't even believe in the Christian Satan, let alone do anything to worship him. As a matter of fact, the celebration we know as Christmas, as well as Yule, go back even further than that. I don't understand why they can't look at it as a time for family to gather together in love and exchange gifts and be happy. They have to ruin everything. Wedding bands are okay, even though they likely have Pagan origins...yet a warm seasonal celebration is completely out of the question.

    The star seen on the night Jesus was born was put there by Satan. Ummmm...are we to believe that this former angel is so powerful that he can play God and control the heavenly bodies now? Seriously?

  • red21
    red21

    Were you ever told........

    THESE RESPONSES ARE BASED ON MY 40 YEARS AS A JW, WHILE I AM NOT NOW, I CONSIDERED MYSELF PRETTY KNOWLEDGABLE ABOUT THE TEACHINGS...HOWEVER, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY! I HAVE HEARD STUPID
    COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE BUT RAY FRANZ INTRODUCED ME TO MANY ARGUMENTS ABOUT JWS THAT I NEVER KNEW EXISTED BUT HE WAS RIGHT!

    Women have one less rib, THOUGHT THAT WAS MEN?

    The human skin is made mostly of dust, NO, BUT THAT HUMANS WOULD RETURN TO DUST BUT WAS MOSTLY MAKE OF A FEW POUNDS OF CHEMICALS...OTHERWISE, NEVER HEARD THIS

    Nobody knew before job that the earth was round, YES, ALWAYS TAUGHT THAT

    Jerusalem was destroyed in 607bce, YES, ALWAYS TAUGHT THAT

    Aluminium is evil, (seriously!) NEVER EVER HEARD THAT...THAT HAD TO BE A WACKO BROTHER

    Ageing is down to one process that if switched off could stop ageing....NEVER HEARD THAT, THEY NEVER KNEW WHY WE AGED OR WHAT PROCESS PREVENTED IT BUT IT WAS JEHOVAH THAT TURNED IT OFF

    The internet is 98% porn, NEVER HEARD THAT EXACT FIGURE BUT THEY WOULD ACT OR THINK THAT WAY. MANY BROTHERS WERE JUST DOWN RIGHT IGNORANT ABOUT THE INTERNET. BEING A COMPUTER GUY I KNEW. HOWEVER, MANY INTERNET ADVANCES WITH STREAMING VIDEO WAS THE RESULT OF IMPROVING PORN SITES.

    If evolution was true why dont monkeys turn into men now, (painfully ignorant) YES, ALWAYS TAUGHT THAT

    Dinosaurs were used to flatten the earth, NEVER EVER HEARD THAT BUT THEY ALWAYS SEEMED TO GLASS OVER DINOSAURS AND WHEN OR HOW THEY FIT INTO CREATION

    The flood made the mountains, HALF TRUTH, NEVER MUCH DISCUSSION ON OTHER GEOLOGICAL TYPE EVENTS THAT MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED

    All species of animal could have originated as 200 'kinds', I DON'T REMEMBER HEARING THIS BUT THIS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING TAUGHT IF I WAS A BETTING MAN!!!!

    Neanderthals are human (latest evolution brochure) NEVER HEARD THAT BUT MABYE? NOT SURE

    Masturbation can lead to poor health and even child abuse/homosexuality/ etc ... erm LOL, NEVER HEARD THAT THRU ANYTHING I EVER STUDIED BUT I CAN SEE WHERE SOME MIGHT DRAW THAT CONCLUSION AND IT CERTAINLY IS SOMETHING THEY WOULD LOVE TO BUY. IF THERE WERE TRUE, THAN 99.999% OF ALL MEN WOULD BE CHILD ABUSERS OR HOMOSEXUAL!!!!

    The photo by NASA was the first time we knew the earth was round for sure, NEVER EVER HEARD THIS. THERE WAS PLENTY OF SCIENTIFIC PROOF PRIOR TO NASA OR SPACE THAT IT WAS ROUND.

    Atomic bomb testing causes earthquakes and tsunami's, NEVER EVER HEARD THIS

    Psychology/Psychiatry is dangerous, THEY NEVER RECOMMENDED IT BECAUSE IT WAS BASED ON MEN'S WISDOM BUT EVENTUALLY THEY REALIZED THEY WERE IN NO WAY QUALIFIED TO COUNSEL MANY PEOPLE WITH THEIR PROBLEMS. THE BIBLE DID NOT HOLD THE ANSWERS OR HELP TO EVERY ISSUE PEOPLE WERE EXPERIENCING!

    snare&racketRe: JW Quirks posted a day ago (10/22/2011)



    Post 19 of 19
    Since 5/18/2011

    Oh yeah... the smurfs, simpsons, dungeons and dragons, harry potter, lord of the rings, star wars, were evil.............

  • snare&racket
    snare&racket

    Morbidzaby, the whole demon thing was huge. Very sad! The amount of times elders had to go and destroy wooden cabinets or leather jackets because of a bad vibe they emitted is unreal lol. So bizzzare!

    New systems thoughts were bizzare, tractors that ran on chicken poo, maybe no marriage, maybe no childbirth, probably neither for ressurected ones (to explain away people that remarried and a very difficult situation.) Whether you could die, hurt yourself etc was always a big question. They claimed no more sickness or pain but then we would not be human. (without going into the genes, physiology and anatomy)

    We were told the star was the first UFO ever recorded. But yeah how could satan do that, what powers does he have? I always wondered why Mary accepted gifts from magicians/astologers... especially with the fear of yard sale items lol. I also wondered why god getting a woman preganant without her consent was ok... ? This is rape right ?

    Red 21

    The aluminium comes from some articles in the early years, I saw them in bethel and was gobsmacked.

    Neanderthals arent human, we know via their DNA.

    Mountains are made from the earths plates colliding, nothing to do with any flood.

    But thanks for sharing, its interesting that we were taught such pseudo-science and untruths and they were/are never clarified are altered in later literature. So many JW's go around with weird pseudo facts from the 70's 80's 90's. So ignorant and they hvae only themselves to blame, especially with the access to info we have now!

  • Julia Orwell
    Julia Orwell

    Heard that men have one less rib than women, that blood transfusions gives you the personality of the blood donor, being gay is a choice known as 'alternative lifestyle', swearing or cursing comes from a belief that everything should be fair or down to luck, that marriage counsellors always recommend divorce (like they'd even have a job if they told every couple who came in, "Just get divorced!" in the first five minutes of the session).

    And many more I can't think of right now.

  • LoisLane looking for Superman
    LoisLane looking for Superman

    Does anybody remember the Awake magazine that had a leading article about AIDS?

    The WatchTower was trying to, as usual, scare people into their Domesday Cult, by saying, POSSIBLY, (how they love, use and abuse that word), that possibly you could be infected with AIDS, through the bite of a mosquito. You didn't even have to be sexually active. Oooooo ...scary.

    It is cruel to scare people all the time.

    LoisLane

  • krejames
    krejames

    A lot of those ring true for me! lol

  • joe134cd
    joe134cd

    A good one I had told to me when trying to tell someone about the Conti case was, "don't read foreign news papers because this will confuse you". WTF

  • goddidit
    goddidit

    Marked

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