Little wonder your average JW is appallingly ill-prepared for their own death, let alone those of their loved ones. I see in my own JW family a kind of infantile outlook on death: It is either blocked out immediately (e.g., let us look forward to the resurrection) or stifled into silence (i.e., denial) or both.
An unbelievable statement!!! Sadly, it's all too real!!!
by DATA-DOG 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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millie210
Was that a quote from the Watchtower that was being summarized or did the speaker "add" that?
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Dagney
The thunderous applause is the scariest.
I remember my mom giddily telling me when I was a teen, "just think! You are never going to die!" And I remember her saying about 20 years later, "I'm not going to make it." She died faithful to the crazy utterings of a handful of control freaks.
What a total disconnect from reality.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
More accurately, the question should have asked, " When you look at yourself in the mirror as a Jehovah's Witness, do you see a person who WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE LIFE?" [collective sigh of resignation and disillusionment]
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Wild_Thing
My family is at the KC Convention, too. I think it's hilarious how all the JWs are posting pictures and chatting back and forth on instagram throughout the whole thing. In my mind I am imagining all 14,000 of them with their phones in their hand thumbing it to death.
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Viviane
These people are lunatics.
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Designer Stubble
Millions then living are now dead.
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Crazyguy
They seriously said that and its in the WT??????
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Heaven
And millions now dying have never lived.
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compound complex
Just lost 4 dear JW friends . . .