It is important for her to sort all of this out and for us to support her in any way we can. In time she will "HONESTLY discard the provisional teachings" as Shakamuni has stated. Even I had gone through this process.
Ok, I See Some Evidence of Brainwashing
by VioletAnai 21 Replies latest jw friends
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crawdad2
hi violet anna,
if you like, you can believe that the organization has gone apostate, just like israel did many times, when there was a wicked king>>>>>>>>>> it's a good place to start......... many exjws have advanced way beyond that thinking though.
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VioletAnai
I truly believe the bibles promise of paradise on earth. But, then again, I've only read NWT.
I believe in Jah and his purposes. However, it's the actual representatives on earth that irk me. Just as I'm sure a few faithful jews felt about the rest of the population!
Seems like it takes a few good apples, to keep the whole bunch from going bad......
Yes, Dung, I'm still confused. One minute, I love them and their promises, the next, I'm angry at the injustice of their policies. How much it hurts people and how they are not following Jesus' example. Makes me very sad that this religion I grew up in has somehow over the years, lost it's focus and goals
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PopeOfEruke
Violet
I read your post and thought of this song. Dunno why. Get a copy of Jeff Buckleys version and play it.
Popee
Hallelujah (words and music L. Cohen)
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing HallelujahHallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
HallelujahYour faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, HallelujahYou say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, HallelujahI did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah -
professor
If you are inside the JW bubble long enough, perhaps even being brought up this way by your parents, it can take a long time to break the brainwashing and really see in your heart how sick and wrong the Watchtower Society really is. Sometimes I feel that I will never emotionally grasp it, although logically I know that it is the sad truth.
We should lovingly support anyone who is in the process of coming out. Otherwise, we are being just like the Witnesses who truly do make you decide whether you are in or out.
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VioletAnai
Popee:
I luv that song! But for some reason it always makes me sad.
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PopeOfEruke
Violet
makes me sad too, and also a bit defiant.
Because, in the end, it will all boil down to us standing alone and naked before the Lord of Song. And I don't think he will accept any excuses, like "But I was only following orders..", or "The Governing Body told me to eat, so I ate...."
Sometime we have to be responsible for our own lives' decisions.
Pope
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LB
You'll be fine Ani. Most of us have these same conflicts along the way out.
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larc
Violet, the key phrase you used is one, I object to "God's representatives." I just don't think they are. Now, just because some of their beliefs, a few, make sense, does make them God's people. Think about it.
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teejay
And I start to read the next study article and they have the hide to say that Malachi is fitting to Christendom!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello! Malachi was dealing with Jah's convenant people, The Israelites and their corrupt leaders, the Priests. Parrallel to today, you would think (as they apply every other bloody thing to the congregation, telling us to pull our socks up!), and you've got the corrupt leaders of Jah's so called covenant people, the Jehovah's Witnesses and Malachi is warning them that they'd better clean up their act because their judgment is going to be far more severe.
Somehow, the whole lot missed the point, or at least deliberately.
You're THINKING, sis.
Keep it up.