Hello All !
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your valued input on this board. I will never forgive you for making it almost impossible for me to give up coming here. This turned out to be like a drug for a weak willed person like myself.(Still a smoker even though the evidence is so overwhelming that it will shorten my life. At least I do not hope for everlasting life on earth.
Allow me to make it clear, that I am not now or ever have been a jw. I do not post much to this board, but have tried to read as much as my time will allow. The reason that I have a keen interest about this group,is the fact that I had the misfortune(sorry if I offend some by the use of some weird demonic term) of meeting and falling in love with a young lady "RAISED IN THE TRUTH". This was over 30 years ago. We had been married for 25 years.
When we met, her loving parents had asked her to leave their spiritual home because she was not towing the line. Imagine that. Her not transforming into R2D2 or 3CPO, was a horrible thing in the eyes of their Jehovah, but her loving believing father was ok in his eyes, for repeatedly raping his own daughter from the time she was 7 years old. I guess this makes sense to the robotic friends since everyone should know that the "watchtower god" is like no other god.
He is also very unique. He professes to love them so much that he will not allow suffering, in a burning lake of fire,however he has no problem destroying 6 billion innocent people. I guesss us nonbelievers have a hard time understanding this concept.
Over the years, she desperately tried to have me indoctrinated, in an effort to appease her parents, and Elders. However being a critical indepent thinker, it failed. I could not follow the program. (I only went to one memorial, which I found offended my sense of Christ, watching them reject his sacrifice, one local convention which I found to be a waste of time and very boring.
This brings me to the point of my post. I consider myself extremely impartial in my observations because I am outside the circle looking in. Please forgive any grammatic errors, I am not by any stretch of the imagination, a learned scholar. I only managed to receive my Junior Matriculation degree in Ontario from a "tough as nails" Technical School.(I have to admit to having cheated on most of the exams.)
I would like to state my opinion on JWS in general.(Please note that this is only my humble opinion)
1.No matter how you cut it, there has to be something lacking initially, for one to believe or wish to become part of this nonsense.
2.This MADE IN AMERICA cult, is only 125 years old, (there are plenty of birds that are older then that)
3.It is a definitely a CULT. (first clue would be the fact that 19 of the 20 signs of a cult are present.)
4.They have come full circle in their tenets more than once.(JEHOVAH is a very confused god He is either speaking to the fds with a speech impediment, or they have trouble understanding his language.)
5.They keep their members so immature it is hard to believe that they are grown adults capable of making their own decisions.(imagine adults panicking if they are in the presence of the opposite sex alone, thinking that this can only lead to fornication.)
6.They are always shouting from the rooftops, how wonderful it is that Jehovah (wts) saw fit to use them as slaves while living in the present (thousands died trying to abolish slavery), with the hopes of remaining slaves in the next life forever in a wonderful paradise earth.(reincarnation is evil). Having to bow and serve the elite 144,000 godlike chosen (by whom?) forever. Not even the likes of Benny Hynms, Oral Roberts etc. could pull this off.
7.They are dying every day due to an ancient Jewish dietary law that was not a seriuos offense (they would have to leave their village for a day for having consumed unbled meat) they have twisted this into something horrifically evil,allowing even their children to die.
8.They totally alienate and pyscologically damage their children in countless ways. Not allowing them to participate in general school activites,or interact with other children other than the ones chosen by them. Allowing and condoning abuse in many forms,causes many to take their own lives, or become seriously dysfunctional.
9.Having countless strangers hopping into bed at an early age without the slightest idea as to what they are doing or the serious nature of a relationship. Many end up in very abusive relationships without any escape,or protection.(even some of the third world has seen the error of this practice.)
10.I have visited many churches during my lifetime, and have had contact with many different peoples of many faiths, and have truly found jws, in general, to be the least religious and benevolent of all. I have come to believe that even atheists have more spirituallity and compassion, than do most jws
I would like to apoligize to anyone that takes offense to this. It is being stated without prejudice. At the present time, I have a lot of issues with this CULT. I may post the details at another time.
68storm