Looking Back, What's The Stupidest Thing You Believed In As A Witness?

by minimus 49 Replies latest jw friends

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  Brummie

  LOL at Ang I remember doing a bible study and the JW lady put a tissue over her head, anyway the adult son walked in during the prayer I was saying and laughed out loud at the JW lady... I thought he was the one that looked silly...durr

  I'm with Matty on this, I also thought we would have the oppertunity to teach the old worthies about 1914 1919 and all the othe "truths" they had missed out of the NT.

  I also feel stupid for having believed the district conventions were the blowing of the trumpets in Revelation, esspecially the Ohio ones..

  And stupidest of all for believing they were honest and caring people who would never lie

  Actually I feel generally stupid for believing all of it.

  Brummie
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  SYN

  Hmm, the dishcloth teaching is definitely in the top 10
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  Robdar

  Minimus

  Looking back, once I started reading the Bible on my own, I didn't believe any of it. But when I did believe, probably abstaining from blood was the stupedist thing I believed. I used to faithfully check the dog and cat food labels to make sure that my pets didn't accidently eat blood. I didn't want them to be destroyed at Armageddon.

  Good question.

  Love,

  Robyn
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  moreisbetter

  These are the stupidest things they tried to make me believe.

  Be like the Boreans and prove the truth to ourselves, but only with JWs using WTS material.

  We could not possibly be bored living forever. Who can resist studying bugs for a million years?

  Last but not least, oral sex and masturbation.
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  minimus

  The blood in the food products was a good one! I remember reading all the candy ingredients as a kid, per my mother , to make sure "they" didn't try to sneak any blood in our Hersheys.
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  Utopian Reformist

  My list is similar.

  1. After armageddon, we would all learn hebrew

  2. The FDS teaching

  3. The light getting brighter thru the FDS

  4. The demons were focusing and concentrating all of their earthly efforts on the youth in jehovah's organization because jehovah destroyed the children of the nephilim in the flood

  5. Fred Franz was a Scholar (of any sort)

  6. All critics of the WTBS are apostates, and apostates are no longer JW's because they were all DF'd for immorality and vengeful

  7. 1914, 1919, 1975, etc

  8. There are about 8,000 - 9,000 anointed left on the earth

  9. 20,000 witnesses died in concentration camps
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  Francois

  I was to believe that when the hormones of puberty began to flash through young people's bloodstreams at near the speed of light, we young people weren't supposed to do anything about it. We were supposed to act like nothing was happening, when if fact any of us could have climbed thirty feet up a tree using our fingernails alone.

  In short, we were to deny our humanity, our humaness.

  francois
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  MoeJoJoJo

  That if I did not get baptized (at the ripe old age of 13)God would destroy me, because I knew right from wrong. That is, if Armageddon came before I was baptized.
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  StinkyPantz

  1. All apostates are evil.

  2. Non- or Ex- Jw's are all unhappy.

  3. Marriages without "God" are doomed.

  4. Not putting in at least 10 hours in field service meant you'd be destroyed at Armageddon.

  4'. Not making return visits constituted blood-guiltiness and you'd be destroyed at Armageddon.

  5. There was a earth-wide flood.

  etc, etc
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  Iron Eagle

  The belief that I had to look up to people of a high standing in the congregation, no matter how much of an asshole he was.

  I aint taking their shit nomore !