Any wrong interpretations prove a prophet is false.
If they're wrong even just once,,they cant be of "divine influence".
The can no longer pull the wool over our eyes.
Pomo because of Proclaimers book, 1995 generation change and Daniel prophecy book
by Gorb 50 Replies latest jw friends
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joe134cd
Funny thing with me. The Reverlation book, with the insert, and overlapping gen had no effect on me. It wasn’t until I got onto apostate web sites that I realised its significance. Looking back it blows my mind as to how sheepish and dozey I was. Almost embarrassing.
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Beth Sarim
You may realize that you were sheepish, dozey & in a fog,,but,,,,
....at least you snapped out of it & broke the mind control.
I dont know if I can say the same for thousands or millions of others.
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moomanchu
The generation that will never die always kept me hanging on.
When that got blown up, my mind got opened up.
I will never forget the Sunday Watchtower study on this .When we got to the paragraph about the subject, I looked around at all the people in the audience and there was nothing.
Zoned out drones half asleep people waiting to go home.
And then it was bye bye for me!
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LongHairGal
MOOMANCHU:
You and a lot of others said bye bye to the JW religion. But not all left right away.
Some, like me, took several years. I didn’t know what to do with myself but I was on the fringes of the congregation and my attendance dropped.. I started a ‘Fade’ at the right moment.. But, I had a full-time job so I didn’t have to worry about that.
Besides Fading, other Witnesses had to get serious about a decent job and those that had an ounce of intelligence acted without delay!! ..Nineteen ninety five is almost 30 years ago.. Certainly this was enough time to do something about retirement and paying into SS if somebody was serious enough and realized the gravity of their situation.
I don’t know what to say about Witnesses who did not heed this very loud wake-up call. What a shame if they did absolutely nothing!😞
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Beth Sarim
1995 & the years that followed.
I myself am a GenXer.
At that time and the years that ensued I was still young enough to realize that ""the generation" teaching was a failure and the rubbish the Borg put out in attempt to "sell it" was baloney.
I was still young enough at that time to land a decent career & plan ahead for retirement.
Then along came the internet. To realize I wasnt going bonkers & confirmation I was doing the right thing.
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Gorb
Same for me. It took some years to become PoMo for me and for my wife. We moved to another city and became submarine witness first and later fuly PoMo.
Got a management position, and the corporation I work for gave me 2 University educations, so with aditional education had a study periode of 10 years.
And before you know it, you are a 30 years furter at the scale of time.
Better then ever and saved our children for watchtower abuse, our goal. So, after 4th generation our family has done away the sect influence.
Gorby
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blondie
I predicted the 1995 change to my new jw husband (just baptized) and he was amazed. But I did not leave yet. It wasn't until 2000 that I left totally, not even weddings and funerals. I am probably considered just inactive so far. I was PIMO for too long. But the WTS gave me a big push with 3 statements at the same circuit assembly: 1) Their god conditions his jw people like a baby elephant chained to a tree that allowed the baby to go only so far. It was trained to think it could only go so far, even when it became a big elephant and could pull the tree up 2) told people that their non-jw spouses were walking dead people (zombies) despite some non-jw spouses were their with their jw spouse 3) That Jesus is not interested in people with problems (dirty). Not the Jesus their bible describes.
That was in the morning and I told my husband I was leaving and never participating in any jw activities again. I told him if he did not come with me, I was taking the car home and he could catch a ride. He came home with me and we both left in 6 months; turned away the elders, said we had health issues and did not need to talk to them. They don't drop by now after almost 25 years. We don't miss them at all. The first morning we got up and did not go to the Sunday meeting was like being let out of prison. We got up when we wanted, read the paper had a nice cup of coffee and breakfast and have ever since. Love Blondie
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Gorb
Great sharing all these story's. Thanks!!!
Gorby
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LongHairGal
BLONDIE:
I remember that feeling you describe like being freed from prison.
My planned ‘Fade’ from the Jehovah’s Witnesses came after a year-long internet study of their history.. I started my ‘Fade’ on the night of a weeknight meeting.
It was winter. I remember staying home and watching CSI... It felt strange at first because I was breaking a habit but I was glad to not be going out in my car on a cold night.. But, the real free feeling was sleeping in on the weekend mornings. I was ecstatic.. Sunday was special and I felt so great getting up and leisurely making breakfast.
I had finally pulled myself out of this trap and freed myself of the load of bricks.. It was the best thing I did for myself! I escaped their controlling clutches and kept my job until retirement. They hated me but so what?