by Finkelstein 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
The WTS/JWs as an organization has to date killed thousands, broken apart millions of families, ruined marriages, indirectly caused numerous suicides which might now exceed the numbers who have died from refusing a blood transfusion (?) , all orchestrated by false doctrines created by corrupt religoius charlatans running their own unregulated publishing house.
If those reasons dont compel you to leave probably nothing will.
THE FALL GUY:
I never fell for that line about how you were ‘blood guilty’ if you weren’t spending every waking hour preaching..like it was your responsibility for people to be interested in the ‘truth’. Well, then who was responsible for ME?? I was not reached door-to-door.
The JWs can take this teaching and shove it..It’s probably responsible for people being neurotic. I’m glad I stuck to my guns and listened to my father’s wisdom instead of hypocrites, users and parasites in some religion.
All my peer group who pioneered, looked down on me because I was in the workforce fending for myself...well, if they can’t put food on their tables..they better track down their ‘spiritual’ friends and ask THEM for money!
Pity that those older ladies are no longer around to give $$ to pio-sneers they invited to ‘special gatherings’!
I've been out for almost 2 decades. With a brief back in back out a few times. It was only over a year ago that the rest became dismantled.
I have to drive by a kh everyday. I check in with myself sometimes to see where my thoughts are when I see the kh. Lately I notice I feel indifferent. Not mad, not empathetic just nothing much. I do have pity for them. And honestly I think that some people belong there, because many jws believe so deeply that it could quite literally kill them to 'wake up'.
I view them as sort of a large corporate company I 'worked' at/for, but got fired from and blacklisted from rehire. Which seems just about right to me.
unfortunately, I blazed the trail for my younger siblings in jw-ism. My brothers aften mention to me that if it hadn't been for my "great example" that they probably wouldn't be jws today! wow!
Wouldn`t that be the time to set the record straight and be up front why you are in a fade and help them cut the ties with what you recognise as a bad religion to belong to ?
Isn`t that something to regret ? Had you taken a different course and been honest with yourself and them ,as they said , they wouldn`t be Jw`s today ?
Wouldn`t you have wanted that ?
I find that sad .
Am I missing something here ?
40-odd years on and I'm not passionately anti-JW any longer. I just don't want to expend the mental energy. Maybe that's just a part of being older. If I come across JW's I will avoid them now, whereas once I would have confronted them. Occasionally I'll see something that perks up my interest such as a ludicrous WT article about not having a colourful personality, or avoiding articles inhabited by demons, but generally I can't be bothered. I have so many other good things in my life to savour that I don't need to dwell on the negativity around witness teachings over much. I do enjoy much of what is posted here however; I find some of the insights written by ex's on other matters quite intriguing and worthy of consideration.
Around 20 years now since I woke up. At that time I was concerned about time passing by, I just could not accept the world entering the 21st Century and still no end! ... There were doctrines too that did not seem right. At the time I was angry , then there came the UNO scandal that really teed me off...
No I am more relaxed about it. I wonder at those who have kept their fath ...fath in promises and predictions constantly broken, but I guess it is up to them...
Unlike some on this thread , the first thing I did was work towards resignation from the B of E... I could not be a hypocrite.
I still have to accompany my almost-nonagenarian mother once in a while...
...but after five or ten minutes of having to hear the sheer volume of stuff that I know with absolute certainty is wrong, it feels like ants are crawling under my skin.
