by minimus 56 Replies latest jw friends
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: One naked woman in your dorm room is better than thirty years of pioneering.
Two naked women at the same time is better than any amount of "paradise earth" promises.
Now, three naked women... well, it would probably beat being one of the 144,000, but I haven't had a chance to arrange such a theological experiment. Any volunteers?
CZAR
It was a combination of things.
There was the 1975 lie (not that 1975 was the end, but rather, the lie that "Oh we never said that! You people just jumped to conclusions."). I knew I had read 1975 in Society's publications. So did my mother. So did another sister. It sounded so much like the excuse of Adam. "Well the woman you gave me caused me to eat."
Ray Franz disfellowshipping/apostasy rumors.
Hidden pictures of demonic faces in the Watchtower illustrations, even though the Watchtower was a letter from God.
AIDS is Jehovah's punishment for homosexuality, drug abuse, and hemophiliac blood transfusions. I thought Armageddon was supposed to do that?
Barney Clark's artificial heart. Obviously Barney had not become some sort of soulless zombie. So the belief that the heart was the JW true center of a persons feelings was poppycock.
There were also problems with the evidence not supporting the JW account of Creation. The aforementioned carnivores, for example. Big cats and dinosaurs eat meat. They were created to eat meat. They were not created to be scavengers. Fleas were obviously created to suck blood. JWs had theories that cats were tame vegetarians in Eden and then changed to meat eaters after Adam sinned. Well, then, why not just believe in evolutionary change over a million years instead. It is much more credible than the JW twists. Petrified rocks. Where did they come from? They couldn't happen in just 35,000 years. Oil? How did that oil get there if plants and animals were less than 35,000 years old?
So as I got older, and wiser, less and less things fit. And I got tired of trying to make them fit. And I wasn't happy. Why wasn't I happy? I was virtually a slave all of my life. They forced me to conform. The more they forced me, the worse the unhappy feelings became. So I decided to leave and live my life my way.
And even then I still worried that it might be the truth. But even if they were right, Armageddon hadn't come so far, so better to live my life for the remainder of it free, than live forever as a slave in what they call paradise. It wasn't paradise to me anymore.
So I took the plunge and left. Soon after I started to see things much more clearly. Now I know why nothing fit before and I am glad I took that step.
Tammy
Tammy: You speak for many, and eloquently, too.
Hidden pictures of demonic faces in the Watchtower illustrations, even though the Watchtower was a letter from God.
I've never heard that one before...do you mind elaborating? Or giving me an example? Sounds interesting...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: One naked woman in your dorm room is better than thirty years of pioneering.Two naked women at the same time is better than any amount of "paradise earth" promises.
Now, three naked women... well, it would probably beat being one of the 144,000, but I haven't had a chance to arrange such a theological experiment. Any volunteers?
CZAR
Are you saying you've had two women at the same time? Too cool!
Dear Piph,
I know it sounds difficult to believe, but at the end of a book study one evening there was a discussion among several sisters about an illustration in the Watchtower where an angel was watching over two sisters in the witnessing work. Although I had read that article and thouroughly studied it, I never noticed that in the folds of the angel's robes was drawn the face of a demon. That just floored me!
Since then I have learned that this is not the only occurence of these types of hidden pictures. I think there is a link to a site with mant of these illustrated, but I don't know where. Maybe someone else can remember where they are?
Tammy
Thanks Swan! I searched for the link, here it is.
two years back i was in another city visiting my brother i was having some problem with my sleep and suddenly i developed pain in my chest i went to the hospital casualty dept. the doc examined for sometime and told me everything was fine and told me to meet another doc in the morning i was surprised he referred me to a psycologist( i live in a third world country where going to psycologist is some how considered to be a taboo) after a very long examination he asked me if i was expecting something divine to happen (armageddon in my case) he said that was my core problem. from that day onwards i have given up the truth for good "sleep".
So the answer to that question, Betrayed, is, "needing to get a good night's sleep"......very original!
Realizing that the Society is steeped in ridiculous ideas, and refuses to listen to correction and so knows that it's lying about any number of things, made me leave.
Things that made me sit up and take note: the organ transplant ban, the claim that the physical heart is the seat of emotions, the claims that there were no ice ages, that animals were created to be vegetarians, that before 2370 B.C. it didn't rain, the 1975 fiasco, the realization that Armageddon isn't "right around the corner", that the JW notion of "the last days" is ridiculous, that the Society's writers pretend to know all sorts of things about science but are absymally ignorant, that Watchtower leaders and a substantial number of individual JWs are liars and hypocrites, that these people are often beyond correction and reason.
AlanF
That the bound volumes are viewed with equal, if not greater authority, than the Bible.
