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Bizarro things the person with whom you studied told you
by berylblue 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Elsewhere
You can join in too Sens! I don't mind being *ahem* "instructed" by two apostababes at the same time.
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TresHappy
This from the mouth of an 18 year old pioneer sister who turned down a 4 year scholarship in order to pioneer: "Well, even if you were raped and got pregnant, it wouldn't be good to give the child up for adoption. What if the family you gave the baby to became apostate?"
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StinkyPantz
Elsie-
Me too!!
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Nosferatu
I studied with a number of people:
My mother: "If you lie to me, You lie to Jehovah"
JT: This guy was pretty normal. Didn't say anything weird.
David: "You're not supposed to even rub it once". Guess I should never wash myself there.
Arthur: This guy was actually on the level. He was nice.
John: Just your average superdub elder.
Jason: Another guy on the level. He was really into computers. He moved, and I heard that he left the troof.
Marek: "Jimmy Page sold his soul to satan to be the best guitar player in the world", "I threw out all my Nirvana tapes when I started studying", "... and that's why we should eliminate music such as Led Zeppelin & Guns N Roses from our music collections". This guy was totally nutty. I can't remember half the stuff he said; I was suffering from depression when I was studying with him. I remember that he had a sorta flat head. -
BLISSISIGNORANCE
- that the resurrected would not be able to marry.
- that still-born or miscarried babies wouldn't get a resurrection.
- that oral sex was a df'ing matter.
- that all single women in the organization are sex maniacs.
- not to buy anything 2nd hand because it could be demon possessed.
- that jehovah provided different things depending on where you lived. If you lived in a developed western country he'ld provide housing, car etc, if you lived in a poor under developed country he'ld provide one meal a day, a cardboard box to sleep in. He'ld meet your needs depenent on your expectations. Go figure.
Scarey stuff. From someone who was very respected and looked up to in the congregation.
EEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.
Puke!
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yxl1
A newly converted sister told me that it had been suggested to her by an Elders wife, to arrange her wedding night to coincide with her period. This way, when the marriage was consumated, the husband wouldnt be able to tell that she wasnt a virgin.....Eeeewwww!
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Elsewhere
THREE Apostababes!!! All at once?!?!?
Where's my camera... I'm gonna have to document all of the "study" activities.
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Dansk
I was really into Buddhism, life was good and yet I allowed myself to be hoodwinked by Borgites!
One night the guy I was having a study with said that my Buddhist books were Satanic and that the best thing I could do was to get rid of them. After he'd gone I talked it over with my wife and we agreed to bin the lot. A couple of weeks later I met an elder "friend" from a different congregation and told him what I'd done. "Why did you do that?", he said, "The society has books on Buddhism for reference!"
Well, I've now purchased most of the books I binned - but somehow it isn't the same. One of the books, 'The Buddha's Way', by H. Siddhatissa (which I haven't yet got hold of again) was the best introduction to Buddhism I've ever read and I had my old copy personally signed by the author when he visited Manchester almost thirty years ago. To make matters worse, this wonderful man is now dead.
On another occasion I was talking to an elder about education and should our children pursue it. His wife butted in and said "Jehovah's holy spirit leaves you if you pursue education!" Later, I found out her husband got his qualifications at college!
Lastly, this isn't so much bizarre as jolly infuriating. The elder and his wife that we originally studied with went through the 'Live Forever' book with us - and it is this insidious way that entraps most of us. At first the book goes into things that we wouldn't really have a problem believing, or if we're not sure we were given a good reason to carry on. Having believed the early stuff that seemed to make sense our guards were now down. When we got to the part in the book which talked about the gentile times, we were informed by the elder that ".....and in 607 BCE Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians and if we take 2520 years we come to 1914, which is when Satan was thrown down to earth and WW1 broke out!"
Because the previous stuff seemed accurate one tended to take this nonsense as truth, especially after the elder said "...and 607 BCE is an archaeologically proven date for the fall of Jerusalem."
Looking back now how I wish I'd researched it. The internet information wasn't wasn't around then and I didn't go to the library because I'd been sucked into believing him. What used to gall me is that the 'Live Forever' book contains published untruths that I was assured were true and so I dedicated myself to Jehovah (and his organisation, without realising it). In other words, I was brought in on a number of lies and I always wonder if I can sue the society because now, due to its false teaching, I was craftily and lyingly persuaded to join the Borg and now my family is split as a direct consequence of my leaving on finding the truth about the Borg - but which truth my daughters won't look at because it is "apostacy and comes from Satan!" Surely the real "apostacy" comes from the Borg itself!
Any chance of legal redress on our part here?
Dansk
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berylblue
Jimmy Page sold his soul to satan to be the best guitar player in the world
That's gonna piss the hell out of Laurence Juber. I heard he worked out the same deal.