What JW Teaching Did You Never Quite Totally Accept???

by minimus 53 Replies latest jw friends

  • jwbot
    jwbot

    That women are inferior - never accepted it, and never will. It is one of the biggest lies of the society...and well, society in general.

  • gaiagirl
    gaiagirl

    I couldn't accept the idea that humans had only existed for 6000 years, and that they had been directly created at that time, with no genetic relationship to any other life form. I was quite put off by the refusal to acknowledge the staggering amount of evidence available even then that not just humans, but ALL life forms are genetically related to one another.

    Gaiagirl

  • Dimples
    Dimples
    The Cross ,The 144,000...and that only JW would survive the 'big day'

    This always got to me too.

    I always wondered, how could everyone else be wrong and worthy of death and they be 100% right?

    Dimples

  • La Capra
    La Capra

    When I was first introduced to the concept of DNA in science class, I was incredibly curious. I began to research at the library, as much as I could and found out how closely related all life forms were, but for one amino acid here, another there...What I started to consider was that the "animal" life forms supposedly didn't undergo any changes because of original sin, but that animals had a life-span that eventually ended, as did humans. Every cell in every life form dies, including in humans. Since there were no differences between humans, and say dogs that were any greater than between dogs and say kangaroo rats, then how could the human be different enough to live forever. The whole "You can live forever in Paradise on Earth" became an instant load of hooey to me. If there were something beyond death, it wasn't gonna be forever in the same body...So the whole premise of the religion failed for me on that one teaching I just couldn't believe. I'm happy to say God hasn't struck me down yet. Shoshana

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    I totally accepted all of it. Well, maybe except for the Genesis through Revelation part of it.

    Farkel

  • Mr. Kim
    Mr. Kim

    Mr. KIM

  • Jesika
    Jesika

    Well my biggest thing was prayer............I never felt anyone was actually listening, but since I had to do it I just went through the motions. I would say at about age 11 or 12 I just didnt believe any of it anymore.

    I hated the df rule too with a passion and didnt understand when someone needed family and friends the most they were left all alone.

    I also hated the fact that since my father was an elder and I would tell the elders my father was beating me, the elders took my father's word over mine everytime and it made it worse for me at home.

    Just to name a few.

    Jes

  • Mulan
    Mulan
    That everyone who was not a dedicated, baptized JW was going to be destroyed at Armageddon, including children.

    That was it for me. I got in trouble with the CO for telling a householder that I didn't believe that. He was with me at the time. I asked him to prove it from the Bible, and of course he couldn't. I had a "bad attitude", but he still thought I was a good pioneer.

  • minimus
    minimus

    Mulan----You got big ones! Saying what you honestly believed to a householder in front of the CO is cooool. As long as you had good hours and RV's, I'm sure he was just content with that.

  • DanTheMan
    DanTheMan

    *sigh* well so much for my cutting back on this forum - Simon you've made me into a junkie!!!!! Is there a JWD methadone program? LOL

    The Revelation book was embarrassing as hell, I couldn't believe that they expected us to offer that self-serving nonsensical comic book at the doors.

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