by minimus 51 Replies latest jw friends
I have no problem with anyone believing whatever they want.
The major problem I have with witnesses is the intolerance of any other belief. You don't believe as they do, then they dump you. Family or not. Destruction of friends and family. That is not the way it is supposed to be.
I haven't read all of the posts here, so if this is a repeat, I apologize.
I hate their "holier than thou..................I'm better than you are" attitude. It just galls me that they think they have all the answers and know so much.
Yes----Self-righteousness is a JW theocratic quality.
Their clothes. Definitely their clothes.
That they've actually been duped into the "talking outta both sides of their mouths" thangie.....on one side, they espouse love for their neighbors, but on the other side, they're suspicious and judgMENTALly "trashing" everyone else, including even their own members...
Frannie B
In other words, they are poorly dressed hypocrites.
I am 51 yrs old and was in the org. for 38 yrs. I consider myself a well educated person, believing all that the org. taught. I came from a life that needed some stability. Our home was one of strife. Although being nearly 13 yrs of age I was angered that all of a sudden that we could no longer celebrate Christmas and all the other hollidays that I was accustomed to practising in the church (Anglican). All of a sudden every thing I believed in was wrong. Only JWs had the truth. I of course didn't quite grasp all this right away, as it took time to be brainwashed as a JWs. I had no more freedom to choose what I wanted to do religously although in the past I was free to attend the Baptist church and the Catholic Church without my parents ever interfering. Religion was not practiced in our home. My father had been an alcholic and a mean man at that. Now all of a sudden I was no longer able to go to the church, but go to the Kingdom Hall. I guess I can say from the beginning I resented this. I would hear my father and mother fight with my mothers mother about my free choice to go to the church. She said Terry is very knowledgeable about the church and God and Christ. And now all of a sudden your pulling her away from what she loves and making her to become a JW. It was at the out set that the person who studied with us an overbearing witness sister. We were made to go to meetings no matter what and the service. I really didn't want to go but I knew I had no choice. It was the rules in our home. It bugged me, that the witnesses force everything upon you, your not allowed to question anything. My father said the church is over for you and you will become a JW or when your of age you will be forced to leave this home. So what chance did I have. I hated that the JWs once celebrated Christmas and then they stopped. All of a sudden they said it was wrong. In fact the Society celebrated everything once upon a time. It is the lies, hyprocy , and their seductive ways of making people comply to their ways or look out. That is what I hate the leaders they haave made the cong. believe what they want them to believe, they make them despise family members that are disfellowshipped, its not normal to despise your family if you love them.
I wish that some day many will wake up and see the smoke and realize that there is a better way of living and it is not the way the leaders of the organization tells them to be they have their on free will to chose what they want in there life.
Orangefatcat..
In other words, they are poorly dressed hypocrites.
Yeah, Min......
Frannie B
Orangefatcat-----Your experience was like every one else's "growing up in the truth". There was only 1 way to think, 1 way to go. And if you didn't like it and FOLLOW it, too, you could just get out. Nice people, huh?
I asked my wife that question today and her 1 second response was "judgmental"..... Today,she's going out to lunch with her best friend and former Bible study. The friend asked her last week what was happening to her. My wife told her that she still loved Jehovah and His Word but didn't like man made interpetations. Her friend replied that she felt the same way too but still went to meetings. My wife said in response that if she delved too deeply with her to answer it could makes things uncomfortable and that she was still the same person she's always been and still feels the same friendship.....The result was their getting together for lunch today.
