Damn straight ex-elder. These "last days" are just to broad for my liking. It is b.s. and they desperately need another 1975.
Its like when I go to my bible studies......"so....these are the last days?" "Yes, they are. All bible scriptures point to the last days" "So whats our expiration date (laughs)" "We dont know"
Thats enough for me, broad terms like "last days" really grate my cheese. Weird thing is everyone, I believed, for a short period of time that becoming a jw was the right thing to do because they rubbed off as "pure"......whereas now I view the organisation and its ppl as naive. Fact is no one knows the truth, and for the witnesses to claim that they hold the truth did have a huge impact on me, especially in my vulnerable state at the time of (looking into religion). As mentioned before in ealier posts, COC will have a profound impact. From there, I can take that knowledge to my jw friends. They are unaware such a book exists. I actually striked up a conversation with about 3 ppl at the k-hall last week about COC. My attire was straight black, muscle shirt, with a red tie. Word has it Im probably satan. I was not dressed for the occasion.
Maverick, from what I know they are not too many 2 faced ppl in the borg, only because they are trying to convert me I guess - trying to uphold the purity of the organisation.
Are JW's so paranoid because they know their all just acting?
by Maverick 14 Replies latest social relationships
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Frantic
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Sirona
Put it this way: if the WTS didn't ask for reports and they said it would be OK for JWs to preach "informally" rather than going knocking on doors, the *dedicated* JW would preach for maybe 1/2 hour a month if that, when the opportunity arose with a friend. The ONLY reason they are out so much is because they are forced to show their face and put a report in.
Sirona
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Country Girl
Maybe that's why it makes it exceptionally easy for many of them to ignore the sexual abuse issues. "Oh brother Molester would *never* do that! He doesn't have an angry/violent/abusive bone in his body!" They only know brother Molester from the Kingdumb Hall face, and not the evil one he shows to the children he molests.
CG
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Maverick
That's right country girl. And Sirona they have the J-dud go door to door to push the literature they print!
I guess the JW's are actors because they follow a group of men that have been acting! They got lost in the part! Maverick
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Sassy
Sassy got me thinking about how people here can just be themselves and not worry about being "found out"!
actually there are many here that because of family or friends or even workmates do not wish to be found out.. and because of the world we come from, unless we have fully said for the world to hear we are DA'd or we are DF'd, we still are forced in some ways in part of the JW box.. our lives controlled, even if a small way, by what is seen...
We are not free to post pictures of ourselves, to call each other by our real name, etc.. I can't tell you how many people that have told me their names privately but them remind me not to call them by name here in public.. and I do the same..
We are forever burden by the heavy hand..