In the end I know how you people think and why you abandon Jehovah. You enjoy to have your ears tickled and you want to be able to enjoy things such as drugs, fornication, lieing, adultry, drunkeness. Things that Atheism and other religons don't encourage you not to do.
Cut and run like the curr you are.
I have been out of the org for 14 years and I do not do drugs, I am faithful to my wife whom I love. And I have always been there for my precious children, who by the way, some of which, have attempted suicide and are going to counseling for the emotional and spiritual abuse perpetrated by their fanatical JW mother and stepfather. The kicker is that the PO in their congregation knew about the abuse and DID NOTHING to intervene on the behalf of those innocent children. The suicide attempt was the result of, after having gone to the elders for help, they instead were blamed and held accountable for their mom's and stepdad's actions and received NO HELP. They felt trapped with nowhere else to go, as do so many other poor JW kids I grew up with.
You sir just hit a nerve and it would be a good thing if we never met in person unless you apologize to each and every X-JW on this board for your cruel insensitivity and self-righteous air. You have no idea what I, my children and all the others on this board have gone through and HOW DARE YOU!
One of the elders who was on the committee to df me for smoking had been for years, and still was SMOKING himself and cheating on his wife pioneer wife. . . it goes on.
I was born and raised in the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. I have been instrumental in bringing more new ones into the org than most fulltime pioneers. (my regrets)
All those I knew in the org were "lack of self-controllers" in some way or another, but I always looked the other way because brother Floyd Kite told me that we are all imperfect and not to judge. An entire congregation I attended as a child was completely deleted and its members sent to other congregations. The Kingdom Hall is now a "Babylon the Great" church where pagans now worship. The family members who were and are in "the truth", all of them self-righteous, hypocritical, finger pointing, arrogant and ingnorant hicks; no matter what I did or said, they always used "the truth" to cut and injure me and others. I took it and overlooked it because I was conditioned to have the self-esteem of a speed bump.
I can forgive most people just about anything, however, with the measure you are measuring out, it will also be measured out to you. The WTBTS's critical finger is outstretched and pointed at all of us and the nations and other religions in condemnation. That critical finger is attached to 3 more fingers pointing right back at the WTBTS. They have lied, prophesied falsely, wrongly interpreted scriptures that have cost faithful JW's their lives. They do not admit their errors, but they insist that we as good Christians should. They do not apologize when they counsel all of us make amends when we have done wrong AND they do not confess their sins when they tell us it is the only way to forgiveness. We "apostates" or I prefer, "clear thinkers" have the GOD-GIVEN right to hold the organization up to the same critical light and standard it judges everyone else by! And by God, we do and we will!
I believe the Bible and God, not the everchanging rules and edicts of a man-made organization.
I am not saying that I am right and you are wrong, although, I am and you are, but you, sir, should look again.
Are you in "the truth"? Is the truth in you? Perhaps neither is the case. Nobody really knows . . .
CORVIN