I Have To Do Something!! (page 4)

Junction-Guy

Hi Cloudstrife, I am glad your experience growing up a witness was a positive one, I am glad you didnt have to face all the anxieties and issues we did growing up. My only answer to this must be that in your country they are very liberal and understanding, here in the United States, JW children have very little "FREE-WILL". I have been in many congregations and many different Conventions here in this country, and I can basically say it is all the same, with maybe slight variations depending on the region.

JG

kls

JC ignore the troll , don't let him rile you. Why he is here ? who knows. Do what you feel you have to do to settle in your mind so you can restart your life and get over some of the pain.

franklin J

after years of therapy and the fog finally lifting in my life.....it all became clear in a simple sentence.....

.... religion, any religion, is a support network, (there to assist us in our journey through life ) when it starts to condemn us it is no longer useful....

Cloud Strife

Yes you are right, but there are people who are happy with their religion en never feel the way you say.

Steve Lowry

Hey Cloud,

Are you a baptized active Jehovah?s' Witness and in good standing? If you are, then why do you visit a website such as this, which obviously opposes the Watchtower Society, and where there are known "apostates"? (like me) Are you questioning? Have you been disfellowshipped? I see you don't use your real name. Are you afraid of being discovered? What?s your story?

I was raised a JW and made the decision to leave in my early twenty?s, just about the about the time you were born (if you?re twenty-four). As for me, I like to keep my hand in by visiting here and help those who may be struggling with leaving the Watchtower Society or perhaps those like you who may be questioning.

Your turn . . .

Cloud Strife

1.Are you a baptized active Jehovah?s' Witness and in good standing? 1.Yes, yes, I go in field service regurlaly and lead a bible studie with 3 people, I also do some things at the meetings, like controlling the sound and the music, walking with the microphones, handing out the Koninkrijksdiensten (don't know the word for it in English), and count the money from the bijdragen bussen (don't know the word for it in English either....sorry). I also help with the cleaning of the kingdom hall and the bigger meeting places, contol the trafic for the parkinglots there and help in the cafetaria with coffee and tea. I just came back from a study I'm leading with a sister to 2 friends of mine...one (a girl at the age of 20) comes from a family from where the mother is a witness and the father isn't, and the other (a young man 24) was raised with the truth, but at the age of 16 he desided to stop and lead a diferent live, his whole family quit the truth, but now he came back and wants to be babtised (he never felt he was pressed by his parents....I did ask him that tonight because I was curious). 2. If you are, then why do you visit a website such as this, which obviously opposes the Watchtower Society, and where there are known "apostates"? 2. At first I tought I finaly found a forum with real JW's, but I was wrong, and yes you are right I shouldn't be here, and I have come to the realisation now that there are disfellowshipped persons here(stupit me) 3. Are you questioning? Have you been disfellowshipped? 3. double NO 4.I see you don't use your real name. Are you afraid of being discovered? 4.discovered by who?, no man I use this name as long as I can remember as my nickname in games and stuff. My real name is Bastiaan (but I think its a stupit name so everybody calls me Bas) I'm 22 years old (and not 24.....I don't even know why you tought I was 24) I live in the Netherlands, and at this time I'm living on my own 5.What?s your story? 5. I was raised with the truth, The Perthes sickness was discoverd at the age of 6, and until I was 18 I sat in a wheelchair and walked on krukken (don't know the word for it in English either....sorry). My father and mother where getting deforest when I was 8, and me and my younger brother and sister moved somewhere else with my mother. My mother practicly raised us, she took us with her in field service and tought us the truth. I don't take everything for granted I hear on the meetings I search for myself if its true what they tell, my mom tought me to do that, she also tought me to learn about other religions so I could make a choise that was realy MY choise, en I never have regrets about my choise. My younger brother and sister are JW's to (both baptized).

Steve Lowry

Well, that was a quick reply.

I believe you when you say you are a baptized, active JW. I need to know that kind of thing up front, as it can be a waste of time (of both yours and mine) if you aren?t a JW and yet are taking the position of defending the faith, as it were. Thank you for that answer.

Next, are you going to continue to dialogue with me even though we both realize you have been instructed by the Watchtower Society to not exchange dialogue with someone who has left the Society and who is opposed? I believe the vernacular is, "left the Truth". And so that you know up front, I am most definitely opposed to the Watchtower Society. Let?s be clear on this point.

As to your age, I thought you had said you were twenty-four, but I read back and its twenty-two. At my age that?s of little consequence, but I stand corrected, Bastiaan.

I am not familiar with Perthes sickness, but I am glad you have recovered from it. Good for you.

I?m glad to hear you don?t take everything for granted you hear at the meetings, that?s good. Is there anything you are currently hearing that you disagree with? Has there ever been something you disagree with, regarding the Society and it?s teachings?

What do you think would happen if you ever disagreed with the Watchtower Society on a particular issue? Do you think you would be allowed to remain a Jehovah?s? Witness if you disagreed with the Watchtower Society concerning its doctrines? Are there any doctrines that you disagree with?

Cloud Strife

are you going to continue to dialogue with me even though we both realize you have been instructed by the Watchtower Society to not exchange dialogue with someone who has left the Society and who is opposed?

No, I will not because I (notice the big I) think it is not right to do so........and I realy don't know why I posted on this site anyway......I think I was bored.

EyeDrEvil

Ah Cloud Strife, don't sell yourself short. You are smarter than that. You DO know why you posted here. You know that something is not quite right in the Organization. Just like Neo in the movie The Matrix. He was curious, He knew something was off.. So do you. Otherwise, you never would have come in here and started posting.

DanTheMan

don't take everything for granted I hear on the meetings I search for myself if its true what they tell, my mom tought me to do that, she also tought me to learn about other religions so I could make a choise that was realy MY choise, en I never have regrets about my choise

Stay with their religion, or they will shun you for the rest of their lives. Not much of a choice I'd say.

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