I hope this is the right place to post this. If not, please remove. This is a long post, sorry for the rant, but I have been debating posting this for a while. Personal experiences have led me to quit the JW's. I'm angry. The last straw involved my aunt and a “friend”. I'm a third generation witness, started with my Grandma and then her kids, my mom and her sister and brother. I'm the only child among the three. I've been struggling with issues of the organization for a while but was trying to come back in a couple of years ago. My wife and I were living with her parents at the time (another story). Her three brothers are not in the organization due to personal family bullcrap. One did get baptized and my wife did too, but the brother who was in the organization wants absolutely nothing to do with the JW's. His wife also has relatives who are over the top JW's and never did get involved with religion due to bullcrap she saw in the organization. So there are issues with the JW's that surround me. The issue that pushed me out involved my aunt. When we were living with my wife's parents, things got bad and I wanted to move out to California where my aunt lived and she denied us (life long Jehovah lover). So I hung up and never talked to her again. About nine months later, I was notified of her death. I was to have everything left to me. House and money. It would have made my wife and I millionaires (my aunt's words). It wasn't an ostentatious house, but it is in southern California where housing is very inflated. So when I was notified of her death, I started calling around. I was left a small annuity and that was it. Found out through a lifelong “friend”, who also is a Jehovah's Fucking Witness, she left the house and everything else to her, that the will had been changed about a month after I had the last phone with my aunt. My aunt told me several times how much she hated this “friend”. (That's another story that involves fucking elders you would not believe.) The “friend” wouldn't even talk to me but let her sister tell me all the details. I contacted an elder out there I personally knew for 40 plus years to find out what happened to my aunt, and he was extremely tight lipped and would not tell me shit. He had an attitude about that whole thing. And I haven't talked to my uncle in Oregon for over 20 years. Big shot elder, piece of shit family member. So what was to be my inheritance is gone. I believe my aunt was duped into changing the will because she just tolerated this “friend” who ended up with everything, did some things to my aunt several years ago. I also believe the elder I talked to and my uncle are involved. Long story short, the three most involved persons all have one thing in common, they are Jehovah's Fucking Witnesses. My aunt and I never openly discussed her will or anything to do with the finances. All she ever told me about this 'friend' is she was in major financial trouble. So I lost my future to this god dammed religion. I am 55 years old and trying to figure out where to go next. We did move to Florida which is great. I will never walk into a Kingdom Hall again. My wife and I missed our first ever Memorial last year and do not intend to go this year either. We want friends (don't have any here and we've been in Florida over a year now). All we do is work and be at home. I'm an Uber driver so don't have a network of co workers to get friends from and my wife is a call center agent from home so she's not around other co workers either. I have thought of going to a church to meet people, but trying to get over the mental worry of that (yes I know the JW's put a lot of shit in your head about dying and losing God's favor if you do that and going apostate). There are a couple I would like to go to after watching a couple of services on youtube, facebook, etc. I hate to admit it but I would probably use a church as more of a social network. We both caught ourselves wishing people happy holidays this past year and my wife and I did a little something for our birthdays this past couple of months. So I guess we are well underway in walking away. I also posted on my Facebook that if I had any witnesses, to please delete themselves from my friends list if I missed any. I'm sorry for the rant and I guess if I were to make a video about this, it would be 60 minutes long just to get the bare minimum facts out. I also have some theological issues with the JW's as well, but that is for another post. I'm just trying to figure out where to start. Thanks for your time.
Kelley959
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Struggling
by Kelley959 ini hope this is the right place to post this.
if not, please remove.
this is a long post, sorry for the rant, but i have been debating posting this for a while.
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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!
by Kelley959 inan interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.
so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.
i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.
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Ok...so the Bible Students have it correct. The Aid book and the Insight Book BOTH talk about Adar II as being a part of the calendar in Israelite times. So the Society can't say it's due to a modern calendar. So what needs to be done in my personal opinion (not that it will happen), is they need to make a correction on this and reschedule the memorial immediately. Starting to wonder if all this crap they have undergone recently, (child abuse, etc) is making the "spirit" retract.
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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!
by Kelley959 inan interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.
so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.
i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.
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An interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the Memorial date for 2024 was wrong. So I consulted three different Jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right. I went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. They have the future dates listed. In the cases, MOST dates line up with the calendars I am finding online. BUT 2024 is incorrect. Passover is listed in April of this year due to Adar II being added. I thought maybe the Society didn't account for the second Adar. Wrong! In 2022 there was an Adar II that placed Nisan 14 on April 15, 2022. The Memorial was held on April 15, 2022. The previous Adar II was in 2019, placing Nisan 14 on April 19, 2019, the date of that year's Memorial. But in 2016, the same scenario as this year produced itself. Adar II was that year, BUT the Memorial was celebrated on Sunday March 24, 2016 (ironically the same day and date as 2024). But before in 2014, it was correct using the Adar II calculation. 2027, the Adar II issue rises again, placing Nisan 14 on April 21, 2027. Sometimes it's off a day due to the observance of when the new moon is in JERUSALEM and then counting 14 days foward, so it could be either the 20th, 21st or 22nd. So what gives in allowing supposed flexibility in WHEN they can use Adar II at their discretion? I posted the link with Jewish calendar that I primary used. This should be interesting!
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm
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Interesting Find with Chronology
by Kelley959 ini hope this is in the right area.
i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.
for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.
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I hope this is in the right area. I've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle. For a while now I have felt 1914 was wrong. I starting thinking it in 1995 when the generation teaching was changed. I was doing some interesting number crunching today. I hope you can follow me on this and why I got chills when I saw this.
The Jewish Calendar has 12 months at 30 days, so 360 days a year. But every 19 year cycle (cycle is important in this), there are seven extra months added, so seven years have a "leap month" for lack of a better terminology. So take 360 days times 19 years gives you 6,840 days, plus add another 210 days to give you 7,050 days per cycle.
So that means in 2,520 years there are 132.631 cycles or periods.
So take your 6,840 and multiply it by 132.631 and you get 907,196 days.
Take your 210 days from your extra months per 19 years and get 27,852/27,853. (Right in the middle for rounding up or down.
So 907,196 plus 27,853 give you 935,049 days between the fall of Jerusalem and the end of the Gentile times, Jesus throws Satan out of heaven.
Go to this website and start putting in dates. http://www.easysurf.cc/ndate7.htm
I started with October 1, 1914 and subtracted 935,049. it came up with Monday, September 9, 647. Nothing of significance.
I went to October 1, 1934 and subtracted 935,049. Friday, September 9, 627. Oh well. (Figured for 20 years off.)
Then for fun, I put in October 1, 1975 and subtracted 935,049. WOAH! Sunday, September 9, 586!
I thought that Fred Franz at one point told a group in a special program, "Something happened in 1975, but we're not telling."
If 607 is wrong, 587/86 is indeed correct, something did happen in 1975. I hope the chronology would be corrected. Of course a house of cards would crumble but it's better to be correct than stubborn.
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I Thought we had Friends!
by Kelley959 ini am a life long jw, but this issue i'm going through has taken the cake.. i am in a job situation that is not good.
and we were promised to us in our old hall that we would have a roof over our head for us an our animals.
so i gave notice on thursday then went to call by so-called jw friends and they backed out and claimed he now couldn't let us move in and broke the deal.
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I am a life long JW, but this issue I'm going through has taken the cake.
I am in a job situation that is not good. And we were PROMISED to us in our old hall that we would have a roof over our head for us an our animals. So I gave notice on Thursday then went to call by so-called JW Friends and they backed out and claimed he now couldn't let us move in and broke the deal. I had told him about the cats and dogs both earlier, said it was fine, then basically said "be warm and well fed". Not only that but the son in law to help us move promised to help us when we needed it but claims he now cant, his transmission is out.
So then I had to call my boss, thank goodness he is my friend too, and tell him I wasn't leaving so now I have to see if he can even pay me (that's the issue with this job), it's sporadic at best.
So basically I am homeless, on the verge of losing my 'kids", two dogs and three cats, (one of which has been with me for 21 years!) and no where to go.
I have been getting messages from other people I know, religious leaders even, offering to try to help me.
I have been saying for a long time there is no love in the "organization" and I am seeing it at work and it's about the last straw in for me. Like I said, I'm lifelong, third generation JW, but the way I am being treated is tearing me up! They always said we would be taking care of each other in the "tribulation" but now I doubt it. I think they will be killing each other. And now I'm left wondering if I have wasted the last 45 years of my life with this.
I know other things that have gone on with the Pyramid, change in 1914 1975 etc. But Jesus said the greatest commandment of all was love among yourselves. And I'm not seeing it so I am wondering who is right now.