Posts by Doubtfully Yours

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2016-3-18-BOE-Discontinuing Feature Length DVD and Audio CD Production!

by Atlantis in

2016-3-18-boe.. re: discontinuing feature-length dvd and audio cd production.

.. http://we.tl/cpevenkiz2.

.. .. petra!.

Doubtfully Yours

All these savings just encourage me to continue NOT giving to the Org. Keep those savings coming!

DY

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2016 Memorial Done & Dusted

by steve2 in

well on this side of the planet, the southern hemisphere/ new zealand, the 2016 memorial service in local kingdom halls will be over for another year.

another great big anticlimax.

some family and relatives will have gone - but unless i ask my sister, i generally have no idea about attendance and partaker numbers.

Doubtfully Yours

Will be attending this evening.

"Blah, blah, blah, same every year crap", then, nice meal and drinks with lovely people at some restaurant close by. It will be a nice evening.

DY

35

Money....

by The Rebel in

jw
friends

i believe all our worst nightmare are believing money will make our life's complete.

i am not talking about money providing life's comforts, but i am mortified that contentment and happiness always requires " more money"..ummm i need a window cleaner, a flashy car and a 50inch t.v screen to be happy.

money...well in my opinion we need money integrity to be happy, but it seems such a waste of life to search for the making of money more than ....well what i mean "hey" most of us have more money than most, and would the making or having more money really make you happier?.

Doubtfully Yours

Biblical quotes that are for real when it comes to money (some may get lost in Spanish to English translation):

For the money lover, there will not exist enough money to satisfy him (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
Love of money is th root of evil (1 Tim 6:9,10).
The rich thinks his money and possessions are a stronghold but only in his mind (Proverbs 18:11).

Sooooooo real!!!

DY

35

Memorial mixed emotions...

by Tornintwo in

jw
friends

does anyone else feel 'pulled back in' at this time of year?.

i still consider myself to a believer, believe in god and jesus christ, on the whole i think he taught tolerance, love, acceptance and i think we can benefit from following his example.

i love ray franzs book in search of christian freedom.

Doubtfully Yours

I like the Memorial. It is only 1 hr, everyone looks so pretty and in really good spirits, then we go out to eat and drink at some nice restaurant. Yeah, I enjoy the Memorial.

DY😀

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Am l the only one.?The older l become the more hostile l become towards god.

by atomant in

they say you mellow out with age.maybe so but not in my case.l feel its an insult and degrading to us humans to have to live the way we do if there is a god.deep down l guess l do believe theres a god but lm having great difficulty trying to understand why things are the way they are.l dont need a bible bashing from anyone l just feel frustrated and helpless.l just battle on like everyone else but l get the feeling theres a whole lot more to our existence.

Doubtfully Yours

Same attitude here. I find myself verbally insulting him under my breath often.

I could not agree anymore with Sam Harris' view in his utube video 'Morality and the Christian God'. Check it out.

DY

46

Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

Doubtfully Yours

Indoctrination runs deep. Definitely, upholding the JW blood stance is not for the faint of heart.

Stop the hating.

DY

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Finding love as a witness

by RawrSaysTheLion in

hi i'm new.. i'm going on 2yrs as a baptized witness although i've just received a reproval on the grounds of living with a wordly man unmarried for 6 months.

long story short it ended messy and i ran straight back to the witnesses because i do love jehovah and i missed my family.

my issues were only with the actual organization.. i desperately want to find someone to share my world with but i feel like i'm too tainted to be loved by anyone worthy in the truth and my morals are to high to love another boy from the world.

Doubtfully Yours

Hi,

You'll need a large amount of luck. No, no, no, not even that will help you.

You moved in with a 'wordly' guy and it wasn't even a good one because how you expressed it ended up. Now, the JW world has you marked as not only 'unspiritual' but also a 'Suzy floozy slut'.

Forget it. Even you find a JW in name only, it'll be a rotten one; your rep will never go away among JWs now. If you decide to switch congs, a nice little letter will follow you, detailing your wrong doings.

To make matters even worse, there are like 30 available females for every 'good' catch JW and that fact makes many an available male JW quite a jerk because they're so 'valuable'. I would absolutely hate to be of dating age among JWs these days; it's an impossible proposition for so many sisters. Sad.

Tough place you're in. Sorry.

DY

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

Doubtfully Yours

Booyakasha!!! (Like Ali G would say; big laugh)

When it comes to blood issues, forget about it. The little amendments made to it is as far as the WTBTS will go; and I'm even surprised they've given in that much on the matter.

You all do your thing, and let JWs do their thing; eat it, transfuse it, bathe in it, whatever, and let JWs be with their interpretation and reasoning of the text. This keeps coming up every so often; boring.

Blood is part of the deep indoctrination I can't and don't want to get rid off; don't give it to anyone, don't want it from anyone. As old as I am, have never or any member of my extended/immediate family has ever needed health treatment that could not be satisfied without the use of blood. The issue is highly hyped and overrated by the anti-JW crowd.

Give it up already. Peace out!

DY

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Re: New Songs for Memorial

by pixel in

to all congregations.

re: new songs for memorial.

dear brothers:.

Doubtfully Yours

I love Christmas music! I begin humming it as soon as Thanksgiving is done. Love going to the stores and humming along. Love it, love it, love it!!!

DY

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My life as a fundamentalist

by joey jojo in

as a born-in jw, i never considered myself to be a fundamentalist.

i always thought we were enlightened, progressive and not 'stuck in darkness' like all the other religions.. i was totally wrong.. as far as fundamentalists go, jw's are probably right up there amongst the front-runners.

no, they do not stone people to death or go on religion-fuelled violent rampages but that's not what i'm talking about.

Doubtfully Yours

If you have not been to a meeting in 10 years, you no longer know the JWs. This religion has evolved immensely just in the last 5 years, more so if 10.

The only way I have put up with it successfully since learning TTATT is due to many a JW inside just going through the motions and not really deeply caring about the WTBTS.

Take for example the upcoming memorial. The group I hang with, many among us perceived to be JW heavies, all we have commented about the occasion is where we are going to eat and drink afterwards; everything is just "blah, blah, blah.....the end is near.... blah, blah, blah.... we need more money..... blah, blah, blah. It is the attitude for the most part of JWs still inside. Just in for family and the nice association, nothing more.

The GB can keep on talking until blue in the face and they will not change us. With so many failed prophesies and so many ridiculous changes, plus the threat that we will lose it all if we leave, all we can effectively do is play deaf until death do us part.🙄

DY