i'm at the recorded meeting right now.
trying to hide my disgust sitting up front listening to geoffrey jackson quibble about the pharisaical minutai of sanctification vs. vindication.
the audience is thrilled that they now have 'permission' to say god's name can be vindicated.
Oh wow...so GJack was critical of people who were pedantic about getting the whole sanctification vs vindication things correct?? BUT for YEARS we were told to "get it right" because it was "SO IMPORTANT"
I can remember WT studies about it! I can remember elders and servants meetings about it! I can remember pioneer meetings about it!
Hypocrites!
.....the truth was not the truth... ?
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SO many things!
Once the first card is removed...the whole house of cards comes a-crashing down!
The BIGGEST step? Is first giving oneself permission to START investigating the faith....
my experience with jws that came to my house started me on a journey of learning the truth about "jehovah's organization".
it didnt take long for me to stump them with bible questions that show what jw org teaches is not biblically accurate.
i hope when i lay on them 6 pages of their history (which will later be a counter-watchtower magazine) the light will come on when they read about pyramids and see photos.
Spot on !
Wake me has summed things up EXACTLY
i have opened thesite to relate this part of my day.. yes the jw are such happy people.
yeah right... my wife has come home after an extended sunday meeting in a foul mood.
to be around her is like feeling your way through barbed wire.
I wonder if she is fuelled by her witness friends playing into a martyrdom complex.
You know, saying things like "oh, how is your husband doing...is he ok? It must be SO HARD for you to put up with such opposition at home..."
Then she gets home and has been preconditioned to think negatively of you?
for those that don't know, i recently did a podcast series called this jw life outlining my life before, during, and after the cult.
i made it with outsiders in mind so that anyone could understand what life as one of jehovah's witnesses is like and what it does to people.
i posted about it as each episode came out, but i know that new people will see this and hope that it might help more people as time goes by, so i will post about it every so often to reach out to those that can find help processing their lives or that want to help outsiders to understand what it was like in one cohesive story.. tomorrow i will release episode 2 of my new podcast called “shunned”.
Love your work dubstepped!
Thankyou for all the effort you have put into it all!
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/awake-no5-2017-october/what-bible-says-about-war/.
the bible's viewpoint .
war.
What??
That article condemns the false religious, non Jehovah worshipping nations for crimes like "incest"??!!??
Um, hang on...what about Lot? Hmmm?
Im sure we can think of MANY OTHER deplorable activities carried out by "Gods chosen people"?
i regularly check in to see what's happening but i'm not here like i used to be.. are you here every day?
are you here as much as before?.
Daily....
I enjoy the interactions, and appreciate everyone's input.
This wonderful community was a life line when I first awoke to TTATT! Especially before my wife also awoke. I found the ability to share thoughts and even to vent very cathartic.
I am very appreciative of the support and help this community provided me!
I hope too that I may have been able to assist others who went through similar life situations.
I understand that we all grow, and that the nature and content of our posts change as we develop into "normal" people and become "ex-ex witnesses"
Some of the ones who were very helpful in my early days have moved on and we don't see them here anymore... but I miss them and wish them well.
so i finally decided to start writing a book on exiting jehovah's witnesses.
i've been meaning to do this for a very long time.
there are so many books out there and i don't want to repeat what everyone else has written.. although the book will include some basic history of jehovah's witnesses and the usual doctrinal flaws, it's core audience are those who are thinking about leaving, in the process of leaving or have already left.. the book will contain case studies of people who've left and made a success of their life.
Looking forward to this!
Great idea
we know that the hebrew scriptures, or old testament states that the practice of circumcision (of males) was supposed to be yet another sign that set the jews apart from the "people of the nations".
but apart from so many odd things, how dumb is this?.
i mean, how did someone know if a male was circumcised or not??
Vw.org: I was born with out eyelids. So when I got circumcised, the surgeon grafted the foreskin to my eyes to make eyelids. Now I have very good foresight.
Haha funny!
So does that mean that when it is cold, your eyelids shrink?
Or if you are "happy", do your eyelids enlarge?😉
the title was a joke but i going to tell a story that happend to me a a meeting.. there was a brother giving a talk now from my other post there are like 4 teens and 10 or more kids 5 to 8.now the brother just said now most of you kids will be getting asked have you lost your virginity.now all the teens are 13 like more or a year older you havent had sex but they dont care.. but the young kids most likey just asked there mom and dad when they got home ''mom dad whats my virginity''?.
just my god man what the fuck where you thinking when writeing that..
Yes, I can thank the Society and the Meetings for teaching me as a very young child about Biblically ACCEPTABLE things such as:
Incest
Child brides / Sex slavery
Prostitution
Genocide
Slavery
Baby murder
etc....
