Posts by stuckinarut2

Very interesting to listen to the way that Christian leaders / pastors etc try and explain away or justify the troubling and horrific parts of the bible.

I have listened to a few episodes so far, and most of it sounds just like the things that JWs would say...

Enjoy!

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Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

by berrygerry in

posted here:.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

biggest changes:.

stuckinarut2

No need for panic..."Jehovah will provide"

(Unless of course he doesn't, in which case that would mean he either is not real, or is not backing this organization - as CT Russell once famously implied)

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Here is a song idea for JW.Broadcasting??!!

by stuckinarut2 in

with the increasingly "pop" styles of music being used in the "music videos" each month on jwbroadcasting, here is an idea for the gb to recycle:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeawpcbtw8k.

this was done back in 2006 to parody the ever popular hillsong church in australia.

stuckinarut2

With the increasingly "pop" styles of music being used in the "music videos" each month on jwbroadcasting, here is an idea for the GB to recycle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEAWPcbTw8k

This was done back in 2006 to parody the ever popular Hillsong church in Australia. (A charasmatic revival style church with a focus on music and "prosperity ministry" ideas)

So, just replace a few words here and there with JW vocabulary, and dress them in full suits, and it would be right at home on a monthly broadcast episode!

Enjoy...

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Receiving so much hate recently....

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

well, as you all know, my wife (unstuck) and i are not df or da.. we just stopped attending several years back after my "apostate" online activity was found by a nosey employee of ours while she was working in our office (long story if anyone wants to know - it would have to be another thread).

we never met with any elders - no congregation judicial activity occurred (as we would never consent to do so anyway).

so our policy has been to be the same kind, loving, normal people we have always been.

stuckinarut2

Thanks everyone.

And thanks Flipper! Yes, we maintain that we do NOT hold it against any of these people personally. One day they too may wake up, and we will stand by our offer to always be there for them. Our door of support remains open.

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The glass prison

by Normalfulla in

cognitive dissonance.

a term i came to learn about after waking up as i'm sure many of us here did.

i was thinking of how this condition is similar to the proverbial glass prison, how jw are unknowingly confined by the walls of their belief while observing life around them but are truly captives to a concept as ray put it.. .

stuckinarut2

Thanks @wake me! Full credit to you for making this excellent pic!

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God is going to kill all of his unbelieving children at Armageddon

by Half banana in

jws are taught to think in a childish, simplistic and paranoid way.. the ticket to paradise includes a gory bloodfest of unimaginable proportions.

and jws calmly and unquestioningly trust and even look forward to this happening.. what about the morality of this unprecedented solution to mankind’s problems?

(there is evidence in the earth’s crust that noah’s flood never happened so it doesn’t count as a precedent).. sweep all of your problems under the biblical carpet and you know that god will sort it all out by the ultimate act of near total genocide—or not!

stuckinarut2

Yes, it is simply mind blowing to think that Witnesses try and excuse mass genocide as a "loving act" of God?!?!

Why do we (as people supposedly made in God's image), find the idea of mass murder deplorable? Yet somehow God himself is A-OK with it?!

If I go out and kill a bunch of people now, including children, I would rightly be classed as a psycho and punished. But Jehovah gets to do it, and is PRAISED for it!?

Makes sense to me....(sarcasm alert)

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The glass prison

by Normalfulla in

cognitive dissonance.

a term i came to learn about after waking up as i'm sure many of us here did.

i was thinking of how this condition is similar to the proverbial glass prison, how jw are unknowingly confined by the walls of their belief while observing life around them but are truly captives to a concept as ray put it.. .

stuckinarut2

Nice post NF!

Yes, they think they are free...but in reality they are trapped.

I posted a pic on Instagram a few weeks back with a picture of JWs at a convention. It had a caption that said

None are more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free

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Receiving so much hate recently....

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

well, as you all know, my wife (unstuck) and i are not df or da.. we just stopped attending several years back after my "apostate" online activity was found by a nosey employee of ours while she was working in our office (long story if anyone wants to know - it would have to be another thread).

we never met with any elders - no congregation judicial activity occurred (as we would never consent to do so anyway).

so our policy has been to be the same kind, loving, normal people we have always been.

stuckinarut2

Thank you all again.

Really insightful comments!

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The emotionally manipulative techniques JW families use.

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

i am really disturbed by some methods that jw family members try and use to emotionally manipulate us back into the organization.. one of our fellow posters here has had a family member send several photos of them as a child either out witnessing, and at an assembly.. no words - just those pictures.. it seems such an infantile and manipulative technique to employ?!.

do they think that we will all simply ignore the logical and factual reasons we no longer attend, just because we see some sentimental picture?

do they not see that this actually may reinforce our understanding that we were raised as children in a high-control religious group where we had to please our parents.

stuckinarut2

Brilliant comments OneEyedJoe!