some of you may know my situation.
i'm still going to meetings, but i am a closet apostate and homosexual i. only keep going to meetings to please my family and some friends.
i guess i could tell my mom i no longer want to be a jehovah's witness and stop going to meetings, but i'm too scared to do it.
There is no easy way out, we all had to go through the same pain of losing a marriage , losing kids and losing hundreds of friends.
You cannot stay in and be miserable for the rest of your life. No matter what plan of exit you choose it won't be easy but needs to be done and not living a lie.
As said you will gain a life of freedom and searching of happiness your way and not the watchtower.
Good luck... you can do it.
i remember being at the assembly in 1988?
when this was released.
everyone was so excited that we finally had a simple explanation of revelation with pictures.
Very boring going through so many times especially once you find out the stupidity of all the doctrines.
thankfully my parents are converts so they aren't wierd.
seemed pretty popular by all accounts.
they are "popular" jws even now.
Religious people live in a fantasy world, believe in an imaginary god that never talks to them.
I agree with you about JW's but have seen even wierder ones in other religions.
Anyone that believes that we have been on earth 6000 years has quite a few screws up there missing.
to give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
Have known many witnesses that have "put kingdom first" now in their sixties they are living in a mobile home, which there is nothing wrong with that, but receiving food stamps and section 8 here in California where the state helps you with your rent.
Who is paying for all of that? WE ARE and not their God.
what a massive relief!
thank god i have just found this site the other day!
i don't know where to begin!
Welcome to the board !!!
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20141107/272536636.html.
st. petersburg, november 7 (rapsi) environmental prosecutors office for st. petersburg have uncovered violations by the russian jehovahs witnesses chapter, according to the statement issued by the prosecution on friday.. the prosecutors office reports that the religious organization dumped waste in a creek that flows into the gulf of finland, in upstate st. petersburg, without any permit.. the neva-ladoga water authority confirmed that in 2013, jehovahs witnesses dumped more than 30 thousand cubic meters of waste into the creek.
in 2014, authorities detected a rise in concentrations in ammonium lignosulphonate and fluoride, in violation of the on environmental protection federal law and water code of russian federation.. the prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against dumping waste into the creek.
So sad..being persecuted according to the watchtower for putting kingdom first.
the borg has many inconsistencies, when the topic is helping humble and honest people achieve their full potential.
consider a working man who works 40 to 60 hours a week and still manages to show up to all the meetings, participate, do all of his assigned work within the kh, but his ministry has slipped to 8 hours per month.
this same man is working hard to move up within the ranks only to get shut down without even knowing.. .
I was an elder for 21 years and sad to say many, many good hard working brothers that had family and were working their butts off to provide for them, make meetings but were not able to put no more than 4-5 hours in service they would get no priviliges, not even carrying mikes, reading at the book study or watchtower was out of the question.
If there was any question about the wife or children ...no priviliges.
Looking back it was a very sad situation , looking down on many good hard working brothers and labeling them "weak".
I should say when some of these brothers were needed for their skills in construction at the KH or such at the building ( Romeoville assembly hall) in Chicago the society had no problems in using them.
hey folks......has anyone else heard of, or experienced this before?.
i visited by parents over the weekend and accompanied them to their assembly....same rubbish spoken about since ive been born....obey the gb, donate your last penny, no education and be a pushover.. anyways, our assembly hall has lush vegetation and scenery, so i was more focused on that....i started dozing off after lunch, so got up and went walking, saw some older folks from the congregation i grew up with.. upon the conclusion of the assembly, wed normally leave out right after the prayer ends so as to avoid the traffic.
however, for this assembly he told me that hes gonna be a few minutes with the elders and branch representatives...so a few minutes turned into an hour..
What can they do? NOTHING!!!
They are good in making people feel like shit for not contributing and not giving to " God's appointed men"
Wish they would continue to get sued for millions and millions of dollars.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html#.
the national organization for jehovah's witnesses was ordered to pay $13.5 million to a san diego man who says he was abused as a child by his bible teacher.
nbc 7's rory devine reports on oct. 30, 2014.
Great news.
We need this kind of news daily but feel sorry for the abused.
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i am trying to learn more about the answers people receive when they pray about religion.
so i put together a quick 1 minute survey.
He does not answer prayers.
When people pray and things go well they feel God answered ..when don't receive anything they will excuse God as "he knows best" or " that's not his will"
God cannot do any wrongs , he's always being excused.
