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  I yelled at dubs today ( again )

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i roll up to the job site and looky there, two uber pioneer dubs dragging themselves down the sidewalk.

  both ladies are in there early 60's and born in.. my heart started pumping, but i had to act.i was directly across the street from them.

  i walked right to the sidewalk and said in a very loud, but not mean voice: "you can't teach overlapping generations from the bible!!

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  kairos

  To be perfectly honest, I am very angry, bitter and heartbroken.

  This evil cult ruined my 22 year long marriage, cost me 25 years of my life and the loss of a handful of very good people.
  
  Everyone is different and I choose to yell.
  
  The bigger question is how it effected them and how many dubs they told.
  They will never forget that.
  
  What would they actually say? Future assembly experience:
  
  "He yelled at us, in tongues, and we were scared. He had us cornered on a porch so we prayed to Jehovah right then and there. The demonic apostate could no longer see us, so he went back to work confused..."
  
  < clap, clap, clap, clap >
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  I yelled at dubs today ( again )

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i roll up to the job site and looky there, two uber pioneer dubs dragging themselves down the sidewalk.

  both ladies are in there early 60's and born in.. my heart started pumping, but i had to act.i was directly across the street from them.

  i walked right to the sidewalk and said in a very loud, but not mean voice: "you can't teach overlapping generations from the bible!!

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  kairos

  I yelled so they could hear me.
  They were across the street.
  
  
  
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  I yelled at dubs today ( again )

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i roll up to the job site and looky there, two uber pioneer dubs dragging themselves down the sidewalk.

  both ladies are in there early 60's and born in.. my heart started pumping, but i had to act.i was directly across the street from them.

  i walked right to the sidewalk and said in a very loud, but not mean voice: "you can't teach overlapping generations from the bible!!

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  kairos

  So I roll up to the job site and looky there, two uber pioneer dubs dragging themselves down the sidewalk. Both ladies are in there early 60's and born in.

  My heart started pumping, but I had to act.
  
  I was directly across the street from them. I walked right to the sidewalk and said in a very loud, but not mean voice: "You can't teach overlapping generations from the bible!! Be honest with yourselves!!".
  
  I've known both these two for at least 20 years. Worked in service with both of them on many occasions.
  
  They were stunned and speechless.
  They just stared at me and processed what just happened.
  True deer in the head lights moment.
  I turned and walked away.

  A moment later, I came back out and leaned on the front of my truck in the driveway and watched as they pioneer strutted up to another empty house.

  Then a second bomb was lobbed: "1914 was the generation that would never pass away... They have all died!!"
  
  They were uncomfortable when I said this as they were stepping onto another front porch.
  I could see them mumbling as they were knocking. They must have been on that step for two or three minutes and knocked three separate times.
  
  I felt bad for them and semi ashamed of myself.
  Oh well, it happened...
  
  
  
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  JWs and 9-11. What was your reaction when it happened?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was shocking.. all these years later, i found myself crying for the dead for the first time..

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  kairos

  Thanks for all of the replies.
  
  
  
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  The Wizard of Oz

  by I Faded Twice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone else see the similarities between the wizard of oz and the gb?.

  it's kind of like when the curtain is removed and you find out it's all smoke and mirrors.

  plus dorothy wakes up at the end!.

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  kairos

  Pay no attention the GB behind the curtain...
  
  Are the elders the flying monkeys? :D
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  Adding insult to injury when the WT kicks out a congregation from their hall

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not only does the organization confiscate the hall the congregation owns.

  but then the former congregants are told to continue to pay for utilities and they are still responsible for upkeep and maintenance.

  so they still have to cut the grass etc.

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  kairos

  That moment when you realize the WT is actually a real estate development and sales company...
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  JWs and 9-11. What was your reaction when it happened?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was shocking.. all these years later, i found myself crying for the dead for the first time..

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  kairos

  Do any of you remember the KHs getting a boost in attendance for a few weeks? I do.
  Such urgency.
  
  I guess I wasn't sad at the time, because I was expecting like JWs today, that most would die at Armageddon anyway...
  
  So sick and ashamed to have been a dub...
  

  Do you remember the new field service presentations and words to the JW inactive you came up with?
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  JWs and 9-11. What was your reaction when it happened?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was shocking.. all these years later, i found myself crying for the dead for the first time..

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  kairos

  It was shocking.

  All these years later, i found myself crying for the dead for the first time.
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  Japanese born-in ex, draws manga of dub’s life

  by pokemon55 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ishii saya ,born-in exjw, drew dub’s life as a manga and published it.that manga is drawing attention to the eyes of general public in japan.. https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/54012?page=2.

  translatedit was when i was around ten years old that i noticed the other kids did not receive the jw style physical abuse like i did.some people use belts, power cords.

  my mother had two types of belts and let me choose between “narrow belt” and “wide belt”.

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  kairos

  The more I read of experiences and hear first hand the abuse that exists in this cult, the more I hope something can be done.
  
  There's no reason for any of this.
  Why can't we just live life and be happy?

  The Japanese content above was very real.
  What a sad story.
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  IBSA/JW`s transformation from witnesses of Jesus to witnesses of Jehovah

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when c.t.russell first printed his magazine it was called "zions watchtower and herald of christs presence" was it not ?.

  so obviously he was concerned about witnessing about jesus and announcing his kingdom to all who would listen and read his magazine.it was jesus and his kingdom that he was witnessing about ,and of course those who followed him ,would have done and did the same.. their are over 20 scriptures in the christian greek scriptures telling christians to witness for and about jesus.

  and that was in harmony with what the new testament ( the christian greek scriptures ) is all about ,witnessing to,for,and about jesus christ.. their is not one scripture in the new testament ,the christian greek scriptures that says or even indicates that christians .

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  kairos

  the phrase, 'Jehovah God', always made me cringe.

  Should have noticed it then and turned away. After hearing so many people use the same complaint against us to our face:
  "Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian", was actually the truth all along...