"when the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies" jefferson airplane.
until that is you find websites like this!
i want to say a big thank you to all of you for everything i've learned here, as well as jwfacts, jwsurvey, coc, isocf etc.. i'm a born in and i spent more than two decades of my adult life in full time 'service' for the (b)org.
Welcome. So glad you are here. This site has helped us so much. Kind of like therapy. We love hearing the perspective of ex eldubs. I find it interesting that you used 2 words to describe WT. These are the same 2 words I use to describe their actions....abuse and bullying. This is the main reason we left 3 years ago, then we learned TTATT.
We look forward to hearing more from you.
my comments are below in yellow.... .
friday, april 29. when under trial, let no one say: “i am being tried by god.”—jas.
1:13.. we may become impatient when a trialsome period seems to have no end.
Don't you know God only brings extra sand when you are building a Kingdom Hall and he fixes leaks in roofs. He does not stop typhoons that hit Kingdom Halls, stop buses on their way to assemblies from crashing and he certainly can not stop a child from being molested.
JW's... the best cherry pickin cult around!
just to say a big hello.
i have been reading this site for some time now and have been very unhappy with some of the things emanating from watchtower head quarters in new york.
the final straw for me is the upcoming watchtower study this weekend encouraging us to shun our own family members (our own mothers if need be) if they are disfellowshipped....a step too far for my liking.
i ran into my old bible study at the kingdom hall recently, he was baptized as a jw 8 years ago.
we started talking about small things and catching up about our families and then the bombshell.. "my wife and i are deeply troubled by the watchtower change of doctrine, prophecy, and their history"!
"did you know about charles russell and his failed marriage... his view of pyramids... generation mistakes... and dates... that place in california for returning prophets..."and on and on he went.. i told him i knew all about it and then show him a publication on display in the foyer (i think it is divine plan of the ages), and it had a fold out of a pyramid and a description on bible verses that showed 1914 was the year the big a was going to happen.
I think more and more people are scratching their heads on some of this.
So many do not know about Russell and his crazy pyramid scheme (lol) and the Beth Sarim mansion. I know if I told others I was going to buy a big yacht so all the Princesses (Sarah, Naomi, Rachel, etc) could come back and share my lovely yacht, my family and friends would reserve a room with rubber walls. Russell was an apostate, he left his original religion to start a new one. It's a man made religion. Watch the video, Faith in Action, and you will see how it is all man made. The first few minutes of this video really opened our eyes. We watched it years before our exit and just looked at each other with that perplexed, WTF look.
James, I wonder if he has read Crisis of Conscience. That would be a mind blower for him. It was for us!
a new exjw couple started a youtube channel.
found on reddit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wenk0_vhp9k.
witnesses are so anxious, stressed, highly strung..... so much for ones who are supposed to be "the happiest people"..... thoughts?.
Outlaw, you always make me laugh.
This is a great post Stuck! Reading over the posts makes you really reflect and fully understand that others see what you see. It is so nice to see others comments and perspectives. I love it.
witnesses are so anxious, stressed, highly strung..... so much for ones who are supposed to be "the happiest people"..... thoughts?.
Most of our family and friends (still in JW's) are on some form of anti depressant or anti anxiety prescription drug. They openly admit it. One of my close friends calls them happy pills. I completely understand that some people truly need prescription meds but the large # of people we know that are on meds are still attending the meetings. It really makes you question the "happiest people on the planet" statement. Happy? Really?
a four minute lesson on how to be ultra spiritual.
:).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kdso5elfrg&list=plvqokx7e2qhefig5iegokq4pczff8iscx.
