i read on another thread how this site has helped another user and that for them it has been a form of therapy.. for me yes, jwn has most certainly been a form of therapy.. i recall the days i first came to jwn (in 2004) and couldn't believe i had found people who were of the same opinion as myself in regards to the society.
it was this site that led me to reading ray franz's book 'crisis of conscience' which i read twice within a week.
it also led me to jw facts that goes into every nook and cranny regarding the society's teachings, policies and history.. note: i also visit many other sites and watch you tube videos a lot, but gravitate here most of the time.. coming here to express my inner most thoughts and feelings has helped me no end and allows me to overcome my frustrations.
in the few years ive been a member--it has surprised me how many have come on here--got what they needed--and moved on..
then--we see a constant stream of new members. every one on the escape route from the watchtower cult: in their own time and pace.
if anyone has a original copy of the finished mystery 1918 they would sell contact me at [email protected].
i cant understand for the life of me why anyone would want one of those books--let alone--buy one -???
it takes all sorts i suppose.
the congregation i attend had it's watchtower study on thursday night because of l.d.c work this week-end, and another congregation i have some not very spiritual friends in had their watchtower study on wednesday.
from what i have delicately prised out of people, the congregations loved the watchtower study this week, saying it was so encouraging and all the usual stuff, with no-one seeming to realise the g.b.
said they're not inspired, so the spirit int he past has moved them to teach wrong things, and all the other ideas excellently summed up on reddit.. today's watchtower will wash over the heads of most j.w's like it never even happened, the all remaining as loyal as ever, and it makes me so, so sad..
i always smile at Fred Franz' lumberjack look.
just passing this on.
it doesn't seem to have been posted here yet.. it's from the website of the daily express.
a 'mid-market' uk tabloid newspaper.
very sad as this story is----it does bear out what ive said before about jw deaths through blood refusals in the UK...they get in the newspapers. so fortunately there are very few in the UK most years.
this is obviously a question for the older generation.
i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.
was the society as strict as it is today?.
i grew up in the cult in the 60's---in Birmingham UK. dipped at 14. left school at 15..pioneering at 16. lots of parties with no parental interference--especially after circuit assemblies on sunday nights. really great fun . lots of drunkeness and smoking ! it wasnt a d/f offence back then.
like most of my jw mates--i just wanted a regular girlfriend. startied courting at 17---a born in with very strict jw parents. most of the guys i knew were having sex in one form or another. a few got d/f if the girl got pregnant.
married at 20.---1968. soon stopped pioneering.
by the time i was 23--i just knew 1975 was utter twaddle---and my wife was now carrying our first of 3...so i had to think long and hard about the blood issue. but it didnt take too long. i threw away all the jehovah myth--and all the shackles that went with it.
i resigned in 1971.. and it made no difference to most of the bros--i attended memorials and the occassional meeting to keep the wife happy. i was never shunned. till '81--then all things changed. ive never looked back or been to a meeting since.
just passing this on.
it doesn't seem to have been posted here yet.. it's from the website of the daily express.
a 'mid-market' uk tabloid newspaper.
hmmm. so the NHS--us taxpayers----have to pay up. i dont somehow think the watchtower management company will lose any sleep.
we are so overjoyed with what is happening in the exjw community!
it is places like this forum where many can have a place to interact anonymously and be felt like they are understood.
you guys are awesome!
It will be even better when the public talk speaker gazes out at all the empty rows.
the congregation i attend had it's watchtower study on thursday night because of l.d.c work this week-end, and another congregation i have some not very spiritual friends in had their watchtower study on wednesday.
from what i have delicately prised out of people, the congregations loved the watchtower study this week, saying it was so encouraging and all the usual stuff, with no-one seeming to realise the g.b.
said they're not inspired, so the spirit int he past has moved them to teach wrong things, and all the other ideas excellently summed up on reddit.. today's watchtower will wash over the heads of most j.w's like it never even happened, the all remaining as loyal as ever, and it makes me so, so sad..
They can all see the king's new clothes.
it's my birthday today, i'm 63. i know your thrilled to hear that and are likely to party hard with wild abandonment, but please be careful not to worship me.
i am only a creature.
it's ok to worship the gb though.
happy birthday mate--69 eh. i beat you to it by 2 months!
how many in your age group are still jehovahs witnesses?
from where we are at, there aren't many left.
each year it gets smaller and smaller haha .
going back to the late 60's. my born in wife and i married in 68..me 20..she 19. a year later i was best man at friends wedding--they were fairly new to the cult.
we went on to have 3 kids over the next 10 years--they other couple waited.
my wife and i divorced in 81--those friends went on to have 2 kids ( ive never met them )
a lifetime goes by.
my ex wife now shuns our son --who was d/f a few years ago. she hasnt seen his 2 year old boy.
those friends ? their daughter left the cult--or was d/f--i dont know which. her father has shunned her for a few years now--she left the UK for Australia.
my son and their daughter are facebook friends.
the watchtower society--wrecking families for nearly 150 years.
