hi , this is my first post .. i left jws 30 years ago as 18 year old unbaptised youth and after the initial fallout from leaving pretty much put the whole thing in a box and buried it .. however , i am now starting to realise how much the doomsday messages and the ‘them and us’ doctrines that’s fed to you from birth has remained in my core beliefs.. how have others managed to reprogram themselves ?.
thanks for reading , have a good day .
dd.
an hour agoDD to quote properly, copy someones comment
Paste it into the comment box first , continue on typing out your own reply
then to finish , highlight the person's comment and click the Quote link at the top menu and you will see that it creates its own yellow box and wallah
thanks Fink--i never knew that
hi , this is my first post .. i left jws 30 years ago as 18 year old unbaptised youth and after the initial fallout from leaving pretty much put the whole thing in a box and buried it .. however , i am now starting to realise how much the doomsday messages and the ‘them and us’ doctrines that’s fed to you from birth has remained in my core beliefs.. how have others managed to reprogram themselves ?.
thanks for reading , have a good day .
dd.
hi Double decker--a warm welcome here
you:" has remained in my core beliefs."
would you care to say what your core beliefs are ?
well, these stories are always fun, right?
let me share mine.. my husband and have been pimo for 2 years.
inactive for one year.
hello Erinee--welcome to the forum.
: and welcome to the rest of your life.
hope to read a lot more from you!
i was musing on how many small churches there are.
a single congregation made of moderate income people.
often the pastor has a job on the side.
i was a baptised teenager in the 60's..in birmingham UK. there were 3 circuits that covered the area; so about 30 congregations i imagine. very few had their own hall. most rented school halls, community buildings or anything they could find. it was the dream of most dubs to have their own halls..something to aspire to. it all started to happen in the 70's.
ive no idea how many have recently been stolen.
the watchtower and awake have been considered as the most read magazines by christians.
do you think that all christians agree on it?.
source:.
i wonder how many dubs actually read them ?
i was looking at my children's watch history on youtube when i saw that they were watching atheist content!!!
what should i do?
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HIT AND RUN TROLL. did its job..got lots of replies.
i just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.
at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.
the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.
i remember hearing my pioneer partner's older brother being d/f for adultery. that would be about 1963.
here is the updated chart based on jw.org provided statistics found here: link to 2019 statistics.
anything that stands out to you ?.
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what does it mean.." money spent on pioneers '?
several of the jws i know have recently graduated/incorporated wifi sensitivity into their (self) diagnosis of chemical sensitivity.
they seem to be particularly terrified of the new 5g, with some even believing that it's the new 5g that's causing coronavirus in china.
the fact that even though they maybe able to turn off their own wifi but will still have all the other wifi signals around them doesn't seem to occur to these jws.
hardly surprising these dubs think like this--after all it takes a certain kind of mentality to fall for the watchtower scam in the first place.
besides the media center they are going to build in n.y. it's been noted they are also building one and a studio in australia.
there is no way donations can cover these massive projects.
so the money will have to come from the sale of the remaining halls.
It used to be the norm in the UK to rent places for weekly meetings. Often school's for evening and sunday sessions. Very few actual KHs back then..the 60s.
