When the PO in our congo and elder talked to me about my non-baptized not a publisher adult daughter getting married to an unbeliever (though she was not a believer herself and has an unbelieving Dad to boot) he told me the bible story of Phinehaus and how he drove the tent peg through the groin of the man and the woman and that is how Jehovah feels towards my daughter. When he told me this he looked like he enjoyed himself saying it and chills ran up my spine because at that moment I felt like this is something he would like to do, as he told me that we need to feel like Jehovah feels about things. His thinking scared me and I went home in a state of shock. He felt very dark to me and threatening. I almost felt as if I should call the police. I think I am still in therapy because of things like this.
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Verbal Abuse in Jehovahs Witnesses
by truthbeliever ini dont know much about physical abuse in the jehovahs witnesses,but there is sure alot of verbal abuse.i was verbally abused for many years in the congregation by a high up elder,who didnt know anything about his own religion,and a ministerial servant i will call jerkwad abusive.
(almost sounds like a jedi doesn't it?
)this punk was a first class liar,jerk,and cared very little about the organization.here's how his cycle of abuse would work:he would do a mean thing,you would become offended,then he would say if you didnt work it out with him,he would go to the elders.you would then forgive him,and then next week,he would do it again.nice,huh?when i first joined the organization,they told me to never tell anybody in the world about any incidences like that,or i would bring reproach on jehovahs name.i wanted to tell somebody,especially the cops,but never did.has anybody else had any experiences like this?god bless.
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But Jehovah is such a loving God!!!..........
by ohiocowboy in.
and this link proves it.......... http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html.
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Triple A,
Even though my faith has been damaged it is a comfort to know that there are those out there who believe in a loving God.
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Verbal Abuse in Jehovahs Witnesses
by truthbeliever ini dont know much about physical abuse in the jehovahs witnesses,but there is sure alot of verbal abuse.i was verbally abused for many years in the congregation by a high up elder,who didnt know anything about his own religion,and a ministerial servant i will call jerkwad abusive.
(almost sounds like a jedi doesn't it?
)this punk was a first class liar,jerk,and cared very little about the organization.here's how his cycle of abuse would work:he would do a mean thing,you would become offended,then he would say if you didnt work it out with him,he would go to the elders.you would then forgive him,and then next week,he would do it again.nice,huh?when i first joined the organization,they told me to never tell anybody in the world about any incidences like that,or i would bring reproach on jehovahs name.i wanted to tell somebody,especially the cops,but never did.has anybody else had any experiences like this?god bless.
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Yes, it exists. There were many verbally/emotionally abusive ones I knew over the years. Sister Self righteous who always had some cutting remark about others and would be downright rude to your face if she didn't like the way you dressed or conducted your personal affairs, etc. There was brother Jokerman who always joked about everything--even when my mother-in-law passed away he had a joke about it (he was an elder too). There were brother and sister Insensitives who were always reminding me that my unbelieving family was going to die die die....Of course we wer programmed into believing that they were all well meaning and we were supposed to keep showing love and kindness and forgiveness towards them no matter how rude and nasty and ugly they were. And these stories went on and on.. How do you spell abuse???
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But Jehovah is such a loving God!!!..........
by ohiocowboy in.
and this link proves it.......... http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html.
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How about all the GOOD Jehovah has done? IE: Creation, families, love, happiness, health, good friends, SENDING HIS SON, etc.? Are we going to ignore all the positive and focus only on what we believe to be negitive??
FLASH Yes, and according to the WT and my most recent elder/CO visitthreatening meencouraging me to come back to the Org I was given the old line of how I am sogullible and stupidspecial and privedged that Jehovah called me into hisabusive cultloving Organization and shook me out of the nations because I was something worthwhile. This got me to thinking later--now that my faith is totally destroyed by the Org to the point that I don't really believe in God anymore. Why if God called me and then kept me around for all those years did he reject me in the end? Why did he do the same to so many others who I knew over the years--some very good people have come into and then gone out of the Org over the years. If God has truly called us because he knew our hearts were so pure and good--did he make a mistake-can he really read our hearts afterall? In the end I committed no sin, but to practice unconditional love towards non-JW family and friends. If God is all loving and merciful why would he reject me for that??? Unless of course the WT God doesn't want us to practice unconditional love.....??? -
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The Surreal JW Horror show our agony and anguish
by Undaunted Danny inthe anguish and the agony of having to renounce the lifelong convictions of one's heart.the surreal horror to know that it was all a lie!
for the 33 years that i was a j-ho,the central theme of discussion among active jehovah's witnesses was their inescapable mortality.here i am 47 years old and the onset and onrush of middle-age can be overwhelming and devastating.
when they die they don't go to heaven.many like myself,squandered our youth for the watchtower.years of are vital prime spent in the borg are gone now forever.
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gdt,
With all due respect to you , Danny is not the only victim of WT abuse. There are thousands of us out here. The WT Org sugarcoats itself, but in reality it is a cult religion which manipulates and controls its members quite sadistically at times. I have my own horror stories here, but I have seen and read some much worst than mine. After 20 years of WT programming I was quickly slapped into reality by my own little surreal JW Horror show. It all fell apart for me then and I found out more than I suspected to be true. I was lied to and threatened by elders and by the society. My sin? I loved my family unconditionally...For this I was persecuted and thrown out with the trash. Family and friends still under WT control do not respect you unless you continue to follow the Org and they follow the Org by rejecting you...How righteous is that?
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The Surreal JW Horror show our agony and anguish
by Undaunted Danny inthe anguish and the agony of having to renounce the lifelong convictions of one's heart.the surreal horror to know that it was all a lie!
for the 33 years that i was a j-ho,the central theme of discussion among active jehovah's witnesses was their inescapable mortality.here i am 47 years old and the onset and onrush of middle-age can be overwhelming and devastating.
when they die they don't go to heaven.many like myself,squandered our youth for the watchtower.years of are vital prime spent in the borg are gone now forever.
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I didn't lose my whole family, but have lost parts of it along with years of friendships all because of the cruel rulership of the WT Org. They are gone from me now and my only hope of ever seeing them again is by some miracle that they will escape the WT Org. But the WT walls of denial are thick and built up with many levels--fear being its most powerful. And it is most definately surreal and horrible to lose your family and friends and to know that so many are suffering and in anguish because of this Org--I know, because like so many others here I am also in the middle of this madness.
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Faithless apostate ridiculers, disaster is sure to befall you - July 15 WT
by truthseeker inhere are some loving, choice words from the watchtower empire.. .
july 15 - first study article page 10 .
do you find delight in the law of jehovah?.
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sisters putting kleenex on their heads before praying.
I once saw a sister say all that she had was a diaper to put on her head to conduct the service meeting (she had a baby, thus a bag full of diapers). Another self-righteous uptight sister got so insulted at this sister even suggesting the thought of the diaper on the head she chastised her in front of everyone and said that it would show great disrespect to Jehovah. Sister self righteous was so indignant she stormed out of the service meeting and didn't go out in service that day leaving sister diaper head hanging her head in shame and embarrassment. Another insane story from my JW archives.
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If you had the choice ,when you became a jw,,,,,,,
by kls inwould you have been better off being born in to it or have been better off being recruited as an adult .
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what are the pros and cons of both.
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I am glad I was not born into it. I already had a group of friends and had other things going on in my life. I came into the Org into a congo with a lot of people my age and a lot more liberal than the last one I attended. I had just had a child and I was suffering from post partum depression and low self esteem. I was in pain and easily lead (I didn't want my baby to die at Armegeddon did I?) I was programmed with fear and at the same time love bombed and given a sense of protection.
But I never totally gave myself up. I was married to an unbeliever and lead a double life with a whole set of non-JW friends and family.
When I finally became spiritually saturated (fed up) with everything I had seen and experienced I flipped out and then separated myself from the Org. I was in for over 20 years and there has been a lot of damage done with the spiritual programming and all, but I think it would be harder to leave if that is all you have ever known and lived. JW parents do their children an injustice by not giving them their freedom of choice. Afterall they claim that God extends this freedom of choice to all mankind...the Org lies...
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Faithless apostate ridiculers, disaster is sure to befall you - July 15 WT
by truthseeker inhere are some loving, choice words from the watchtower empire.. .
july 15 - first study article page 10 .
do you find delight in the law of jehovah?.
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Before the WT I believed in a loving God.
After the WT I don't trust anything to do with religion.
They killed God for me.
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July WT. Contradicts Itself Regarding "Unbelievers"
by minimus ini was reading the july wt.
at my mother's yesterday and the qfr asked about who should and shouldn't be viewed as an "unbeliever".
if a person was attending meetings and might even be an "unbaptized publisher" they should not be considered an "unbeliever".
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There were 2 "qualified"baptized brothers in our congo that were near to my daughter's age. I tell you the truth they are both on medication for mental health problems--they have both been in the mental hospital and one is Dfd now (went to prison for a while last year). the other one beat it out of town and we have heard rumours that he is now living a "double life." I kid you not. And, I am supposed to feel bad that she married a mentally balanced kind hearted unbeliever?