I feel very foolish. I made some poor life decisions that were only made because of my belief in a lie and now I have to live with them. Too bad we didn't have the internet 30 years ago, my life story would be a lot different.
IWillBeDubbedNoMore
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Do You Feel Foolish For Ever Having Been A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus ini was raised as a witness, so i don't feel bad for my past but i wish that i could have left a bit earlier..
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I was a False Prophet
by IWillBeDubbedNoMore ini was a false prophet.
i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.
i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
Thank you Leavingwt I don't comment much on the forum, but I feel at home here.
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I was a False Prophet
by IWillBeDubbedNoMore ini was a false prophet.
i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.
i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
I was a false prophet. I would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that I had special knowledge that I was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind. I proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone I came in contact with, that the world would end within a generation’s time from 1914. I spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.
I falsely spoke telling them that I was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world. If they accepted what I was speaking to them, they would be among the sheep that would be protected in the spiritual ark of which I was a crewmember.
I falsely spoke when I told them to hurry time was wasting. I told them it wasn’t necessary to get an education or save for retirement. They shouldn’t waste their time, for the end was coming soon.
I falsely spoke when I told them that this world was an evil place and beware of everyone that doesn’t listen and accept what I had to say. I explained to them that Satan might even use their own family to try to stop them from listening to me and the more they accepted my proclamations the more pressure their family would put on them.
I told them that if their friends made fun of them then they were jealous of their new calling and that they were not really their friends after all.
I even trained others to be false prophets as well. We proclaimed our false teachings side by side laughing at those that ridiculed our teachings. Pronouncing the condemnation of these evildoers to death and that the birds would eat them and we would live in their homes.
I introduced my pupils to my masters who hid behind the Great Tower. From where they directed our every move. They were the masterminds behind it all. I was just one of their puppets.
As time went on, the head prophets ( The Masters pulling my strings) decided to stop these false teachings because it was becoming too obvious that they were in fact false and it was getting harder to fool people. . So, they cleverly changed the false teachings to new ones. Giving us instructions to stop with the old lies and use the new lies. They figured these new teachings could last awhile before the people got wise and then they would have to change them again.
I could not go on with this charade any longer and now I am no longer a false prophet. Because I will not do the bidding of my former masters anymore, they now view me as one of the condemned evildoers.
I only hope that those I fooled with my cunning realize the charade and follow me once more, but this time to freedom.
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Check out my friend's daughter's band!
by gubberningbody inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8waekj2szx0.
mustang sally (she's keyboard).
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
They look like they are enjoying themselves. I wish them success
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PLEASE- I need the Awake article on Celebrating Anniversaries
by annalice indoes anyone have a copy of the awake that has an article about celebrations and anniversaries?
i need to be able to get a download of it, not just re-typed but an actual photo copy of the page.
you know how jw's are if they dont see it in its original format they will say that it was added to or copied wrong.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
Oh wow Thank you Mickey mouse
So much for their great spiritual understanding and most accurate translation
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PLEASE- I need the Awake article on Celebrating Anniversaries
by annalice indoes anyone have a copy of the awake that has an article about celebrations and anniversaries?
i need to be able to get a download of it, not just re-typed but an actual photo copy of the page.
you know how jw's are if they dont see it in its original format they will say that it was added to or copied wrong.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
Ridiculous article. My nephew's birthday was at the beginning of the month so I sent him an e-mail wishing him a Happy Uncle's Day explaining it was the anniversary of me becoming an Uncle. It was my way of acknowledging his birthday, but not making him uncomfortable.
I never believed birthdays were wrong. I always thought that Job's children were celebrating each others birthdays.
Job 1:4 "And his sons went and held a banquet at the house of each one on his own day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them."
Did anyone else think that?
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Jacksons birthday burial may make things harder on his children
by Dogpatch injacksons birthday burial a family issue.
michael jacksons aug. 29 burial points to a power shift within the jackson family that could ultimately affect jacksons three children.. up until recently, michaels mother katherine was making the major family decisions, but the decision to schedule the burial for jacksons birthday was largely joe jacksons.. katherine didnt want it (the burial) on his birthday, neither did rebbie (jacksons oldest sister), said a close family friend.
both katherine and rebbie jackson are jehovah's witnesses, and do not celebrate birthdays, but the religious reason isn't their only objection.. (katherine and rebbie jackson feared) it would turn the burial into a spectacle that will be hard for the kids to not be swept up in," the friend said.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
Too bad they can't seem to stand up to Joe Jackson. This is supposed to be a private funeral and yet it is plastered all over the news. It should have been announced after he was laid to rest, not before.
I feel so sad for those kids. Their lives are like a crazy roller coaster ride with no end in sight.
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Selection of the JWs in 1918/1919 - how might a JW attempt to show from the Bible
by insearchoftruth ini had asked my wife, who is in the study phase with a jw sister about the selection of the jws by jc in 1918/1919 time frame and she had actually never heard of that.. the husband of this woman she is studying with has been chomping at the bit to talk to me...well my wife said she will ask him to come show me, using only the bible, how this selection was made...of course she did not clear this request with the dubman before telling me she would do this.. i am guessing he will be there when i get home from work tomorrow, she is also torturing our son with a bs now (her son from a previous marriage).. what sort of reach do you think he will try to make to show this...i am guessing he will try to show 1914 from the daniel/revelation stuff, if he does this i am going to ask him to show 607bce from a non jw source....since i believe it is 586/587 bce as a starting date......i hope to keep him on the 1918/1919 topic, and have some examples of their beliefs from that era to talk about as well.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
coffee_black said "They believed that Adam was the first Pharoah and was buried in the Sphynx. "
I would really appreciate where I could find proof of this statement. I downloaded the special March Watchtower of 1918, but found no results.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
The highest was over 200 at which point there was a split. That was twenty years ago. Both congregations maintained around 100 for a long time. Then there was a slow drop to around 70 at mine. Last I heard, the two congregations merged together again and that there are around 100 in attendance.
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Why were you baptized?
by bluecanary ininspired by another thread.. i was baptized at 12 years old.
i had a cousin, two years older than me, who was prettier, more outgoing and more popular in the hall than i was.
i couldn't beat her at any of that stuff, but i figured i could be a better jw than she was.
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IWillBeDubbedNoMore
I was baptized at the age of 19. I wasn't pressured or forced to do it. I loved God and wanted to dedicate my life to him. I was baptized before the two questions changed, so I still feel that my baptism is valid. As I explained to mt family, I dedicated my life to God, not an organization.