Posts by Margie

I agree with Ohiocowboy; you and your dad obviously have a very loving relationship. Your most recent letter is extremely touching. I really hope you can get through to him.

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Do JWs believe all wordly people die at armageddon?

by XQsThaiPoes in

i was wondering a few things.

i am trying to avoid the complexe question fallacy so excuse me if this is worded strangely instead of just saying "do jws believe all wordly people die at armageddon?"..

1) did the watchtower change its teaching on the great tribulation and armageddon enought for you to call it a major change?.

Margie

your mother tells you "When you left it felt like a death in the family"...yup we're all carrion...

Agreed. But I'm one of the lucky ones. I don't need to feel bad about it because my mom told me that in the New System, she and the rest of the family won't even remember that I ever existed. You know, because Jehovah's a loving god and wouldn't want his people to be sad.

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question about marriage?

by l3gi0n in

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i know how divorce is viewed in this religion, but what about annulment?.

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Margie

I don't believe there is any such thing among JWs.

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Do they expect everyone to have a MONEY TREE???

by recoveringjw in

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ooh!

i am so mad, i don't even know if i am posting under the right subject!.

my parents (still thick as thieves with the jw's--dad's an elder) were asked to move to myrtle point, or last year because their congregation was not doing so well and they needed some help.

Margie

RecoveringJW,

First, happy big 3-0. I hope you have a wonderful birthday.

Second, I can see why you're so angry! If you have the $$ to spare, buying the guitar from your Dad would be a very kind gesture. I know, believe me, how hard it is to see people you love not have the things they need -- even if they're doing it to themselves. I hope things start looking up for them soon.

Regards,

Margie

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When an Elder assigned to give a talk is a no show.

by Blueblades in

has it happened in your congregation?

an elder is going to be late, stuck in traffic or lost, and dosen't show up at all!.

according to the society's guidelines, ( yes!

Margie

Once they were too lazy to give the impromptu, they said everyone could go home an hour early...

Oh my God! That would be like Christmas! Why didn't that eveer happen in my hall?

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Witnesses do gamble

by JH in

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we all know that witnesses say that they don't gamble, but do they?

i don't mean gambling with lotteries, i mean gambling with life.. many witnesses attend meetings and follow the jw way of life, not because they like it, but because they are afraid of dying at armageddon, so they gamble with their current life, or take a chance, and follow the group, just incase they would win eternal life with the witnesses.

some give away nice life oportunities, marriage, good jobs etc, and gamble all that away, for possibly a better prize..

Margie

Actually, 3 out of the 4 active JWs in my family literally gamble. As in, they go to casinos to play blackjack, craps, etc. Of course, as the only never-baptised person in my family (and one who enjoys the casinos, myself), they've all individually gone to one or more casinos with me, but never with one another. They also all seem to think that they're the only ones in who do this and I'm not allowed to tell my father, for example, that my brother won $1000 at craps last month. It's so bizarre that they're all living the same double life and feeling so guilty about it. I'm SO GLAD my sin can just be out in the open; I definitely don't have enough of a duplicitous nature do to what they do.

ETA: Of course, this works out just fine for me since I can always say, "I'll bet you're going to pay for my drinks so that I don't accidentally slip and mention this excursion next time I talk to Mom."

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What Is The Most Successful Way To Get Rid of Jehovah's Witneses?

by minimus in

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any ideas???

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Margie

I live outside any territory that my family was ever in, so on those rare instances when I've been visited, the JW's don't know or recognize me. After letting them do their introductory spiel, what has always worked for me is to say, "I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and my family still practices. I know all about the teachings and I am REALLY not interested. But thank you and have a nice day," and I close the door as I deliver the last sentence. They probably figure that I'm some DF'ed pagan who wants to drink their blood and sacrifice them to Satan because it works every single time.

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AHA! Moments. When you were a JW; what struck you the hardest counter?

by Terry in

sooner or later every jehovah's witness encounters an intelligent person with facts at their disposal who can unload something that causes a doubt.

naturally, you defend against it.

but, the wind has been knocked out of your belief-system however briefly.

Margie

I was raised as a JW by my JW parents and being a JW never felt right to me. I always felt like I was wearing someone else's ill-fitting clothes or something. Anyway, when I was in 10th grade, I was in a class in which we were learning about cultural archetypes. Suddenly it hit me that religious beliefs were like that. I remember being shocked and thinking that every religion I knew anything at all about seemed to serve the same set of purposes for its believers: explaining the world around them; giving them a set of rules to live by; helping them feel less afraid of death; and giving them the sense of an conscious being greater than themselves. The rest of the stuff (e.g., discomfort with the subservient role of women, dislike of the restrictions and responsibilities, etc.) developed later.