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i heared something the other day that made me sick.. apparentely its been brought out in a talk recently that children are becoming more and more imperfect due to us being right at the end of the system.. i was told that the witnesses are saying that this generation of kids being born have a natural bad streak that makes them so willfull and disobedient.. i don't know what they are saying should be done about it but i imagine they are probably encouraging harsher discipline.. the mind boggles!
Luna2 - " Making small children sit still for hours is cruel"
- that should be obvious to anyone with even half a brain!
Apparently though, our "betters" in the WTS do not even have half a brain -but they still have the affrontery to claim for themselves the sole right to tell us how to live every aspect of our lives.
The majority of kids raised as JWs have more brains than this, and give the whole charade away as soon as they possibly can - and who can ####ing well blame them.
regret, anger frustration?
how about sadness, sorrow, sympathy, understanding, even yearning!.
it can be quite confusing at times.
I mainly feel anger, as I regard them collectively as a hazard in the community.
Since having broken with the WTs, I now understand why I often got a warm reception from the public while engaged in hawking WTS propaganda from door to door.
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honestly, do you think that jw's really like going to 3 or 4 day assemblies, especially when it's out of town, far away, and you have to take a motel room, and all the gas money and food money it takes, as well as having to sit down all day listening to endless talks...and that for 3 or 4 days in a row.. and often, they have to take a day off from work, to attend the friday meeting, so no pay for that day.. i think that the jw's are glad when it's finally over, not before.. .
All JWs that I knew agreed that the assemblies left everyone physically , mentally and emotionally exhausted.
The elders acknowledged this - without actually saying it in so many words.
However, the party line was that this was of no concern, as the assemblies left you "Spritually Refreshed" (whatever that is supposed to mean).
More than a few JWs in the congregation that I was with were open about the fact that the tim ethey looked forward to was when the assembly was over.
common to almost all flavours of the christian faith is the teaching of the ransom.
that the sacrifice of jesus' perfect human life paid back the debt of the perfect human life which our forefather adam had forfeited.. but is it truly a 'corresponding sacrifice'?.
points to consider:.
I never could figure it out, and that was one of the things that concerned me - i.e. I could parrot the WTS official line, and maybe even sound like I believed it.
In the end, I could not kee up the charade any longer!
just wondered as we are a small country compared to the usa, just wondered how many of you have left in the past 4 years or so?
I also have been out for rather longer than four years.
im from a small backward industrial town in the north of england.
in the 70's when i was a kid no-one had a car.
we used to meet for field service on the street corner and have a pep rally right there, then stand in a circle and say a prayer.
It was during the 1970's the WTS brought out a book entitled "Making your Family Life Happy."
As if they'd know the first thing about where to start!
during your time as a jw were there any instances where other jws of the opposite sex young or old, attempted to sexually seduce you?
On this forum you hear of some extremely wild stories.
Did I keep boring company or something?
- Anyway, being a JDub in three different countries and over a 25 year period, I never encountered anything remotely like it!
if someone asked to state briefly why you left the jw brotherhood what would you say?
Because I could not keep up the charade anymore i.e. that only the WTS had THE TRUTH - when, in fact they were wrong about just about everything!
i know this has probably been asked before.. did anything positive come from you being a jw?.
i personally was never a jw....but i have benefited from darling husband being one.
from working on all those quick builds and being involved in all those cleaning businesses.
From originally being a very shy person, I did learn to speak in public - courtesy of the Ministry School.
However, when you take everything into consideration, it was a VERY expensive course in Public Speaking!
i only know of a few witnesses that believe that.
did you feel that the ministry was especially rewarding and gratifying to you?
NO - and the sad thing was, I thought for many years that there must have been something wrong with me - like a point that I was missing.
Of course - there WAS a point that I was missing all-right. It just wasn't quite the one that I imagined!
