if you once were fully pimi and truly believed jw doctrine to the core like i once did, when you come to the reality that it is not the truth at all it can be extremely devastating.. i think only other ex jws could ever understand.
i wasted my entire life i thought the real life was yet to come to wasted the best years knocking on doors.
now i’m so angry.. i can understand why so many top themselves when they realise it was all lies..
I know this exactly. After realising that , you’re not going to live forever and you only have the allotted 70 years or so, and that you have already wasted most of it .....That is a horrible thing to deal with.
But you do. My awakening was 20 years ago. I am already past the “three score and ten” years so every day is a bonus. I am not good at keeping positive but I try. Just enjoy every day as it comes.
from golden age, march 24, 1926. https://jws-library.one/?file=data/1926/g_e_19260324/g_e_19260324.html#bookmark22.
"many have wondered how accidents would be avoided during christ’s kingdom, since we are told that nothing shall then hurt or destroy.
most accidents are due to gravitation and its effects.
Yes, I was told that accidents are the result of imperfection and we would do that in the New World.....oh well......
That Golden Age quote is priceless, do you think they really meant it seriously?
We all know there is a load of crazy stuff in there.
i've mentioned before how i've wondered how tony morris must have felt when he was sacked.
yes, i know he's a rehensible human being who got served a healthy dose of karma, or, if you like, divine judgement.
to go from having all there is to have within the world he lived in, to where he is now; that's a long fall.
And you know all this ? How ?
All I can say that I really know is that AM3 is no longer on the Gov. Body and his talk videos have been talken down. The rest is speculation, although I admit that it looks like a removal- but I have no facts
growing up as a jw in the 1960s and 1970s, a common refrain from the yearbook, local elders and circuit overseers was how jws were protected at meetings, conventions, and in the field service by "the angels".
experiences of "divine intervention" during service, ww2, in communist lands, and conventions were common.
the internet and google are regularly debunking this myth in the 21st century.
I don’t know where you were, but I was never taught that we had Gods protection at meetings… Now I did hear a few of the more dopey ones say such things but we never took it seriously. Admittedly they did claim such things during WW2 and Nazi Germany but that was different….. so we thought…
a long, long time ago, when i was young, i became a 'special' pioneer.
it meant that i had to spend 150 hours a month, and i received a small allowance.
i was then assigned to a small country congregation, in western nsw (australia).
Thus is the story of small country congregations the world over. Reminds me of the one we moved to when we could get a mortgage and a house. We left the big swinging cong. In the large town and went to dullsville. It was a huge mistake. It was dominated by one or two entrenched families and sons daughters-in-law. I had no idea of the politics of the BOE .. and sad rivalries going on.. Human nature I guess… We moved back a.s.a.p.
I await the next episode of his story
the watchtower—study edition | september 2023. study article 39. let mildness be your strength.
11 if a workmate asks, for example, why we do not celebrate birthdays, consider: could he be wondering whether we are allowed to have a good time?
or might he feel that our position will dampen the company’s team spirit?
That was A very typical pic in the WT and one that very many office working dubs will identify with... As for explaining the reasons, most others are not interested, they just understand that ‘ you people don’t ‘ ... The reasons sound pretty flimsy anyway.
At the rate the WTS is going it won’t be too long before they announce that ‘ The Bible does not mention it so we cannot make rules’ ... Not yet though.
No need to hassle Bribie . I understand completely that letter writing is a deadly boring thing to do. I hated doing it in the past when I needed time. Personally, I never enjoyed H to H ministry, but I have known several who really did . I guess you are one of them.
did you ever go to the haysbridge assembly hall in surrey?.
post your experiences.
the assembly hall i believe used to be a reformed school for boys and was completely renovated and dedicated in 1985.. it was the only assembly hall i knew of that sold souvenir pens, book marks and notepads.. .
I have not heard that it has closed . As far as I know it re opened after Covid. I have many memories of meeting there , I testify to the Nazi style attendants and the roping off of the Balcony…. “ You will sit where WE SAY you will sit”
I helped ( or hindered) on occasion in the rebuilding of it.. I’m not a handyman. We assisted some days in the kitchen too , that was fun.. I remember the names mentioned on here , different era.
if the current doctrine is that only baptised witnesses are going to survive and everyone else burns them what about this new update new light that some from before the flood and sodomites will be resurrected?.
but didn’t he mention at the agm something about there is no point jehovah killing them and then resurrecting them again?
it seems they are confused about what they teach and that’s why brother jackson joked about “is this what we used to believe or what we believe now?”.
I know what has been said about the AGM but I want to hear he the talks fully and in context before I am sure what they are now saying. The devil may be in the detail or what they do not say.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jehovahs-witness-retirement-homes-and-senior-care/ar-aa1jrvoa.
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Jah-Jireh are going strong in England, I know a couple of oldies that have gone there. It is news to me that they are American owned. Their website only speaks of them here with a head office in Preston, England.
