Posts by LongHairGal

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40 Years Ago Today: May 15th 1984 "1914 Generation" issue was released. False prophecy, thy name is WatchTower.

by WingCommander in

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friends

it's incredible how this cover, and also this "series" of watchtower's is burned into my mind.

i was almost 5 years old when these were released.

“1914 and you” — may 1, 1984 watchtower.

LongHairGal

DAGNEY:

It is probably the ‘sunk cost fallacy’ why some JWs stay there…Besides, everybody has their own personal reasons why they really want out.. Maybe some people weren’t personally singled out for anything like I was.

I was treated so badly because I worked full-time, but always had ‘hope’ things would get better.. Silly, I know but that’s the daydreamer I was.

It wasn’t until something concrete happened- like the 1995 Generation teaching - that I knew I had to get out. I realized they were stringing everybody along.. I procrastinated and around 2001 I finally left.. In my observations through JW ‘friends’ in the following years, I was glad that I left.. I’m not much interested in JWs who stay for whatever reason. What’s most important is that I got myself out and have no family there to worry about.

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40 Years Ago Today: May 15th 1984 "1914 Generation" issue was released. False prophecy, thy name is WatchTower.

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

it's incredible how this cover, and also this "series" of watchtower's is burned into my mind.

i was almost 5 years old when these were released.

“1914 and you” — may 1, 1984 watchtower.

LongHairGal

WING COMMANDER:

Yes, that is what really gets me about the Witness religion: ..at least at this point, there appears to be No justice for people harmed by their teachings - whether past or present.

All we can do is be thankful we got Out of there.

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Crisis of Conscience

by Freeatlast2024 in

this is my first time posting to this forum.

let me start by saying i was born and raised as a jehovah’s witness.

i’m thankful that i was raised this way, because i feel it protected me in some ways, especially with regard to moral issues.

LongHairGal

NATHAN NATAS:

Yes, good point.

I don’t idolize anybody on the planet…I’m just glad he wrote his tell-all book. I was already Out of the religion anyway….What I have wondered (and what we can never know) is IF he would have ever written a book at all if he were not shunned, etc.

But, because history happened the way it did, he wrote his book and we all got a look at what goes on behind the curtain in the Witness religion.

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Crisis of Conscience

by Freeatlast2024 in

this is my first time posting to this forum.

let me start by saying i was born and raised as a jehovah’s witness.

i’m thankful that i was raised this way, because i feel it protected me in some ways, especially with regard to moral issues.

LongHairGal

FREEATLAST2024:

Welcome to the forum and that’s a great user name you have.

’Crisis of Conscience’ is a great book. I read it when I was already Out (since 2001). It certainly sealed the deal in my mind that I was right to leave. The 1995 Generation teaching was the last straw for me.

The recent changes in the religion do make some wonder if the religion is just making it up as they go along.. Since I’ve been out so long, they make no difference to me.. But, the one about no longer counting time made me Glad I worked and never caved in the frenzy years ago to be in the ministry!

I have a feeling more JWs will be ‘fading’ or leaving. They have had six months or so to let these changes sink in and maybe have done a lot of thinking/research and decided to call it a day.

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40 Years Ago Today: May 15th 1984 "1914 Generation" issue was released. False prophecy, thy name is WatchTower.

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

it's incredible how this cover, and also this "series" of watchtower's is burned into my mind.

i was almost 5 years old when these were released.

“1914 and you” — may 1, 1984 watchtower.

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

Even if ‘it’ were technically coming tomorrow, I am still Glad I got out of the JW religion.

I’m just grateful I never caved in to pressure to quit my job!.. It makes me cringe to think about the consequences now if I had made this awful mistake… When they got rid of the hourly reporting & time slips at the 2023 annual meeting, I was proved super-right that I never listened all those years ago!

I had enough of them.

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A Few Simple Conclusions

by mrquik in

i had 50 years in.

here's a few (personal) observations to live by:.

1. the one true religion is not here.

LongHairGal

BIAHI:

Certainly... I don’t feel I have to ‘go anywhere’ to worship.

Some JWs who leave the religion feel they have to get involved with something else. Maybe it’s a need to belong or be social.. I was raised Roman Catholic - and after my unpleasant experience with the JWs I have No desire to go anywhere.😮

You might say I am ‘cured’ of religion.

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A Few Simple Conclusions

by mrquik in

i had 50 years in.

here's a few (personal) observations to live by:.

1. the one true religion is not here.

LongHairGal

MRQUIK:

I read your bio. It appears you went back to the JWs after the scare of 1975(?). You were among the ones scared back.. But so many ended up leaving after that. I wasn’t in the religion yet.

I tend to agree with your summation but I wonder about (2).. I also agree after all is said and done that there is NO ‘true’ religion here.. But people can go on believing whatever they want!

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Need help identifying a book

by oncebitten in

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friends

hello all.. i could use some help identifying the title of a wt book that i read back in the early 90's.

it was an older book when i read it.

i wish that i could recall more than i do.

LongHairGal

JHINE:

If somebody wants to engage they will. Sometimes they can’t be bothered.

NICOLAOU:

Because it would descend into stalking and insults and some FUs on the part of some individuals here who have a problem.

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Need help identifying a book

by oncebitten in

jw
friends

hello all.. i could use some help identifying the title of a wt book that i read back in the early 90's.

it was an older book when i read it.

i wish that i could recall more than i do.

LongHairGal

JHINE:

There could be a few reasons for a downvote:

It could be a fat-fingered mistake or a person could disagree with some of your post OR all of your post.. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything you said was wrong or untrue.. They just don’t like it. Some people on the forum (maybe lurking JWs) are upset that a particular thing is even said in the first place.

Sometimes maybe some don’t want to engage with argumentative people and they downvote instead.

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The self-appointed "slave" said this - in 1935

by BoogerMan in

watchtower august 15th 1935 - "...the greatest of all tribulations mentioned in the scriptures must come after the great multitude appears and must be that which is mentioned by christ jesus as “tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time.” that tribulation period began with the “day of jehovah”, to wit, in 1914, when the war started against satan’s organization in heaven, and reaches the great climax at the time of the battle of armageddon, the great day of god almighty.

110 years - and counting!.

other denominations claim the great tribulation is only going to last for 7 years.

LongHairGal

ONCEBITTEN:

Since I wasn’t raised a Witness, I cannot imagine what it must be like for anybody who desperately wants to get their family out of the JW religion! Even though things weren’t all peachy in my home to say the least, I had somewhat of a ‘normal’ childhood and don’t feel the deprivation that some raised in the religion have.

I cannot imagine the heartbreak of shunning from loved ones. Strangers in the hall? Couldn’t care less. But, a loved one I would mind. That’s why I’m glad I had no family there that these evil zombies could use against me.

I wish you all the best in finding a way to free your family from this terrible trap.