i was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
I had two Witness men knock on my door over a year ago.
They were working the area and didn’t know me. I was polite to them but gave them an abbreviated story of my experience as a working person who got ‘shunned’ . I said I wouldn’t have retired if I didn’t work.
I said I’d never go back to the religion and am not interested in being asked to give money or charity for people there who hardly worked if at all.. So, I doubt these JWs would call on me again!🤣
i was once was told by an jw elder it was a rule not to gossip or swear as it could harm someone, but i guess the new light allows this.
it was bad enough when they were calling people worldly now i heard a jw gossiping about someone and it was mean.just another reason i would never go back.
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NANCY1919:
Yes, welcome to the forum.
Witnesses have perfected gossip to an art. There’s absolutely nothing like it! Sadly, they are lacking in Christian qualities like love, kindness and compassion.. Instead, they are filled with secret jealousies, pettiness and every other evil.. All under the mask of righteousness, of course.
Everybody got gossiped about there back when I was in - but it was people like me on the fringes who worked a full-time job that got panned and shunned the most! Also, I wasn’t raised in the religion and there was a subtle bias against people who were not.
I finally ‘Faded’ out of there after their 1995 Generation teaching. Time to leave. I knew they didn’t know what they were talking about and were just stringing everybody along!
this is an excellent thread to read that i saw yesterday and the poster hits the nail on the head and tells it so well.
he is really knocking pimi witnesses and has a lot of well deserved criticisms about them.. he says he hopes at this point that they never wake up….
i am inclined to feel the same.
NANCY:
Sad. But this is the delusion too many Witnesses are under after believing false stories and urban legends.. It’s even more tragic when Witnesses were deceived into shunning their own flesh & blood children when they were younger.
Back when they were younger and on their high-horse..their ‘friends’ in the hall encouraged them to shun their inactive children… Well, where are these Witness friends now that said Witnesses reach 90+ years old?? This is the problem listening to stupid people in the hall. They will either move away or pass away. They aren’t gonna be there for anybody!
So, Misguided JWs imagine the Witnesses are going to ‘take care of them’. 🤣 Nothing could be further from the truth. Besides, this multi-billion dollar religion/organization has NO social programs whatsoever. So, there’s no department for free care of the aging! 🤣The religion is notorious for kicking people out of bethel after 30 years with no severance pay, etc…But yet foolish JWs will believe absurdities like this one.
It’s all a mirage and too bad more people there won’t see it. But that’s what happens when you believe a whole lot of fantasies. 👎
this is an excellent thread to read that i saw yesterday and the poster hits the nail on the head and tells it so well.
he is really knocking pimi witnesses and has a lot of well deserved criticisms about them.. he says he hopes at this point that they never wake up….
i am inclined to feel the same.
PHIZZY:
Yes, it is unfortunately true that people who leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses lose their friends, contacts and sometimes family members! Even if you don’t lose all your friends right away, in time they will all be gone.
I understand these losses are really terrible for born-ins and I wish there was a way to alleviate this.. For somebody like me..who was NOT raised in and came in a young working adult with no family there - the loss was nonexistent.
I view the Witnesses like people I worked with on an unpleasant job I had years ago.
I was so elated to be done with it (I ‘Faded’ after the 1995 Generation teaching) and to reconnect with relatives/old friends that it was well worth it to ‘lose’ judgmental acquaintances.... Likewise, it was worth every nickel to be shunned (by these PIMI die-hards) because I worked full-time.
My experience in the JWs was a life lesson learned and I’m glad it’s all in the past.
this is an excellent thread to read that i saw yesterday and the poster hits the nail on the head and tells it so well.
he is really knocking pimi witnesses and has a lot of well deserved criticisms about them.. he says he hopes at this point that they never wake up….
i am inclined to feel the same.
This is an excellent thread to read that I saw yesterday and the poster hits the nail on the head and tells it so well. He is really knocking PIMI Witnesses and has a lot of well deserved criticisms about them.. He says he hopes at this point that they never wake up…
I am inclined to feel the same. These are the die-hard people really responsible for all the unchristian and unforgivable attitudes in the congregation. They all thought they were hot sh#t.. Such smugness and arrogance and they all thought they would be walking into the ‘new system’ hand in hand. Never thought they’d reach senior years in ‘this system’ and all the hardship that entails. Now they are upset and maybe a little bitter.. Most are not happy about the changes to the religion.
Well, I wish Happy Holiday Greetings to all these die-hard Witnesses.. Boy am I Glad I got Out!!
seems like i just pop in here every now and then to see what everyone is up to.
just like the previous years, i check in during the holidays to let everyone know about the annual christmas card exchange.. blondie used to lead this several years ago and i was involved for about 3 to 4 years before it began to fall off.
for those of you who participated back then, i still have your addresses and have just sent off this year's christmas cards to everyone.
GARY NEAL:
Happy Holiday Season to you as well.🎄
a single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.
i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.
my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..
HAPPY DAD & DOCTOR WHO:
What horror stories.
It was typical of people in the Witness religion to not warn an unsuspecting sister that the brother she intends to marry has something VERY wrong with him. This could be pertaining to a criminal nature, a disease or some other ‘quirk’ that exposes him as worthless!
These useless people will gossip about every other damn thing under the sun, but yet will keep quiet about something as serious as this!.. I would have wanted to know these things if I were seeing someone! ..Looking back, it’s just as well I never got involved with anybody there!
(because they told us so in a wt!.
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10 - "another reason why many feel there is no place for them in the service of god is due to the clergy-laity distinction that is fostered in the churches.
NO ZOMBIE:
Exactly! Uttering this statement makes it so! They just aren’t wearing the purple robes. They want to have it both ways it seems🙄.
I would describe the Witnesses as having a ‘plain clothes’ clergy.
what i would like to see and maybe will get there in about another ten years is being a jw is a rewarding thing that enriches your life.. just like other religions out there you may not know the entire truth and maybe not quite right many of the beliefs but to have to idea of a belief centres and stabilises you.. i would like jws to be able to celebrate birthdays and maybe even other holidays if they choose to and not be judged by those who choose not to.. i would like jws to be allowed to have different interpretations of scripture and everyone is happy to agree to disagree and be able to say to each other yes maybe that interpretation is nearer the truth.
we just don’t know.. i would like new members of the gb to issue an apology for previous members getting so many things wrong.. they need to come out and say they were wrong about 1914 this date has no scriptural significance and the same is true of 1919. jws were not chosen in 1919 as the one and only true religion.. we just don’t know about so many things and it takes humility to admit we were wrong.. i would like to see even more lightening up on stupid restrictions like young people being allowed to have a varied friends and activities that are not with jws only..
RATTIGAN350:
You said: ”Why would you want to do a dumb thing like that?” regarding celebrating holidays.
While I realize that some people on the forum are looking for an excuse to go back to the Witness religion, I am not one of them. I was raised Catholic and loved the Holidays.
While the JWs like to say Holidays are ‘pagan’, many things in the world are pagan: the calendar, days of the week, wedding bands. I believe the REAL reason the religion doesn’t want people celebrating holidays is because they want to separate people from their non-Witness family/friends! ..The religion is afraid if people spend time around family/friends who are not judging them and who love them - these JWs might not stay in the Witness religion! ..Good for anybody who figured this out and good riddance to the JW religion.
la norvegia non è caduta nella trappola della torre di guardia di agosto.. https://files.accessjw.org/s/sdzfgcgk4bi48jb.
PHIZZY:
Of course the Norway court made the right decision.
The most important thing to me is that this publicity hopefully exposes the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ toxic culture to more people in the world!.. Far too many people have no idea of what goes on in the Witness religion. When I have described my experience in the religion and the shunning I got for working a full-time job, people can hardly believe it.. It’s just that abnormal.
The JW religion’s hypocrisy and deception is like nothing anybody has ever seen and the world deserves to know about it! .. You remember how they once said:”Advertise advertise advertise”? Well, that’s what needs to happen with regard to the toxic culture in the Witness religion! ..The world needs to know about this!
