(You must have done VERY well in the Theocratic Ministry School!)
I concur - there's a Theocratic Ministry School Servant somewhere extremely proud of his your accomplishments!
Nellie
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AN E-MAIL I GOT from an anonymous Jehovah's Witness who read my story
by Terry inon randy's freeminds site my personal story: my life in jehovah's service appears.
it is sad that you publish information on jehovah's witnesses.. you even title it, my life in jehovah's service.. but you know nothing about what it means to be one of jehovah's witnesses.. .
so you should get your information from people, like me, who know.
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Nellie
ROTFLMAO!
This reminded me of when I was a kid. I was told it was important to know the name of the President of the Society because that would be used as a code-word during the Great Tribulation! LOL
Now, along with learning all 66 books of the bible in order, you too can teach your children the names of the members of the GB! I wonder if the captions on the page give any inside info about them, the men? Where they were born, how long they've been in, etc? Probably not.
Absolutely ridiculous!
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Do you see the average Jehovahs Witness as a victim...?
by trevor ini think most of us appreciate the difference between the tyrannical watchtower society and the average sheep like followers who make up the congregations.
we have been jehovahs witnesses so we know how brainwashed they are.
i am interested in knowing how you feel towards jehovahs witnesses individually and whether you hold them accountable.
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Nellie
Hmm, interesting thoughts.
I don't think I think of the individual witness as a victim - victim to me portrays "one who is hurt." I see them more as weak-minded and ignorant.
It isn't that JWs don't know that there is criticism against the organization; they do. It's that we are constantly warned to ignore the outcries. I was guilty of it myself. I had a knee-jerk reflex regarding any criticism - it was to be dismissed, immediately, without consideration.
You have to be strong enough to make the CHOICE to listen; open-minded enough to HEAR what you don't want to believe and WISE enough to see the real truth - thereby ending your ignorance.
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Another "New Light" or changing their damned story again about reserection
by crinklestein incan anyone confirm if their doctrin of the reserection has been changed?
a witness idiot i know has been trying to preach to me online trying to convert me.
he has stability issues himself with flip flopping back and forth between the "world" and the "truth".
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All Along: It almost seems to me that the 'worldly' people are better off if you don't witness to them, that way they are just hapless unbelievers and are eligible for ressurection. Whereas if they become witnesses, they could f*ck up, get DF'ed, and end up eligible for SQUAT! Am I reading this right, or am I missing something important via my non-witness lack of knowledge?
YOU GOT IT! You're absolutely right - as a "worldly person" the worst thing you can do is be informed - because ignorance is bliss! Or in this case, ignorance is resurrection!
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Do you like who you are?
by damselfly ini was inspired by rat's post.
are you a nice person?
melodramatic?
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Nellie
Yes, I do. And unlike others, I am grateful for the WBTS for helping create the me I am today. Left on my own devices, I believe I would have followed the examples of those around me - specifically, underage drinking, smoking, sexual activity, lack of focus or concern for the future. These are not stereotypes, but the reality of my family and neighborhood!
I accept that I am NOT the average exJW - I feel deceived and lied to - but I do not regret who I am (or what I was). I accept that when I believed, I believed (although I always had doubts). And I always believed that a person should have the right to decide NOT to believe. I always believed and challenged others to show me the Truth. When I saw the "truth" about the "Truth." I did what I always said I would - I changed my beliefs.
My beliefs, however, didn't change the person I am. I am who I always was ... friendly, outgoing, flirtatious, sexy, warm, loving, honest, committed to my family, helpful to my community, funny and loyal. (I have other qualities too, but who wants to talk about the bad stuff ! )
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Can someone explain the generation change?
by feelinglost inafter being on here now for a little while, i decided to ask my mother this weekend about whether armageddon is still supposed to come before the generation of 1914 is gone.
so this leaves me a little confused- is this right, is this what they still teach?
or has something changed?
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Steve2: It was an utter shock to me that these people who had put so much pressure on "interested" persons checking out the facts and to be totally honest when doing so, could themselves be so complacent about a significant (and convenient) change in a central teaching.
Exactly!
All my life I looked up to some in the congregation I thought were so "educated" and "intellectual" - it was hard for me to get the fact that THEY weren't having a problem with this! I began to doubt myself and my ability to reason out what I had heard and read!
I had to give myself permission to believe that I could be right and they could be wrong! That was the turning point for me.
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Can someone explain the generation change?
by feelinglost inafter being on here now for a little while, i decided to ask my mother this weekend about whether armageddon is still supposed to come before the generation of 1914 is gone.
so this leaves me a little confused- is this right, is this what they still teach?
or has something changed?
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I remember that this was a turning point for me too. The year prior to the change I had been conducting a study with a young girl who was about to go off to college. I remembered impressing upon her the urgency of the fact that "the generation" of 1914 was about to end and that that had to mean the end was imminent... As I sat there during the convention listening to them tell me that there was a "new understanding", excuse me "new light", I got sick to my stomach. I remember telling my husband that I felt like I owed her an apology. I was also floored at the fact that no one else seemed to get it! Same thing happened again with the NGO thing! It physically makes me sick!
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Any fellow humanists out there?
by Eyebrow2 ini have been reading a lot here and there the past year about humanism, etc...and i am curious who else on this board that have left jwism has gone that route?.
it took me a few years, but this is where i am at now, and i have been looking into local groups in my area (dallas, tx) that meet together.
i will probably be going in september when the next meeting is.
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Nellie
What no vino? Even Jesus included it in his ceremony! May I suggest a revision? It might make those of the non-supernatural persuasion warm up to the possibilities ...
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Nellie
Allow my children to go to birthday parties (I'm waiting for my first invitation)
Let my son pierce his ear (he's 18)
Become politically active
JOIN THIS BOARD
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Is this what dubs do on a convention night now??????
by BLISSISIGNORANCE inhi everyone.. there is a huge dub convention on this weekend where i live.
i can remember how spiritually full i felt on those weekends as i enjoyed a spritual banquet and an abubdance of spiritual food at jehovah's table, in the spiritual paradise, surrounded by spiritual people.
so what's going on these days???????
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Wow Bliss! Sounds like a fun night! Nothing like that ever happened when we went out after a convention. But there was this one time ....
Picture this, I'm sitting at the table (there's like 30 of us) and some of the adults decided to have drinks (of course in moderation it's okay) and the drink that I want is ..... drumroll .... a "screaming orgasm" - you should have seen me trying to get the waiter to come closer so that I didn't have to say that out loud across the table. He looked at me as I was trying to find a "spiritually correct" term to use and fortunately knew what I wanted! My husband started laughing at me and those immediately around me started cracking up when they figured out what was going on! All I kept thinking was, "why ohh why don't I like beer?"