If, at the age of 75 or later, you came to believe that the WTS wasn't really the "truth" but the "untruth" and you'd wasted you life, rejected your children, and lived for a future Paradise that was never going to come to be....it would be pretty tough to take. (It was tough to take at 48, believe me...at least I hadn't rejected my son or my non-dub family). Some people would try to mend fences with their family and live the remainder of their lives free from the cult as best they could. Some people would fall into despair and might consider ending it all in their pain and anger. Some would crawl back up the WTS's butt, cover their ears, sing "lalalalalalala" so they couldn't hear anything they didn't want to hear, pretend that all was well, they were right, and Jehovah was their special friend until they died.
Posts by luna2
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31So what will they do now.....?
by Gill in2014, a hundred years since christ's supposed invisible presence began, has come and gone.
it is now 2018.. you are now 75 years old and the world is packed with free information.
you can find out anything you want to, and infact, you have to use the internet every day just to shop and bank and a lot of the things you need to do.
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I had my operation
by Gadget ini had my operaton this afternoon, and everything went well!
i've had problems breathing through my nose for the last few years, so hopefully that'll be all fixed when i heal up.
i'd heard a lot of horror stories about how bad the op is, but it didn't seem that bad.
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luna2
Sounds like you aren't in the horrible pain people were warning you about. Keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way. The non-blowing thing sounds very uncomfortable. As for the three weeks off work...I'm sure you'll find something to do.
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WT letter advises JWs not to edit Wikipedia articles on JW subjects
by cabasilas inapparently, the watchtower society has recently issued formal advice that individual witnesses should not edit jw articles on wikipedia.
i occasionally edit some of the jw articles on wikipedia.
a couple of days ago i noticed a comment from one of the most respected jw editors to another jw editor on his personal talk page mentioning a letter from the wt society about editing on wikipedia.
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luna2
The WTS has to be careful. They have the definition of themselves and of the religion that is for public consumption where they try to sound reasonable and non-cultish as possible (the rhetoric that they don't DF people for taking blood for instance). The Watchtower mag is full of double speak so that they can weasle out of responsibility for anything they put in print. Their true agenda is often word of mouth...things presented in a confusing mishmash in the publications is clarified verbally...which can later be denied or blamed on the individual if necessary.
If you've got a bunch of JWs earnestly explaining and editing their beliefs in an official-looking forum such as Wikipedia, the WTS loses some of their control of information distribution.
I've always thought that most of the higher-ups truly believed their own BS....these days I'm not sure of that at all. They seem awfully calculating.
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Miss Field Service?
by searching4truth ini was just thinking today about the old days going door to door and street work and i have some very fond memories of those days.
coolhand and i used to go in street work everyday together when we were pioneering.
i used to be my happiest when i was in the preaching work.
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luna2
Nope. Not one little bit.
I'm shy with new people and field service was hours of having to disturb a bunch of people I didn't know and who, generally, were not happy that some religious nutball was bothering them at home. I also detest telling other people what they should do or believe. I usually spent any time I was out with my stomach in knots.
"Service" meant getting up early to try to get myself and my kids pressed, dressed, prepared and out the door. It was working with a congregation that had a custom of dragging its feet on a Saturday morning so that you could have gotten up at 7:30 to get ready, been out til noon or later, and still have only gotten an hour or an hour and a half of "countable" time. It was spending money I didn't have on breaks, eating crappy, grease-laden immitation food at McDonalds. It was driving around, usually in someone else's car, listening to sanctimonious babbling about how fab we were for doing this important work or gossip (thinly veiled as concerned discussion) about some poor sap at the KH who didn't make the grade.
I always thought that it was a gigantic waste of time and money, and incredibly inefficient.
Of course, if I was a young thang out with CHL, I might have enjoyed it more.
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Husband's in ICU again
by MsMcDucket ini started the year out with him being in the hospital with a gi bleed and heart attack.
looks like we're ending it the same way.
i'm wore out.
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luna2
Sorry hubbys back in the hospital again, MsMcD.
Sorry, too, that the girls are being such hurtful little snotfaces. They are the darlings of the congo right now...but I'm betting that will change. The congregation will get tired of coddling and petting them one day and they will wonder what the hell happened.
Bring your CoC book to read at the hospital. Don't let the girls give you any grief.
((((MsMcD))))
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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE UK!!!!
by fullofdoubtnow init's just turned midnight here in the uk, so happy new year everybody!!!!.
may all your dreams come true in 2007!!!.
linda.
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luna2
Happy New Year!
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Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?... Ayds helps you lose weight!
by Elsewhere inbehold!
a gift from the internet gods!
this is so funny i don't even need to crack a joke about it.. if you're wondering, yes, these are real commercials about a real product that was sold in 1982... with an unfortunate name.. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7935064058166993925&q=ayds.
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luna2
KK said: I even bought some, but they didnt do anything.
I remember eating some and worrying because I had more than two. I don't think my mother bought them. Hmmmm, where did I get the things? Bet my girlfriend's mother bought them. She was always after my friend to lose weight. Eating a couple of regular caramels would have probably been as effective as these "diet" candies.
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Leaving Florida and Moving to Ontario!
by Saoirse init's official, we will be moving to the toronto area within the next month or so.
my husband was offered an incredible job in canada so we flew up here to check it out.
we totally fell in love with the place.
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luna2
Sounds fantastic! Too bad about that KH, though. Hopefully, they won't ever call on you. I know the dubs don't seem to want to do the houses near the KH here...or at least they didn't back when I was going there.
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My Mom passed away today.
by Finally-Free inafter a lenthy illness, 10 years in total, my mother, margaret stecko, passed away peacefully today surrounded by family.
she was 84, and leaves behind 3 children, 5 grandchildren, and 8 great grandchildren.
she was a jw but never shunned me.
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luna2
My condolences on the loss of your mother, FF. I'm glad she maintained her relationship with you when you left the dubs. Its a gift that you can remember her without bitterness.
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What state are you from?
by Junction-Guy inthis is for the us crowd, what state do you live in?
or from?----i live in tennessee, but from ohio and kentucky.
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luna2
Born in Illinois
Presently in Connecticut