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  Besides Everlasting Life What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Offer To Anyone?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking... why would anyone want to join the religion or actually stay in the organization.

  i understand that people don’t want to lose their loving family and dear friends so some stay in.

  but what does anyone really ever get because they are jehovah’s witnesses??.

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  carla

  @Vidiot,

  They don't even do that much anymore do they? Don't they go to the doors with their devices and tell people to go the website now? What are bird owners to do now?
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  They are Still preaching against careers!

  by LongHairGal in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i saw on another forum a post somebody made about the melbourne assembly.

  it seems the religion is still knocking full time jobs/careers and saving for retirement.. you would think at this point in time - after thousands of bethelites were sent home; many thousands of rank & file jws are at or near retirement age with no preparation - that the religion would change its tune, but no.

  they are still stubbornly sticking to their guns on this issue.. i’m sorry for any young jws who listen to this.. i’m just glad i never followed their advice and certainly would not want to be in any congregation surrounded by these desperate people!.

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  carla

  I wonder if some financial advisers out there could do well with the ex cult communities? How to build wealth or at least a bit when you leave a cult later in life!
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  Besides Everlasting Life What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Offer To Anyone?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking... why would anyone want to join the religion or actually stay in the organization.

  i understand that people don’t want to lose their loving family and dear friends so some stay in.

  but what does anyone really ever get because they are jehovah’s witnesses??.

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  carla

  I see Bourneidenty has already covered what Simon said, "They only offer the promise of everlasting life, that is a long way short of actually getting it." - I thought they only have a hope of everlasting life if they are associated with the borg and then only if they are 'good enough'. Is this still correct? I remember in their literature it said something to the effect, "you must be associated with the jah's organization to have any hope...." Maybe I missed some new light?

  They offer black and white answers to everything, no need for pesky research, thought and effort. You also have immediate 'friends', never mind they are completely conditional to your standing in the cong.

  You get to feel superior to everyone else except when you don't depending on the brow beating sessions when they tell you to do more. Then you get to feel like a piece of crap that deserves to be zapped out of existence, but then again, maybe, just maybe another day in fs will stop the madness? hmm, don't think too hard just do.

  If your family has issues and some are, shall I say, the black sheep of the family you have the warm fuzzies knowing you will not have to deal with such riff-raff in the 'new system'.

  I am on a roll! I could keep going but will leave it to others to expand upon.
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  Life Update 2019

  by passwordprotected in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's been a while since i was anywhere close to being active here, or on any other ex-jw forum or facebook group.

  i rarely think about the religion and have little-to-no interest in it.. however, i do, very occasionally pop in here.

  hence this update, 3 years on since my last one - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5720228449222656/update-on-my-journey-8-years-after-end-watchtower-control.

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  carla

  Congratulations on living life your way! wishing you all the happiness, prosperity and love for your future.
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  My first encounter

  by SB10 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don’t know if the woman i met yesterday will ever see this.

  but i will forever remember that day for the rest of my life.

  my grandfather has been in icu for the past 3 days.

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  carla

  Sorry about your dear grandfather.

  Basically this jw stalked you to mark time. She probably saw you in the hospital and followed you. Don't you find this creepy? Isn't it creepy that they are trained to behave this way? Lurking around hospitals, cruising obituary columns to send tracts to the grieving and even lurking in cemeteries to 'offer' their particular brand of 'comfort'.

  Their 'comfort' comes at a very high price, please do your research at jwfacts.com

  I suggest anyone who would have given you a religious tract of any kind in your emotional state would have made an impact.

  Please, please read the horror and painful stories of ex jw's who have endured this so called religion which is really a cult.
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  Double Standard of Proof

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there's a new article about john the baptist (not sure why they reverted to baptist instead of the modern english 'baptizer'), and it goes into several areas of his life followed by quotes from josephus showing that these specific things were historically documented.

  the article is summarized by saying:.

  the first-century historian josephus viewed john the baptist as a real person.

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  carla

  I always thought it was weird when my jw would say 'John the baptizer'. I had never heard it that way, it was always 'John the Baptist'. Naturally that was in the non jw world.
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  The Latest From The Loony Left

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  so apparently, not only can people identify as men or women, regardless of reality, but they've now declared that people can identify as black or white as well!

  no word yet from rachel dolezal, who will no doubt be declared a visionary, and sadly michael jackson didn't live long enough to celebrate.. i must say, now that i am a black woman, my views on reparations have completely changed.

  y'all owe me some reparations bitches to make up for slavery yo.

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  carla

  When can we start identifying as over 70 to collect social security and other senior discounts? (not that I object to senior benefits or ss, I just could use the help sometimes).

  Other days I would like to identify as being a hot young 20 year old.
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  I got a Sympathy Card in the mail

  by Butterfly607 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i haven’t been to a meeting in months.

  just got a sympathy card in the mail from a “sister”.

  i don’t know her beyond her face.

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  carla

  Send her a Christmas card? just kidding.

  In her mind she is just trying to help. You could help her by finding an equally uplifting Christian card, you know, the ones that have scriptures that jw's don't seem to know and get the deer in the headlights look when you ask them about those particular scriptures.

  Or leave it be and stay under the radar.
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  On the Subject of Demons, I Have a Story to Tell.

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have posted the full story on a fb site.

  so my apologies to anyone who's already read it.

  some of what i've written is what was told to me by my father.

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  carla

  Love a happy ending! You have a lovely family, all the best to you and yours.
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  Creepy display

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  i dunno about you, but if i walked up to this display at an expo i'd be a little creeped out..

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  carla

  What is with the blue bow ties and blue ties for the men? why are they all dressed alike? is this a new thing? or just for this particular photo/event?