if you had to pinpoint the time or experience that finally made you open your eyes, what would it be?.
i think for me it was the time i saw my dad shun his brother who he had not seen in decades just because he was a da'ed jw.
i thought to my self "no way jesus would do that.
If you had to pinpoint the time or experience that finally made you open your eyes, what would it be?
I think for me it was the time I saw my dad shun his brother who he had not seen in decades just because he was a DA'ed JW. I thought to my self "no way Jesus would do that."
again, thanks to wifibandit and pixel for their work behind the scenes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzviu3jfko.
Oubliette6 hours ago
Except "inactive" ones aren't going to see this because they won't be there!
This is pure propaganda to make those that remain in the cult feel better about shunning the family members and former friends.
You hit the nail right in the head! I am really not looking forward to my seeing my Dad after his DC. He usually goes into cult mode after everyone but I'm sure that with this one he will take it to the extreme. I have been inactive for about 9 years now, you would think he gets it (I'm never going back) but just a month ago he started bugging me about when I'm going back to meetings. I said IDK. After this DC I can just picture the awkward conversation we will be having and I wouldn't put it past him to try to ambush me with some elder when I go over to his house (daily basis) to pick up my son.
i believe that the religion will remain stagnant due to their achilles heel, the kids, the children, that next generation.. most of them really don't wa t to be in the religion.
the parents may have tried everything within their power to make the kids love jehovah but we all know you can't force someone to love you and you can't make a grown person stay in a relationship or situation if they really don't want to be there..
cantleave2 hours ago
Many children of JW's may go through a phase of not wanting it, but they still stay, even if they don't entirely believe it, because it becomes their way of life, their social life, their normal paradigm.
Sadly this is true and I have seen it personally. Growing up a JW I had two friends who were never really into being JW, I was certain that once they grew up they were out. To my surprise they are both still deep in it and one is even a MS, but I can guarantee that neither knows anything about the doctrines and they are just there because of the social club aspect of it and because they don't want to be DF'ed.
the governing body of the watchtower is not as immune as they might think..
anything can happen at any time to any organization no matter how big, how powerful, how religious or how long they been involved in wrongdoing.. .
fifa, the powerful and polarizing governing body for soccer, came under prosecutorial assault from two fronts wednesday.
Hopefully many witnesses would question why the Borg was attacked before Babylon the Great and the facade would come tumbling down.
NOPE! Knowing them they would call it the start of the great tribulation!
ok, so i went ahead and got a tattoo.
well more than a tattoo, it is a half sleeve.
my parents haven't seen it, thanks to the chilly weather i've been wearing a sweater around them.
once you really start thinking about it, the whole paradise idea is kind of depressing.
i remember growing up as kids my sister was the first to tell my parents (admittedly very courageously) that she wasn't sure she wanted to live in paradise, it sounded boring living forever.
i thought she was dumb for thinking that, i mean playing with lions!!!!
once you really start thinking about it, the whole paradise idea is kind of depressing.
i remember growing up as kids my sister was the first to tell my parents (admittedly very courageously) that she wasn't sure she wanted to live in paradise, it sounded boring living forever.
i thought she was dumb for thinking that, i mean playing with lions!!!!
Lemonparty.org8 minutes agoI wouldn't mind living forever. I would devote much time to singular pursuits so that I became very very good at certain things as time went on.
once you really start thinking about it, the whole paradise idea is kind of depressing.
i remember growing up as kids my sister was the first to tell my parents (admittedly very courageously) that she wasn't sure she wanted to live in paradise, it sounded boring living forever.
i thought she was dumb for thinking that, i mean playing with lions!!!!
Once you really start thinking about it, the whole paradise idea is kind of depressing. I remember growing up as kids my sister was the first to tell my parents (admittedly very courageously) that she wasn't sure she wanted to live in Paradise, it sounded boring living forever. I thought she was dumb for thinking that, I mean playing with lions!!!! Eventually thought I started thinking about it and I started to agree with her. Not only would it be boring, it would straight out be miserable. I mean think about it, with technology gone it would be a cycle of never ending manual labor. Building, farming, harvesting, making clothing from scratch, days to travel a couple hundred miles, etc. Then comes the emotional side of things that JW's never think about. For example, no one can really know who will be in paradise because only Jehovah really knows a person and only he will judge. So imagine a resurrected wife who died a loyal JW before her husband, eagerly awaiting to reunite, only to find out that he remarried after her death or that it turns out he wasn't loyal until the end. Now there she is all alone. Even worse, what if she had children and is eagerly awaiting to see them....except they all ended up not making it to paradise. Now she has no husband and no kids....but at least she will meet Moses -_-
Don't they ever stop to think about the reality of things and realize how silly this resurrecting in paradise idea is? I wouldn't want to be resurrected just to find out I'm all alone there.
the first ever billboard has been crowd funded on reddit and will be going up.
i'm curious to know if it will cause a spark in any jw's who already have questions or doubts and lead them to research into the child abuse cases and lead them to the thought that the wt and gb are not inspired or gods mouthpiece.
at the very least it will provide people a topic of conversation and questions to the jw's who knock on their door: "so whats this whole sex abuse in kingdom halls thing about i saw on the billboard down the road?
i remember when i was a kid, how the importance of meeting attendance was continually drummed into our heads.
through the magazines, meetings, and especially traveling overseers, it was stressed that missing just one meeting was akin to allowing satan into our lives and would jeopardize our everlasting life in paradise earth.. one particular bit of 'advice' stood out, even to a small child: even if out of town relatives showed up on meeting day, you shouldn't let that cause you to miss a meeting.
i remember trying to play that out in mind... 'welcome, grandpa!
