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he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.

he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.

Wild_Thing

I am really sorry, pale.emperor. I hope your brother finds his way out of the Watchtower in one piece.

I also attempted suicide when I was 16. My mother and I had just relocated to get away from my abusive father, with no help from the witnesses. I was so upset and disillusioned by how the elders protected my elder dad for so many years, and did NOTHING to help us, I didn't want to be a Witness anymore.

When I told my mother this, she said, "I feel the same way sometimes, but there's nothing else out there in the world". I believed her. And I decided I would rather die than live forever with only Jehovah's Witnesses.

It took me another 8 years or so before I was able to stop attending meetings and start to walk away completely.

My younger self couldn't see another option for myself outside of the Jehovah's Witnesses. I bet your brother is struggling with the same thing. His Aspergers only complicates it. I am so thankful he has you to help him get out. I had no one. I think I would have left sooner if I had had anyone on the outside willing to help me.

Good luck with your brother.

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Congregation picnic time

by Jayk in

i've never been completely shunned because i've never been baptized.

my father side has always talked to me and included me in family events.

but my mom's side is in denial of shunning me.

Wild_Thing

Did you really want to go or did you really just want to know if you would be allowed to go?

At one time, I would sometimes test the waters too, just to see if they were still holding on to their isolationist/"if you aren't with us, you're against us" mentality. It was the same every time.

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284000 baptized in 2017

by jw-verite in

seen in the 03/2018 watchtower study :.

"during the 2017 service year, more than 284,000 “rightly disposed” individuals symbolized their dedication to jehovah by water baptism.".

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-march-2018/baptism-requirement-for-christians/.

Wild_Thing

In a way, JWs are predatory. They will always move to more fertile ground to get more members. They are growing exponentially in some 3rd world countries, in Africa, for example.

If North Korea ever becomes free, I suspect the JWs will pounce in and will be able to explode in membership there by pushing their fairy tale belief system onto desperate people needing hope. That seems to be their style.

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Watchtower Philosophy Debates

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i was wondering how many of you still enjoy (or maybe you just feel the need) to discuss and debate jw doctrine and scripture.

i find myself scrolling right past those topics i see online.

i could care less.

Wild_Thing

My interest in these topics is only to expose the wt as wrong, with humour if possible. Mental gymnastics for my aging mind's sake too.

And waton, I absolutely respect that. We need people willing to do that. I just can't stomach it anymore. Apologies if I took your previous post the wrong way.

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Watchtower Philosophy Debates

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i was wondering how many of you still enjoy (or maybe you just feel the need) to discuss and debate jw doctrine and scripture.

i find myself scrolling right past those topics i see online.

i could care less.

Wild_Thing

But my interest in these topics only exists as far as my JW ignorance. That is to say - how surprising it is how little I knew about a book I supposedly studied every single week.

This is the absolute truth. While I am not interested in debating anything Watchtower, sometimes I find myself reading things about their beliefs that I didn't even know, and I was a 3rd generation JW.

For example, I was a 3rd generation JW, elder dad, I was a pioneer, and I have been out for over 17 years, and I just realized that the GB (may) think that former dead GB members communicate with them. I don't know why it never occurred me to question HOW the GB claimed they got their inspiration. It all sounds so crazy now.

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Pull the Plug Already...

by megaboy in

after reading and seeing so many detailings of the dealings with people in this religion, i have to wonder how to get people who are just extremely asleep.

reasoning doesn't seem like it works, there needs to be some kind of plug pull event, like the leaders doing something so uterly stupid that it causes the immediate downfall of the entire religion.

but because i am naturally curious i want to know from people who have more experience with jw structure why they seem to have a resistance to an event like this?

Wild_Thing

It seems like people are leaving in droves right now and they are waking up. I think the ones that are still asleep are the ones that don't allow themselves to question, think, or satisfy their curiosity to look things up. I think a large number of people stay in out of feat of losing their family and friends and being shunned.

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Watchtower Philosophy Debates

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i was wondering how many of you still enjoy (or maybe you just feel the need) to discuss and debate jw doctrine and scripture.

i find myself scrolling right past those topics i see online.

i could care less.

Wild_Thing

I read all the posts on doctrine changes and debates, murders in Venezuela, just about everything in order to keep up to date and casually pass snippets of info on to my still in wife. She seems to appreciate knowing about things before others. It doesn't seem to make a difference but who knows. I'm getting this activity down to a fine art now.

Yes, I still have family in, and it helps to know what it going on. It does help to explain their behavior when I find out they are discouraging any contact with worldly family, for example. If I had someone I was interested in convincing to leave, I might have more interest in the debates I see here online, but none of my JW family speak to me anymore.

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