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Feeling pressure to attend the Memorial?

by Fay Dehr in

feeling pressure to attend the memorial?.

as a former elder i write this response to hopefully help those genuinely feeling “guilt” before their god.

if you are a jehovah’s witness or an “ex-jw” (for example, disfellowshipped or lapsed), then i hope that this will be of help to you.

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Fay Dehr

Great thread and research article!

You said: As a former elder I write this response to hopefully help those genuinely feeling “guilt” before their God.

As you know, Elders are used by the Watchtower Society to teach, discipline, and carry out all functions of the Society. One major function is hold the yearly Memorial. This day is used to show Theocratic Arrangement. The Memorial is just a showing to all its members who is in control. Without fear of Governing Body and the so-called 144,000, the whole religion crumbles. No one really needs to attendance. But, the the Society uses this day to show its power over each non-partaker.

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You're Invited! - Memorial Menu

by truthseeker in

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It was a wonderful environment. You literally feel like family!

The Memorial invite was placed on my door a week before the ''The Lord's Evening Meal'' by two young men who handed me the invite and ran off as soon as possible. Luckily,the address of the Kingdom Hall was stamped right in the back of the invite. ( which made it convenient to find since I wasn't too familiar with the area )

After finding the Kingdom Hall, they had many brothers with safety reflective vests directing the parking lot. Thanks to them, it was easy to navigate and find a parking spot.

Once inside, I found everyone dressed to the nines and was greeted by the local Elders. Never have I been shown as much love as this. This place felt so welcoming.

The children were well behaved and not running around like in other churches. They were all seated and ready for this meeting to start.

The Memorial talk was very interesting. It was about the the life of Jesus and his last day on earth.

Everyone was reminded not to eat or drink any of the emblems... numerous times. They passed the bread and wine to everyone in attendance. There must of been at least 10 prayers given and all kinds of the members who stood up and sat down numerous times handing each other these items. ( very confusing but very entertaining )

I was handed the emblems but passed them down since no one else partook. ( at my church we all partook )

The last half of the meeting everyone was reminded on how many meetings there during the week and how to ask for a bible study with the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I encourage all to try to make it to a meeting here. It's well worth it!

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After leaving the JWs - Has anyone stayed with Christianity?

by rulehayl in

i recently made the decision to stop studying with my study conductor, due to a situation i found myself in that led to a high possibility of my unbaptized publisher "rights" being taken away from me.

i have since told my study conductor i have joined a new church (to which she dropped me like a hot rock, of course).... last time i posted on here, i was progressing nicely towards baptism, and was well into it.anyhoo, i like my new church, very hillsong-esqe.

so just wondering if anyone else has stayed the course of christianity after leaving the jws, and if so - where did you go?

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After 45 years as a Jehovah's Witness, I walked away from all religions. I put all my trust in these idiots from New York and came away with this:

All religions are created from mortal, sinful men who love power, fame, money, develop large egos, and want human worship. It becomes a means to control people. Religion becomes your judge and jury. You are never good enough and can't never do enough.

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Quick and vague Memorial invitations

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

this morning my doorbell rang.

i opened the door thinking it was a package delivery person or local politicians thanking my community for voting in yesterday's election.

there was a middle aged man standing by himself.

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This morning my doorbell rang. I opened the door thinking it was a package delivery person or local politicians thanking my community for voting in yesterday's election.

There was a middle aged man standing by himself. I open the door and never realized it was a Jehovah's Witness because he was by himself, had no service bag or Bible. I finally figured it out he was a Jehovah's Witness after he leaves and open up the invite. I figured my address was sent by my local elders to this local congregation member to hand deliver this invite.

It's amazing how quick and vague their presentations have become. He never gave me his name or even identified himself as a Jehovah's Witness.

Here is how the conversation went:

Jehovah Witness : ''Hello,I would like to hand you this invite. You can read it and come next Saturday to the address that is on the back of the invite.''

Me : I take the invite not even knowing what he's talking about or what he really inviting me to. ''O.K.,'' Thank You.''

He walks away.

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JW Jokes

by OnTheWayOut in

they don't want you to donate blood because..... .....it might be within the erection of a homosexual act at any time.

watchtower tried to become the internet service provider of their members...... ......but their virus software kept deleting all but 144,000 select files.

what do you get when you cross a devil worshipper with a jehovah's witness?

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I heard this made up joke long time ago by a Jehovah's Witness inside a Kingdom Hall. It's stupid and funny at the same time.

A man asks a Jehovah's Witness why they are all square. The Jehovah's Witness responds, '' We all may be square but when Armageddon comes, at least we will all be A-ROUND."

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Caption This

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

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Little Jimmy loves the Governing Body's ''new light'', naming ''The book of James'' to the new name, ''The book of Rick James.''

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Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett

by freddo in

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so this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.

oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.

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Goofball and rubber faced Stephen Lett says : ''like Paul,are we willing to forgo our rights regarding for example wearing beards''

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

When is someone's rights a stumbling block for anyone.Only to the Watchtower Society, growing a beard is a ''stumbling block''. Not to any individual members in the congregation.

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"Jehovah" and the less emphasized "Jesus." WHY?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

there has always been less emphasis on jesus, and more on the name jehovah.

if jesus played for the wtbts baseball team, he would play right field.

he would be good enough to start but by playing right field, he wouldn't see too many baseballs hit his way.

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Jesus is only there as a cardboard cutout and window dressing as far as I can see.

LOL!

I truly believed in the life of Jesus. I really enjoyed reading all the parables. I loved all his sayings. His load was light, help widows and orphans, do unto other as you would have them do unto you, forgive each other, do not become anxious about tomorrow...etc. etc. These were sayings that lead me to get baptized.

Then came the Governing Body where they ruined everything. Listening for over forty-five years of Jesus being replaced by Governing Body, Jesus became a side project. Jesus was no where to be seen. Study articles were all about rules, regulations, and procedures of the Watchtower Society.

Now, I don't believe in the Bible or Jesus. Since he was replaced by the WTBTS, Jesus became a stranger who I no longer knew or cared about!

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"Jehovah" and the less emphasized "Jesus." WHY?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

there has always been less emphasis on jesus, and more on the name jehovah.

if jesus played for the wtbts baseball team, he would play right field.

he would be good enough to start but by playing right field, he wouldn't see too many baseballs hit his way.

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The Org by means of the GB have tried to take the place of Jesus by inserting themselves as the Mediator between humans and Almighty God.

The real reason they don't mention Jesus much is because they are not Christians.

Someone on the Governing Body should read this scripture to remind them who is the real ''Mediator.''

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"Jehovah" and the less emphasized "Jesus." WHY?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

there has always been less emphasis on jesus, and more on the name jehovah.

if jesus played for the wtbts baseball team, he would play right field.

he would be good enough to start but by playing right field, he wouldn't see too many baseballs hit his way.

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There has always been less emphasis on Jesus, and more on the name Jehovah. If Jesus played for the WTBTS baseball team, he would play right field. He would be good enough to start but by playing right field, he wouldn't see too many baseballs hit his way. Jehovah would be the manager and starting pitcher for the WTBTS team.

The Society decided to name itself "Jehovah's Witnesses." There had to be a reason why we weren't named "Jesus Witnesses."

What do you think is the real reason WTBTS ( the organization) uses/over uses the name Jehovah?