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  A Question for Born-ins Who Had a Parent Leave the Cult Before They Did

  by jp1692 in

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  2. experiences

  question: have any of you that are now exjws had a parent leave the religion before you, and you shunned them because of that?

  if so—and while you were still in the cult—what, if anything, could your parent have done to reach your heart and begin a reconciliation?

  it’s been almost ten years since i left the religion and my two sons continue to shun me and rebuff all efforts i make to reconcile.

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  From my perspective:

  Your sons are fools! My father was never one of Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, my father was a bum. He was an alcoholic, bigamist and serial womanizer. I never even met the man. He died at 53 years old from his lifestyle. My siblings and I were raised by an unstable, religiously fanatical , dyed in the wool Jehovah's Witness mother. I will be 64 years old this year and had to make my way through life mostly on my own. No father to love and support me and give me guidance. No father to buffer me and my siblings from being raised by an unstable religious fanatic. I worked very, very hard to be a success in life but would trade it all for the love, support and guidance of a caring father. Your sons need to realize that they are very fortunate to have a father that loved and cared for them. You are worth more as a person than any religious ideology but they will have to find that out for themselves. Good luck and I hope things work out for you in the long run.
  
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  And JW's are not allowed to think about sex? O_o

  by nowawake14 in

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  2. friends

  i thought this might catch your eye.

  especially if you're a man.. they say thinking about sex is wrong!

  that's biologically impossible.

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  WillYouDFme, your book study conductor must have been a really boring guy. It doesn't seem that he was much of a cunning linguist.
  
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  Howdie!

  by Olesatthewheel in

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  2. friends

  evening all.

  my first post - born in but faded 15 years ago before that i was pimo for a number of years.. to put it bluntly the whole jw religion/thing is a crock of shit.

  i sort of figured this out for myself before i faded but reading posts and comments on this forum confirms this.

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  Welcome to the forum. Sit back, relax, join the conversation and enjoy the company. I look forward to your future posts. There is much to learn here from some very wise and experienced ex JW'S. A mixed bag of personalities and former Elders, Ministerial Servants, Pioneers, Missionaries, Bethelites and Publishers as well as some who have never been Jehovah's Witnesses post here.
  
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  Two For One!

  by snugglebunny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  back in the day - yeah, i know, most things i write start like that!

  however - back in the day there was an implicit rule ratio of 2 to 1 when it came to counting time.

  two witnesses witnessing to one person for one hour would count one hour each.

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  "Two For One!" - snugglebunny

  I guess the "two witness" rule could even apply to the preaching work!
  
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  Will the Russian brothers start to wake up?

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if i was a russian brother i would be wondering what exactly is the gb doing to help us out.

  they are sitting in their lakeside corporate country club doing nothing while outside worldly agencies are making known our plight.

  i found it puzzling that they flew out of russia like a bat out of hell as soon as the court rendered its decision leaving us high and dry.

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  If I could give your comment 100 thumbs up, I would slimboy. I agree...throw the everyday Watchtower 'cattle' under the bus but if it were one of their own, they would have been much more discreet in not 'poking the Russian Bear'. To pirate and parody Joseph Stalin's alleged quote: 'The arrest of one Governing Body member is a tragedy, the arrest of hundreds of Jehovah's Witness publishers is a statistic.'
  
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  March broadcast - Tightpants Tony wants to be filmed in action

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did anyone else notice this?.

  tony tightpants has the "morning worship" featurette in the march jw broadcast.. he appears to be hoping that someone will be videotaping the slaughter of 7 billion men, women, and children at armageddon.. quote is something like "we have some really good videographers here at bethel, but i don't think even they could capture what will happen.

  still, all things are possible with god..." (not exact, but that is the gist).. and of course morris imagines himself as one of the "anointed", who will be the ones, per wt doctrine, to conduct the slaughter.. it takes a special kind of hubris, arrogance, and sadism to wish that you yourself could be filmed in the act of slaughtering billions of people.. i've encountered a lot of jws with "dark souls", but based on his public comments, i'd say morris has teh blackest one i've seen.. if he says stuff like this for broadcast to 8 million + jws, what does he say in private?

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  "...........so were sittin' around the Governing Body table last Wednesday and we were talkin' about makin' a new video about Armageddon. Ya know....killin' kids, old ladies, dogs and fags and stuff like that. We really got inta it. Finally, that dope Sanderson says : "Whose gonna play Jehovah in our new production?" I nearly pissed my pants when that egg-head Jackson volunteered to play God. I said, look Jackson you couldn't stand up to them fairies on that Royal Commission, how do you think you can stand up and coordinate the slayin' every living thing on earth for our new movie! Nope, I'm playin' Jehovah or you can count me out of this production. I sure showed 'em, didn't I kids?"
  
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  Fearmongering : The greatest ploy the Watchtower Society uses against its faithful members

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "shortly, within our twentieth century*, the "battle in the day of jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.

  " (the nations shall know that i am jehovah; 1971; 2nd ed.

  fearmongering or scaremongering is the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of impending danger or the habit or tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue.

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  'Jehovah is gonna roast your ass at Armageddon like a burnt hot dog if you don't convert to my religion. Don't say I didn't warn ya!'
  
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  Awake No. 2 2019 - Way To Destroy Your Childrens Hopes And Dreams Watchtower!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  not that i spend much time on the cult's website, but i like to skim through their latest propaganda to make sure i'm up to date with their nuttiness.

  (and when i say skim, i mean just that.

  the wafer thin, dumbed down content can be read in like 2 mins flat).. i just had to share my thoughts on the above piece of trash.. no.

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  Taken on it's own, this article seems to present reasonable advice in helping your child become a productive and responsible member of human society at large.

  Taken in the context of being raised (indoctrinated) as a child of Jehovah's Witness parents the information could be more succinctly presented as: LISTEN, OBEY and be BLESSED.
  
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  When you were an active JW, did you ever have dealings with a pyramid scheme?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm not sure why this memory popped up, and i was wondering if any others, when they were still active jw had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization?

  at the time it was 1993, and my husband and i were still newlyweds.

  once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time.

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  Jewelway.......my brother lost 10's of thousands of dollars on that scam. I didn't know that any Witnesses were involved in it. One of THE WORST, MOST DISHONEST AND CROOKED MLM schemes of all time.
  
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  When you were an active JW, did you ever have dealings with a pyramid scheme?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm not sure why this memory popped up, and i was wondering if any others, when they were still active jw had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization?

  at the time it was 1993, and my husband and i were still newlyweds.

  once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time.

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  The biggest pyramid scheme of them all was Pastor Russell's idiotic theological 'wet dream' that eventually morphed in the religion known as Jehovah's Witnesses. That scheme hooked us all either willingly through personal religious conversion or was imposed upon us by our family of origin. Needless to say, there never was any payoff to the scheme for those of us who were unfortunate enough to get involved.