I would run over to my parents and say "I must have not been as bad as you thought cause I'm here"!!!!! LOL!!!! Then I would go look for some perfect fruit to see what it tastes like!!!!
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IF they were right
by KW13 inimagine you woke up in a paradise earth that was inhabited by jehovahs witnesses.
what would your reaction be?
personally i'd feel sick (if my perfect body would allow that lol) as eternity stuck with them, would be worse than hell.
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September KM - 70 alterations in Revelation Climax Book
by dozy ini can't find a thread on this subject yet - if there is one , please delete this one.. the september kingdom ministry has a 4 page insert detailing the 70 alterations in the revelation climax book which is due to be studied at the book study shortly.
i'll provide scans if anyone is interested.. i will leave it up to more experienced analysts to examine the reasons for specific changes , but just a few brief observations for now:.
p32 box - "they were completely exonerated" changed to "charges against them were dropped" - interesting change of terminology for the 1918 watchtower eight.
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70 alterations?!?!??!! Sounds like someone was not qualified to write that book to begin with............LOL!!!!!
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Here is my families story
by mama1119 inhi, i have been posting for a while now but haven't shared my story, and feel it would be theraputic to do so now.
my family is also on the site, although they dont post, just read.. i grew up a jw.
my parents were baptized when i was just a toddler...they were brought in by the only jw members of my dads side of the family.
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WOW! What a dilema! It is hard enough leaving and having to explain to the elders and then the one's you made friends with why you will not be coming back let alone having several JW's work for you. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this time.
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For those not sick to death of talking about this...607 BCE
by Swamboozled injust got this link sent to me by my sister in law and i just keeping staring at it trying to decide where to start.
i know that arguing with a jw is like throwing miracle wheat in the wind...but i want a comeback!!!
http://www.2001translation.com/587_or_607.htm
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Scholar,
No offense, but you remind me of several elders that carry that "high and mighty" attitude in the congregation and constantly poke at people's ability to reason on things and try to shame everyone in to worshiping Jehovah. I know there are people here that probably give you grief and make you angry, but you are not displaying the humble personality that Christ took while he was here on earth. You made a statement about someone that comes into the truth and accepts it as the truth and if they leave they are displaying a fool's thinking. What the JW's teach as a whole is refreshing and pure until you peel back the many layers of the society and find out it is actually a business that operates as a religion on the side. It takes years to realize. A fool is someone who stays in a religion that keeps putting out false prophicies and dates and blames it on the light getting BRIGHTER. By now that light should be as bright as the sun, but they continue to make even more false prophicies. You really need to read Franz book about how things are really done on a voting majority on serious issues rather than using the scriptures to make decisions. It's sad and you buy into it and defend it. I'll pray for you.
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Is this life all there is???
by Core88 ini have been a df'ed witness for two years now.
i have had a son around that same time moved twice and changed jobs all around that same time.
it has been the hardest two years of my life.
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Is this life all there is? NO! Why do I know that? Because I do believe in the bible. Even though I am deprograming myself right now from what was taught to me for 35 years I know the bible well enough to know that God has something in store for us after our life on earth is done. I'm excited about it, but I'm not rushing to die anytime soon though !!! Keep the faith (that the bible teaches) and you will be good!
Best wishes!
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WTS Running Out of Money? Letter to all congregations...
by drew sagan ina few days ago my wife commented on a letter sent out to all congregations (in the u.s.a.?
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se said it was long and boaring, but in the end there where a few points she remembered.
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I'd much rather have a plate passed than solicitations for donations read to me while my ass goes numb
Gary........You make me laugh!!!! You always post quick and to the point and I like that! LOL!!!!
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Has being a Jehova's witness totally shattered your faith?
by Silvia Plath injust because the watchtower society is wrong doesn't mean that there is no god, nor does it mean there is a god.
it would interesting to now how former members have adjusted thier cosmology, or whether they are now atheists and why.
i personally see religion as a more personal matter, rather than belonging to an organization.
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My wife and I just left recently so we are not in a rush to jump back into another religion. Has it shattered my faith? No. No way at all. It has made me a stronger person and taught me a lot of things in life and for that I am thankful. My wife and I have decided to keep our faith and studies on a personal level at home for a while. Once we let some time pass we may entertain and look at some other religions, but for now. The wife, me, the children, and GOD. After being in it for almost 35 years I should have my faith shattered, but when I look at my wife, my children, and the good things in this world I know there is a loving God.
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My Story..... Need advice on reinstatement Letter.
by jrjr4189 ini've been a member of the site for a month, but have been reading the posts for a lot longer, however this is my first post.
i was raised a j-dub by my mother (my father wasn't religious) with my sister and brother.
i was pretty much convinced by my dub friends, bible study conductor, and mother that i should get baptized when i was 15 and decided to go for it.
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It will take more than a letter I promise you. When I DA'd myself several years ago I had to attend about 6 to 7 months of meetings without missing to many before they would even consider reinstating me. It was all I ever knew for almost 30 years and now after being back for almost 4 I realized I made a mistake going back. I originally came back to have a relationship with my family again. Now that I have found so much conflict based on false prophicies, unscriptural practices, etc. my wife and I have stopped going. If you are doing it for family please be careful because if you are not practicing that religion whole souled.....they will call you out on it every chance they get. Every meeting you miss, every hour of field service you don't participate in, every comment you don't answer.....just wait and see. I basically told my family this last week that we were not attending the meetings any longer. I can't do it to my kids nor my wife anymore. I told them I loved them and we will not be DA or DF'd because we haven't done anything, but we are here to love like we always have, but we will not have the same beliefs. We will see how it goes. As for your letter, there is probably no need for one until you have been going back for 6 months or so.
Best wishes!
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Something Jakes said
by Annie Over ini'v been lurking for a few months, but something jakes said about the 2005 wt caused me to think about what a brother said one sunday in one of the very last talks i attended in 2005. he said, "you have to believe what the society says, even if the bible doesn't say it, because after all, they are your brothers".
i was thinking about going back at the time, but that statement really floored me.. that statement along with the unfair way i was treated has caused me not to go back to the meetings.
but even so, i am still pretty much confused, as i still believe they have more truth than other religions.
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I still believe they have more truth than other religions
I used to think that, but after doing a lot of research that I was to scared to do before........I feel different now. I pray for your spirtiual freedom to see the things my wife and I have seen lately. It will set you free from any guilt or doubt.
Best wishes!
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My dad died....
by crazyblondeb insince i consider most of you family, i guess i need to unload.
my dad died.
i found out by looking under the obituaries online.
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So sorry for your loss.