Posts by youcanhaveago

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Grand and Lesser Apostate Delusions

by slimboyfat in

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friends

what is it makes some of those wacky apostates appear from time to time claiming russell and the witnesses were/are all part of some great freemason/illuminati plot?

i'll tell you what it is, and it may explain a few other things for you too!

people who come up with these theories demonstrate a basic psychological insecurity stemming from their involvement and subsequent disentanglement from the witnesses.

youcanhaveago

You are talking about "damaged people" - so who damaged them ?

A little empathy is needed I think .

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Let's just get something straight about 1975.

by WTFBBQPWNT in

jw
friends

nobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.

in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?

there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..

youcanhaveago

I don't know what your point is R6 lazer but you weren't there - I BLOODY WELL WAS I SUFFERED AND STILL SUFFER . I know what I was told and what the wtbts ENCOURAGED .

A LIE !

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How can I be free ?

by youcanhaveago in

jw
friends

can anyone tell me how i find peace of mind ?

how i feel my life is not pointless ?.

i truly feel lost .

youcanhaveago

Weird ain't it ? I'm sitting here reading and appreciating your replys with i tunes going in the background on random and Louis Armstrong has just started singing "Wonderful World"

And NOW Annie Lennox has just stated singing " Walking on Broken Glass " - is someone trying to tell me something ?

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How can I be free ?

by youcanhaveago in

jw
friends

can anyone tell me how i find peace of mind ?

how i feel my life is not pointless ?.

i truly feel lost .

youcanhaveago

Can anyone tell me how I find peace of mind ? How I feel my life is not pointless ?

I truly feel lost . I am having such a bad time - my family are all JW:s and where do I go ?

I have no hate and regret nothing because I met my wife "in the truth " and we have 3 wonderful children so how can I regret that ?

My life is filled with confusion as my wife and I are no longer together ( another story for another time ).

If I am honest I have suicidal thoughts , because of my children I am pretty sure I wouldn't do it but they occur .

Please don't think I am being alarmist or attention seeking , I am just lost and want to live out the rest of my days in freedom and with purpose.

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Let's just get something straight about 1975.

by WTFBBQPWNT in

jw
friends

nobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.

in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?

there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..

youcanhaveago

Lets get something staight about 1975 .

Lets be honest.

Lets tell the truth.

As a young man I grew up to be totally reasurred by my elders ( in more than one sense of that word) that Armeggedon would occur in 1975 , All of us young ones were encouraged to believe that , it was all we could identify as a fixed point in our lives , I abandoned a promising education that costs me dearly until this day . There was no future because everything would change in 1975 , We all worked out how old we would be in that year we tried to figure out how mature we would be , how we would cope with all the big things that would happen . No one - absolutely no one discouraged us from this train of thought . It was a nailed on certainty .

We were lied to.

Thats the truth .

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