TheCoolerKing

Joined

• started 12 topics
• posted 362 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by TheCoolerKing

• 
  20

  Maybe this was posted

  by mouthy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  before ...but anyway for those who didnt see it( if it was ).

  jan15th 06 page 23 of the watchtower.

  "because of listening to the devil & not rejecting his lies.the first human pair apostatized.so,then,should we listen to apostates,read theor literature ,or examine their web sites on the internet?if we love god& the truth,we will not do so.we should not allow apostates into our homes,or even greet them,for such actions would make us "sharers in their wicked works".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  Greetings my Happy Fellow Apostates!!!

  Those errors are well known- the support for the majority of their teachings comes, not from Scripture, but from mere humans in Brookln, NY.

  Well said Brother Apostate! I love when the Watchtower Society instructs its membership not to read all that "Apostate Literature". When all you have to do is pick up some copies of the older Watchtower publications (Ebay anyone??). Try anything by C.T. Russell, like his writings regarding the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Or any books by Judge Rutherford, and his 1925 end of the world predications. Their own Watchtower publications reveals the real "Truths" about them better than any apostate material!
• 
  38

  Do you still feel guilty, not going to the memorial?

  by JH in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the first time i missed the memorial, i was sick and couldn't go, and felt guilty because that meeting was so important.. then another year, i missed again, this time i wasn't sick.

  i still felt guilty, because i still believed in the religion to a certain extent.

  i didn't go because i didn't want to go back to the meetings, and feel trapped once more.. maybe some feel guilty that they aren't doing anything for the memorial or easter, depending which religion you think is right, because after all jesus did say to remember him..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  Do you still feel guilty, not going to the memorial?

  Nope, No, Nadda!!!

  Why would I feel guilty about missing out on seeing a whole room full of deceived people rejecting Jesus?

  Well said Honesty!!!
• 
  31

  OK now, I'm really an apostate

  by dawg in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i go to my jw uncle's funeral for obvious reasons!

  after the funeral my family invites me to dinner, something we haven't done for some time (probably 8 years or so) as i'm considered disassociated not disfellowshipped.

  i guess this is allowed per the new jw policy but since that crap changes from time to time i'm not sure.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  Isn't freedom a wonderful feeling???

  Way to go Dawg!!!
• 
  51

  "NWT emerges as the most accurate of the translations compared..." ???

  by whereami in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is for all you scholars out there.

  is this acurate?

  please show examples were the nwt is clearly wrong.. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  A person may be able to make a case for the NW rendering of the Old Testament and their insertion of the name Jehovah. But there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE to support their inserting the name of Jehovah 237 times in the New Testament. Their justification for replacing the name LORD with the Divine Name (Jehovah) is because they feel that it was removed from the New Testament. Yet there are over 5000 copies of ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament that do not use the Divine Name or Tetragrammaton. In a few cases these ancient manuscripts were written just a few hundred years after the book of Revelation was originally written.

  For anyone that believes that the NW is an accurate translation of the Bible, I would suggest that they investigate the history of the Tetragrammaton. Here is an excellent site:

  http://www.tetragrammaton.org/
• 
  29

  Give Examples of How JWs Try To "Demonize" Everything

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's an example......years ago if a jw wanted a heart transplant or a transplant of any kind, it was considered "cannibalism".

  to "prove" that this was oh so wrong, they provided an article about a person who did get a new heart donated to them and suddenly they got the old personality of the donor.

  the transplant changed everything about this man and he was no longer the same normal person.......and why??

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  I remember that years ago the JWs published an issue of the Watchtower with a picture of Disney World on the cover. Seriously! I believe that the article was titled, "Are You Confusing Fantasy With Reality?"

  I guess Mickey and Minnie Mouse were living in sin huh???
• 
  57

  Did You Learn ANYTHING From Being A Jehovah's Witness????

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well??

  ?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  I learned that the New World would come before "the generation of 1914 has passed away."

  Oh wait...thats right...the "New Light" changed their minds...
• 
  59

  Evaluating Raymond Franz

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you think of ray(mond) franz?

  i have seen here some people critisise him as not being a really heartfelt opponent of the wts, but my view is that he was quite honest about his expressed motives against the cult.

  with his revelations he gave a lot of momentum to the ex jw movement (the apostate organisation according to the jws) and offered valuable assistance to those seeking to shake off the ideological and social dependance on the oppressive cult.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  Like many of the posters here, I will be forever grateful to Ray Franz. He helped free me from years of guilt. I had been born and raised as a JW and left when I was about 23. For years after leaving I suffered with depression and anxiety. I couldnt shake the guilt for leaving "God's Only True Organization". I was even suicidal at one point in my life, thanks primarily to the JW cult.

  I finally read Ray Franz's C.O.C. in my late 30s. My eyes were opened after I read about the real "Truths" behind "The Organization" and that awful guilt is forever gone.

  Thanks Ray!!!
• 
  31

  Why don't YOU believe anymore?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  someone on another site was asking "what if they are right?

  " which made me think about why i know that they are not and i wondered what was your epiphany or road to damascus moment or moments that just made you realise - hey i've been led up the garden path here!.

  here was my response but i really think a list of reasons on one thread for easy reference for newbies would be good.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  but the big thing that finally convinced me that I wasn't in the true religion was when I read Crisis of Conscience

  Yes, that definitely did it for me too. What started to drive me away was the lack of love that I saw. The elders started treating me like crap, just because I decided to go to college. I was blacklisted and scorned. Yet when I asked them to show me in the bible, “Where does it say that getting educated is a sin against God?” They couldn’t do it and at that point they pretty much showed me the door.

  All anyone has to do is to read the older Watchtower publications. Read about their TRUE origins and all their failed prophecies and dates of “The End”. They claim that God chose them in 1919 as his only true organization on the earth. Yet in 1919, they were publishing books about things that are no longer accepted by the Watchtower Society.
  For instance, Charles T. Russell, their founder, insisted that the “Great Pyramid” in Egypt was God’s stone witness on earth. Russell claimed that the “Great Pyramid” described God’s divine plan in detail. Russell also stated that the time of the end began in 1799 and that the world would end in 1914. Yet Judge Rutherford dismissed the “Great Pyramid” theory when he took over. And of course Rutherford had his own dates in mind when he predicated the end of the world, such as 1925.

  Now think about it. Why would God have chosen them to be his spokesman on earth in 1919 when much of what they believed then is no longer accepted teaching today?
• 
  26

  guilt feelings sometimes

  by amara in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised as a jw from the age of 4, my father was an elder for 18 years, was a auxillary pioneer for years, been there done all that and decided to leave at age 30, i have chosen a pagan path and am very happy but sometimes i feel guilty for no reason, does anyone else ever have this problem?

  if you do, how do you handle it?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  Welcome to the board!

  I can totally relate to that “guilty” feeling. I was raised as a JW and was baptized as a teen. I left “The Organization” when I was in my early 20s. For years I suffered with guilt. It was an internal conflict that I couldn’t shake. Relatives kept pressuring me to go back. But I couldn’t . Deep down it just didn’t feel right to be a JW anymore. But I kept thinking that I had disappointed my family and that God was angry with me for leaving his organization.

  Then a few years ago I started reading the so called “apostate” literature. I searched the web for any and everything that I could find on the Watchtower Society. Then I read “Crisis of Conscience”, and I was shocked. This was the organization that I was feeling so guilty about leaving?

  At times now I get angry when I think about my past life as a JW. But I'm much happier now too. It took time for me, but that guilty feeling is forever gone.
• 
  59

  The Day all Jehovah`s Witness`s are put into Concentration Camps!

  by OUTLAW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was a kid,kingdom halls still had windows.thats a while ago..as a kid i was told in the last days,jehovah`s witness`s would be rounded up and be put into concentration camps..i was told,when the government came to take me away and seperate me from my parents,i should wear my warmest coat and boots.as i would have to fend for myself in the concentration camp..i was told never to give up my faith.even if they tied my parents to a stake and was foced to light the fire that would burn them alive.....jehovah`s witness`s are the "happiest people on earth!

  ".....do you have any happy memorys like mine?...outlaw

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  TheCoolerKing

  WBT$ has no problem with terrorizing small children..What a loving organization..

  Yes, I remember that for most of my childhood I was always terrified. I have very few happy memories as a child.

  When I was 7 or 8, I remember being told that the government would wipe out all religions. Of course we JWs would suffer the most because we would refuse to submit. Us kids would have to be strong because we would be separted from our parents and then suffer abuse in camps and be tortured. And then if you were "faithful" enough to edure all this suffering, we would survive armagedon and live happily ever after. Oh what a blessed day that would be!

  What a wonderful way to grow up, huh???