hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!
i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.
i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.
I got all the way to "If you stop reading this letter, you are either a coward, or full of hate for Jehovah or His people, or just plain stupid"
People like you are the reason I left, you pompous ass.
Now I have a real relationship with Jesus Christ and his Father without the Watchtower Society being the middle man. I will pray for you.
my thread was inspired by gentledawn's insightful comment about the effect the events in wales had on her jw husband.... hope any lurkers out there can filter out the signal (storys and experiences like this) to noise (the current trolls running amok on the forums) ratios.
this the problem with those who focus on outrageous fantasies about the watchtower.
it distracts from the real issues that need to be highlighted.. what happened in wales was for real.
“Collective stone-and feces-throwing (as displayed here) simply reinforces cultic conduct encouraged within the exact same organization that one is presumably seeking refuge from.”
Well said Sir!
hello, i am focus.. yes, that focus.. is there anyone here who remembers me from the "good" old days?.
my sig may provide a jog to the memory.. my vision is undimmed, my views unchanged and my claws are sharper than ever.
the filthy old whore is to be taken down with maximum prejudice.. focus.
Sir82 said "If it weren't for guys like Focus doing the heavy lifting 15-20 years ago, y'all would very likely still be in a Kingdom Hall, instead of on an apostate website clucking in disapproval."
Amen to that.
I have been around since the old h2o days . . bet you never even heard of that villagegirl . . . I remember ALL the old timers and we all owe them a debt of gratitude for dispensing TTAT.
"I'm hardly likely to baulk at the infantile babblings of some pimply, nincompoopish, hemorrhoidal twats now, am I?" LOLROFLMFAO! Now I remember why I enjoyed your posts so much, you weild sarcasm and insult like Rembrandt wielded a paint brush.
. . . and ~I~ say to villagegirl: "I fart in your general direction" in my best faux French accent.
Welcome back Focus. Looking forward to your renewed input.
Edited to add . . It appears to me that there are some long term posters here who are acting a little threatened by the return of Focus . . they might have to give up some of their thunder . . I never was much of a contributor here, I contributed more on the old h2o board, Although I do look over the threads here every day. The return of Focus is one of those times that the SSN Locutus of Borg surfaced to comment on a few things . .
10 years ago i stopped attending jehovah's witness meetings for good.
walked out of the kingdom hall cold turkey never to return based on injustices i observed among others and myself at the hands of elders giving out not god's counsel but personal opinions as counsel .
some of them weren't even giving out wt society counsel- just personal opinions.
This is SSN Locutus of Borg sufacing for a rare posting . .
Flipper, line for line . . (after we quit cold turkey one July Sunday AM 17 years ago) . . . this matched my experience exactly. Thank you for posting that.
i read steve hassan's book and he mentioned about buzz words or triggers that call out the cult personality of a victim of mind controlling cult.
when you were in, what triggered you?.
mother
i run into 70 yr old jw's working houses, i watch how long they stand at doors with no one answering.
so i come up and ask you know someone living here?
you been standing at the door a long time.
You sir, are a buffoon.
our friend, oompa, has passed away.
just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.
it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
Has anyone called John K?? I can't find his number or email . . been out of touch for years . . thought we were all over it . .
our friend, oompa, has passed away.
just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.
it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
stunned . . we talked a few times . . he was a character . . we fought the same demons . . .
fuck
any one that have an encouraging story for those that.
see no end in the shunning by family members.
have endured this pain for years ( for me 25yrs) .. i guess this is the price you pay for learning the truth.
Wish I coould say yes, but I can't.
should marijuana be considered a disfellowshipping offense?
there's plenty of evidence that tobacco has cancer causing agents and can thus be deemed a defilement of the flesh.. .
therefore, since we have these promises, beloved ones, let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in gods fear.
Do a search on "Cannabis in the Bible" . . . you may be shocked (or not) by what evidence there is that cannabis was a major ingedient in annointing oils, incense etc . .
Alot of those guys in the Bible were high . .
