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The meeting tonight was UNBEARABLE

by Orgull in

i had my tms tonight.

for those who don't know me, i no longer believe, but have only just begun my slow fade.. the meeting was unbearable.

first there was the brother who happily pointed out that i'd missed two meetings recently and that he was keeping track.

still_in74

(1 Thessalonians 4:10-11) . . ., 11 and to make it YOUR aim to live quietly and to mind YOUR own business and work with YOUR hands, just as we ordered YOU;

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The meeting tonight was UNBEARABLE

by Orgull in

i had my tms tonight.

for those who don't know me, i no longer believe, but have only just begun my slow fade.. the meeting was unbearable.

first there was the brother who happily pointed out that i'd missed two meetings recently and that he was keeping track.

The meeting tonight was UNBEARABLE

by Orgull in

i had my tms tonight.

for those who don't know me, i no longer believe, but have only just begun my slow fade.. the meeting was unbearable.

first there was the brother who happily pointed out that i'd missed two meetings recently and that he was keeping track.

still_in74

He switched me to a nice, harmless talk about defending our blood beliefs. Whee! What a guy

I was lucky enough to get that blood talk too....

lousy thing for me is my wife now knows I have a "problem" with the blood issue and I have to talk about "why true christains dont accept blood transfusions" !!

This is going to be the best performance of my life.............

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The Service Overseer nearly cried from the podium.

by 5go in

he was giving the part about giving your riches to jehovah the watchtower.

you could tell there was a conflict going on in his head, while he was giving it.

you know he probaly has an idea that "jehovah provides things, so don't worry about it" .

still_in74

We had a few die and leave a bundle to the cong.

i remember being asked to witness and sign for the cont. boxes about 5 years ago. A sister had recently died and a cheque for $13000.00 was in the box. I signed the slip and brought it directly to the cong. secretaries house. The son of the deceased was an elder and I listened for a few months and there was NEVER a large donation value or cong. account dollar value ever mentioned.

I never said anything to anyone because I was a good boy and just presumed that the elders felt it best to use this discretely on the many renovations that happened after that (although the cong. was given a $$ figure to donate for that)

I never did find out why the cong. accounts were still only around a thousand bucks every month after that. Hmmmmmm....................

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HAVE YOU TRULY LEFT THE WITTNESSES OR ARE YOU STILL ACTING LIKE ONE

by nightwarrior in

its been a while since i last posted on the site.. as a wittness i was governed by what i said was supposed to do and even act towards other human beings,my sinful life was ripped away by people using pages of the bible, showing what god wanted from me as a person,unfortunately being scriptually replaced by a character that i never realized, nor truth be told acceptable to jehovah god, but under the guise of a christian, we accept all that is brainwashed into our silly minds.

accepting all and everything without question,therfore this is known as being brainwashed, without you even knowing it iike so many within the congregation, was forced to adapt to a hidden manifesto which was be seen but not heard.

complain about any of the elders and you will be disfellowshiped, most of my time i was serving jehovah with a muzzle on my face which would only allow me to speak if i agreed with the elders i wasnot blind but what i saw and experienced as a wittness left me cold.

still_in74

i live everyday as a JW. I go to meetings, say prayers at BS's and dinner, read at meetings, give talks, dont do holidays, act like I dont watch violent or "bad" movies, (i dont go in service anymore though) I am married to an active wife and my family are mostly in.

In short, I am not free, i am living like a JW......... I love my friends and my family, but as a JWD friend said to me (I consider S4 a friend) I know I have to walk away eventually. Its just a matter of when. I am living in the matrix, I know my life is fake but I am too scared to take the red pill (or blue,,,, I cant remember ! )

Still.......

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How the watchtower study is used by the writing department

by cultswatter in

last night i was reading that aug 15th wt.

when i came across the following sentence.

i thought gee what poor sentence structure ....aha maybe there is a hidden word contained within!!!.

still_in74

cultswatter, as Jeff pointed out - you have the right to believe/see anything you want here. However your post history has on occasion demonstrated your quickness to jump to conclusions regarding "agendas" of the WTS. (ie: the WTS lawyers sabotaging your Pascal post)

This is akin to believing the Davinci Code is a true story!

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Do you suffer INTELLECTUAL STARVATION?

by Terry in

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symptoms of intellectual starvation:.

1.purposelessness, time-wasting, apathy, cynical desuetude.. 2.aimless hobbies that run out the clock.

3.fluff reading.

still_in74

Terry, I agree with your logic on this. Especially now that I have the blinders (mostly) off, I find myself asking "what have I accomplished?" and "withouth the 'truth' what is my purpose?"
So I feel a need to pursue academia. To enlighten me to a purpose that may illuminate me and motivate me to further accomplishment. Yet....

we're all going to die Terry why die smart, over achieved, properly primed and cultured? I just do what I do when I feel like doing it and as long as I'm enjoying my life in the moment, keeping it simple works for me.

I also agree with this logic. Perhaps academia is not what I / we need, but rather fulfilling experiences. Moments and experiences that raise us to new levels. "moments that take our breath away". Having said that, I studied roman history only after actually visiting Rome. I have pictures of amazing monuments and historical artifacts that at the time I merely snapped a photo of when passing by as I did not understand how precious these were. Hence, I go back to the academia.

I want to feed my intelligence not to be book smart, but to add to my appreciation of life and get the most out of it.

I appreciate this thread, I hope more will contribute to it in the light that you started it. Thanks...........

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Holiday to Tasmania and my incredible book find

by jwfacts in

i have just spent the last few days in tasmania, where i was born and raised until the age of 20. my grandmother is a jw in her 80's but let me stay at her house because "no one is going to tell her she can not speak to her own family".

i visited relatives and friends, and found that almost everyone that i grew up with are no longer jws.

it was quite eye-opening; some have become christians, some have new age beliefs, some are athiests.

still_in74

I don't think I will sell them for now, they have sentimental value, plus If my parents ever question my sources I can always show them the original quotes

I would certainly keep these. These will prove invaluable for helping others to see the truth about the "truth". I wish I had that collection!

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My "Moonie" experience the other day.

by Junction-Guy in

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ok, this is a short experience that happened to me the other day.. .

i went to eat at a local chinese buffet.

i was sitting there eating my food, when a young chinese woman approaches my table carrying a metal briefcase, it looked like it was homemade and had pics of flowers on it.

still_in74

when you see what a wacko like this guy Moon can accomplish in 60 years it certainly changes the way anyone should think about what the witnesses claim regarding having Jehovahs backing and how no fleshly organization could ever accomplish what "Jehovahs" organization has...

This Moon guy has universities, schools, builidings, millions of followers, etc. He built his first church with mud and cardboard after WW2 !!!

How the hell can people still pull this crap off???

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For Current JW's- Watchtower Society Examined!

by Vinny in

" {wt jun 15 1957 370} .

" {ga feb 4 1931 293-4} .

" {wt jun 15 1957 370} .

still_in74

just marking this........

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