Posts by Younglove1999

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I am still so angry- I don't want this to consume me

by Younglove1999 in

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here's my thread from last month: .

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/151980/1.ashx.

i feel like it's still eating me- i want to call my "friends" and give them a piece of my mind- i want to tell them what hypocrites they are- .

Younglove1999

Here's my thread from last month:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/151980/1.ashx

I feel like it's still eating me- I want to call my "friends" and give them a piece of my mind- I want to tell them what hypocrites they are-

I want to call my friend who slandered my name and tell her I hope that one day when her son is older and starts asking questions that she doesn't betray him and slander his name the way she did with me-

I want to call my friend who sent me the letter (whom I even left a message at her home to discuss this with me- obviously she never called me back) and tell her of all the moments I've been concerned about HER spirituality over the years (her enjoyment of violent movies and shows, worldly friends, etc. ) and how despite those concerns, I've never abandoned her or accused her of being with Satan and how dare she do so with me-

My husband is so logical and open-minded about the JW's simply being hypocrites and seems to be able to have a calm viewpoint, and I'm stewing over everything.

He's reading C.O.C. and just nodding his head going "yep, I knew that" and when I read it, even though I *KNOW* the truth about the Organization, it still makes me angry-

How in the world do I get closure??

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When you were an active JW, what did you pray for?

by JH in

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no matter if god granted what you asked or not, what did you pray for ?

Younglove1999

I always forgot to pray-

usually the only time I personally prayed was when we were eating out with other people and everyone else bowed their head, so I would pray that I wouldn't say anything discouraging or stupid-

I never prayed, yet I was convinced that the reason my life was so successful was because Jehovah was blessing me because I was in his organization. I was worried that leaving the JW's would mean I would lose my job, my marriage, etc. and then it dawned on me, why would Jehovah supposedly bless my life if I never prayed to him?! The success I had was my own doing

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Notes from the Sunday assembly: apostates, doubts, deficit

by truthseeker in

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for your viewing pleasure:.

i only have the notes for sunday.. .

2007-2008 circuit assembly .

Younglove1999

Speaker said that he knew a couple of non-witnesses who were kind, caring and supportive of an older anointed couple in their 80s.
"Are these the kind of people Jesus was referring to?", he asks? No, just because they show human kindness does not mean they will survive Armaggedon.

OH MY GOD-

And how do THEY know? What I don't understand is how can the WTS go about and say "oh, we're no longer the ones doing the seperating work- we don't know who the sheeps are from the goats-only Jesus"

yet they know who will and won't survive this so-called Armageddon?

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Drinking & Jehovah's Witnesses

by minimus in

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you know, i knew a lot of bethelites and every one of them loved their booze.

as an elder, i would entertain alot of the cos, dos and bethelites and their wives.

it was not unusual for the wives to get loaded while they were at my house!

Younglove1999

I knew a lot of JW's in my hall who drank heavily-

My favorite stories are the ones where when we all went away for conventions and the many wives of elders got plastered.

And every 6 months when the CO came to visit and had the MS/Elder meetings, it meant all the wives got together and drank.

You could get plastered, play violent video games, watch violent movies or other rated R movies (gasp!!) and as long as you were going to meetings you were fine.

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Need some advice

by KICKED OUT in

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i have not been on here in a long time but i have always valued the advice of everyone, so here goes.....i am dfd and my wife has never been a part of the org.

we are getting ready to have our first child in may.

my mother who is now living in patterson(at one of the motherships) speaks to me every 1 to 2 years.

Younglove1999

Good luck! I just found this thread and didn't get a chance to post advice, but seems you got plenty of good advice!

Congrats on the impending arrival of your little one- My daughter will be a year old next month. They're amazing

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Once You Had Doubts, How Long Before You Got On The Internet?

by minimus in

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the watchtower society keeps telling everyone to stay away from the evil internet.

they claim that once you surf the internet, even if it's done innocently, it's the beginning of the end.

were you personally affected in your faith because you turned on the computer?

Younglove1999

I remember the first time I came across apostate information (I sought it out) and being shocked that apostate information was just logical discussion of doctrine. Scriptures, watchtower info, etc. Nothing "big and bad" as I had anticipated. I don't preach to JW's but I do try to slip in a little plug for apostates when I am given the chance by just commenting on how surprised I was to find out that apostate information was nothing more than a rational discussion of bible and doctrine and that if it is the truth, it should be able to stand up to that without a problem.

That's such a good point and so true.

I remember as a JW thinking that looking at apostate stuff meant I was going to be haunted with bad dreams and pretty much be afflicted with leprosy because the "stuff" was so bad.

Now I get that way when I read an Awake magazine

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Once You Had Doubts, How Long Before You Got On The Internet?

by minimus in

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the watchtower society keeps telling everyone to stay away from the evil internet.

they claim that once you surf the internet, even if it's done innocently, it's the beginning of the end.

were you personally affected in your faith because you turned on the computer?

Younglove1999

The WTS tries to tell it's members that going on-line will cause you to think "un-clean thoughts" and it's best to avoid it altogether. I think it's funny since it wasn't the internet that caused me to doubt, it was my doubt that caused me to go on the internet. The internet confirmed that I wasn't a psycho satanic lunatic for thinking these thoughts. The internet made me feel like I was an intelligent, reasonable person. And you know what? I am-

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Please Share Your Experiences of Jehovah's Witnesses Shunning You

by flipper in

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Younglove1999

how do they "learn" to shun if they don't outright teach it?

it's engrained into a JW's mind that associating with those who do not practice or believe what you are doing as a JW is like drinking a little bit of poison on a daily basis. In order to protect your relationship with Jehovah, it's important to simplify your life to remove all distractions that may cause you to go "off the course of serving Jehovah"

So if you stop going to meetings, your are a bad influence and JW's cannot allow that type of influence to "test" them. If you mention one time that you're confused, the possibility of you talking against the organization is not worth the risk of continuing their relationship with you so they will cut ties with you to "save their relationship with Jehovah".

Recently a friend who I haven't spoken to in almost a year found out I wasn't going to meetings and finally decided to send me a letter after I called her a few times to see how she and her new baby were doing. Her letter stated she heard that I was adopting Satan's ways and that she had to cut off contact with me. That there would be many tests in these last days and I was one of hers ????

Not even sure how she came to that conclusion since we hadn't spoken for so long. I'd love to say that it's the cult that is controlling their minds, but honestly, I think there are people in this org. that get a rise off of making themselves better than others. These "friends" were horrible friends when I was in the truth and my attempts at "forgiving others freely and forgetting" clouded that very obvious fact.

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What J.W teaching did you find the hardest to accept??

by karter in

for me it was the fact that god is allowing all these innocent people to get killed to prove a point ,i mean it was a big bet he had with satan.. i explained it to my wife this way if i had our children killed in the most horriable way just to show they couldn't live without me how does that make me look?.

Younglove1999

This isn't so much a teaching per say, but the idea that admist wars and persecution, Jehovah would protect his people. And to get this point across, JW's would tell an awful story about how a woman and her baby, not JW's of course, were caught by rebels in some remote African country and the woman was forced to watch her baby being tortured. The story goes on, "but all the JW's were saved!"

TWISTED- VERY TWISTED

I had the god awful privlege to have this story relayed to me over the weekend :(

I also want to add that after prodding, no confirmation could be absolutely made that all JW's were saved, but that not all the details were confirmed, but it seemed as if most JW's went unharmed. So on that note, why in the world would a JW convey this "experience"?!?!!!

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Do you guys remember the big push to baptize kids?

by isnrblog in

it was in the 80's i think but they began stressing the urgency of baptism for anyone who was "at an age of understanding".

i heard several assembly talks that said kids under ten could be baptized if they qualified.. this sticks in my mind because my kids were 12 or so and not qualified in my view.

my ex wife pushed my daughter into baptism at 12, she is now 32, not a witness and we both laugh about it.. www.isnrblog.com.

Younglove1999

I still see kids that young being pushed to baptism.

When I was still going to meetings last year, I remember a 10 year old telling me her goal was to get baptized and the first thing that came out of my mouth was "why would you go and do that?" LOL!

My sister was 12 when she got baptized and 14 when she got disfellowshipped. I was also 12 when I got baptized as well. I started rebelling and then my mom would not allow my brother to get baptized so that she could talk to him no matter what when he got older.