Posts by lancelink

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What SHOULD have woken you up ?

by Phizzy in

for myself, there is an embarrassingly long list of things that really should really have woken me up, fully.

it was a long process for me, as a mind controlled born in, things i simply did not agree with, or knew were downright wrong, that built and built, and, eventually i woke up, after 58 bloody years in !.

but just mainly for fun, what should have woken you up ?.

lancelink

before becoming a witness, I was a pretty " walk the straight line" type of kid.

When my parents became witnesses the pressure to fit into their mold and hang out with all witness kids was quite

a pressure to deal with.

So as a jr. high student I aligned with the mentality of hanging out with so called spiritual friends VS people from the world, ( that I have known most of my life) that were deemed bad association.

Well, I quickly learned how much fun being a witness was,,,, smoking cigarettes, pot, drinking heavily, lying, going out with worldly girls. And then going to meetings, and fs acting like I was a young missionary,, It was a mind-blowing time of life for me. Looking back, I should have dropped those fake friends and ran away from this religion as fast as I could. But I was torn, being true to who I was at the time or having a lot of worldly fun in secret was a powerful drug for me. what an idiot I was.

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Witness fancy dress party huge fails!

by Witness 007 in

so some special pioneers in our cong thought it would be awesome to spice up our boring country town lives with a witness fancy dress party!!

wow what could go wrong?

it was 1993 well one pioneer wanted to out do every one so he turned up in drag as a ballerina in full bad make up...some had costumes with guns swords knives...i mean a cowboy does not have a watchtower in his holster!

lancelink

back in the early 80's our hall had a party called " radio party". People would lip synch to 50's music, kids had a pie eating contest, and everyone just had a great time.

After the second party, everything came to a screeching halt. heard thru the grapevine that these parties were not good for jehovahs people. It had families from several congregations attending, nothing like animal house.

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To kill a Mockingbird quote

by lancelink in

saw this and immediately thought of the witnesses : .

lancelink

Saw this and immediately thought of the witnesses :

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Field service shit show

by solomon in

jw
friends

i just got back from field service.

i haven’t been out in a few months so now we don’t keep any written records and we don’t know which houses are do not calls.

i also noticed i was the only one with a book bag.

lancelink

so when attending the meetings, do people just bring a tablet ?

No more bookbags containing bibles, songbooks, wt's and kingdom ministry's ?

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Yet another post about "generations"!

by nowwhat? in

as repeated many times about how convoluted, crazy, doesn't make sense and just poorly executed what an overlapping generation is, i just remembered another generations concept that just as bad!.

.

lancelink

this movie had a plot that could be followed, unlike the jw version.

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Another jw convicted of child sex abuse.

by lancelink in

for the past year, the trial for this jw has been going on.

he was sentenced on 12/19 .. http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/10/23/13-years-of-sexual-abuse-results-in-37-year-sentence/.

i have been following the comments on fb regarding the aftereffects of this case, and there have been quite a lot of incendiary statements about what a scum he is.. one lady posted the following comments about how the witnesses deal with abusers is quite hilarious :.

lancelink

This abuse has been going on for the past decade.

Here is the earlier story I posted here several weeks ago :

https://www.nwherald.com/2019/10/23/crystal-lake-man-found-guilty-of-more-than-decade-of-sex-abuse/a4fuium/

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Another jw convicted of child sex abuse.

by lancelink in

for the past year, the trial for this jw has been going on.

he was sentenced on 12/19 .. http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/10/23/13-years-of-sexual-abuse-results-in-37-year-sentence/.

i have been following the comments on fb regarding the aftereffects of this case, and there have been quite a lot of incendiary statements about what a scum he is.. one lady posted the following comments about how the witnesses deal with abusers is quite hilarious :.

lancelink

For the past year, the trial for this jw has been going on. He was sentenced on 12/19 .

http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/10/23/13-years-of-sexual-abuse-results-in-37-year-sentence/

I have been following the comments on FB regarding the aftereffects of this case, and there have been quite a lot of incendiary statements about what a scum he is.

One lady posted the following comments about how the witnesses deal with abusers is quite hilarious :

Like I said, they follow the laws of the land. At the time of the first incident the laws protected all confessions made to religious leaders. A religious leader would have been breaking a law to report to the police without the family consent. The family also didn’t report it to authorities back then either. Everyone was under the impression that it had stopped upon the confession being made. They found out more recently that the abuse was STILL going on. Just recently the law changed that tells that religious leaders must report to child protective services. The elders turned them into DCFS, and DCFS turned them into authorities. Like I said, I have witnessed them turning others into DCFS for any suspected abuse. You can’t fully believe everything you read on the internet.

He was not a Jehovahs Witness Priest (even though they are called Elders not priests). And trust me, when an elder is informed of child abuse, they turn them into DCFS, and inform the family of their right to seek justice through the authorities. There are so many rumors about how it is handled, but I have witnessed first hand them turning people into the authorities for any kind of child abuse. They fully follow the laws of the land.

Hide or report this

But now, the civil trial against the wt society and local kingdom hall elders, ( who did not follow the child abuse laws ) will be gaining traction this year. One of the elders was a school teacher during this time, he was a mandated reporter and failed to do what was necessary because saving the society was the most important thing to do. should be interesting !

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local, strange jw thinking

by lancelink in

i was reading today that the last star wars movie will be playing next week.

doing a little searching, i found that there have been 12 movies in the saga total, ( box office, total (12 films): $9.323 billion.)..

it got me thinking about when the empire strikes back came out, it was the second movie ( 1980).

lancelink

I was reading today that the last Star Wars movie will be playing next week. Doing a little searching, I found that there have been 12 movies in the saga total, ( Box office, Total (12 films): $9.323 billion.).

It got me thinking about when The Empire Strikes back came out, it was the second movie ( 1980). I went to a showing with a group of uber jw's, and after the movie ended, they all were talking about how George Lucas better hurry up and finish the next installment. They wanted to see what happened before Armageddon came. It was totally unreal to me how fanatical the witnesses were about this fact, they were a mix of young people and several older, established in the religion type folks. I was 20 at that time.

It now has been 39 years since that episode,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That was one of the first inklings I had that something was wrong with the thought process of these so called "religious" people .

Does anyone else have a situation where you realized that your local group of jw's had some unreal thinking ?

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Science and Watchtower's astounding ignorance

by Diogenesister in

well these goof balls at jwbroadcast apparently think the study of pure science means not having any "practical application".

oi vey.

sanderson may speak russian but he is so ill educated he appears to think that researching a subject and formulating a theory about it means that's the end of it - in other words he's saying it has no practical use.

lancelink

I work at a college where the witnesses put their cart up for display once a week. I should forward this message to the powers that be at school. Telling them that the witnesses are going against what the purpose of the

college is

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When was it time for you to walk away from your congregation meetings and the WTBTS?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .

ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.

i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.

lancelink

my parents were in since I was 12, and they helped in any way they could with the hall, assemblies, and new people. They retired down south, and when my Mom died only 5 people contacted me or sent cards, not one elder was in the mix. At that time I was slowly beginning to fade away, but after seeing that "absolute conditional love", I made a beeline out of the org. I wrote a letter to the elders, and new York explaining that I was out, and wanted nothing to do with this religion. I heard later that The elders ignored my letter, thinking that I was just depressed and would soon snap out of it. But when they got a message from the corporate office, that really lit a fire underneath them and one month later, they were basically falling over each other to get in contact with me trying to be encouraging. I ignored the whole crew and walked away with absolutely no regrets.