Thank you for posting this..
Trying2understand
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Trying2understand
You wiil get alot of good advice on here. Good luck!
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Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses
by Trying2understand ini found this on another website and thought that i would pass it along.. tryingtounderstand.
hi friends, .
i did not write this letter.
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Trying2understand
Hubert,
I found the letter on this website listed below. You are right, hopefully a newbie can see what the JW religion is really about.
http://www.channelc.org/ Main website.
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index.cgi This will take you right to the letter and the forum.
Thank you!
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Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses
by Trying2understand ini found this on another website and thought that i would pass it along.. tryingtounderstand.
hi friends, .
i did not write this letter.
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Trying2understand
You are more then welcome. It's very sad knowing that a religion can rob an individual of their everything. I am constantly doing research and always come across different things and when I do, I like to share. I am so overwhelmed by all of the negative info on this religion. I am here because we have a close friend that has been a JW all his life and hoping that somehow we can shine the light. This forum has been a blessing.
Thank you!
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Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses
by Trying2understand ini found this on another website and thought that i would pass it along.. tryingtounderstand.
hi friends, .
i did not write this letter.
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Trying2understand
I found this on another website and thought that I would pass it along.
Tryingtounderstand
Hi Friends,
I did not write this letter. It was written by a former JW from Arizona. But I thought it would be worth considering for those of you who have not seen it before.
AN OPEN LETTER TO JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
You may not remember, but I know you very well. I met you a long time ago when you came to my house with your smiling faces, your neat clothes, and your soft voices and a Bible tucked neatly under your arm. You told me many beautiful stories of a "paradise earth," and a "righteous new system" which would be established shortly. You beguiled me; I listened and I let you teach me your form of Christ-dignity.
I loved you, I devoted most of my life to you, I was loyal and obedient, never realizing that one day I would come to disagree with everything you had to say. When I first met you and learned of the "paradise," little did I know that in order to get to that paradise, I would have to walk over the dead bodies of beloved family, cherished friends, and casual acquaintances, because they didn't want to be Jehovah's Witnesses. With your soft, sweet voices, and gentle manner, you convinced me that everything and everyone who did not agree with you was "evil." I came to believe that other churches were bad and of the devil, and so were their members. I became convinced that all the governments were wicked, including my own, and that I was not to support the country in which I lived. I believed you; I loved you, trusted you, and served you and never suspected that you were capable of deceiving me.
I loved you so much that I raised my precious children as Jehovah's Witnesses. I taught them that you were trustworthy and true followers of God and Jesus. I trained them to believe your every word. How could I have known that in the future you would steal my own flesh and blood from my arms and prevent them from seeing me because I would come to disagree with you? I never noticed the fangs of oppression and tyranny that lurked behind those gentle smiles. I never knew that I would be expected to hand over my mind, soul, and spirit to you, and if I were to ever want them back, you would hold my children as hostages and no amount of begging and tears would release them from your grip because they had been raised to look at you as being God, rather than mere men.
When I came to you, I was young and pretty and impressionable, looking for a relationship with God, my Creator. But through slick words and empty speeches you convinced me that I was not really a child of God, that my duty was to the organization-that THEY would tell me what to do and how to think. Through years of domination and manipulation I began to accept the meager food that was being offered to me, and became willing to accept it as the true "spiritual" food from the Master, while all the time feeling the gnawing at my body. Finally, I discovered that I had been robbed of my joy, my love, my compassion, and my mercy, and it was replaced with legalistic doctrinal formula which provided me with fear, guilt, and anxiety to fill my hunger. When I said, "I want more than this," you slapped me with your soft little hand, which had now turned into an iron fist of oppression. Yes, you fooled me all along; your deception was because you had been fooled too, a long time ago, by others who had taken you captive to their dictatorial reign of terror. You convinced me that the words of men were the words of God because you really thought it was true. I believed you because you were gentle, soft spoken, and carried the Bible tucked under your arm.
You told me that you had "freedom" and it was only later, when I tried to escape your brand of "freedom" that I discovered that the iron bars of the gate had been shut and I was at your mercy because, by this time, you had already gained control of my mind and my emotions. I cried and begged you to please let me go, and you said, with your firm, roaring voice, "not until I have stripped you naked" and you did. You stripped me of my dignity, my self-respect, my honor, and my FAMILY! You told all my family and friends that I was demonic, evil, an apostate, a spiritual fornicator, and good for nothing but total destruction by your angry God whom you had tried to pass off as a God of "love." They believed you, and they still believe you, because their eyes are blinded by the promise of "paradise" and they cannot "see" the Hell that surrounds them. The ever illusive "paradise" is held out to the gullible like a carrot in front of the nose of a rabbit, and causes them to sacrifice their family, friends, careers, education, hopes and dreams on the altar of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
Now I'm older, now I'm wiser, but now it is too late- life is fast slipping away. Through my tears, I cry out for my beautiful daughter and grandchildren, but you grip them tighter and tighter and tell them that YOU will be their "mother." And so you are, and so you are! I begged to recapture my honor and my dignity, but you laughed with your bright, shining teeth, and said, "No way, you're on your own." Somehow those soft, pretty words weren't soft and pretty anymore, but words of slander, abuse, hatred, and hostility- and you said them in such a way that others would think that you were righteous and I was evil. You lied about me, but no one will believe you LIED because they trust you-that's because you are soft spoken, gentle, and carry a Bible tucked neatly under your arm.
Gaila Noble
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Tell me what you think about these links? It has to do with the Anti-Christ
by Trying2understand inand how the world is going.. my brother told me about these tonight.
i brought of jws(we are going through a nightmare at the moment with my daughters x-boyfriend) and started talking about the links below.
he said to watch the ant-christ video which i did, and found it pretty interesting.
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Trying2understand
Thank you Golf2. As I said, everything is so overwhelming. I never really got into doing research on religion until after dealing with a JWS. I knew that something wasn't right with this religion. This is how I came across some negative info on other religions. It's really scary to think what you can get caught up in these days. As of now, I will continue to be the loving and caring person that I am.
Thank you!
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How Life Can Change
by Sunspot ini don't come by here very often any more (trying to wean myself away from this board in anticipation of when we cannot ever post any more.
in the last couple of years, and leaving this mess in jesus' hands, things have not only begun to emerge as "fixable", but have most definetely been fixed at long last.
i was invited to the youngest grandchild's (of this son) sweet 16 birthday party last summer and i teared up when i realized that this was the first birthday party of all three of these grandchildren that i had attended.. we have been invited to thanksgiving dinner ( for the fourth year) with our whole family and that of my dil's family (she is one of seven) and to spend a few days at christmas at another son's home.
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Trying2understand
It's nice to see that there is hope. Hugs!
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Tell me what you think about these links? It has to do with the Anti-Christ
by Trying2understand inand how the world is going.. my brother told me about these tonight.
i brought of jws(we are going through a nightmare at the moment with my daughters x-boyfriend) and started talking about the links below.
he said to watch the ant-christ video which i did, and found it pretty interesting.
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Trying2understand
and how the world is going.
My brother told me about these tonight. I brought of JWS(we are going through a nightmare at the moment with my daughters x-boyfriend) and started talking about the links below. He said to watch the Ant-Christ video which I did, and found it pretty interesting. Everything(religions and etc) is very over whelming. It will take a while to go through the Vatican website. It's like a book. The links will be on the left hand side.
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
Thank you!
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Tell me what you think about these links? It has to do with the Anti-Christ
by Trying2understand inand how the world is going.. my brother told me about these tonight.
i brought of jws(we are going through a nightmare at the moment with my daughters x-boyfriend) and started talking about the links below.
he said to watch the ant-christ video which i did, and found it pretty interesting.
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Trying2understand
and how the world is going.
My brother told me about these tonight. I brought of JWS(we are going through a nightmare at the moment with my daughters x-boyfriend) and started talking about the links below. He said to watch the Ant-Christ video which I did, and found it pretty interesting. Everything(religions and etc) is very over whelming. It will take a while to go through the Vatican website. It's like a book. The links will be on the left hand side.
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
Thank you!
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50 Ways to Leave Your "Mother"
by Farkel inwith deepest apologies to paul simon: .
50 ways to leave your "mother" .
the problem is all inside your head he said to me, .
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Trying2understand
I loved it! it made me laugh and some. = )