i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.
my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.
we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.
| "...I was scared do to family investigating me and paying online to find all websites I was viewing and signed up to, that's how they found out I was becoming an ex-witness..." | |
| outofthelionsden |
This sounds like a Nazi Gestapo police. Going all that way to pay a presumably a private investigator to track your online habits is really the height of instruction. That tells how the Watchtower is a very dangerous organisation.
Scott77
consider the type of deity the governing body worship, and whole heartedly endorse:.
jehovah.
jehovah is the type of deity that requires "exclusive devotion" and gets extremely jealous of other gods, even if they are just made of wood overlaid with gold or idols.
You are becoming a specialist at dealing with the Governing body. I think, its very important everyone become a specialist in certain Watchtower branch of teaching and structure.
Scott77
consider the type of deity the governing body worship, and whole heartedly endorse:.
jehovah.
jehovah is the type of deity that requires "exclusive devotion" and gets extremely jealous of other gods, even if they are just made of wood overlaid with gold or idols.
Sometimes, I ask myself,is Jehovah really a god of love when he allowed his son to die a painful death? Parents are supposed to be loving and protective of their offspring. We see this trait also in animals and birds.
Scott77
by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..
| "Freddie Franz is mentioning menstruation. I was totally appalled. In the past, I viewed him with great respect b/c he was such a towering intellectual, according to the Witnesses" | |
| Band on the Run |
Hi BOTN,
How tall was Fred Franz? Was he above ordinary average?
Scott77
by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..
"...Of course, we had to do field service. Our "territory" included an apartment building in which lived a very vocal, JW-hating lady who screamed at us in French as we went to every door. Oh yeah, memories are made of this..." | |
| cobaltcupcake |
OMG! That 'very vocal, JW-hating lady' was doing a great service for us. I wish everyone was like her.
Scott77
by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..
| "It turned out that he [my husband who is a Jehovah's witnesses Elder] got a speeding ticket on his way to the assembly site, and decided to take it out on me. Well, I didn't tell him to drive too fast! | |
| Mum |
Its surprises me that even those who admonish us about the need to follow ceasar's law also do break it themselves. What can we say about that? What a big hypocrite they are! The Watchtower itself is not an exception.
Scott77
by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..
Hi exwhyzee,
Here is you clickable link. Thank for sharing.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/194456/1/Does-anyone-remebr-the-Rooming-Work
Scott77
i had a chat with my boyfriend about this, and he said that he knows quite a few pioneers who are capable of working but prefer to pioneer with government assistance.
his thought was, "well, it's kind of bad, but at least they're doing something useful/good with their time.
" i know from reading this board that it's a pretty widespread thing.
| "...So you have a person[Jehovah's Witness] at your door that will.....if you progress long enough in your "bible study"......begin to teach you that the world's governments are all evil and deserving of destruction.......yet this same person will gladly accept free handouts from this same evil and corrupt government?" | |
| outsmartthesystem |
I think, this is one of the greatest irony of our time. Unfortunatley, most countries in developing world do not have social security as a fallback position in time of need. Parents in those lands depends on having more children as a form of social protection when hardship kicks in.
Scott77
i had a chat with my boyfriend about this, and he said that he knows quite a few pioneers who are capable of working but prefer to pioneer with government assistance.
his thought was, "well, it's kind of bad, but at least they're doing something useful/good with their time.
" i know from reading this board that it's a pretty widespread thing.
the july 15 study watchtower uses all 4 study articles to try to inculcate into every witnesses' mind that the governing body is indisputably god's sole channel of communication on earth.
to do so, it uses a multitude of scriptures along with seriously flawed un-inspired reasoning.
the foundation stone of this watchtower's blatant agenda is the claim that when jesus used only a few to dispense the physical food to the many, he was setting a principle which would be applied to the distribution of spiritual food after he returned to heaven.
