yes, pretty much . . . so they can live with us forever in the "New System," where we will pet lions and lambs and probably everyone will be vegetarians . . . uh huh . . .
Lucky Calamity
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Are they really waiting for us to die?
by iknowall558 inthis is something i've thought about over and over in my mind.
anyone df or da are viewed by active jws as "dead when armageddon comes".
are they waiting for us to die?.
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Questioning me as an apostate
by God_Delusion ini am an active jw.
i was born in the "truth" (i really feel uncomfortable calling it that) and am now married to a witness.. for a year now, i have actually come to see that the gb are just business-psychologists.
anyone who views jehovah's witnesses as a religion and not a cult, really needs to evaluate their way of thinking and they also need to look up the definition of the word "cult".. anyway, my parents recently came over on holiday (they live in another country and are also residents of bethel).
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Lucky Calamity
Welcome to the forum. I hope they don't burn you at their Judicial Committee stake, God_Delusion. Good luck and best wishes!
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Finding a new (real life) community
by bluecanary inspeaking to ex-jws, many of you have joined another form of christianity and no doubt found fellowship in a church.
for those that are no longer christians, have you found another community of people (in person, not online)?.
i am extremely introverted.
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Lucky Calamity
I found joining a low-key (non-competitive) hiking group to be helpful . . . I also have a lot of online groups I keep meaning to join in the real world . . . going to school and getting involved in SGA and school-related volunteer opps was great, too.
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Did you find out the hard way the advice - NEVER leave your
by hamsterbait innever ever leaveyour child alone with a jw?.
i have friends who left their daughter over a weekend with her cousins.
she came back with crying fits, nightmares and general nervousness about the world ending.
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Lucky Calamity
It's not a good idea to leave your kids unsupervised with JWs.
They do NOT respect your boundaries, no matter what (or how) you demand . . . and they do and say damaging things . . . they often have little comprehension, in my experience, of how to be child-oriented in any way . . . but that is my experience and observation.
Perhaps others have had better experiences.
Short and long, yes, I learned the hard way, and should have known better, but desperation and wishful thinking lulled me into allowing my JW family to spend too much time alone with my daughter.
Fortunately, I realized the error of my ways. She is a very independent-minded young woman who did not succumb to the grandparents' emotional (and other) blackmail/bribery. Life is challenging enough as it is; who needs that extra baggage?
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Why did you leave the org?
by A-Team inwere you dfed, did you find out some lies about the org?.
what was the last straw?
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Lucky Calamity
to get a life.
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Your opinion please
by sspo injust wondering what all of you experts would do if you were in my shoes and of course i realize we are all different and there is no right answer.. i was a jw for over 3 decades and very active, served mostly as elder for those many years.... won't give you all the details but wife divorced me for being an "apostate" "spiritual endangerment" even though there was.
no ground for scriptural divorce.
i was never df or da.. she's waiting for me to commit adultery and write a letter for her to be given to the elders.
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Lucky Calamity
NO. Admitting to adultery when you didn't do it anyway, AND would be treated by the LAW outside the congregation as the defaulting party? NO WAY.
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BREAKING NEWS: WATCHTOWER IS STILL A MEMBER OF UN- SOURCE SAYS.
by Scott77 ini have read today this quote from one member on facebook going by the name of ruth eeker.. .
based on her quote, she states that "as well in regards to the un, the society has various name versions registered still in the un.
so they are still not completely out of the supposed beast!".
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Lucky Calamity
How Machiavellian will this organization get?
Let's see . . . I smell some "new light" shining up from the cesspool of cult manipulation regarding all this.
The Org and its sheep will just accuse us of apostasy for pointing it out and use some loophole to weasle their way out of getting caught in what we know is a web of hypocrisy.
Maybe someone will change their mind because of this info, but my latest convo with a slightly disenchanted JW tells me it might be a lost cause after all. I hope I'm mistaken, though.
It would be totally awesome if this kind of news would shake a lot of JWs out of their bOrg-induced comas, but I don't hold out much hope for that anymore.
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UPDATE ON MY BROTHER IN LAW
by Mary ini had done a post back in january about my brother in law who was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/medical/170540/1/does-anyone-know-anything-about-myelodysplastic-syndrome.
on this thursday past, they got the worst news imaginable: it's turning into leukemia.
this is not regular leukemia, but what is called acute myelogenous leukemia which is far, far worse than regular leukemia.
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Lucky Calamity
Good luck to you all.
They are lucky to have you around to help steer them in the right direction.
Who knows what decisions might have been made without your input and feedback over the years; it is good they are accepting of the idea of a blood transfusion.
I'm sorry to hear that you all are going through this. Best wishes to you and your bil.
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Did You "Care" About Disfellowshipped People?
by minimus inas a witness, i was trained not to feel bad for "those that left us".
if they didn't want to stay, that was their decision.
if they decided to stop the "sweet fellowship" of the brotherhood, we needed to avoid them so that they could miss us, see the error of their way and "come back to jehovah".. when you were a jehovah's witness, did you avoid disfellowshipped ones and mentally stop caring about them?.
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Lucky Calamity
Reading this thread made me cry.
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Did You "Care" About Disfellowshipped People?
by minimus inas a witness, i was trained not to feel bad for "those that left us".
if they didn't want to stay, that was their decision.
if they decided to stop the "sweet fellowship" of the brotherhood, we needed to avoid them so that they could miss us, see the error of their way and "come back to jehovah".. when you were a jehovah's witness, did you avoid disfellowshipped ones and mentally stop caring about them?.
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Lucky Calamity
I had a crush on both of the d'f'ed people from my hall, so it was really sad to me, and still is. I wonder how they are doing and hope they stayed out of the bOrg . . . and built healthy, happy lives for themselves, and hope they weren't too freaked out about being d'f'ed. One of them was a born-in and the other was a convert.