i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.
i just can't easily find reference to anything.
this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
Its a really,, really unfortunate thing being born & raised in this religion.
Thats all you've known. Thats all you expect & are going to expect. The big 'A' is forever immminent. Its all you know.
Meanwhile being stripped of your authenticity & potential.
On the other hand,,, being born into this you learn adaptability. How to be resourceful. When you realize you've been lied too....
from my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.
salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.
to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.
It is a form of mental abuse & manipulation.
How the Borg and God are used simultaneously and synonymously to mean the same thing.
Its sophisticated,, and it works. They go so far as to extend this to bible times to interchange Gods' people with the Israelites & they synonymously use the people in that day to interchange with the JWs in,,,, our modern day of life.
Its sophisticated mind control. Its manipulative & effective.
i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.
i just can't easily find reference to anything.
this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
Touchofgrey;
JW children were dealt quite a handful,, weren't they??
I mean the big 'A' was forever dangling over our heads every waking moment.
If we weren't doing the Borganizations' will ( Gods' will),,, Armageddon could come open the ground up at at any moment swallowing us all up at any moment.
Just a horrible way for a kid to grow up.
from my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.
salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.
to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.
Salvation means yielding to and obeying "their God".
Which is synonymous and interchangeable with the WT organization.
WT organization is conveniently the same thing as God,,,often used in place of each other to mea thing. Interchangeable.
So,, therefore,,, if you obey one or the other,,, or do whatever the Borg tells you to do,,,, you have a joice for redemption. Or salvation.
i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.
i just can't easily find reference to anything.
this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
That paradise book. The orange one released around 1958.
All kinds of hidden subliminal messages in there to indoctrinate children.
w16 april p. 9 par.
17 being faithful gullible leads to god’s the cult's approval - thousands of young christian men and women are willingly sacrificing marriage or are not having children - at least for now - in order to serve jehovah the borg to the full.
older ones too may be sacrificing the time they could otherwise spend with their children and grandchildren in order to work on theocratic construction projects supply free labour or to attend the school for kingdom evangelizers receive deeper indoctrination and to serve in areas where the need for kingdom publishers more suckers is greater.
Its NOT what benefits you.
Its what benefits them. The Borg.
i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.
i just can't easily find reference to anything.
this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
Aweful.
That is the terrible thing with child indoctrination. Because that's all they know.
i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.
i just can't easily find reference to anything.
this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
My Book of Bible Stories.
Or I believe it was the Revelation Climax book( if Im not mistaken) there were children about to be swallowed-up by a flood. Or a kid's teddy bear being swallowed up into a crumbling earth. Denoting that nothing or no one escapes the wrath !!
jehovah’s witnesses have an official page for clarified beliefs they encourage elders, ministerial servants, regular pioneers, as well as all the rest of the elite, to keep up to date with:.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174.
2025 has a curious clarification:.
I have said this too,,, but being a JW can be a very burdensome thing also.
i was doing some heavy duty binge watching on youtube.. there are lots of helpful topics including ‘how to declutter your home’, ‘things you shouldn’t tell people’ and several videos on ‘types of people you shouldn’t have in your life as well as types of behavior you shouldn’t tolerate’ (especially after a certain age).. what i got out of it (most i already knew but was nice to see it mentioned):.. first, you should live life authentically, especially at an older age.
you should be free of other people’s opinions, judgments and expectations of you.
you should be free of this as you have accumulated enough wisdom in life to know what serves you and that other people’s opinions do not define you; you should not be guilt tripped into doing favors or being exploited (financially or time wise) by anybody manipulative or irresponsible, etc… walking away is not ‘selfishness’ but ‘self care’.. it was mentioned in all of them to remove people from your life who are critical and fall into these negative categories whether they be family or other.. (the name of jehovah’s witnesses was nowhere mentioned - but i was struck by the fact that all these negative things appear in spades in the jw religion (and probably in some other religions as well).. watching all of this just reinforced what i knew for many years: ..the best thing i did was to ‘fade’ from the religion and get out of that environment!.
"No" is a complete sentence.
Remember that.
