My town will no longer collect old books like that as trash and they're pretty hard to burn. My solution has been to include one in every bag of used cat litter when I clean the cat boxes. I've gotten rid of around 30 that way and I'm about halfway there. I thought of dumping them in a used book bin outside a local church but realized I couldn't really count them as placements so went back to my original plan.
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How Did You Get Rid of Your Bound Volumes?
by Eiben Scrood inmy town will no longer collect old books like that as trash and they're pretty hard to burn.
my solution has been to include one in every bag of used cat litter when i clean the cat boxes.
i've gotten rid of around 30 that way and i'm about halfway there.
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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?
by minimus inmany of us needed time to get away from this religion.
i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.
after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.
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I found the more I studied, the less I truly believed. There are just so many contradictions both in the Bible itself and in the organization's beliefs.
I think deep analysis of the teachings will lead most thinking people to conclude it's mostly bullshit.
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Victoria, Australia: Steven Unthank's Press Release: JW's Hierarchy Formally Charged Today With Child Abuse
by AndersonsInfo injehovah's witnesses hierarchy charged.
immediate press release: 26 july 2011. link to this press release: http://wp.me/p1g1hc-4o.
worldwide church hierarchy charged with child abuse.
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"Overlapping Generations"... one year later...
by Alfred inwow, it's hard to believe it's already been about a year since this subject was covered in the wt study at kindgom halls around the globe... let's read it just one more time, so we don't forget just how ridiculous this sounded when we first read it.... watchtower (study edition), april 15th, 2010 issue, pages 27-29:.
"this magazine has long been used by the faithful and discreet slave as the primary channel for dispensing increased light.
... what does this explanation mean to us?
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I will say it again. If I had not been out of the cult already, this overlapping generation bullshit would have sent me running. It is incredible that people can stay after this came out.
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Seeking Advice Please
by Eiben Scrood insome background: i am an only child, a born-in, my parents were considered superstars of the watchtower having been missionaries and "exemplary" for their entire lives.
shortly after they died in 2002, i started a very slow fade and finally stopped all meeting attendance in 2005.. both sides of the family are, with a very few exceptions, also hardcore watchtowerites as in 'if the watchtower says my green bible is purple, then it must be purple.
' i have lost touch with one side of the family almost completely but the other side has always been close to me and in particular, i miss two cousins who were like brothers to me.
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Thanks for your responses everyone. I have a lot to think about before contacting them and I really appreciate the input.
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Seeking Advice Please
by Eiben Scrood insome background: i am an only child, a born-in, my parents were considered superstars of the watchtower having been missionaries and "exemplary" for their entire lives.
shortly after they died in 2002, i started a very slow fade and finally stopped all meeting attendance in 2005.. both sides of the family are, with a very few exceptions, also hardcore watchtowerites as in 'if the watchtower says my green bible is purple, then it must be purple.
' i have lost touch with one side of the family almost completely but the other side has always been close to me and in particular, i miss two cousins who were like brothers to me.
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Some background: I am an only child, a born-in, my parents were considered superstars of the Watchtower having been missionaries and "exemplary" for their entire lives. Shortly after they died in 2002, I started a very slow fade and finally stopped all meeting attendance in 2005.
Both sides of the family are, with a very few exceptions, also hardcore Watchtowerites as in 'if the Watchtower says my green Bible is purple, then it must be purple.' I have lost touch with one side of the family almost completely but the other side has always been close to me and in particular, I miss two cousins who were like brothers to me.
In hindsight, I wish I had just played it cool and gone with the strategy of just appearing to be weak in 'the truth' and not wholesale against the cult. I'm a very open individual though, and it was hard for me to not speak my mind. I have tried to maintain some communication but even a huge event like getting married produced a very tepid response with no congratulations offered. This angered me even more and when I finally got one cousin on the phone, I let him have it for an hour. This was about 10 months ago.
I wish I could just cut the cord so to speak and let the culties be culties and move on with my life and only focus on people that will be supportive of me. I confess, though, that I miss at least having some interaction. My wife and I are due to have a baby in about six months and I wish to share that joy. I would like my child to also have some kind of contact with my blood relatives. My wife has yet to meet a single member of my family.
Particularly with this July 15, 2011 Watchtower pouring the koolaid stronger than ever about family relationships, I have to wonder if it's too late. I am not disfellowshiped and this is a fact I did make clear in my last conversation with one of my cousins. I would hope that would serve to my advantage but it seems the Watchtower is targeting faders will almost the same zeal.
I plan on sending an email to the family soon with the announcement that my wife is pregnant. I was thinking of trying to mend things by coming right out and saying that we NEVER have to talk about religion again. I'd even be willing to apologize for my remarks about the organization that I made to them. I would NOT recant what I said but rather just acknowledge that this isn't information they wanted to listen to. I'm just confused as to what the best strategy would be. Part of me thinks it might be better to just announce the coming birth and express my love for my family and nothing more. Would even mentioning that I won't talk about religion again raise their hackles? Or would it, in fact, put their minds somewhat more at ease knowing that I won't be trying to tell them things they don't want to hear? What about the apology part?
It's truly awful what this cult does and I admit to letting my anger get the best of me in my dealings with family. It's not like it's come up in all my communication with them but it's probably come up enough that they have talked among themselves and agreed to shun me.
I know many here have gone through similar circumstances and I'd appreciate some input.
Thank you,
Eiben Scrood
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The Watchtower Mindset: Murder Will Solve Everything
by Eiben Scrood ini was on facebook snooping on a former "friend" still stuck in the cult and he recently posted the following:.
"yeah i was looking at them [kids lighting firecrackers] out my window last night.
i was thinking, these people are so ignorant.
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When Watchtowerites openly state that they're looking forward to Armageddon killing people that is the same as sanctioning their murder.
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The Watchtower Mindset: Murder Will Solve Everything
by Eiben Scrood ini was on facebook snooping on a former "friend" still stuck in the cult and he recently posted the following:.
"yeah i was looking at them [kids lighting firecrackers] out my window last night.
i was thinking, these people are so ignorant.
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I was on facebook snooping on a former "friend" still stuck in the cult and he recently posted the following:
" Yeah I was looking at them [kids lighting firecrackers] out my window last night. I was thinking, these people are so ignorant. Also too ever notice how 95% of kids these days don't even know how to dress or look..... I can't wait for this system to end."
Translation: I can't wait until God murders these adolescents in cold blood so that I won't have to listen to them behave like kids anymore. I think even in my worst Watchtower mindset that this comment would have disturbed me. Really? You can say such a thing? Sadly, this is very typical. The big A will solve everything. Let's cheer God on to kill billions.
His post was met with agreement and the next person went off about the different looks people have today [anything other than the Watchtower clone appearance] and how "dark" and "evil" it all is.
I think now being out of the cult for a while just has woken me up to how crazy this thinking is. It is sick, sick, sick.
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DC 2011 Strange omission from the releases
by JWFreak inthere are 3 really basic releases for the dc this year.
revised vol 1 of young people ask.................hmmm lot of work in that one.
new brochure.
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So are they still saying "self-abuse" leads to homosexuality like the old Youth book did?
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 05-15-2011 WT Study (NEAR)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 05-15-2011 wt study (march 15, 2011, pages 12-16)(trust god/end near).
review comments will be headed by comments.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
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I honestly don't know how you can stomach not only reading but analyzing these articles each week. I take my hat off to you!
Once again you hit upon a key point: the name "Jehovah" does not appear in the New Testament. It was only added later by the Watchtower in a blatant display of sectarian bias. If that name was so important, I think God could manage to have it appear throughout the Bible. Watchtowerites can't say a single sentence without including it at least twice but NT writers composed whole books without mentioning it once. If a Watchtowerite were to give a talk and not mention that name, they could be questioned for apostasy.