Amen brother
stuckinamovement
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The Watchtower Penitentiary
by stuckinamovement inlearning the truth about the watchtower society can be very painful for a number of reasons.
first, it is so disconcerting to realize that the core of your existence and the foundations of your beliefs are false that it can throw you for a real loop.
as witnesses we are so confident in all of the answers we have been given, to questions that we never asked, that we mentally put ourselves up on a pedestal above the masses of poor, blind, wicked humanity.
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The Watchtower Penitentiary
by stuckinamovement inlearning the truth about the watchtower society can be very painful for a number of reasons.
first, it is so disconcerting to realize that the core of your existence and the foundations of your beliefs are false that it can throw you for a real loop.
as witnesses we are so confident in all of the answers we have been given, to questions that we never asked, that we mentally put ourselves up on a pedestal above the masses of poor, blind, wicked humanity.
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stuckinamovement
BTT,
Miz, these guys like Mercante and Loesch have done enough damage to themselves devoting their entire life to a man made organization. Sure some of them are corrupt and cowards, but in a way I can see that they need to semi-sincerely believe the doctrine even if it is not true, just to emotionally salvage their wasted life.
I mean it is tough enough for me to look back at the last 30 something years of my life and think, "SIAM you have wasted half of your years on earth." I can't imagine the thoughts that run through their heads as they look back at 70+ years devoted to a lie. Many of them will die childless and without any friends that they can truly be open and honest with. They are truly alone in their delusions. That is punishement enough. It is too bad they continue to perpetuate the falsehood.
SIAM
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The Watchtower Penitentiary
by stuckinamovement inlearning the truth about the watchtower society can be very painful for a number of reasons.
first, it is so disconcerting to realize that the core of your existence and the foundations of your beliefs are false that it can throw you for a real loop.
as witnesses we are so confident in all of the answers we have been given, to questions that we never asked, that we mentally put ourselves up on a pedestal above the masses of poor, blind, wicked humanity.
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stuckinamovement
Thanks for your comments. I wonder how many people are currently wandering the corridors with me?
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The Watchtower Penitentiary
by stuckinamovement inlearning the truth about the watchtower society can be very painful for a number of reasons.
first, it is so disconcerting to realize that the core of your existence and the foundations of your beliefs are false that it can throw you for a real loop.
as witnesses we are so confident in all of the answers we have been given, to questions that we never asked, that we mentally put ourselves up on a pedestal above the masses of poor, blind, wicked humanity.
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stuckinamovement
Learning the truth about the Watchtower Society can be very painful for a number of reasons. First, it is so disconcerting to realize that the core of your existence and the foundations of your beliefs are false that it can throw you for a real loop. As Witnesses we are so confident in all of the answers we have been given, to questions that we never asked, that we mentally put ourselves up on a pedestal above the masses of poor, blind, “wicked” humanity. It sucks to realize that you are in the same place as all of the people you would look down upon previously. It is terrible when you look back and consider that your entire life up to this point has been devoted to faulty concepts generated by similarly deluded men.
Compounding this is the fact that once you learn the truth about the organization, if you are an active Witness you must continue to act as if you believe in the organization and the “unique teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses”. If you choose to leave quietly you will lose your reputation, your friends and possibly even you family. So you find yourself in the position of losing your pat sense of security in having all of the answers to mankind’s problems, your hope for the future in a paradise petting lions, and you begin to consider your own mortality. What makes it all worse is that many of us continue to go through the motions of being a Witness because of the fact that there is no way out of the religion without doing major damage to ourselves or more importantly our family.
You begin to consider that you have limited time to live on this earth and it is downright depressing to think that you will have to pretend to believe in and support a lie, that you must call truth.
There are many of us who are trapped in the Watchtower Penitentiary. Learning the truth about the organization does set you free, in terms of releasing you out of the mental prison cell you have been put in. What is funny about it is, the cell doors were never locked, we just were told that they were. However, there are many of us who even though we are released from our solitary cells, continue to roam the corridors of the penitentiary waiting for the moment when we can walk out as free men and women.
Some of us can’t bear the thought of remaining in the penitentiary for the rest of our lives and storm the gates. Others calmly and quietly wait for a door to open that will allow them to escape. Still others resign themselves to imprisonment for the remainder of their days.
As I think about my situation and reflect on how I wander the corridors of the Watchtower penitentiary with my newfound mental freedom, I realize that it is most important to stand up for what I know is right and receive my physical freedom also.
So I have determined to speak out against the wrong doctrines and practices that I see. I know that this will result in damage to both me and the ones I love. However, as a born-in who has been taught from infancy, I have always felt that it is important to take a stand for what is right, even if it means a great loss. So for me personally, I am breaking out of this prison that I have been born into. Soon I will be able to introduce myself in real life. Life is too short to allow yourself to be forever imprisoned mentally and physically by an organization that is based on a fallacy.
Psst, to those reading this that are lurking…..Your cell door isn’t locked.
SIAM
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Public Talk Outlines
by Lady Lee ini have been collecting the public talk outlines.
i have almost all of them but there are a few missing.
i have tiles for some but just numbers for others.
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stuckinamovement
Miz, I don't know how you do it man. The last public talk I gave made me ill. I had a kind of out of body experience during the talk, I looked down at my self on the platform giving a talk on something that i knew was false...... I just couldn't do it anymore. I figured life is too short to try to convince people of something that I did not believe. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to be critical of you. You just have a lot more internal strength than I had.
Best wishes
SIAM
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The most horrible,Nasty,Mean,Elder,CO,DO, You ever knew???
by karter ini had one (elder) who loved to pick on the sisters who had an unbeliveing mate......he had short mans syndrome and got a kick out of it.. co, han hubler...anyone that knew him will know what i mean.. he was so disliked it was hard to get anyone to have him for a meal when he visited..
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stuckinamovement
@ Ldrnomo
Don Ami was a prick. His wife Natasha was an ice queen. I was a young servant when they served our cong. We were so glad to see them go. He had a thing about going out in service on the holidays. He gave a talk about it and was sadly disppointed when only a few showed up for service on Christmas Morning.
SIAM
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Resigned
by Franklin Massey ini finally resigned as an elder.
my conscience wouldn't allow me to continue.
i've battled for years trying to reconcile the fallacies of the wt society with my own personal beliefs.
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stuckinamovement
Good for you! I too took a similar path and resigned a short time ago. I am trying to wrestle with the fade. It is tough as a born in because your entire social network is tied up in the religion. I have begun to miss more meetings and have stopped field service but am still reporting time I get reading the Bible story book to my kids.
Best wishes. PM me if you want to talk.
SIAM
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stuckinamovement
Cadellin- perhaps being on the inside as an elder has something to do with it...
In retrospect, if I wasn't appointed an Elder I probably would not have seen the hypocrisy and duplicity in "God's Org". As an elder I dealt with the legal dept on occasion and saw how the org was just interested in covering its ass. I saw the HLC in action strongly encouraging the use of all fractions available. I saw the discord within the BOE and I saw Elders who were supposedly under the direction of the spirit commit incredible wrongs and continue to serve. And the the icing on the cake was the crazy new Elder book and KM school this fall. None of this would have happened if I wasn't an appointed man. I would probably be just floating along happy in my misguided belief that this was the one true religion with God's Spirit on it.
I think that is why so many elders are resigning. They see that the organization is not everything it claims to be. Most of the elders I know are stand up dudes, and are sincere. I think that is why so many like Burnedout, Punk, Cantleave, Massey, myself and others are standing up and stepping down.
SIAM
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stuckinamovement
Burned out,
I sat there in my school and looked around and wondered how many of the Brothers sitting in that KH actually believed it. The talk on protecting your kids from blood just about put me over the edge. Good to have another ex elder on the Board. I have been telling my wife that there are many more like me out there who are quitting as elders for reasons of conscience. It is nice to see.
SIAm
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stuckinamovement
Burnedout,
Are you my twin?? LOl I recently quit as an elder also, for many of the same reasons. I am still active but have begun my fade. I will never forget walking out of the last Elders meeting I was a part of with a bigass smile on my face. Nothing better than knowing that you are done. Was KM school excruciating?
Best wishes
SIAM