Speaking as an Ex Elder... Contempt, at least that is what I feel when I look in the mirror.
Then we need your sympathy because we were so comtemptible. We were among the biggest suckers out there.
SIAM
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Are JW EX elders in need of our contempt or sympathy ?
by eruption inpoint 1. not so long i would have strung them all up and hanged them.. point 2. these guys were the real succers, not only did they become jw,s, they embraced and adopted the cults teachings, and to some extent subjugated thier familys happiness, and thier own,to elevate themselves, and achieve status and recieve privellages, ie not have a f-----g life.
point 3 they had the onerus task of making sense, of the ever changing (truths) and having to teach that crap to the rest of us, and cope with the subsequent questionings that would invariably follow.. point 4.they had to take the lead in (sales) distributing literature.
point 5.they were the authoritarian face of the society, and a lot of people, (myself included ) thought they were jumped up janitors and window cleaners with a chip on thier shoulders.
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon inharold camping.
2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.
maze's ramblings.
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stuckinamovement
It's all perspective. People who gravitate towards groups like the Witnesses and Harold Camping are already convinced that life can't get any worse. For example if you lived in Sendai this last winter you were convinced that it was the end of the world. Or if you were a person in Rwanda in the 1990's it must hav seemed like it was the end. I think about the Spanish flu or the Black death, people then must have thought that the signs of the end were fulfilled and the end was at hand.
If you are personally suffering it becomes easy to swallow that Armageddon is near. If you are living in a state of good health,an area of low crime, disease, and unemployment it becomes a lot harder to convince you that the signs of the end apply to you and the time and place you are living in. Like lostgeneration said, we all want to feel like we are special. Truth is we are not. Bad things have been happening for melleniums and the will continue to happen for melleniums.
SIAM
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2011-2012 DC Brochure(s) "Listen to God" PDF
by yknot inanonymous brother does it again!
(huge round of applause!!!
(regular) http://www.sendspace.com/file/nzjme3.
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I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed how foxy Eve was. If only I were a pear.
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"Overlapping generation" explanation - TRANSCRIBED EXTRACT from Friday's talk (DC 2011-12)
by AnnOMaly ini thought this would be easier to examine if written down:.
god's kingdom will soon come.
so we know that god's kingdom will soon come.. .
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I wish they could explain this "new light" in a simplified form.
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At $50.00 a pop for copyright the WTS is spending a small fortune
by sinis ini was on the us copyright page for something else and happened to put jw's in the search.
they basically copyright everything!!!
km's, you name it.
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Did they copyright the new Elder Book? "Shepherd the flock of God"?
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2011-2012 DC Brochure(s) "Listen to God" PDF
by yknot inanonymous brother does it again!
(huge round of applause!!!
(regular) http://www.sendspace.com/file/nzjme3.
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Miss Knot you are amazing!
My god, Eve is sexy in this brochure. The picture of Eve about to bite the pear on page 10......... no wonder Adam took the next bite!
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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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Amen brother
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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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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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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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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