a lot of us have said that theres been a dumbing down in jw land.
its just not like it used to be especially a few decades ago.
it seems to me that if jw are right and the end of the world is near, the spiritual food should get tastier and more nourishing as time goes on, but it's getting more and more bland and less nourishing.
The vast majority.....like 99%..... of Jehovah's Witnesses do not study, read or think.
It could be taken as an insult, but this religion retains the truly stupid among us. They love being dumb.
"Just tell me what to do"
It will ALWAYS be my biggest shock: asking a JW anything remotely deep or historical or Biblical.......and the look of "duh, don't know, never have" on their face.
here's a click to the cultic studies journalissue concerning jw women.
[url] http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csj_vol14_no1_97/abs_wifely.htm#top[/url]
This shouldn't be a shock. Women have always been treated terrible within the WTBS
when i found out "ttat" i felt like muhammad ali when joe frazer knocked him down in their first fight in the 15th round.
the ref came over grab my gloves and looked me in the eyes and asked me "are you ok, can you continue" and then gave me the standing 8 count.
no it didn't knock me out but it staggered me.
Great intro. Thanks for your story; please keep posting.
Your story is so similar to mine.....you're slightly older than I am (I'm 46)....otherwise, its very close to my own story.
well, of course nothing else would be expected, but it passes me off.. for example, they show this short video that shows a child dying, shows her father crying as he visits her grave...and then she is reunited with her family in "the new system" and then it shows a handicapped girl who is sad she can't ice skate with friends...fast forward to tns, she can skate!!!
then an elderly couple is shown happily young again.... .
and of course the end is "so close!
My god.....just reading what you saw at the DC made me sick.
DISTURBING
It makes my heart hurt for people that believe that sh*t
They are demons
i have come to a startling and sad realisation!.
i have no real friends!.
i have always been extremely active in every aspect of the org, since childhood.
It is the single greatest fear and pain when you consider leaving Jehovah's Witnesses.
I focused on things I love.....for me, it was NFL football, my entire life.
I started going where similar people were...... suddenly you meet new people and make friends!
i hope this thread generates some discussion as well as some amusement.
i want to talk about "banned books".
back in the middle ages, the roman catholic church issued its index librorum prohibitorum, the list of prohibited books.
Hey adjusted knowledge,
Yeah, yeah....D&D.....but did he have a Sparlock figure????
LOL.....unreal
http://youtu.be/dhn2to663cu.
im really channeling my inner blondie with my observation and critiques of these new watchtower videos.
something about them really turns my stomach.
LOL...nice to see the Legal Team is having the video removed so quickly. It makes one wonder why...........what happens if they come to my door and I request a copy??
take this 72 yes/no question test to find out.. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.
I may have posted on this thread at some point.....but I'm an ENFJ......Meyers Briggs is fascinating to me.
And I'm insanely attracted to INFJ's..... I love me some mysterious INFJ girls.....
his talk was about reaching out for the real life.. he is in his mid seventies, then begins to rant on about staying loyal to the organization because many of us have lost loved ones in death and if we want to see them again we must remain in the organization.
he says he wants to see his father again, then the tears begin to flow right there on the stage.... then an elderly sister during the watchtower study admits to regetting leaving her daughter behind to seek a better life in the u.s, and she is crying.... these 2 meetings was just plain weird..
This is the single greatest trigger of my anger.
What it has done to my mother; now in her 60's, infuriates me.
All she ever wanted was to live with animals.
The hate wells up in me.
i was talking with a still in relative today who mentioned how they had this sister with 3 or 4 kids over recently.
they said she is returning ot meetings and coming back into the truth, etc.
i remember when i was still in, the only ones i ever saw trying to return were generally the single moms with lots of baggage.
My mother became a JW (and raised me as one) due to this same dynamic. She was a single 22 year old woman with three kids.
They are terrified, young women with no support system.
This one story should convince an onlooker what a terrible cult JW's are...... this woman and her children will be virtually ignored.
