you brothers who gave talks do you thinks about the crap you spoke from the platform.. thirty years old, no knowledge what so ever of the world we live in, barely making the grade.
to graduate from high school, a year and half in jc college and now with schooling of jw higher.
education i thought i was a hell of a speaker.
You just hit a nerve.
I was the 'go to' speaker for everything in the circuit. Whether public talks or local needs.....I really knew how to 'yank the heart strings'..........sometimes I just sit back and laugh at the thought of it all. All those endless nights coming up with the next, heart rending illustration ....... had to get people shedding tears!
So absurd. So incredibly absurd.
for the many years i was mentally " in " the congregation, i equated the organisation as interchangeable with the persona of jehovah, in effect whatever the organisation said or thought, that was what jehovah thought and that was what jehovah said.... it was that simple.
so when i found out the ttatt and the cynical moves of the organisation over the years,including 1975 , the donation arrangements, the united nations, etc i was devastated and thought " where's jehovah in all of this?".
the god who i'd poured my heart out to on many occasions and who i thought was silently listening and hearing my pleas ..... was not there , .
To borrow the words of the stellar prophet Elijah....."maybe he is sitting on the toilet taking a dump"
i am an 'active' jw but i do not agree with most of the doctrines inc blood, baptism, the memorial etc etc.i took the emblems at the memorial because i think we all should recognise and accept jesus' command to remember him.
not for one minute do i think this is only for the so called anointed.
i know it is full of man made error and that my fellow brothers and sisters are in a state of mindless, spiritual unawareness.
Simply asked.....why do you stay? What are you getting out of it?
i apologize if this has already been covered but i've actually had a really busy, fun weekend with friends and family and i haven't been online.
that being said, i missed the special talk yesterday.
does anyone have the outline or highlights of the talk?
so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.
it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.
anyway, there was music and skits.
...a very disturbing example of how this is a mind control cult.
If you get a chance, Amazon Prime has a documentary running now about the Children of God cult.... so many parallels with JW's......all cults..... just slightly different
warning for those that are still believers... this train of thought will not be faith strengthening.... i have come a long way since first stumbling on crumbs of ttatt in 2012.
(i have not come nearly as far with the wife unfortunately, but such is life.
) my critical thinking ability, thankfully, is in another stratosphere since figuring out i was a jw lab rat.
this is a quick experience i have recently had and i have two questions at the end.. a couple of weeks ago, the dogs were barking at the gate on saturday morning and wouldn't you know it, it was some witnesses.
there was a father with his lovely wife and their young daughter.
the father did all the talking as mother and daughter just dutifully smiled and watched.
90% of JW's don't know the difference between Moses and Noah.......almost none of them have even read the Bible.
Did you see the Royal Commission grilling of the GB member? He sounded dumb as a stump...... and HE is supposed to be Jesus brother......
LOL.....just typing it makes me laugh
in an endeavor to clearly define the truth about the truth of the jw religion, whats your personal perception of what you understand of how this religion came to be, in its inherit beginning and how it was able to sustain itself over the years ?
from my own perspective i think the strategic actions by its founding leaders to draw attention to their own published works such as the singular endeavors starting from c t russell and onward.
the self proposing recognition by people such as j rutherford, that god had specifically (1919) chosen " his " organization exclusively, is really where and when this assuming man made power began and continued to flourish.. but the real significant thing that created attention to the public's eyes and imagination was when both russell and rutherford proclaimed that christ had returned and he had started to divide and choose who was going to be saved from destruction and live on in a earthly paradise and who was to be killed at the soon to come day of judgement.
My thoughts:
The vast majority of JW's are so uneducated.....and most of it is by CHOICE....they love ignorance. It's comfortable for them. I think a great many subconsciously know it's all a lie.....but crave a sense of belonging. Therefore, the depression that runs rampant through the 'organization.'
It is nothing more than a semi-brilliant (all religions employ this methodology) pyramid scheme. It took off during an interesting time in human history, particularly the western world. It grew mostly among disadvantaged people.
i'm trying to get a jump ahead for my colleague.
i am making progress though and she is now willing to listen to logic.
logic and reasoning is like kryptonite to jw's.
Freddo...........that.........was...........awesome
the organization has many problems.
certain doctrines are problematic.
the men who run the organizaion have issues.
The entire thing is a lie.
You might as well build an organization based on the tooth fairy.
