Posts by exwhyzee

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What has helped you avoid the doctrine roundabout and forever chasing your tail?

by Fernando in

i was a third generation born-in with no alternative reality, reference points or framework.. for more than forty years i was taught that the highest stakes (eternal life) main game is played on the doctrine playing field (supremacist ethnocentrism).

my eternal future apparently depended on which side of the trinity, hellfire and immortal soul doctrines i played.. apparently if i believed the watchtower way, even if it changed, i was in "the faith" and "the truth".

the same for legalism (supremacist self-righteousness attained by following the supposedly "right" but ever changing and inconsistent rules).. around 6 years ago, and for the first time in my life, one person asked me to explain what "the gospel" is in one word.

exwhyzee

After growing up in the TRUTH, I was fully convinced by Jehovah's Witnesses(without really checking) that other religions were totally wrong and were hated by God. Now that I've left the TRUTH, I no longer want anything to do with God, Religion or Religious People. I am calmer and more peaceful than I've ever been. If there is a God, I will do whatever it is he wants me to do, but he has to be clear about what he wants and I must be sure it's actually him that is instructing me and it's him that I'm serving. I almost can not bear to read some of the posts on here if they get too much into doctrine. I am fed up with discussing the Bible after a lifetime of agonizing over the significane or implied meaning of this or that scripture, are my sideburns too long, did I place enough magazines, am I whole souled enough, is the end right around the corner etc. I question everything I was ever taught about God and have re-evaluated my stand on just about every issue. I never had a chance to ask, How did we get here ... Why do we grow old and die etc. It was all force fed to me with one sided information that I wasn't allowed to question. Believe this or you're gonna' die kid.

Maybe the reason God (if he exists) isn't clear about the big picture is because it's none of our business to know what the future holds for man or maybe we couldn't handle such information. All I know is that if there is a God, Jehovah's Witnesses as an organization will have a lot to answer for in terms of turning people away from him, harming individuals with their self imposed authority,breaking up families and condemning the faith of others and wasting peoples time as well as their lives.

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Anyone been to a meeting after a drink...or three?

by MMXIV in

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i recall going to the second half of a thursday night meeting after what was meant to be a cheeky after work beer (three strong beers downed quickly on an empty stomach).

i would have been ok had a caring elder not decided to grab me for some encouragement afterwards.. i hoped the faint odor of smoke on my clothes (smoking in pubs was still the done thing in those days) wouldn't be noticed but hard to hide alcohol on the breath.

i tried to say very little and talk in a way that avoided me beathing over him.

exwhyzee

I'm not a drinker at all but toward the last months of my Career as a JW, I'd have to hide a container of Beer in the car due to the panic and anxiety I'd started suffering toward the last. I'd gotten to the point of only being able to attend Sunday meetings, it was too much to attend the evening meetings after work. I didn't have the juice to endure the anxiety that meetings invoked. On Sundays I'd go out to the car during the break between the talk and the WT study and have a couple of mouthfuls just to calm the flip flops in my stomach. It really helped. I almost came to think of it as "merciful liquid from Jehovah" It's so pathetic to look back now and think that that's what it took for me to be able to get through a meeting. As soon as I made my mind up never to attend another meeting the panic and anxiety instantly went away and hasn't returned. I can easily see how someone could become dependant on alcohol if they kept that kind of behaviour up for any length of time.

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Fun with the July 15th WT illustration

by undercover in

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yes, friends, it's that time once more... when we clip some wt art to a post and try to find all the subliminal wt propaganda messages hidden in the illustration.

(kinda like, "can you find the differences between these two drawings" for kids in the sunday comics).

here's the illustration:.

exwhyzee

What's the chubby dude carrying in the background? A skateboard??

That's Chris Farley trying to lure the JW kid into gluttony.

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Fun with the July 15th WT illustration

by undercover in

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yes, friends, it's that time once more... when we clip some wt art to a post and try to find all the subliminal wt propaganda messages hidden in the illustration.

(kinda like, "can you find the differences between these two drawings" for kids in the sunday comics).

here's the illustration:.

exwhyzee

They must not realize how off putting these eye rolling illustrations are to JW kids. I remember these tactics back in the 70's. The JW's were always wearing some out of date cloths and sitting at a desk or at a meeting with a suit on while everyone else was outside having fun or in comfortable cloths and just enjoying themselves. They are so institutionalized that they've lost touch with normal day to day life.

Jenga is now an approved parlar game for Christians of all ages and levels of complete boredom.

Jenga has recently been eliminated as an approved game for Christians. It is believed to have originated as a childs game that became popular during the construction of the Tower of Babel, intended to prepare Pagan children for future attempts to reach the heavens.

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This is beautiful

by sooner7nc in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nkdxuce7leq#!

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exwhyzee

I wonder if it will have the same effect in 50 years of so when they play "Baby Got Back" to a old person from Generaton X ?

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Tattoos? Regrets?

by JimmyPage in

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do you have a tattoo?

how long have you had it?

what is it?

exwhyzee

A Brother in my former Congregation had a naked lady tattoo'd on his arm. When he became a JW he had a Bikini tattoo'd on her.

Also, I accidently treked onto a nude beach once. The one thing I remember is that there were a lot of old hippie types lying about.

One Older Woman had a tattoo on her backside which at one time was probably a butterfly but now it was the size of a Codor.

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Laying on their side for 3 days

by exwhyzee in

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it's been so long since i was at a meeting that i'm beginning to forget a lot of the nonsense i used to know, but does anyone remember how the society used to say that when the gb members were imprisioned around 1919 it fullfilled the prophesy about the prophet laying on his side for 3 days in the roadway ?.

what was that all about and how does their belief regarding their role in fulfilling this prophesy effect the new thinking on the definition of "generation" ?

it seems like they just had to amend the term "generation" in order to keep the year 1914 relevant as well as all the other supposed fullfilments of prophesy they thought they were part of.

exwhyzee

My brother in law was laying on his side for 3 days......get a job you bum!! FAcebook is not a job.

That's not what I was talking about but thanks for sharing.....LOL !

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My Wierd memorial story 2012...I was going to "swig it."

by Witness 007 in

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witnesses came around with invites we had not been to meetings.....since last memorial.

wife wanted me to go, "but your taking me to dinner and drinks afterwards ok..." i went.

suit came out of moth balls, alittle snug, need to go to the gym?

exwhyzee

Your story about being late because of your wife's hair/mirror time. I forgot about always being at least 5 minutes late because of this. While growing up it was because of my Mom and Sisters and then later it was my Wife. She always turned up looking like she just stepped off a magazie cover (Awake!) but I hated walking in late during the song. Finally towards the end of my JW career, I started refusing to go if we weren't going to be there on time. Many's the time I was all ready to go and just took my suit off and enjoyed my evening at home instead.

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Laying on their side for 3 days

by exwhyzee in

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friends

it's been so long since i was at a meeting that i'm beginning to forget a lot of the nonsense i used to know, but does anyone remember how the society used to say that when the gb members were imprisioned around 1919 it fullfilled the prophesy about the prophet laying on his side for 3 days in the roadway ?.

what was that all about and how does their belief regarding their role in fulfilling this prophesy effect the new thinking on the definition of "generation" ?

it seems like they just had to amend the term "generation" in order to keep the year 1914 relevant as well as all the other supposed fullfilments of prophesy they thought they were part of.

exwhyzee

Yeah...that's it. They said that their being imprisioned fullfilled that prophecy and this was somehow linked to Satan's ousting from heaven in 1914 I think. Does anyone remember what proof they gave that this was so?

If they ever do drop the 1914 date they will have to drop a few other teachings that are linked to that date as well.

Funny how the truth is so difficult to remember.

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Does George Zimmerman look guilty in his new mugshot?

by Iamallcool in

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/george-zimmerman-new-mugshot_n_1419402.html.

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he does look guilty to me.

exwhyzee

What does guilty look like? Looks like he's lost a ton of weight to me.

I don't know if he looks guilty or not but from his original mug shot I had concluded that George Zimmerman and Chaz Bono ( Cher's Son Kid) had been seperated at birth.

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