being my 1st post i figured i should relate a personal experience.
a few months ago i decided to stop reporting time.
i'm mentally out of this cult now but still trapped because of family.
Welcome!
I listened to the whole video, unfortunatly I could not hear the elders comment on porn because those sisters were too loud!
Their repeated mention of the gb shows me how much this religion has changed in the nearly 9 years since I gave up going to meetings.
This new gb are worshipped, and that is what they want.
I never minded handing in my fs report, but your recording shows the org demands you follow its rules even when it goes beyond what the bible says.
then i saw a stat that made me think differently.
there are 7 million practicing voodoo religion world wide.
about the same as jws, and the big thing is that they do not at all go out and try to convert people at all, not one pamphlet not one tract no door to door calls, phone calls nothing nada.
There are just under 8 million witnesses but no doubt there will be a new peak in August.
There were 2 million when I began studying, I wondered if it would ever reach 3 million!
i've been out for 20+ years so i'm a little out date.
i've been df'd, reinstated and finally disassociated.
my parents and siblings are still in.
I am not Disfellowshipped or dissasociated. I just stopped going to any meetings in 2005 and gave my last fs report in 2006.
I never mentioned to anyone I disagreed with any teachings.
Still, in the nearly 9 years I have been gone, nobody from my congregation has called me or come by to see how I am.
My jw brother stopped ansering my letters years ago and does not return my phone calls because I refuse to go back to meetings.
i now believe the bible is a book of history and myths.
the org and others still point to certain prophecys that lead them to believe, that god must have been involved.
how can we explain some of these?
Designs-
I have had the same experience as you in finding out that the Jewish understanding of what Christians call messianic prophecies about Jesus do NOT apply to Jesus at all. When you consider the Hebrew Scriptures without the Christian Scriptures you see what the true understanding of those prophecies, like Isaiah 53 REALLY mean. The Christian Scriptures were created and construed to try to give the impression that Jesus fulfilled Messianic prophecies when in fact he didn't.
No wonder my relatives never accepted Jesus!
I believed in the prophecies about the destruction of Tyre and Babylon in Isaiah and Daniel (?).
And the prophecies about the last days seem to fit and be fulfilled in our day.
apparently jwd has lost all their moles.. hasn't anyone even been to a convention?.
usually we know in advance..
The new book is not a replacement for the "Jehovah's Will" book which is not released to the public,.
Saved-JW- Thanks for scanning the new book when you can!
Hopefully the Proclaimers book, Family book and great teacher book will remain in print.
apparently jwd has lost all their moles.. hasn't anyone even been to a convention?.
usually we know in advance..
Gods kingdom rules could have some interesting parts, especially the chapter on printing.
it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.
i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.
i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!
It was a number of things over time actually, but discovering the ngo/un thing was probably the most shocking.
They won't be on jw.org til late January/February 2015.
marked
-hopefully in time someone will have them.
how is the org really run?
what goes on behind the scenes?.
i just read an older post on this site that was recently bumped (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/6600/1/don-adams-biography) the post mentioned the adams brothers don, karl, & joel and how influential they are/were at headquarters.
In 2000 the gb seperated themselves from the board of directors. Thus, they are autonomous, right? Prior to that change the board of directors including the gb voted on who new gb members would be. Now it seems the gb alone choose new members, they self-appoint themselves.
But if the 7 gb members were to die at the same time, then what happens?
