Posts by JW GoneBad

Yesterday's JW Annual Meeting was held without a word...without any prior mention of it. Anyone on this forum attend the event supposedly held via Zoom? Wonder if the Atlantis Team have anything?

Any highlights anyone...enquiring minds want to know?🤣

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Game show Quiz at the WT cart . The buzzer was ringing WRONG

by Hotpepper in

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set up 2 sisters 70 and 21 year old.

standing on a dead street next to the cemetery.

buzzer goes off liar.

JW GoneBad

Hotpepper...the important thing is that you had a good time...sort of therapeutic!

That Awake (May 22, 1969 pg 15) magazine you reference is a 'Killer' article! Way too many JWs are not aware of it.

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Another congregation closed

by hoser in

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15 years ago there were 5 congregations now there is only one and it is still struggling.

congregations closing their doors doesn’t mean business is good.

it looks like this last one to fold had no young witnesses, they either left the religion or moved.

JW GoneBad

You become suspicious of this cult when they have to make-up a name for God. Very much like a toddler who has a name for his favorite stuffed toy! And then the JWs constantly repeat that name at their meetings as though in a hypnotic state of mind...scary!

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Ecclesiastes 12:12,13

by Lost in the fog in

whenever you think of your time in the organisation you'll remember all of the books.

every year at a convention, new books brought out.

shelves at home groaning under the weight of multicoloured covered wts books!

JW GoneBad

Good point Lost in the fog about Ec 12:12...their 2013 NWT words it this way:

"As for anything besides these, my son, be warned: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh."

It was truly exhausting, boring & laborious reading through what eventually just became a pile of waste!

Talk about a fulfillment of prophecy...Ec 12:12 is fulfilled in the printing factory of the WTBTS!

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The Jehovah's Witness religion has gone for good !!!

by snare&racket in

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i am not sure how you all feel as we all left at different times for different reasons.... but this new bible seems to have put some final nails into a coffin that was once my jw life.

the religion is so far and so different to the religion i grew up in that it has become something i feel no affiliation with anymore, no bond, no shared ideas or even sentimental views.

different teachings on when the end is coming.

JW GoneBad

Foolednomore: "...what it was in the past and is now is very much a real joke. It has changed so much. Alot of BS! You can see it clearly now."

Ephesians 6:4 in the old WT/JW New World Translation read:

And you fathers, do not be irritating your children, but go on bringing them up in the discipline and mental regulating of Jehovah.

Ephesians 6:4 in the WT/JW Revised New World Translation now reads:

And fathers, do not be irritating your children, but go on bringing them up in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.

It literally took the WTBTS/Jehovah’s Witnesses some 60 to 70 years to figure out that you don't "mentally regulate" a young mind unless your intention is to turn your followers/rank & file members into mind-controlled cyborgs...sadly, which is what most JWs act like!

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Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?

by Roger Kirkpatrick in

thesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.

JW GoneBad

Matthew 24:45 is a statement Jesus made in the form of a rhetorical question...he didn't intend to get a reply from his audience. There are many instances in the Bible where Jesus would put a question out to his listeners and his listeners would quickly reply with an answer...Mat 24:45 is different. Jesus was merely creating a dramatic effect or making a point rather than wanting/expecting an answer from someone. Who but a knucklehead in an audience would attempt to reply to a rhetorical question!

The rhetorical question:

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?"

Whose the knucklehead who raises his hand to answer that rhetorical question?

The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society/Governing Body Of Jehovah's Witnessses.

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Current Meeting Attendees

by blondie in

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does anyone know what publication is being studied at the midweek meetings.

i used to know but it has flown out of my brain.

it is treating some of past issues that were once taught by the wts or have seen material that questions it.

JW GoneBad

Amen to the following statement by WokenfromJWcult:

Today,s meetings would even blush the Pharisees.

I'm hearing more and more that a lot of the public talks & mid-week meeting parts including opening and closing prayers are being handled by teenage lads fresh out of ~~diapers~~...sorry, meant High School!

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2022-Secret Watchtower Disfellowshipping Reference Manual.

by Atlantis in

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massive new document written by wt, 837 pages, meant for arguments vs officials and media to defend the disfellowshipping arrangement.

found in the casefile in norway.

meant to be secret.. .

JW GoneBad

Thank you annihilator for the link!👍

Wow...you'd think a con artist or swindler wrote this Manuel! This quote is from the first few paragraphs:

"It is inaccurate to depict the practice of limiting contact with an expelled or disassociated person as unique to Jehovah’s Witnesses."

This cruel & mean form of discipline is indeed unique to Jehovah’s Witnesses! It's also probably the main reason why soo many XJehovah's Witnesses end up committing suicide!

No shit...if Watchtower/Jehovah’s Witnesses stopped Disfellowshipping & Shunning there would be a whole hell of a lot less suicides in this toxic cult!