earlier this week i bumped into a couple of jws who i recognised from the cult cart.
a few months ago i had a long conversation with him one of them and found him to be quite friendly.
he is new to the area in the years since i left.. this time he was very defensive and said he wasn't allowed to talk to me.
This attitude is sadly not just within the JW org.
My youngest daughter was lured into a van by a paedophile who was someone we had all trusted as he visited our little gated community every week delivering water.
One of my neighbour's who also happened to be a Policewoman managed to get him barred from our section but one couple stated he hadn't hurt them so they would still be letting him in to their side of estate to deliver their water.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.
i know it's old but i never saw this one before.
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What was also said by the Policeman was that if one of us was called "mentally diseased" to our faces that would be an offence and should be reported but calling us mentally diseased in a magazine, no.
However, the term "mentally diseased" has been removed from their latest Silver Sword Bible so I like to think perhaps we had a hand in the term being changed.
from that nutty red book of insanity, the grand climax at hand book, chapter 22, paragraphs 7 & 8. .
i had my doubts since childhood.
i went along with it to please people.
This book was being studied when I began to realise not all was as it seemed. The reader had the new version and I had the old version so the differences were glaringly obvious as I had been distracted and not taped in the "clarifications" or read them so not being "prepared" for the study got a shock and massive disappointment at how "the end" was no longer as close as I had once believed.
Coupled with the day text, not sure if it was before or after the "Revelation" study but the quote was "expectation postponed was making the heart sick" and I remember thinking how sick I was of waiting for armageddon.
Then being "counselled" (told off) for helping refugee boat people and being told to only offer bible studies and not material help I started to question the Christianity in the religion.
The final straw was discovering one of elders was corrupt, a liar and a fraudster and my awakening truly began thanks to the internet.
this is my first post.
i just had to get that statement off of my chest!
my father is one cold hearted judge mental, hypocritical, piece of s**t. i hate this religion and what it has done to my family!
Welcome!
Never say never. None of us know what the future will bring but you will get sympathy and support here and many will confirm it is possible to leave and get family out as well. Vent away. You will find plenty of advise on how others succeeded too.
in most of latin america, and particularly in mexico, pinatas are a no no for jws.
normally used for kids birthdays and christmas parties, pinatas are simply known to be inapropiate among jws and associated with paganism.
as result you would never expect to see any of those spiritually dangerous monsters at a social gathering organized by a witness in good, medium, or even bad standing in the congregation because, why would you?!
At children's parties they are hung up and the child whacks it with a stick until it breaks and all the sweets fall out and then the rest of kids grab as many sweets as they can each.
in most of latin america, and particularly in mexico, pinatas are a no no for jws.
normally used for kids birthdays and christmas parties, pinatas are simply known to be inapropiate among jws and associated with paganism.
as result you would never expect to see any of those spiritually dangerous monsters at a social gathering organized by a witness in good, medium, or even bad standing in the congregation because, why would you?!
We had them at JW gatherings in Spain
check this out.
got this bound volume from my dad.. .
When I was recruited via d2d work I was told it was unlikely my daughter would ever start school Armageddon was that close.
Not only did she grow up and get married she had a daughter herself who also grew up and now my little girl will become a grandmother in June and I will become a great grandmother!!!
i've been thinking and here's what i've come up with.
correct me if i'm wrong, but in the bible does it not state that the word would have to be preached throughout the entire inhabited earth for a witness to all people and then the end would come?.
with the world being as vast as it is today, it would be practically impossible for the witnesses to speak to everyone in the world.
It doesn't make any sense to a rational thinking person. Some-one very clever worked out how many people would need to be visited by every currently living witness and I can't remember the figure but it was a stupid un-achievable number like a million each or something.
Plus they have just reduced the amount of hours each pioneer needs to maintain their title and rank but I don't suppose any active witnesses will even notice.
It could be why they have launched the jw.org as a place for non-witnesses to go and they can then count those numbers. Non-thinking dubs will be fooled once again.
Edited to add how the flip did their website come up? It wasn't me. Don't click on it
autonomous sensory meridian response.. any thoughts about or experiences with this sensation?.
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old and original wt publications can be found here.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://jw.org.
i cannot remember when "new light" revealed the internet was ok for us dubs but was the wt really on it as early as 1999 and weren't they still saying it was satan's back then?.
Old and original WT publications can be found here
http://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://jw.org
I cannot remember when "new light" revealed the internet was ok for us dubs but was the WT really on it as early as 1999 and weren't they still saying it was satan's back then?
