due to circumstances right now i cannot leave permanently the watchtower, however i need honest advice of what to say when elders question me how come im not meeting the group out for door to door & going out in " field service"... what would be proper responses not to draw suspicions since i'm aware of ttatt.. .any serious advice please...
If reporting hours is not a problem, just report fake numbers. You can always claim to preach these few hours with family members or with a friend in a neighbor congregation.
If you do not want to report any more, and someone wants to make an appointment, set it up, and cancel it the night before. something unexpected has come up or whatever. If you that 2 times, they will not bother you any more.
do you have feelings of hopelessness and fear for not having a religion?.
do you envy happy jehovah witnesses and living their lives carefree?.
1) I feel way better now than I did when I was an active witness.
2) I do not envy the witnesses for the so called 'happy life', because it does not exist. I know 1st hand that it is just what it looks like, as soon as you start scratching the surface, all the happy faces are just covering a lot of unhappiness, and that includes the top ranking witnesses.
this happened about 6 months ago, didn't really have an opportunity to post about it (been busy), but they still haven't given back his password for the phone hook-up.
they say that this is direction from the "branch office".
i think it's complete bs, the real reason why they are doing this is to punish me & my family because i am basically a ghost when it comes to meetings & any type of activity.
Can't you feel the love¿ How would we be able to recognize true Christians¿ JW are a real bench mark .... for Pharisees
at our recent rc i was advised by a sister who was an attendant that they have been advised not to be able to give brothers directions as this should be dealt with by the brothers.
apparently at the pre-convention attendants meeting, the sisters were asked to stay behind.
this was when they were given the news that the brothers should deal with brothers.
sometime ago i wrote here in this forum about the case of my sister, who decided to stop attending the meetings because she realised that the watchtower society is an evil organization.
this happened more than one year ago.
i am not living in the same country of my sister, so i learn about her case when she calls me or when she write me through whatsapp.
i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.
the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .
i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.
today's watchtower study article is all about jesus.
this stuck out to me after a year of hanging out on here where one frequent point of criticism is that jws claim to be christians but never talk about jesus.. anyone think it's a coincidence that today was the "special talk" follow-up to the memorial?
i think not - this is the most attended sunday meeting of the year, complete with many ubms, studies, and miscellaneous other potential victims who have been subjected to a coordinated effort to pressure them into attending.
wife and i have not reported a single hour of fs in 3-4 months.
while my wife is mostly doing for me (positive thing), i know she would have rather done it.
elder asked me to turn in my fs report this past week and then he added... "we need to talk".
just tell them you have nothing to report, sorry.
Then they might impress on you the importance of preaching, and you go yes, I understand it, but it is not easy, my heart is not with it, I don't feel the same good vibes like I used to. Then he request you for an appointment, and you agree on next Saturday. On Friday night, you call him to say something has come up (no details its none of his business) . You do this 2 times in a row and he gives up. If you cancel a couple of appointments, the will stop.
i've heard is said many times that watchtower is a publishing company bringing in money from the proliferation of its literature.
how exactly does this process work?
i know that jws are encouraged to tell the householders of the donation arrangement to support the worldwide work.
It is not the householders who pay fir the literature, it are the JW who pay for it all. Money is made by:
- donations to the worldwide work in return for literature which is hardly read
- monthly congregation contributions to the society as per resolution, e.g. car for circuit overseer, building loan,...
- donations at the conventions, assemblies,...
- buying land, building with free labor, then selling of kingdom halls, bethel homes,...
- heritage going to the society (they made a special brochure for this)
- last but not least: tax free status
jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
I have never slept so well since getting to know that JW faith is just a shaky house of cards and leaving it behind me, together with my other half. Many are the worries of JW in my area who feel they are not doing enough, or cannot live up to what is expected from them. And many are the guilt trips in the new JW TV channel videos. Billy Graham will look like an amateur soon compared to law school Tony Morris 3. If the governing body is so humble, why are they still forcing unbiblical and harmful teachings upon the poor witnesses, something condemned with the strongest words in the bible. For one, where is it written in the bible you should not get a decent university education. Many lives would have been easily more interesting if they had taken the opportunity to increase their education. the contents of your cart is not even a shadow of what Jesus taught in the 1st century. JW have turned into salesmen, and the JW leadership into merchants. and we know what Jesus thought about that. The only reason JW exist today, is because some people (the Adventists) did not want to believe the end did not come in 1844. JW , as off-shoot of the Adventists, still cannot accept, after 170 years of hoping, and tens of unfulfilled promises, the end is not near. Millions of lives have been wasted on waiting for an Armageddon that did not come, and is not going to come. I hope your master has enrolled you in a wheelcart 401k, otherwise you will never be able to give your wheels some rest when they start aching from old age
