When this homosexual brother does all of the above and still feels like a homosexual, guess he figures God does not care. So he ( hopefully ) no longer wants to be a JW. Happy ending !
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Annoying 2/15 WT - Don't Be Stumbled- your Mind Just Misunderstands !
by flipper inanother wt article which causes jw's to doubt their own perceptions of reality.
) in this particular article titled " for those loving jehovah, " there is no stumbling block " - the wt society stoops to new, or rather re-hashed lows to insinuate that most if not all jw's really misunderstand causes of stumbling as it's just their minds that are imperfect, messed up, or gone entirely anyway.
the first abhorrent bit of information here describes a witness man who " fought " with feelings of being homosexual and of course the elders thought they had the perfect antidote to keep him from his alleged " abnormal " desires.
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The new trinity - Jehovah, His Word and His Organization
by truthseeker inthe new trinity - jehovah, his word, and his organization.
how many of you have heard this phrase used before?.
more often than not, you will hear some co use this, as he describes the 'spiritual paradise.'.
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Thought this was interesting. Has anything changed in 9 yrs ? Jesus is still missing !
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Fantasy "Forbidden Fruit" Ex-Witness Party
by CaptainSchmideo inif you could get all willing participants on this board together in one area for a party, and told them to bring favorite music, food, movies, and dressed in certain fashion, all of which has been discouraged or outright banned either by the wts or by their flunkies (do, co, elders, busybodies in the hall, etc.
), what would you bring?.
i would bring:.
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All of the above !
Scary Sherry
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Your vs You're....Its vs It's....There vs Their..
by Terry inwriting and speaking is all about communication.. if we are casually engaged the level of precision vanishes.
simple ideas=simplified language.. but, as we attempt to convey accuracy, specificity and numerical precision--what then?
without a clear standard is proper communication headed for extinction?.
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I need all the help I can get. I don't mind it if someone corrects me. I speak better than I write.
Born in a with a tenth grade education.......really ninth in English,
because I failed tenth grade English. No big deal .The big A was coming soooooon
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It Appears The Elderly Are More Taken Care Of Then Ever Before By The Elders
by minimus ini usually find fault with the religion but i must give credit when due.
in the hall my mom is in, they regularly check on her and assign different ones to visit and check on the elderly.. if there's a storm or an extremely cold day, they come by to make sure the elderly have everything they need..
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My mom has been in FL for over 30 years. When she first came down there to live she was one of the youngest of her friends.
So all her old friends are dead. She also has been reassigned to a different con. at least 3 times, maybe more. Of course she never questioned.
She is a very quiet person ( not like her daughters ) . When you are in your 80's , quiet and shy, going to a new con. with only a few from the old con. moving with you, it's easy to slip through the cracks. BUT.......... where are the elders ? They could help bring it to the RF's attention that one of their own needs a little help . A visit or maybe a hot meal. Sorry but this subject just pis%$#$% me off.
On a side note.... I was telling my mom about Nancy Yuen , that JW ( China ) that had 4 kids but went to jail several times for going DtoD' Mom said "I think she was a little nuts " I love my mom ! For a JW she is pretty cool. lol
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It Appears The Elderly Are More Taken Care Of Then Ever Before By The Elders
by minimus ini usually find fault with the religion but i must give credit when due.
in the hall my mom is in, they regularly check on her and assign different ones to visit and check on the elderly.. if there's a storm or an extremely cold day, they come by to make sure the elderly have everything they need..
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NOT the case for my mom. She was a JW for 58 yrs. My mom lives in FL. My sis and I live up north. We both visit her 2x a yr. Last time we were there the elders met with us . They wanted to know what we were going to do with our mother. There is only 1 JW in her con. that helps her. ( takes her shopping 3x a month, to the doc. 3 or 4 x a yr, and to get her hair done every other month ) Well it seems this womans JW husband says it's just too hard on his wife to do this.
My mom has a wonderful WORLDLY neighbor that helps her alot. Brings her home cooked meals, cuts her grass., checks on her several times a day...ect. If it was not for this woman my mom could not stay in her home.
The problem is my mom wants a JW to help her. I explained this to the elders. The elders told my mom that it was a good thing, and she should let the wordly neighbor help her more ( they read a scrip. about a loving companion is loving all the time )
So my mom feels better now that she has the super-fine elders permission to let this WORLDLY woman help her......lol...I have to laugh or I would CRY !
Smart ass that I am, I had to say to the elders " you know at this point in my moms life, she would have been better off if she were never a JW. Then she wouldn't HAVE a problem with her neighbor helping"
In all fairness, this JW that helps my mom is 84, so she is old too. ( mom is 89 ) She wants to help. She gets gas money, some free groceries, and my mom always pays for her hair cut. This jw has to go to the store and get her hair done any how, so what is the big deal ?
Where are all the other JW in the congregation ? The ones in their 50's 60's 70's. ? I LOVE WORLDLY PEOPLE !.......JW suck ! , at least the ones in my moms con.
I have to keep reminding my mom that the elders want .......... to help you now The elders want ........to help you.You better listen to the elders, they want ............. to help you. It's so hard for her to wrap her mind around this, after a lifetime of telling her NOT to get involved with worldly people, now at 89 yrs old it is OK.......that is so &%$#$$%% up !
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Rebuttals for having an independent attitude or spirit.
by Emery ini am looking for rebuttals on this statement.
i find it reprehensive when they preach this from the platform, they do not want jws (who are individuals) to have any individuality.
they want people to be their personal robots with no free will.
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Why did you pick the name you have now
by label licker injust wondering if your name describes what you saw, how you were treated when you were "in" or now "out", maybe your personality, ect.... i'm label licker and the why i picked this name was because of all the licking up one side of elders and down the other to either be an elder or ministerial servant.
one time i was standing right in front of this brother who wasn't made an ms yet and he totally ignored me and talked right over my head speaking really loud trying to catch the co's attention.. got sick of watching the poor elderly sitting all alone or standing against the wall like a wall flower with noone to talk to and yet all these label lickers would take turns picking up the elders elderly parents and take them shopping and do their groceries at least four times a week while out in service, yet, there was noone there to take a meal to a sister who just got out of the hospital with a heart attack.
when i had shown up at her apartment with a meal she asked if i could wash her private and change her bandages.
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I was 21 when the big A was coming ( 1975 ) The JW had me convinced I was going to DIE....that was SCARY.
I have been called...............SCARY SHERRY
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First post / 1914 info
by whichway2go inmy first post here after about 6 months of lurking.
i will comment more and give some more info later, but i am still active, and looking for my way to exit.
i had a question that i'm hoping someone can help with.
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Welcome. Don't let any man keep you from learning. Information is a GOOD thing. Information based on facts is a GREAT thing.
A must read for you, as others have said is " Gentile Times Reconsidered " It has 14 lines of evidence why 607 is impossible.
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yet another newbie..
by ragnarok75 ini've been lurking here for some time and now that i've registered here's a little bit about myself... i'm in northern europe (so english is not my own language,but i have indeed studied it for more than 18 months) and i was born into this hateful cult in the "momentuous" year of -75.good that my parents stayed alive till then!.
as far back as i can remember i had doubts both about the doctrines and the whole existence of god.however,i instinctively knew that these doubts are not to be mentioned.so i learned to be a fake at an early age.though having read many other stories here i realise how easy i got it.i now understand that we lived in a rather liberal area and also my family was quite liberal eventhough my dad was an elder since mid -80 and mom was really "strong in the truth".i never brought up the religion at school or with friends and was never bullied or anything.it helped that i was good at sports,especially football (soccer for americans) and football is also the source of my biggest hurt in childhood.i know it may sound very trivial,but the fact that i wasn't allowed to join a football team felt just so unjust and painfull and it lasted all through my childhood.whenever we had a new gym teacher,the first thing he asked me was which team do i play for.i was too embarrased to tell the truth and i just gave the impression that i only wanted to play for fun and not join any team.oh,how badly i wanted to!.
somehow i managed to silence all those doubts and got babtised as a young man.very soon after the babtism i knew that it didn't have the hoped for effect of making me more spiritual and meetings and field service still felt an absolute bore.now began the long years of just "going through the motions".all my family (parents,many brothers and sisters,uncles and aunts,nieces and nephews) and most of my friends were in.i never reached out and attended only one or two meetings a week and penned my hours.i kind of liked my congregation (also,the seats at our kh were really comfy,so i often slept through the meetings) and made some very good friends.friends that - as you all can guess- didn't turn out to be so good in the end,but with whom i nonetheless had some good times and felt a strong connection to.. for a long time nothing happened that would've disrupted my rather non-eventfull life as a lacklustre jdub with at least another foot in the "world".i'd done many things that would've gotten me d'fed,but i never had any intentions of going to the elders about it and i had no pangs of conscience about it either.it was just a matter of convenience..i liked my witness friends,wanted to hold on to them and not to lose my family.. however..there was this girl... a (worldly,of course) girl that i had absolutely fell for and had a brief romance with many years ago.now she was back in my life.i must omit the proceeding turns of events for the sake of anonymity,but the end result is that i'm a proud father of a lovely baby girl.well,not so much baby anymore as she starts school soon.i love her so much and it gives me great satisfaction that she is growing free from any influence of vicious cults or of any gods for that matter.we live now in different countries but i see her often and there's always skype.. her birth also acted as a catalyst for the change in relationship between me and the society.i decided that i wanted to share the joy of her birth and existence with my family,eventhough i also knew that that would mean i'd have to go the elders too.if i didn't,they would,and that would result in automatic disfellowshippping.. a jc was duly formed and i had decided that i'm not going to go there and tell them that i regret her,as having her is the best thing that's ever happeded to me.
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Welcome !