Posts by DesirousOfChange

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Upbringing

by punkofnice in

i was brought up as a born-in(tm) here in the uk.

it wasn't until i was 50 that the scales fell from my eyes, i woke up, got da'd from the cult and my wife was advised to leave me by the elders whom i had served with on the boe.

one of which i know wanted to schtupf her.

DesirousOfChange

50 wasted bloody years.
I guess what I'm asking is, does it sound normal that I hold this resentment and am frustrated that I can't explain to him?

Sounds about like our story (wife & me). Both born-ins. My father even took an early departure from the military (and the pension he would have gotten) because, well, you know.........Armageddon was "right around the corner" and he didn't want to be on the "wrong side". Mom is still in. Which is a good thing for her situation. Her friends are there.

As far as anger/resentment against my parents -- I can't say I have any. They were wanting to give their kids (me) what they felt was the best circumstances for the future. Sure they were misled and misguided, but can you hold them at fault? I was slow to awaken and I live in the age of the internet. They didn't have websites or CoC available at the click of a button. They only had crazyass apostates (Evil Slave, they were called then) marching around at conventions with placards. (You think everyone would have found better ways to help awaken others today.) They did they best they could with what information (or lack of it) available back then. (I do kind of resent whoever gave/sold great-grandpa the Studies in the Scriptures.)

OTOH, my wife's parents bailed after the failed 1975 prophecy. Yet, they supported/encouraged their kids who remained active JWs. Now THAT is pissy! Evidently (WT TM), they saw something long before we ever did. WTF didn't they share all that with their kids who assumed that they just didn't want to live the JW lifestyle (smoking, drinking, etc). Yes, she has some resentment when talking about that.

The greatest revenge is living a happy & successful life!

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Letter to a JW

by TheOwl in

so my grandparents got a letter from a jw.

they have gotten these kind of letters over the years and they always give them to me and this time i got fed up and i wrote the guy back.

just wanted to post my reply letter in case anyone could use a chuckle on a sunday morning.

DesirousOfChange

Hopefully it's a "seed planted".

No one single thing causes a JW to awaken. It's a multitude of little things until one of them is the "last straw".

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Abandon false religion.

by Hellothere in

if you are a believer, what are your plans for the future?

bible say don't have anything to do with false religion or you be connected to it sins.

it's s biblical command.

DesirousOfChange

Abandon false religion ~ Hellothere

Thank you for the sincere advise, but that's exactly what the majority of us here have already done. We got "out of her" -- that is, the deplorable false religious Cult of the WTS/JWs.

Yes, FALSE religion, because everything they have predicted for 100+ years has proven to be FALSE.

The greatest revenge is living a happy & successful life!

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TURN ON CNN: PLANE HIT WORLD TRADE CTR BLDG!!!

by MadApostate in

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DesirousOfChange

BUT the "conspiracy" videos are quite compelling that the whole thing was an INSIDE job. If you watch the towers collasping, ~ ENOUGH

The timing of the strike in the early morning before start of business does not make it seem like maximum damage was the goal. If it would have occurred 2 hours later, casualties would have gone up 10-fold, or likely even more. Would said terrorists really have tried to limit loss of life?

I believe the truth of it all will be buried forever just like the Warren Commission.

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Anglo-American duel world power

by nowwhat? in

king charles and joe biden.

need i say more?😂😂😂 .

DesirousOfChange

My first thought about that "team" is it leaves Charles looking pretty savvy.

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HM Queen Elizabeth is dead.

by stan livedeath in

long live the king..

DesirousOfChange

I hope that she truly was the person that she is perceived to be, rather than the person she/they wanted us to see.

In the past, US presidents were stoic and all proper -- on the surface -- that was the person they wanted us to see. In reality, most were whoremongers, Nixon was a racist and out-cussed any "sailor". Well, what is there to say about Clinton that The Enquirer hasn't already said. The Bushes seemed to maintain the image. An insider said Barbara was a TRULY a wonderful lady. Obama cast the image (but we know he hid his smoking and possibly some other "interests".) And Trump, well I think it can be said that "What you see is what you get". (Like it or not.) Biden? Good candidate for an AARP commercial. And he does like to smell the hair of little girls. (But does he really know what he's doing?)

RIP Queen Elizabeth -- Charles will never fill those shoes.

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faithful and discreet slave appointed in 1919?

by enoughisenough in

12 when did jesus appoint the faithful slave over his domestics?

to answer that, we need to go back to 1914—the beginning of the harvest season.

as we learned earlier, at that time many groups claimed to be christian.

DesirousOfChange

Everything else was batshit crazy and way out in left field ~ nowwhat?

Seems like that kinda summarized most (or at least a lot) of the Bible

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2022-Secret Watchtower Disfellowshipping Reference Manual.

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

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.. .

DesirousOfChange

This is NOT easy reading. I wonder if it was compiled to be used primarily by lawyers because it damn sure isn't designed for the average elder's use.

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A Prayer for the Stressed

by BoogerMan in

a prayer for the stressed .

grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those i had to kill today because they got on my nerves.. and also, help me to be careful of the toes i step on today, as they may be connected to the feet i may have to kiss tomorrow.. help me always to give 100% at work... 12% on monday, 23% on tuesday, 40% on wednesday, 20% on thursday and 5% on friday.

and help me to remember...... when i'm having a bad day and it seems that people are trying to wind me up, it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile, and only 4 to extend my arm and smack someone in the mouth!.

DesirousOfChange

And the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today because they got on my nerves.

If only.............

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

DesirousOfChange

He’s the biggest advert for Watchtower’s stereotype of an immoral apostate they have ever had. They must be loving it. ~ SFB

(I really promised myself to skip over this topic, but there seems to be one meaningful post out 100 that draws me back.)

Slim, that has to one of the best posts of the 5000 on this topic. That really about sums it up!

I'm sure there have been some laughs had over glasses of scotch on the subject of LE.