Posts by DesirousOfChange

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Experiences After Leaving

by Freeatlast2024 in

i am writing to ask if anyone cares to share their experience and/or offer advice for people leaving.

i was raised in the religion, and both my parents died when i was very young.

i recently stopped associating because my conscience no longer allows me to preach or support the organization.

DesirousOfChange

Don't feel it is necessary to have them understand what you went through.

Because they can't!

Most people see JWs as just another small, "harmless" religious group and the only things they know about them is they (used to) wake them up on Saturday mornings, they don't believe in Jesus (all that D2D ministry and people are still confused) based on the fact they do not celebrate Christmas, and then some who read the news may be aware of the prohibition on blood transfusions, though more likely, they know of a JW who died refusing one. More than likely many of them think JWs refuse all medical care (confusing them with Christian Scientists).

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Serious sinner?

by Gorb in

jw
friends

with the statement in the study watchtower this sunday, that stop serving jehovah is a serious sin, the following:.

- can i conclude now, that we, (i, wife and 2 children), since 2008 pomo and no longer active in any religious activity, are serious sinners for jehovahs witnesses?.

writing this in a watchtower, a statement like that, could have big implications.. it makes me so sad.

DesirousOfChange

If we we missed a meeting it was noticed.

I recall meeting a prominent (because he is wealthy) elder while out shopping. He mentioned that he had heard I was missing meetings. I assured him I had not "missed" any of them!

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Serious sinner?

by Gorb in

jw
friends

with the statement in the study watchtower this sunday, that stop serving jehovah is a serious sin, the following:.

- can i conclude now, that we, (i, wife and 2 children), since 2008 pomo and no longer active in any religious activity, are serious sinners for jehovahs witnesses?.

writing this in a watchtower, a statement like that, could have big implications.. it makes me so sad.

DesirousOfChange

What is "the sin that easily entangles us'?

LACK OF FAITH

All of us "inactive" ones must be guilty!

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2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

by Listener in

a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

DesirousOfChange

No reason to change unless you feel the need you have to.

I think a person often ignores the obvious (or what should be) until it affects them personally. They can turn a blind eye or ignore the "rumors" of child abuse UNTIL IT IS THEIR CHILD OR GRAND CHILD. They can ignore an unjust DFing when it is some distant acquaintance in the next congregation, but WHEN THEY (or their family member) get effed over for some minor indiscretion while the prominent elder's kid gets their serious incident overlooked and a slap on the risk, THEN their eyes are opened.

Then they see the injustice.

Then they see that the claim of Hocus Pocus Holy Spirit in the decision making is total bullsheit.

It takes getting personally poked in the eye before they can see.

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2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

by Listener in

a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

DesirousOfChange

I cannot sympathise any longer with intelligent adults who allow themselves to be mentally abused by these charlatans. -- cofty

Anyone who has not awakened to TTATT

simply does NOT WANT TO KNOW!

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THE PROBLEM WITH THESE 2 NEW GB MEMBERS APPOINTMENTS

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/rjr0ugtu6zu?si=d3zsz20ee33gytxi.

these new appointments are troubling, to say the least, especially considering the factors surrounding their selection.

these appointments raise key concerns about leadership, experience, and what is happening behind the scenes at the organization's headquarters.

DesirousOfChange

. . . . . but with everything we are witnessing taking place on the world scene we CAN BE CERTAIN that The End™ is very, very, soon. We are surely™ living in the final seconds of the final minute of the last day of The Last Days™.

Why do they call them The Last Days?

Because they last, and they last, and they last, and . . . . .

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Experiences After Leaving

by Freeatlast2024 in

i am writing to ask if anyone cares to share their experience and/or offer advice for people leaving.

i was raised in the religion, and both my parents died when i was very young.

i recently stopped associating because my conscience no longer allows me to preach or support the organization.

DesirousOfChange

I'm sure everyone here can recommend a book that helped them.

Crisis of Conscience (Ray Franz), of course.

I also strongly encourage reading Combating Cult Mind Control (Steven Hassan). I put it off and once I started it I couldn't put it down. He writes about his experience with the Moonies, but it proved to me that JWs are like the Poster Child for a Cult. JWs "check the box" on every single criteria for a Cult. It is impossible to pretend it's coincidence. The "mind control", "information control", etc.

Let's review! It's a Cult!

Edited to add: The point above about making new friends and a new network is right on. That is NOT an easy task. As a JW you think it's just an automatic thing. Everyone loves you. Everyone is your friend. That's not how it works in the "real world". But if you give people a chance, they will do the same.

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October Elder's Letter Delayed- Big Announcement at Annual Meeting

by Newly Enlightened in

https://youtu.be/93h5zpbil6k?si=ffatfxjuxmj_na9i.

DesirousOfChange

Another ---

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JWN, 23 years posting Blondie

by blondie in

jw
friends

can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.

i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.

in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.

DesirousOfChange

FTM -- don't go away mad.

Just go away!

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Blood Fractions

by alice.in.wonderland in

someone is pressing me about blood fractions on an unrelated thread, so i just moved the topic to an appropriate location.. "the point for me in every thread you touch is your sickening dishonesty and nauseating apologies for the old men in brooklyn who tell you what to do.. they have told you that products made from blood don't use blood, and you are so corrupt and gullible you just accept it.".

i accept any bible-based religion that adheres to the bible as its authority.. the purpose of this magazine, the watchtower, is to honor jehovah god, the supreme ruler of the universe.

just as watchtowers in ancient times enabled a person to observe developments from afar, so this magazine shows us the significance of world events in the light of bible prophecies.

DesirousOfChange

I thought there was going to be new light on blood at this AGM?

Seems to me the blood transfusion issue has been added to the WT's "Don't ask. Don't tell." list.

If it becomes known that an active (adult) JW has accepted a blood transfusion, said "sinner" need only repent that it was done in a "weakened" state of fear and anxiety and that they would NEVER do such a thing again (or at least not until they needed another transfusion to survive).