Feeling like life was passing me by. Like I had spent my life making sacrifices and it hadn't gotten me anything but a whole lot of anxiety and self hatred. Then watching my dad die even though he had been assured in 1953 that Armageddon was six months away. I realized I didn't want to end my life like him. I came to the realization that the death the WT promised for the unfaithful was better than a life as one of them.
Lunatic Faith
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Who Or What Influenced You The Most To Leave The Organization?
by minimus inany person or situation ?.
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A non-JW gets it!
by MrFreeze inin my attempt to seperate myself from the jw's completely, i am finding all kind of awesome people.
of course, if we are talking by jw's standards these people are "awful".
anywho, there are a couple of them who are absolutely fascinated with the fact that i used to be a jw.. the reason they are fascinated is because they are aware of cultish mind-control and understand just how difficult it is to walk away from it all.
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No. But I am trying to decide if I go to Catholic mass this weekend if I should identify myself as one of JW's, just for the hell of it...
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Pangs of Conscience - June 2011 KM
by dozy inthere is an article in the latest kingdom ministry about counting time spent in the ministry.
one comment surprised me - it says that counting time wrongly can lead to "pangs of conscience".
a bit of an ott expression , i can't help thinking.. the only pangs the local pioneers are concerned about here are hunger pangs as they head to dunkin donuts for a 40 minute "break".
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When I was a pioneer and people would ask me if I had any difficulty getting in the time (90 hours at the time), I would tell them, "No, I start my time when the alarm goes off in the morning. After all, I'm getting ready for service aren't I?" I got a lot of blank stares until they figured out I was joking.
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Funniest JW memory?
by stillstuckcruz inperhaps something that happened in fs, the memorial, convention etc.
i need a laugh.
last year at the memorial, an old brother was so shaky in the hands, when he passed the wine it spilled all over him.
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And the king was sitting in the winter house, in the ninth month, with a brazier burning before him. 23 Then it came about that as soon as Je·hu′di had read three or four page-columns, he proceeded to tear it apart with the secretary's knife, pitching [it] also into the fire that was in the brazier until all the roll ended up in the fire that was in the brazier.
I remember a talk given by an MS where he didn't know how to pronounce brazier and kept pronouncing it brassiere. Burning brassieres in the bible...
Another brother reading from revelation got to the part about the beast eating up her fleshy parts, and read it "eating up her pithy farts".
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Didn't go, and it was surprisingly easy to miss my first memorial. But for the last few years I began to feel it was pointless to be there as an observer--observing the same thing year after year.
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Tell me how this is NOT a scam
by sabastious ini know a lot of tradesman and they are all witnesses.
that's because when a young witness man is about to enter the working world he thinks not of his future prospects, but of his present circumstance.
he is recommended this approach by his peers, his role models and his god.
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Outlaw--Awesome picture!!
Radhesyam--I've never been in a hall with cracks in it, but there was a hall in REd Bluff, CA that broke in two. A few years ago their PO was found out to be a child molester and the brothers didn't want to do anything about it. Then when they remodeled the hall they paid an elders wife an exhorbitant price to decorate. So much so that they couldn't afford to repave the parking lot. The hall broke in two within the first year due to a fawlty foundation. I always figured it was diving retribution.
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HOW MANY WHO ATTENDED MEMORIAL WILL NOW ATTEND AN EASTER SERVICE?
by Quentin ini don't do either one.
church services make me do the "joe bidden"..
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I didn't attend a memorial but am planning on attending Passover and a Catholic Mass this weekend just for the hellavit. I told my hubby, seeing as how I have never partaken I need to just in case. I told him he was going to burn in hell if he didn't partake of the "host" and that I thought I would get baptized in every religion I could just to cover my bases.
Quentin--Whats the Joe Bidden?
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VIDEO. Violent bloody protest at the Memorial in Burgas, Bulgaria. 2011
by 3Mozzies inyou will need to be signed in to youtube to see it, or go to the bulgarian website (link below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupvrlg-i8g&.
beat the pastors of jehovah's witnesses and wrecked their prayer house.. story from a bulgarian website - google translated.. .
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Lunatic Faith
I remember standing outside a convention in Tacoma, WA. There were always apostates picketing there. Signs and bullhorns. I could never understand what they were saying over the bullhorns, it just made them look stupid. Anyway, me and a group of 20 somethings were standing near one of them at lunch when a Bethelite we knew comes up and says, "You know, whenever I have any doubt this is the true religion, all I have to do is look at the apostates. They're not doing this outside the Catholic church, just ours. That proves we have the truth!"
Public displays don't do anything but reinforce the idea that God's true people will be persecutted.
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I should just be DF'd
by Lunatic Faith inso i have been texting with an inactive friend all day.
she sent a text this morning asking me if i had had second thoughts and decided to go to memorial after all.
i told her 'no, did you have second thoughts and decide not to go?
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I didn't immediately respond and she ended up responding with the same basic words I would have used. "On the other hand, what if none of that is true and you spend your life living this way for nothing." Then she says, "Believe me, I understand Luna. I have the same doubts and questions."
It probably accomplished more by letting her come to those thoughts on her own. So I responded, "Exactly! My father gave this organization everything-then he died after a lot of promises were made and none fulfilled." I told her my heart broke the day I realized it was all a pack of lies and I would never see my parents again.
Then I finished with, "You keep saying I have doubts. I don't. I am sure." Her response: "I love you and don't want to lose you. You doing this just means that your strong enough to move on and look to see what else is out there. It doesn't mean you forgot everything you were taught."
Not sure how to interpret that last sentence, but I think I will leave it alone for awhile...unless she brings it up.
JWFacts--Thanks for the link on Other Sheep. I was actually surprised when I looked up the term in the reference bible index to find it only used once. It seems like a term the WT uses as much as it does should be in the bible more than that...
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I should just be DF'd
by Lunatic Faith inso i have been texting with an inactive friend all day.
she sent a text this morning asking me if i had had second thoughts and decided to go to memorial after all.
i told her 'no, did you have second thoughts and decide not to go?
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Yeah, that's where I always go wrong. I want to share the things I have learned rather than learning tact. I had a phone call from another longtime friend from another cong. who doesn't know where I am spiritually. I misled her into believing I was actually at me memorial last night. I wanted to tell her the truth but didn't think it was the right time.