A loyal sister came over for her weekly visit to my home trying to get me to go to meetings one day, brought up the memorial for discussion. The subject of partaking of the emblems had came up. She said to me over 10000 people partook of the emblems last year, that's funny you would THINK the number would be going down instead of up she said sarcastically. I of course was a little shocked by her statement. After that not much was spoken of and she left shortly there after.
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Mocking of the Organization from JWs
by NomadSoul inthis is what my aunt told me.. once an elder at the closing of the meeting said this about the revised reasoning book with a sarcastic voice.
"brothers and sisters don't forget to get your copy of the new reasoning book, it has over two hundred revisions!"..
my aunt swears he said it in a sarcastic mocking tone.. i thought it was funny so i had to ask if anybody else had similar stories..
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JW Urban Legend....
by on the rocks inthis is about a experience given by someone who was newly baptised ....the demons were troubling her as she was practicing spiritism before she got baptised....once when the demons troubled her she raised her voice and asked arent you afraid of jehovah...and the demons replied we are but currently he is busy gathering his army for armaggedon.....how many of you have heard similar stories?.
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Igot2bme
Waterspout- I know right!? I would have been out the friggen door!!!! I also thought that the experience sounded like it was ripped off from the movie Amityville horror now that look back on it.
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Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?
by flipper inbeen thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.
also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.
so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".
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Igot2bme
Flipper-Thank you for your words of encouragement I really appreciated that. I agree with you that getting out of that place was the best thing I have done! Things have been smoother since leaving the Org, it's funny how everything has worked out. My son is now on his own and he is doing rather well. He is with the same girl he was with during the incident, they are deeply in love and are planning on getting married soon. My niece on the other hand ended up pregnant and a single parent from the boyfriend that she was with. He left her for her best friend who was also a witness (she was also my sister-in-laws good friend too) and married her instead of my niece.
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JW Urban Legend....
by on the rocks inthis is about a experience given by someone who was newly baptised ....the demons were troubling her as she was practicing spiritism before she got baptised....once when the demons troubled her she raised her voice and asked arent you afraid of jehovah...and the demons replied we are but currently he is busy gathering his army for armaggedon.....how many of you have heard similar stories?.
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Igot2bme
I have heard a lot of stories throughout my time in the Org but the one that stood out in my mind was a story of a sister and her husband starting a bible study with a couple at the couples home. Halfway through their study the Walls started to bleed, I asked the sister what did she do during this and she said that her husband and her stayed there and finished up the study with the walls still bleeding.
That story really freaked me out!
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Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?
by flipper inbeen thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.
also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.
so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".
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Igot2bme
Flipper-What really killed me about it all was I could never do that to another human being and their child much less a sister. I mourned my sons virginity, I wanted him to wait till marriage as we were taught by the org and the bible. This was a dotrine that I always felt very strongly about. I told the elders what happened and how I felt they said that they were going to talk to her but they basically told me that it was my decision not to go to meeting anymore and I was causing divisions in the congo by having anger towards her. The elders that talked to me are also close friends with my sister-in-law and her husband and so nothing really manifested from their talk with her. After my meeting with them, I thought about it and said yes they are right it is my decision not to go anymore and I stopped going.
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Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?
by flipper inbeen thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.
also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.
so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".
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Igot2bme
I had been struggling with going to meeting for about 3 years before I started to fade for good, but the incident that got me to finally become disgusted with it all was when my sister-in-law who got me into a being a witnesses in the first place took my son 16 year old into her home. I thought that this would be a good change for him and I agreed to it, his father and him weren't getting along so well. I thought that them being witnesses he would have good influences around him also. At the time my 17 year old niece was dating a boy who happened to be from a very wealthy family who happened to be witnesses. My sister-in-law would often brag to me about how much money her daughters boyfriends parents made at their business and brag about the vacations they would go on. (My sister-in-law has always been very materialistic and snooty). Her boyfriend and his parents happened to live out of state but would visit family in our congo from a couple times a year and they happened to up visiting at this time. My sister in law convinced his parents to have him stay at their house for a few weeks. The elders were not aware of him staying the night there nor did I know. My sister-in-law when approached about him being there she would say that she would bring him home in the evening every night which was a lie. Needless to say they were having sex every night he was there and my son was there to know about it first hand! I then found out that she was letting my nieces friend stay the night at this time, my son had an instant attraction to and these teenagers were alone unsupervised at night in her home for hours on end. I had no clue that this was taking place either, in the past, whenever my nieces girlfriends would stay the night my sister in law would make sure that my son would stay at my mother-in-laws or I would have him come home so as to not have unsupervised teens. My sister-in-law shows up at my house a month later with my sons clothes and belongings and said she was kicking him out. I asked what happened and she proceeded to tell me that she found evidence that that my son was having sex in her house, she had found evidence around where he was sleeping and had also found liquor in his bag when she searched it which came from her home, but she denied that. After she left I was very devastated, I cried and cried. I was so angry with my son, and I let him have it when he got home. After I calmed down and after a while talking about the events he informed me that her daughter was having sex pretty much everynight and bragging about it to him every morning plus he could hear her screaming while they were going at it! I promptly called my sister in law and told her but she said her daughter said she didn't and she believed her!!!I also found out later that my sister-in-law took pictures of the evidence of my sons indiscretion with her cell phone and forwarded it to everyone she knew. She then told everyone in the congo about my son and what happened and that my son was lying about her daughter and slandering her good name!!! Three months later when my niece turned 18 years old she came clean with her mom and dad about having sex in their house, but my son never received an apology for being labeled a liar. I tried to go to meetings after that but when I would get there I would see my sister-in-law and instantly get an overwhelming feeling of wanting to jump over the row of chairs and beat her smug face in. I let the elders know my problem and the whole sorted tale but I just couldn't let it go and I stopped attending meetings a couple months later.
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If One More Person Calls Me "Boo" LOL
by PublishingCult inseems to be the trend today to call another, a friend or loved one, "boo".
it was cute about five years ago when it was seldom used.. it's old, it's overdone, it's done by everyone, it should stop now.
find a new pet name you damned boo-hooers .
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Igot2bme
If I ever see a kid named Schmoopie I'm gonna smack his/her parents!
I'm with you on that Morbidzbaby! To name a child that should be classified as a form of child abuse!
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If One More Person Calls Me "Boo" LOL
by PublishingCult inseems to be the trend today to call another, a friend or loved one, "boo".
it was cute about five years ago when it was seldom used.. it's old, it's overdone, it's done by everyone, it should stop now.
find a new pet name you damned boo-hooers .
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Igot2bme
Remember that Sienfield episode when Jerry had a girlfriend that called him Schoompie?.... I am just saying it could be worst. Also that was a funny episode!
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Sometimes You Just Gotta Score One For the Cult Members
by PublishingCult ini really don't care much for jw's at my door, or at anyone's door.
this chauvinistic, fanatical bully-a-hole, however, is one of the worst examples of a christian i have ever seen.
the jw's handled themselves very well in the face of this ridiculous bullying and taunting by this so-called christian attempting to school the jw's about god and the bible.
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Igot2bme
I agree, what an A-Hole!!! Very poor example of a Christian.
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What if... The Governing Body promoted online preaching
by pirata inimagine this scenario:.
step 1) the governing body produces a brochure entitled: "addressing misconceptions about jehovah's witnesses".
it brings all the apostate arguments out of the woodwork and addresses them (whether or not the answers make sense doesn't really matter).
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Igot2bme
I feel that the GB is caught in between a rock and a hard place when the Internet is concerned. For one thing their literature service can't keep up with the information that is coming out on the web against them and they can't logically defend themselves with these present day circumstances. They face the fact that they are hemorrhaging members due to them using old school tactics not working any longer and new techno logic informing current members and the general public. If they don't get with the times their organization will eventually collapse, personally I would be happy if it did.