You're welcome here Sevan! Glad you have been able to wake up to TTATT. (The Truth About The Truth) Hope you can talk with your husband sensibly about this, he seems already to be considerate of your need to fade rather than be disfellowshipped. Do keep us informed.
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New Here ... Just woke up
by Sevan inhey all, .
this is my first post.
i haven't been out in service or to a meeting in over a month.. i realize now that i've been having serious questions for years and many articles and talks have greatly disturbed me over the years.
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Jesus Knows the Day & Hour Now?
by KillerJones ini was skimming the july 2016 wt study article and came across a paragraph indicating that, despite scriptural evidence, the governing body indeed feels that god's son now knows the exact day and hour of armageddon.
is this 'new light'?
from the second study article, page 14, pgh 4:.
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Half banana
Agreed Finky baby, and what is at the bottom of it all? A belief in the Doctrine of Biblical inerrancy .
Is not the problem with the whole of Christianity that it is based on imagining that the Bible can only say something truthful? When what it says has a thousand interpreters and not two of them agree on everything!
Most of the content of the Bible is plagiarised nonsense; spin, bluster, astrology, folk tales, myth, false promises and lies.
Simply put, there is no reliable message or morality from the Bible which cannot be thought up inside our own heads.
It is not sacred at all, shake it off! It's worse than useless.........it's very misleading.
It does not predict anything which is likely to happen!... to listen to prophecy is the work of idiots!
The Bible was all made up and drawn together by powerful men to bamboozle the ignorant and poor for the sake of controlling them. Therefore believing in a divine origin of the Bible is a very stupid and addictive habit, which if you want to wake up to a fulfilling life, you should discard the idea at the earliest opportunity.
For those so inclined, it makes interesting reading and is a literary mine for a myriad of quotes...but I despair of using the Bible as if it had any prophetic relevance..............................
End of rant, must take my anti-apoplexy tablets now.
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Contempt of court, case in San Diego county really disgusts me!
by Crazyguy inthis case has to be talked about by ever awake jw every apostate everyone.
this case because they refuse to hand over documents the court already knows they have because they handed them over before but heavily redacted, is the icing on the cake!
this case shows thier evil plain and simple.
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Half banana
Yes exjwsrock, why are the GB not doing the "obey and be blessed" routine with Caesar's demands?
Oh silly me! that's just for the rank and file drones.
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Jesus Knows the Day & Hour Now?
by KillerJones ini was skimming the july 2016 wt study article and came across a paragraph indicating that, despite scriptural evidence, the governing body indeed feels that god's son now knows the exact day and hour of armageddon.
is this 'new light'?
from the second study article, page 14, pgh 4:.
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Half banana
JC got it wrong in the first century why should he be right another time?
Mark 13, 24-31. "I tell you this: the present generation will live to see it all" NEB
(I chucked my NWT away!)
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What is the current suicide and mental illness rate among JWs and previous members
by 060702015 inthere seems to be no current data on this information and there is questions concerning the validation of past data.
apparently there is high rate of mental illness and suicide.
jehovahs witnesses suicide rate 5 to 10 times above average.
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Half banana
It would be good to find someone who has had the patience, interest qualifications and financial backing to investigate the state of mental health of JWs and ex-JWs. Unfortunately I don't think there is anyone likely to do this for the time being. The last one was an Australian study about fifty or sixty years ago I believe. I had a paediatrician tell me that in his experience that Jehovah's Witnesses exhibit a far higher rate of delusional disorders (psychosis) than found in the general population.
There is probably a correspondency of people with mental problems looking towards religious belief generally as a solution to their difficulties because religion is a socially acceptable practice which deals with existential hope.
The JW belief exaggerates the certainty of its teachings and dissolve the grey areas by a black and white definition of the world and its workings. By using only the governing body of JWs as the last word in everything a paternalistic agenda is asserted. For a confused or mentally fragile individual, this concept can make for a clearly defined path to follow.
Unfortunately for all JWs; it leads nowhere in the end except a mental slavery and the GB have never got anything right.
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Is wife beginning to turn around?
by StarTrekAngel inso some may have read the long and boring post about our last vacation and some of the things that my wife came to tell me during our time away.
i am adding the link here but i can summarize it for time's sake.. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5768475763015680/vacation-time-reality-closing-up-on-my-wife.
in a nutshell, right before we left, we found out of a jw couple we know well.
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Half banana
Looks very hopeful STA. Doubts can be worked upon but blind loyalty to the Borg is a dead end. You are dealing with doubts here. Best wishes.
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Governing Body Anthony Morris gives talk at convention. Child refuses blood dies
by Watchtower-Free inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxw_wxyviu .
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Half banana
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, which feeds cult paranoia like martyrdom.
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Bunker Video: Why No Concluding Scene?
by Wild_Thing ini was wondering why they ended the "bunker video" as they did ... with an armed militia finding the jws huddled in the corner of the basement ... fade to black.
the jws watching don't know what happened after that.
did they kill them?
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Half banana
Where do the tyrants go when their end is near? Why they go Into their bunker!
It looks to me like the gloomy story being portrayed for the true JW believers is actually a projection of the foreboding existing in the collective mind of the governing body.
They imagine, as they have hinted at before, that the secular authorities are on their tail and about to close in on them.
It all sounds so neurotic and unattractive that I hope those with a sense of enjoyment in life will quickly escape from this religion with its delusional propaganda and learn how to enjoy living in the real world of optimism, rational thinking and behave as decent free human beings.
Hitler committed suicide in his own fortified bunker in Berlin, Saddam Hussein also had a purpose built job but Muammar Gaddafi was found hiding in a drain with his trusty golden gun. Those who found him, shot him dead with it.
As for the black and bleak ending of the video...................
The governing body, having painted themselves into this doomsday corner are now descending into their spiritual bunker. They have no golden gun but instead a "silver sword."
Will reliance on their own peculiar interpretation of it; save them.............. or condemn them to extinction?
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Tales from the Special Convention in Helsinki
by internationalfader ini created a new account since i didn't want anybody to be able to trace this back to me based on my other posts.
i was an international delegate at the special convention in helsinki.
i am an awake pioneer.
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Half banana
International fader...an "awake pioneer"... what an interesting category!
Much enjoyed your report.
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Convention Weirdness
by BlackWolf inwell i just got back from 3 days in hell, and geez was this convention strange or what?
im sure someone's probably made a topic about this already but i can't believe that there weren't any new releases besides the movies.
has that ever happened before?
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Half banana
A doomsday cult just has to be turning up the pressure all the time. The bunker idea and total dependence on the leaders "whether it makes sense or not" seems to characterise the later stages in the life of such a cult.
In reality it is the cult itself and not "the system of things" which is doomed... and so at the end, like David Koresh at Waco, a siege mentality has to eventually be adopted as a final act of defiance to the world and as a demonstration to the faithful that their myth is coming true. It is an unsettling time for believers.
........................ get out while you still can!