Posts by LovesDubs

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Why hasn't there ever been or ever be a mass exodus from the WTS?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the wts have a history of false prophecies, including teachings that armageddon and the end of the world would occur in 1914, 1918, 1925, and 1975. .

most of us didn't see that the true point of authority was not the bible, but the watchtower magazine, awake magazine,ministry school and the ever-changing views of the governing body.

the word of god in the bible does not change and a prophecy that does not come true is not of god's doing.

LovesDubs

I agree that it is hemmorhaging. Sloow leaking of attendance, field service, baptisms, donations, bible studies, and...loyalty. I believe that based on what we see on sites like this one, that there are far more GONE from the organization than the numbers allude to as folks on here are neither in nor out but because they arent officially out they are still counted as IN. See? They can say all day and into the night how many people attended the Memorial...that number, as in the past...is indicative of NOTHING. People are tired of getting their hopes up and being let down year after year decade after decade and constantly being told to "keep up the fine fight...continue the race to the end! The END is coming! The end of the SYSTEM is near! Jehovah is biding his time and will bring an end SOON to the wickedness..." blah blah blah.

Im not a guy but I have to liken this to the Organization being a huge PT....lead them on...get them excited and in expectation...then walk out the door leaving an aching and devastated following behind, only to come on back and start the whole teasing process again...and again...and again.

Yep...it's leaking out of all its orifices, like a ripped pool liner or a crack in a tub.

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Hyperventilating here - please hold my cyber hand

by Dagney in

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i am filling out my first voter registration application.

i''ll be fine.

but i feel like i need a drink.

LovesDubs

Im in Florida and EVEN NOW our voting machines are f----ed up down here. Im terrified it will be a rerun of 2000 :*( I just dont get that. We had an election here last month and the ballots had to be recounted SEVERAL times and they STILL dont match the number of people who voted and every time they count they come up with different results!

And this is a KEY state here. I will just die if it happens again.

Flippin out in Flori-DUH

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Hyperventilating here - please hold my cyber hand

by Dagney in

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i am filling out my first voter registration application.

i''ll be fine.

but i feel like i need a drink.

LovesDubs

I just signed up too a couple weeks ago...last time I voted was for NIXON!!! and we all know how well THAT turned out LOL!

Cant WAIT!!

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

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Little Joseph needs our prayers,please read this....

by justhuman in

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a tragic event happened to 2 year old joseph.

the house was on fire and he was in his bedroom.

2 firemen risk their lifes, entered to the flaming house and resqued little joseph.

LovesDubs

how horrible!! bless those firemen too!

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Daryl Tucker commits suicide.

by dogon in

i do not know if anyone knew daryl tucker of vanderbuilt, congergation in michigan.

i just got word that his wife of 28 years left him and he shot himself.

even though he was a witness he was one of the good ones.

LovesDubs

I am so sorry for your loss...and the needless loss of a life. And the JWs say WE dont have any HOPE??

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Three unique things...

by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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i like this topic!

1. i went to an amusement park with friends when i was 17, when getting ready to go on the bumper boats the attendant told me to not step on the rubber part... listening wasn't my strong suite so i stepped on the rubber part and fell in much to the amusement of everyone there.

2. for my 18th birthday my friends took me to see male strippers, my friend held money over my head and when the guy came to collect i refused to put it in his g-string and he called me a prude.

LovesDubs

I met and had a conversation and my picture taken with Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay...the plane that dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. He autographed his book and a picture for me....I just thought that was the coolest thing ever.

I saw Elvis twice in concert. Once in Milwakee when he was still thin and once at Notre Dame when he was fat, puffing and couldnt remember the words to his songs any more.

I gave birth to my three fabulous kids and I know nobody else did that LOL!

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Things That Irritated You When You Were A JW

by minimus in

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there were some witnesses that loved taking notes for every meeting.

whatever you would say, the note takers were busy as a bee writing down every word.

especially if you went out of town to give a talk, certain ones (only sisters) would take their note taking very very seriously.. another thing that used to get to me was when you'd see the same people every assembly on the platform giving a talk or being in a part.

LovesDubs

Prejudice. God almighty they claimed all friggin day they saw no color and the white elders in my congregation totally WALKED ALL OVER the opinions of the black elders. There was no mistaking it the black families in our congregation WERE treated differently! And the result was they all sat together on one side of the hall as if circling the wagons. And the head of one family, who was an elder, was moving away with his family and in his final talk he DID point fingers at their ignorance and their actions without mentioning names. We ALL knew to whom he was referring. And he proudly gave his talk with his always present little bottle of Hot Sauce in his hankerchief pocket :)

I hated that the Elders Wives were a clique and that the OLD elders wives treated the NEW elders wives like they were lower life forms.

I hated the whole GRADING system for giving talks and the TIMING the damn talks and embarrassing people like they were little kids in grade school.

I hated witnesses who counted time from the moment they got TO the hall the the moment they got BACK to the hall including all breaks, all traveling, all the time just sitting in the car waiting for another group to finish a street...and pioneers who started their time at the hall by calling the study they were going to to tell them they were on the way....a study they had EVERY Wed morning for 3 years!

I hated the fakeness everyone put on when the CO was in town. I hated the way the School Overseer would do the School and be overly zealous "grading" people after their talks. It was impossible to give a G talk when he was in town.

I hated going door to door HATED it. Volunteers my ass.

I hated it when people dressed their NEWBORNS in SUITS and bought them little baby BOOK BAGS and gave them their own copies of the WATCHTOWER and paraded them around like this made the whole family even MORE spiritual. Child abuse much???

I hated that the children didnt have bible study and a "sunday school" if you will to teach them at their own level and that they were FORCED to sit with NOTHING to occupy them...for 5 hours a week of adult discussion. And being punished when they DIDNT sit still. Made me sick.

Oh man...I could go on and on and on but I might throw up in my mouth soon.

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Is the GT/Armageddon coming tonight?

by Hikaru in

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yeah it's me again... watching the news then reading peoples posts here and other sites... i've become completely freaked once again.

i can't even sleep tonight.. i'm so worried.... what have people been saying?

do the higher ups think?

LovesDubs

How about as a Christian, praying for God to intervene and open up hearts instead of destroying everything? I mean...isnt that what he did with Jonah and Ninevah? or isnt God a forgiving God after all? Is only 2000 years since his Son came and "saved" us enough time when a 1000 years is like a day to God?

He gives us the equivalent of two DAYS to get our act together here or He is gonna destroy the earth? Think about it.

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Is the GT/Armageddon coming tonight?

by Hikaru in

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yeah it's me again... watching the news then reading peoples posts here and other sites... i've become completely freaked once again.

i can't even sleep tonight.. i'm so worried.... what have people been saying?

do the higher ups think?

LovesDubs

Hersheys is changing the ingredients in their chocolate....that HAS to be a sign the end is coming!

Honey if you WANT to see bad news you will. If you WANT "signs" the end is near...you will find them. Its like seeing a face in things...you give me ANYTHING and I can find a face on it.

You see and interpret whatever you are wanting to see and interpret. Do you actually think with the global economy the way it is that anybody is looking to destroy religion as a cause or a result of that? And how exactly does one go about banning a religion?

We cant stop the JWs can we? And they cant stop the Catholics can they?

Aint happenin....relax

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The End is Here....The JWs gleefully watch the economy crash!

by LovesDubs in

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dont these idiots know yet that when it goes it takes them too?

have they not learned from the depression?

or either world war?

LovesDubs

I am MARRIED to a JW. I get pretty damn tired of hearing how every damn thing in the news means THE END IS NEEEEEAAAARRRRRR echo echo echo. Its old...its annoying as hell and its a lie. This from the same man who took down the six panel doors in our house and replaced them because the six panels "have a cross on them"?????? psycho much?

So gleeful? Um...not hardly.