would you express an opinion to that person studying with the witnesses or would you keep quiet?.
if you did say something, what would it be?.
'If You Heard An Acquaintance Was Considering A Study With JWs Would You Get Involved At All?'
Well Virginia, if the person was even half a friend to me or even just a casual acquaintance I would tell them just few choice ways the Jehovah’s Witness hierarchy desires and expects you relinquish control of your life to them; it may be that the person you refer to as an acquaintance has half a brain, and would greatly appreciate the heads up.
The very term “judicial committee” makes me sick! I can still hear them elders in the congregation I attended say to me, “brother we as a body of elders would like to meet with you after the meeting in the back room”, I asked them and what is this pertaining to, they simply said “we have a few matters to go over with you”. I told the one so called brother, “well until you can inform me what this little meeting is in reference to, then don’t expect me to just come walking into the library like Waltzing Matilda”. A few weeks went by, and I received a letter stating that my attitude was un-submissive and was destructive to peace of the congregation, so I sent them a letter back, with a copy of their letter they sent me and in a very flamboyant way I told them simply to Get Bent and go Pound Sand! This is the major reason I don’t go to meetings any longer, the spirit is too dam pushy.
in a number of different threads comments have been made about the motives of the gb and the wtbts.
it made me think, what is their ultimate goal?
what is their end game?.
'What is the ULTIMATE goal of the Watchtower Society? Well here it is here in a nut shell, they have either knowingly or unknowingly produced one of the most affective religious cults around, and their goal is to keep the door of those coming in flowing faster than those going out, and the GB will do anything to F*%k with people’s minds and hearts to keep them in. Lurkers, either wake up and smell the coffee, or take the red pill and drink the Kool Aid and jump in the GB body’s rabbit hole and enjoy the fall into the freek power trip.
is there any group that is not crazy(six screens) that puts up legitimate billboards or other advertising about jws.
any group that deserves donations for really fighting the fine fight?
i would donate if i knew they were really putting the money toward helping people get out of the borg..
It does not matter to me how much Simon makes by using adds, he us doing a great service to many people who have truly needed a place to vent the hurt and pain that this cult like the Borg has cursed so many with, good people who are made in the likeness of god.
this is my very first post to this forum.
i am begging for some much needed encouragment and support by those who are kind hearted and know exactly the pain shunning causes.
i am a 30 year old former jehovah's witness and a mother of two beautiful girls.
“Hello,
This is my very first post to this forum. I am begging for some much needed encouragement and support by those who are kind hearted and know exactly the PAIN shunning causes. First off, let me tell you a little about myself. I am a 30 year old former Jehovah's Witness and a mother of two beautiful girls…”
Glad to meet you, I was forty three when the elders “non-lovingly” kicked my Arse out of the “non-Christian” congregation. They did me a favor really, the disfellowshiping enabled me to come to grips with the fact that the so called (“Truth”) as dispensed by the Jehovah’s Witnesses could not be the truth as directed an all wise and loving creator who made everything wonderful in the universe; and provided his son to redeem and ransom us all from our condemnation of death from father Adam and mother Eve. I have learned so much since being freed from this god dishonoring cult. “The truth shall set you free”, in more ways than one.
for me it was many things.
most concerned certain teachings that invloved genders, children, sex, sexuality and sexual orientations, disfellowshipping, apostates, blood, rape, and few other things, as well as the jw's unloving attitude toward so many people..
I left because I learned that it is NOT the "Truth" from Gods word, any religious group that treats their members who have shown some transgression in an unloving way, while at the same time telling them and the other members it is loving, is not practicing the personality of god.
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often times, i read in the magazines that only among jehovahs people will you find true friendship.
When you grow up in it, you think you have true - authentic - sincere friends. But it is conditional – dependent – stipulatory – relative – friendship - subject; meaning: (One who is under the rule of another or others, especially one who owes allegiance to a government or ruler) apparently you have to remain active in the in the religion.
They're not really friends, they are acquaintances or persons whom you know casually or as you might say without preparation or forethought. (I like this point that you typed:) “We were all marketing reps for the WT publishing company.” (True.) (Like I told my dad one time while I was setting on the commode after he handed me a Watchtower magazine to read while I was setting there, I said ah dad, can’t you hand me the funnies or something that is less stressful, he became incensed at me and said "Son!, the GB has their finger on the pulse of the world"; I said oh please dad, they are nothing more than a magazine printing company much like Readers Digest he became irate but he tossed me the Readers Digest anyway.)
“HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD
IS ONE LORD.” Deuteronomy 6:4
i have just thought of a way to leave jehovah's witnesses using information from the new shepherd the flock of god book.
it's quite simply: rebaptism.
here are the steps:.
My goodness, they are a religion and that is all; they have lied in most case’s caused family divisions and manipulated others with fear, completely distorted most of a persons priorities with those of their way out veiws, this religion somehow got parents to feel it was more important to ostracize and segregate their children emotionally in school so they would not be “worldly” by not taking part in holidays of pursuing a higher education to benefit themselves. Don’t misunderstand me here, the very fact that your asking this question, should cause you and others to give pause” just how is it that a religion somehow makes us feel we owe them anything. Think about this, It is not like joining the armed services, where you would be AWOL if you just walked away. Religions are voluntary, if my recollection serves me right.
nearly a year ago my uncle was diagnosed with prostate cancer - he initially thought it was just a bladder infection and it took him passing out to go have more serious tests.
thus he received this news and shared it with us, his family.. the family rallied behind him and we all did everything we could to get him to his treatments, make sure he ate properly and supported him.
my cousins came out from the uk when it looked like he was going to die in a couple of days.
(Trust not in humans, trust in the one who made the everlasting sky, the earth and the things in it.)
After this night time of sorrow, with hungry hearts, all others will come forth from their graves ready to hear, seeking the full knowledge of the Lord. With Satan bound, they will have for the first time a reasonable opportunity to be brought to perfection and everlasting life. Jeremiah 31:34 says of that time, “...for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest.” Verse 29 also shows that, for the majority of mankind, the kingdom will provide the first full, fair opportunity for salvation through the knowledge of Christ. They will no longer die for the inherited sins of their fathers but, if they refuse God’s generous mercy during the reign of righteousness, they will then die for their own iniquity. (Jeremiah 31:29, 30) By the end of this powerful lesson, every reformed sinner will have the law of God written in his heart. Jeremiah 31:33
the most disengenuous aspect of "official" pronouncements from the society can be identified.. it is in the positioning of the speaker/writer as a passive onlooker commenting on exterior happenings.. this bystander mode is clever by half.. why?
it spoon feeds information without taking any active personal responsibility.. sort of an "oh gee, wow--look at all this going on" stance, while taking a stand-offish tone, is printed in the official magazines and books approved for publication by the governing body as mouthpiece of jehovah.. think about that.
it is insidious incitement without responsibility.. the person (likely fred franz) who crafted these bulletins had gone through several previous incidents of failure and disappointment and was well aware of the effect of any speculations upon jehovah's witnesses in the past.. this makes what was printed all the more calculated and irresponsible in the extreme.. let us parse the language printed by the watchtower society with careful attention to what is said and left unsaid.. w68 8/15 p. 494 why are you looking forward to 1975?.
