Posts by Mum

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If this is true then expect the GB to get even crazier!!!!

by DATA-DOG in

https://www.anointedjw.org/memorial_experiences_2013.html .

Mum

The wine always flows freely in Nevada! So does the scotch, bourbon, gin, cognac, vodka, etc.

Gambling, booze and whores - that's Nevada.

When we have a memorial out here, it's a success!

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How many ways....

by Lady Lee in

... can you name that the wts hurts people?.

two big ones for me:.

it pushes people to the edge and when they commit suicide they say: "well he wasn't really a jw anyways soit has nothing to do with us".. it pushes people so much to do more and more and more that they get depressed, and physically sick.

Mum

It induces paranoia and fear. One is afraid to do something normal, such as seeing a movie or being seen in a social situation with a "worldly person." Spies are everywhere, and ready to report you.

It destroys your authenticity. The way you dress, what you eat, your level of education, your personality, and every other everyday matter become everybody else's business. If you're an introvert, you'd like to just run away and hide someplace. Even being an introvert is "wrong." I remember an article in one of the publications instructing JW's to be "happy, loving extroverts." I am an introvert and I can be just as happy and loving as anyone else, and it's none of their *%^@ business if I like to spend a lot of time alone, reading and relaxing.

That's enough for now. I have to watch my blood pressure.

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They gotta be kidding!

by Bella15 in

okay... soooooooooo... after 23 years my hardcore jw sister admits her 23 years old daughter may be the product of an adulterous relationship with another jw brother and is doing dna testing ... when this issue came up 23 years ago, she dismissed it as a rumor/gossip from her non-jw husband's family which happened to be source that told my brother in law about my sister's infidelity ... the reputation of this poor non-jws was just blasted to the floor as just another sign of how wicked wordly people are .... this happened in another country, so now she told the elders in her congo here in usa about this so now the only "privilege" she will have is to go door to door preaching ... i was like what ... this hypocrite has been going door to door all of this time pretending she is better than billions of human beings all the while knowing what she has done in the past ... she has played the martyr for sooooo long and she is allow to continue "going door to door" ... for me it is like they only care about bringing money/donations ... for me she should be allow to participate in the meetings and do whatever inside their kh and cult but avoid going to the public pretending she is better than the rest of human kind that will be destroyed in armageddon ... wow!.

i am sure she is not repentant, she is either going after some money - really - or now that she is divorced is trying to connect with this man again somehow ... i already made bets with my other non-jw sister ... lol ... we think she is going for both ... lol.

Mum

Your family sounds even more twisted than mine! I'm sorry you're in the middle of all this trauma/drama. I really feel sad for the children.

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Why Is Stealing From Local Municipalities Not A Sin To JWs? Construction For Example?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

when i begin to think about jehovah's witnesses and stealing from cesar my mind begin's to spin.

last year while walking through a very popular elder's house he showed me how he had doubled the house from the original blue print plans.. .

the inspectors of the county are incompetent or received a bribe, how can you add 1500 sq ft without the building inspector catching the error?

Mum

JW's are masters of self-deception. This is just one more example. I remember a brother saying, 'way back when I was a JW in the '70's that honesty went so far as to require us to correct anyone if they said something that was wrong. More doublethink, doublespeak.

I used to work in a municipal Community Development / Building Department. The county regularly took aerial photos and could determine when someone had put on an addition without a permit. The city or town where your JW associate lives must be behind the times or apathetic.

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A very simple trick for helping JWs - be nice to them on YouTube!

by cedars in

jw
friends

recently i had someone contact me on facebook, thanking me for helping her awaken from indoctrination.. i am always interested in finding out the mechanisms behind people "awakening," so i asked her what i had done to make a difference.

it turned out i had left a complimentary remark on one of her youtube videos (she was singing a kingdom song) and she learned ttatt after clicking on my name and seeing the so-called apostate videos on my channel.. i don't think it was any of my own videos she ended up watching - from what she described it sounded like someone else's video that i had "liked.

" nonetheless, it was enough for her to become inquisitive and start exploring, and before she knew it she was free from mind control.. the moral of the story?

Mum

I remember many of the "worldly" people who were nice to me when I was going door to door. It's never a waste of time to say a kind word. Many people are starving for kindness.

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baptize sister hope to meet a brother

by prinses1920 in

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Mum

Your native language is not English, right? I would not recommend a JW husband to anyone, even another JW. Are you prepared to be the least important person in his life, to meet many demands, to be criticized if you reach out to help someone, to live on practically nothing, to be told you're materialistic if you want something new (unless he initiates the purchase), to be ordered to buy a particular brand of bread even if you don't like it, etc., etc., etc. I could go on forever.

The person you marry, especially if you're a JW female, has the potential to create a lot of misery in your life. Be careful. Please.

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When You Learned TTATT, the truth about the truth(tm) How Did It Make You Feel?

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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i felt stunned.

i felt betrayed.. just lois.

Mum

Happy and freeeee! I figured it out at a JC. They were such a**holes that I didn't want anything to do with a god who would choose them.

I had my family back, didn't have to worry about my non-JW family surviving Armageddon, could go back to school and do whatever I liked! I was worried that my daughter might grow up and want to be a JW, but that didn't happen either (the JW part, not the growing up part ). I am so lucky!

I went to an ex-JW friend's place of employment, and we rejoiced together. She said, "They're lost and 'way downstream." That says it.

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in regards to AAWA

by johnamos in

oh how i wish i could just write out something that would cause you all to know and understand that what i say is true.

or i wish i could tell yall that i am going to do something like cause an earthquake (with jehovahs spirit backing me) at a certain place and time, then after i posted such info then it occurred just as i said...then maybe you would listen and believe what i say.. .

and even more so, your lack of knowledge and belief in jehovah and in his word the bible.

Mum

We've all tried the Watchtower way, johnamos. It did not work for us. Here is what I hope the AAWA will accomplish:

1. No more dead babies, children or adults because of refusing a blood transfusion.

2. More public awareness of the consequesnces (e.g., shunning, child abuse, spouse abuse, death from lack of medical treatment, etc.) of getting involved with the Watchtower organization.

3. No more families full of tension, not speaking to one another.

4. No more child molestation, and prompt reporting to authorities if there is child molestation.

5. No more torture of innocent children because they cannot sit quietly for two hours. Kids need activity, not strapping down.

6. Public awareness of false "doom and gloom" hogwash. The world is a better place now than in the past.

7. Jehovah's witnesses' having the same freedom to think for themselves and getting an education as everyone else.

I'm sure there's much more.

Learn something about history. If wickedness were to bring on Armageddon, it would have happened long ago.

Best wishes in your journey to greater awareness.

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shunning and jw funerals

by man in black in

when a jw from your area dies, do you attend the visitation or funeral ?.

since i have da'ed myself, several people that i have known for years have died, and i have attended both the visitation, and or funeral.. but everytime, i have been treated like i don't even exist.

just trying to follow normal human emotions, by attending and showing my feelings to the surviving family has been alot like running into a brick wall.

Mum

My mom became a JW after I had been an apostate for years! When my grandmother died, a lot of JW's came to the wake.. I knew most of the congregation where she lived, but had never been a member of that congregation. There were no other JW's in our family (thanks be to God!), and there are none of my sisters' friends or my friends who are JW's. My grandmother's funeral was at the funeral home, not a church, so some of the JW's attended.

One of the "sisters" I knew back in the day (I've been out since 1979) came up to my mom and my sister and spoke to her but ignored me. When we got into the car, I remarked that the "sister's" heart was so full of Jesus she couldn't speak. My niece laughed, and my mom got an annoyed expression on her face.

Later on, this "sister" and her husband stopped by my mom's house, and they actually spoke to me! Maybe my mom persuaded them to do it for the sake of the non-JW family members present at her house at the time.

I never cease to be amazed at how few JW's shun me. I am always polite, and I was a real gung-ho JW when I was on the inside. I don't know if any of this has anything to do with it.

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Do you appreciate our spiritual heritage?

by never a jw in

that is the title of the second study of the feb. 15, 2013 magazine (page 8).

to the left of the title a picture appears showing three people holding very old watchtower magazines from the early 1900's.

i have been studying jw's history and doctrines for less than a year and i already have far more knowledge than most c.o.

Mum

JW's don't have a spiritual heritage. The Society is making an attempt to make them feel they do because they're a young, upstart organization. They contend that they started with C.T. Russell, but the facts say otherwise. When Rutherford took over, he instituted the Roman hierarchical model and discarded the congregational model started by Russell.

I don't think the dubs really want the rank and file to have a clear view of their own history because of the nonsense of flip-flops, hate, negativity, medical quackery, false prophecy and other issues. Old publications are destroyed, but some have survived, probably to the great chagrin of the GB.

At this time I have no JW family members (praise the Lord!). I was the first in 1963, then my cousin about 1968. After I exited the borg, my dad, my mom and my niece became dubs. Amazingly, none of my family ever shunned me. My parents died. Just a couple of years ago, my niece went "apostate." A few years ago, my niece and I were discussing 1975. She told me (mind, she was born in 1977) that the 1975 frenzy was because of individual witnesses' getting themselves worked up. I told her I was there, and I knew better. Her mom, my sister, agreed with me, because my sister was not a JW, but she was studying at that time.

If the GB wants to reveal more of its history to the r&f, it had better be prepared to tell them what to think about it, too. There could be a mass exodus into apostasy either way.