Posts by Ucantnome

Since leaving the Watchtower I'm older but not much different. My kids are grown up and my dog is old and the cat is going for living forever. I still believe in God.

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Main reason JWs are JWs

by Batman89 in

what is the(or what was your) main motivation for serving god as a jw(or any christian)?.

a) love for god and genuinely trying to learn more about him and bible truths?.

b) to escape punishment/death at armegddon?.

i think it's not easy to say. when i was a witness at one point i felt the end/tribulation was just about here and i thought i can't change things now but i probably hadn't done enough to survive. (not that i did a whole lot more after) i wasn't on the school. i was a regular publisher. i did feel i done my 100%as little as it may have looked. i also felt being a witness was the right thing to do and now it seems the opposite.

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How many remember the 15 min break Between the Public Tlk and WT Study?

by Wasanelder Once in

as kid i remember a break of 15 minutes between the public talk and the wt study.

all the new ones and "weak" ones ran out to smoke.

loved to see the attendant round them up to come back in when the droning began again.

Ucantnome

As a kid it was so nice to go home after the talk. When my mother was ill i always drew the short straw and had to go to the hall with my father while my older brother stayed home and watched Stingray. He always claimed he had gone last week and i couldn't remember last week. I found the Watchtower so painfully dull i'm surprised i didn't hang myself in the toilet.

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How many remember the 15 min break Between the Public Tlk and WT Study?

by Wasanelder Once in

as kid i remember a break of 15 minutes between the public talk and the wt study.

all the new ones and "weak" ones ran out to smoke.

loved to see the attendant round them up to come back in when the droning began again.

Ucantnome

time to go out and get some Spangles or Bitter Lemons to suck in the Watchtower study

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What On Earth Makes The Watchtower Organization Think That Inactive Ones a Would Ever Want To Go Back To The Vomit?

by minimus in

jw
friends

do they actually believe that if they tell you that you are "missed", that you will desire to return to the sheepfold?

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Ucantnome

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"But the Basics haven't changed"

by Phizzy in

a couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".

overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.

the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.

Ucantnome

I think it depends what you call the basics. When i got baptized they taught 1914 end of gentile times. 144000 go to heaven. Armageddon soon. Go hall knock on doors. Wear tie keep trousers on.

basics.

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"But the Basics haven't changed"

by Phizzy in

a couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".

overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.

the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.

Ucantnome

oubliette i meant it hadn't changed since my baptism and i think they always viewed it as the end of the gentile times from 1877

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Question about the anointed selection process

by FL_Panthers in

there was a sister in my hall who consumed the emblems during our last memorial.

thing is, she is 27. the elders didn't stop her and no one was like wtf.

can someone be anointed at age 27?.

Ucantnome

i think it's bettter in your own home otherwise it to me it seems like an agreement with the witnesses.