Ucantnome

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  This may be a crazy question, but it popped in my head and won't leave. . So I gotta ask. . .

  by Miss Worldly in

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  ok, this probably applies to most faith systems that believe in any sort of afterlife, but i would like to know what sort of explanation the jw's would come up with for this little problem, you know, after armageddon on earthly paradise.

  sorry if i sound dumb, but it's been nagging at me for a few weeks and have to ask.. so, what if a young married jw couple are living their life, waiting for the big a, knowing they will be together in the earthly paradise, then very sadly one of them dies.

  from what i know, if a jw dies, that's it.

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  Two things come to my mind. One. From the way I understood it the dead are not conscious of anything. To them time doesn't exist. So I conclude the resurrection would seem to be instant almost as if there was no break in time.

  So my friend who died in bed with his wife could wake up in the resurrection and find it felt like any other night but this morning was very different. Strangely, disappointingly, his marriage is over and his wife is remarried forever. He may feel a sense of betrayal, he may need a trained counsellor.

  Two. Before 1975 when I was young I remember having a fear of dying and the resurrection. With the end so so close coming back in a resurrection and living for eternity never being able to fall in love and marry was a horrible thought.
  
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  What steps did you take to free yourself from the cult? mentally or physically?

  by HereIgo in

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  first i ignored all of the elders phone calls to send my recommendation letter to my new congregation, truth is i had already started my fade and moved across town and didn't have a new congregation.

  i deleted all jw friends on facebook.

  i also threw away all of my public talks recorded on cd, all literature, even my book bag and my bible.

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  I wrote to the society and phoned the elders asking them to come round which they finally did 9 months after I wrote my letter. We had a discussion. I asked them If they wanted to disfellowship me they declined.
  
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  Ucantnome

  Although my father didn't live to see the Great Tribulation beginning although he baptised believing it had begun and he lies in the ground like his brother who wasn't a JW awaiting a hoped for resurrection I think he was happy being a Witness.

  He agreeded with the man who studied the books with him that it was the best way of life.

  He liked regularity. He was very regular. Always up at the same time and doing the same thing. He was regular in his meeting attendance and field service. He had two regular pioneer children. Being regular was important to him I think and being a JW offered him more regularity.
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  Ucantnome

  From any perspective

  
  Maybe from my parents perspective who accepted the 'truth' in the late 1950's. The evidence of the preaching work and the cry of here is the Bridegroom and the fulfilling of the ten virgins parable as part of the 'sign' with the growth of the organization and preaching work on a worldwide scale lead them to accept 1914 as the end of the Gentile times and in so doing accepting the calculation irrespective of whether it made sense from an historians viewpoint.
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
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  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  I think its estimated there are about 400 or so people alive over the age of 110.
  
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  The generation that saw 1914 have passed away. Gone. Dead

  Couple of weeks ago someone told me they have a person in their congregation of nearly 110
  
  
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  Favorite & LEAST favorite CO's? DO's?

  by HereIgo in

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  some were humble, but their were a few pompous asses who thought they were gods gift to the org and acted like they were ceo's of a fortune 500 company...

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  I cant think of one i didn't like. My father who was an elder wasn't keen on one or two. Maybe it was different if you were an elder.
  
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  Did leaving the "Org" ruin scary movies for you?

  by jeanniebeanzz in

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  many 'scary' movies base their 'jumps' on a belief in the supernatural, demons etc.

  since i have left that all behind, ther aren't many 'scary' movies that even make me uncomfortable let alone scared.

  lol.

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  I never watched horror movies when I was a witness. Since I have left I have seen a few. Most make me laugh. Some I found boring. One or two I've enjoyed and found reasonable scary.
  
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  What's The First "Worldly" Thing You Did When You Exited The Cult?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when you finally and officially exited the cult, whether it be by disfellowshipping, disassociating or fading - what was the first things you did that are considered "worldly"?.

  for me, it was like crash landing on another planet that looked like earth but was completely different to the earth i knew.

  i wanted to learn everything that i thought i already knew.. first things i did:.

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  I didn't do anything different. I went to see a careers advisor and he said I didn't need uni. I started a pension thankfully.
  
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  Did your congregation rehearse service meeting parts?

  by compound complex in

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  i was just thinking back to some parts i conducted.

  when other publishers were involved in the part, its success often depended on how well rehearsed the participants were.

  timing, proper interplay of dialogue, dramatic impact, etc.. as the one giving the part or as one drafted to do a demo, did your elders require rehearsals?.

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  Ucantnome

  in the early 70's we had a coordinator for the service meeting and anyone who had a part met at the hall after the book study on Tuesday to run through it. We went every week and we had a way to go not living in the congregation territory. I still had school the next day