The teaching that all non witness were going to die
lostinthought
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What Made You Question "The Truth"?
by minimus inin the the early 1970's, i used to enjoy going to assemblies, conventions and hear special talks given by bethel heavies.. in those days, we were believers and we applied ourselves as "ministers" with pride.. once the "end" was obviously not within our "generation", many of us started losing interest.. we started to think more critically.
it took a long time but once you start recognizing the bullsh*t, it's hard to stay in and truly believe at the same time.. .
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lostinthought
So...I got a ticket, I'll be sure go take good notes
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lostinthought
I confirm, it is this sat, I won't be going but I know lots of others that will
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Young People Ask DVD highlights
by DATA-DOG ini got a real chuckle out of a few lines from this video.
this was my favorite.
" jehovah doesn't care about " hours ", he cares about you doing your best!".
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lostinthought
I saw this video once when it first came out, before the meeting last night I looked at the km just to see what was on the agenda, the questions regarding the video tuned my stomach...to much anti higher Ed and the dedicating your life to "Jehovah". It was enough for me to boycott the meeting, instead I styed home drank wine and watched reality tv...
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Full time ministry Joy--or Lack Thereof
by WTWizard ini can remember all the while i was in the cancer that they would trump up the value of pious-sneering.
one of those was the "joy" of serving jehovah full time.
they would always have these fantastic stories about how they had obstacles that they foolhardily disregarded, or that they got all these people into the cancer.. this is full of rubbish.
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lostinthought
Recovery, I'm just going to repeate what others have already told you: you are disobeying Jehovah by posting here, and there are some serious consequences for disobeying Jehovah...
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Full time ministry Joy--or Lack Thereof
by WTWizard ini can remember all the while i was in the cancer that they would trump up the value of pious-sneering.
one of those was the "joy" of serving jehovah full time.
they would always have these fantastic stories about how they had obstacles that they foolhardily disregarded, or that they got all these people into the cancer.. this is full of rubbish.
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lostinthought
I was a pretty smart kid, after high school when most of the good jws I grew up with were in the full time ministry I choose to go to college, I never wanted to pioneer even though my siblings were and we had like 30 of them in the cong. After my first year of college I fell into the jw peer pressure and joined the full time ministry while still being a full time student. Since there were so many pioneers I could easily hide and fib on my time sheet. I hated pioneer school and was looking forward to when I was to stop the full time ministry. But then my sister wanted to help a smaller cong and I followed suit and stayed on the list, although I remember one pioneer meeting with the co and he was gushing about this being the best career and I was thinking really, then why am I miserable? The older I got the less I fibbed on the time sheet and I was actually spending the time out in service. I had some good friends pioneering, but I did really suck at it. I hated making rvs I felt like I was bothering the people but the only requirement for pioneering is putting in the hours and I did all through college, grad school and then working full time. I did not love pioneering but it just became routine, even after waking up to the "truth" I continued to pioneer for a little bit, it wasn't until they told me that I had the "privilege" of going to pioneer school again that I knew I couldn't do this anymore, I was completely lieing to myself. So I came off the list and since then I've had a spence of calm and less episodes with anxiety and depression. My sister thinks I'm crazy for coming off and asks regularrly when I plan on going back on the list. She's really going to think I'm insane when one day, I leave this religion...
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At what age do people 'wake up'?
by Splash ini was thinking about this question recently after being at the meeting when new pioneers were announced for the 2013 service year.. we have a dozen or so pioneers in the congregation, and most are in their 20's.
some absolutely love the things they are taught and can't wait to spread the good news.. others in the congregation are going through the motions, tired of hearing the same old same old but have no way to change things now.
then there are a couple like me.
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lostinthought
I was always a little embarrassed about the religion, outside of service, I never really told people I was a jw unless they blatantly asked what religion. I was. Yet I still believed it all. I pioneered starting at 19 and when. Was in my 20s I threw myself into the religion reading new all publications and magazines ect. And continued pioneering. When I turned 30 I realized what I wanted in life, just to live "normally" I want a family and to raise my children with an open mind not stomping out thir dreams and aspirations with dumb wt goals. I also started paying attention to non witnesses realizing that there are so good people in the world that a not witnesses. I also made a new very best friend who's not a witness and I can't imagine my life without him. So I dumped the pioneering and I've generally been happy lately. But I'm still in, I'm not taking the religion do seriously and maybe one day I'll get the guts to leave.
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It's all about me.
by smmcroberts inbut it's mercifully brief.. actually, "teeny" sent me.
but i eagerly began posting here without first re-introducing myself.
i realize that could be considered slightly rude.
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lostinthought
Wow, just a few days ago I was on amazon looking for something to read and I found your book! I'm still reading the beginning of the novel but it's good so far.
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Demos at convention
by lostinthought inso i have made it through two days of the district convention, i half heartily payed attention during it (whoever evented smart phones is a genius!
) anyway i noticed the parts were pretty dummed down this year, especially the demos...and there were a lot of them they all were very unrealistic and over dramatized.
even the speakers parts were pretty dumb and scripted.
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lostinthought
So I have made it through two days of the district convention, i half heartily payed attention during it (whoever evented smart phones is a genius!) anyway I noticed the parts were pretty dummed down this year, especially the demos...and there were a lot of them they all were very unrealistic and over dramatized. Even the speakers parts were pretty dumb and scripted. Have the conventions always been like this or am I just now noticing because I have awoken?
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"Worldlies"
by Ding inwhen you left the wts, how long did it take you to realize that most of the people around you are decent folks, not "worldlies" or "bad association"?.
how hard was it for you to accept this reality?.
it seems to me that even after realizing ttatt, it often takes a long time to realize the extent to which the organization's indoctrination still governs attitudes and thoughts....
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lostinthought
Realizing that a lot of non witnesses were good hearted, god fearing people too was one of the reasons why I came to realize that what jws taught was bogus.