Posts by Sea Breeze

When I was around 8-10 years old, I used to throw my body on the floor and beg my mother to speak normally to me. I hated JW-Speak as a child. She pretended to have no idea what I was talking about.

However, when (very rarely) she was around a non-jw cousin at a funeral or something she had no problem talking normally.

I think it's some sort of Satanic spell they are under. (for real)

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Nobody else understands

by ElderBerry in

if you once were fully pimi and truly believed jw doctrine to the core like i once did, when you come to the reality that it is not the truth at all it can be extremely devastating.. i think only other ex jws could ever understand.

i wasted my entire life i thought the real life was yet to come to wasted the best years knocking on doors.

now i’m so angry.. i can understand why so many top themselves when they realise it was all lies..

Sea Breeze

I think only other ex JWs could ever understand.

I used to occasionally try to explain the JW experiece to others. They all got a glazed look on their face and some were honest enough to tell me that what I was saying was beyond anything they had ever experienced and simply could not in any way relate. They were polite about it. They just wanted me to know that I might was well be discussing the effect of quantum fluctuations on Schroeder's Cat.

In February I will have been married 20 years to someone with no connection to JW's. I relied on her over the years to try and understand what is normal in raising our two sons. My wife is about as close I will ever get to someone understanding the JW experience, but there is only so much she can take. There is a point where she will not look at the darkness, and shuts it down for her own protection.

She basically describes how JW's raise their kids as criminal. It is useful to understand that normal people do not want to understand criminals.

It is not plausible to expect that anyone would even want to do a deep dive into WT insanities. This includes counselors who use behavior modificatioin models. You would have to find a masters level psychologists or psychitrist.

You will likely spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what happened to you. But, you can still do everything you need to do in this life.

In the movie "A Beautiful Mind", the man living with sczophrenia learned to simply live with his imagined friends. He got to the point where he could realize they weren't true, although they were always with him.

Once he embraced truth regardless of what his senses told him, he was able to function much better.

I prefer to think of XJW's as people with beautiful minds. Seek truth and you will be fine.

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A New Name for an Old Orgy - Awake 95 2/8 pp. 26-27

by Sea Breeze in

yep, that is the title of an article in the 1995 awake magazine alerting people to the horrors of valentine's cards & candy.

the message is simple, if you eat valentine's candy at school while no one is looking, it's nearly the same as being in an orgy.

i just can't believe some of the garbage i used to read and regard as acceptable literature.

Sea Breeze

Yep, that is the title of an article in the 1995 Awake magazine alerting people to the horrors of Valentine's cards & candy. The message is simple, if you eat Valentine's candy at school while no one is looking, it's nearly the same as being in an orgy.

I just can't believe some of the garbage I used to read and regard as acceptable literature. I been out for 28 years. Orgy? They are nuts.

Valentine was a pastor of a congregation in Rome who secretly married soldiers against the wishes of a Roman emperor who overstepped his bounds. He was martyred for honoring marriage and not allowing the State to take it away. I know that people say he was Roman Catholic, but 269AD was long before anything resembling the Roman Catholic Church emerged.

The WT hates early Christians and what they stood for. In reality, the WT is a new name for an old scam.

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No Reporting of Time, Tithing is OK, Now WT Teaches a "Rapture" - What's Next?

by Sea Breeze in

those who will be taken to heaven will first need to be “changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.” therefore, while we do not use the term “rapture” here because of its wrong connotation, the remaining faithful anointed will be gathered together in an instant of time.

- the watchtower—study edition | july 2015. ok so they refuse to use the word "rapture".

kinda like they refuse to use the word church and clergy (except when it suits their purposes in court cases).

Sea Breeze

Exactly!

"Only after persistent explaining by the teacher that it was not Thanksgiving Day nor a real Thanksgiving dinner, and after a phone call to Carol, did Rick’s conscience allow him to eat that meal"

A first grader had an existential conscience crisis? Give me a break. What a load of crap. That kid had to be reassured that he would not end up as bird food if he ate it. There was no conscience in any part of that, it was all manipulation and fear porn instilled in a poor child who happened to be born in the wrong family.

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No Reporting of Time, Tithing is OK, Now WT Teaches a "Rapture" - What's Next?

by Sea Breeze in

those who will be taken to heaven will first need to be “changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.” therefore, while we do not use the term “rapture” here because of its wrong connotation, the remaining faithful anointed will be gathered together in an instant of time.

- the watchtower—study edition | july 2015. ok so they refuse to use the word "rapture".

kinda like they refuse to use the word church and clergy (except when it suits their purposes in court cases).

Sea Breeze

Mainstream (and early Christian) details about the Rapture can be found here. It is a FOUNDATIONAL Christian belief. Scripture calls that event a Christian's "blessed hope". It is what every saved person since Able is looking forward to. The Rapture officially ends the "Church Age" which is NOT the final age of God's affairs with men. Christianity is parenthetical, a slight detour that made possible the Salvation of everyone on earth that recieves Christ.

But BTTT, I was thinking that after the Jihad on the pinata is abandoned, maybe Thanksgiving could be next. Maybe soon stories like this will be just relics of bygone days:

w85 4/1 pp. 22-23 Serving God as a Family

"Then there was the occasion when a turkey dinner was served in the school cafeteria just before Thanksgiving vacation. Rick, who was in the first grade at the time, refused to eat it. Only after persistent explaining by the teacher that it was not Thanksgiving Day nor a real Thanksgiving dinner, and after a phone call to Carol, did Rick’s conscience allow him to eat that meal."

What kind of Christian group prohibits giving thanks to God? The WT DEMANDS that their members make freaks out of their children.

Thanksgiving might make a nice second step after the pinata.

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Did Christ PASS or FAIL the org? 😁

by BoogerMan in

inspection year: 1918 result: failed inspection.

inspection year: 1918 result: passed inspection.

Sea Breeze

Wow! Good work Boogerman in getting that out there. Here's a Klenex.

You would think that the demons manning the Watchtower could at least get their story straight! Wait till Beelzebub hears about this. There will be hell to pay.

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No Reporting of Time, Tithing is OK, Now WT Teaches a "Rapture" - What's Next?

by Sea Breeze in

those who will be taken to heaven will first need to be “changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.” therefore, while we do not use the term “rapture” here because of its wrong connotation, the remaining faithful anointed will be gathered together in an instant of time.

- the watchtower—study edition | july 2015. ok so they refuse to use the word "rapture".

kinda like they refuse to use the word church and clergy (except when it suits their purposes in court cases).

Sea Breeze

The "rapture" wording has been in the literature for years. I think at least since 1995 and the generation change.

I never went to another meeting after that Nov. issue of the '95 Watchrtower that changed the generation doctrine. So, maybe you are right. I thought the idea was that the Annointed would just grow old and die even in the New System.

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Article: Face of Co Kerry woman jailed for grooming and having sex with teenage boy

by Tahoe in

this is the first image of the convicted child groomer who confessed to her jehovah’s witness congregation that she groomed a boy from the age of 14 before having sex with him two years later.. .

perverted pamela lonergan, who went on to work in childcare settings and as a carer in the community, admitted four counts of defilement of a child under the age of 17.. the offences occurred at locations in kerry and cork in 2008 and 2009.. appearing before cork circuit court earlier this month, lonergan of treanmanagh, glenbeigh, co kerry, received a one year jail sentence for the offences.. speaking afterwards, one local said the community had been stunned to learn of lonergan’s abuse.. he said another neighbour had met lonergan on the road the week before the trial and she had told him she was moving up to cork for a while.. “ obviously she thought her name wasn’t going to be disclosed in the media,” he said.. “if the victim hadn’t waived his anonymity to allow this happen, she’ have come back here when she got out and we’d have been none the wiser.”.

cork circuit criminal court heard lonergan was 26 when she first started initiating contact with the minor, having met him in a social setting.

Sea Breeze

You are a sick man Stan. No wonder you used to be an elder.