i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
Black Sheep,
My wife’s family were really good friends with a couple who sold their home prior to 75 and bought an RV to travel and preach the end.
The husband later became a CO, still living in the RV till just a few years ago when they finally just bought a house again.
Guess they finally gave up the idea that the end was near.😂🤣😂
the wt study for this week is all about disfellowshipping.
in an early paragraph it said "think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!".
however when you think about it, when this happened according to the wt teaching, jehovah still engaged with satan in the heavens (book of job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.. so why do the wt org practice shunning when jehovah god obviously didn't?.
My cousin has a friend who came out to his parents, got df’ed and then the parents kicked him out of the house.
That kind of trauma and abuse did a real number on this young man.
We met him at a Christmas gathering at my dads house and even years later you could see the pain of being rejected by his family.
Watchtower only looks at one side of the issue. They never consider what the evil shunning practice does to the individual receiving it.
i hope you are all doing well.. has anyone had an encounter with a unitarian universalist?
my wife has a friend who invited us to their church a few years ago.
we never went lol.
Haha that’s funny. I am also an introvert. I liked the church atmosphere as it helped with my social anxiety.
Thats been the catch-22 of leaving the cult. No more large gatherings on a weekly basis.
Not all bad.
I agree with many church goers being extroverted. Unless they are being forced 😂😂
i hope you are all doing well.. has anyone had an encounter with a unitarian universalist?
my wife has a friend who invited us to their church a few years ago.
we never went lol.
I was getting the impression that a lot of different religious people meet at those churches just as the website shows. Thank you for the confirmation.
I agree that having Sunday free to make yummy breakfast is probably way better than going to any church.
If anything, I personally liked having a community but that can easily turn cult-ish again.
i hope you are all doing well.. has anyone had an encounter with a unitarian universalist?
my wife has a friend who invited us to their church a few years ago.
we never went lol.
Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
Has anyone had an encounter with a Unitarian Universalist? My wife has a friend who invited us to their church a few years ago. We never went lol.
More recently on a YouTube video, a commenter mention this group again.
Going over their site, it seems kind of interesting, but as any site it’s hard to know what the real deal is.
They don’t seem to have many churches. The closest one to us is over a half hour away.
Anyone have experience with this group care to share any insights?
i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
For some people, it’s all they have and all they know.
I see my in-laws, diehard witnesses and have no family or friends on the outside.
For them, it’s all they have. They will never leave.
Do they believe it all? Who knows. The Jehovah’s Witness religion is really quite silly at this point. Other churches in our area are back to meeting in person yet they are still doing Zoom???
Can’t Jehovah save them? Won’t he bless them for meeting?
i hope you are all doing ok and healing from the cult.
i’m looking for an image of the old woman donating to watchtower but also in the same pic looking in her fridge and having little to eat.
i need it for a video for youtube.
Im so sorry about your brother. Being shunned on top of that has to be very hard, I can’t imagine.
I’m glad the videos are helping. They are a type of therapy for me personally. Last year was bad. The YouTube creators/viewers are very helpful.
I hope you can find some comfort and peace. This cult doesn’t make things easy on you.
i hope you are all doing ok and healing from the cult.
i’m looking for an image of the old woman donating to watchtower but also in the same pic looking in her fridge and having little to eat.
i need it for a video for youtube.
ToesUp: Hi!!! Thank you! Yes we have a good mix of poor to mid-class at our local halls so while it wasn’t easy, we were proud of what was saved.
Mr. Finkelstein: Yes we all agreed that the GB knew best. (Mother) They would use the money were it needed to be used most. It was fun telling the friends.
i hope you are all doing ok and healing from the cult.
i’m looking for an image of the old woman donating to watchtower but also in the same pic looking in her fridge and having little to eat.
i need it for a video for youtube.
Our congregation as well as three others were saving for a new double hall build for about a year and a half. Many brothers and sisters took out loans to get the ball rolling. We were told by the branch that if we hit around a million we could get building. Before we made it the heist happened and the Governing Buddies took all the money to infuse the LDC program.
Once that happened we had a rep and his wife come and tell us that the money was not needed because we could just reorganize. They said Florida needed halls and the money would be going there.
i hope you are all doing ok and healing from the cult.
i’m looking for an image of the old woman donating to watchtower but also in the same pic looking in her fridge and having little to eat.
i need it for a video for youtube.
😂😂 LongHairGal. The thread did kind of go on a tangent but an interesting one.
Either way again this picture was one of many key things that have to be a wake up call. This was also around the time of the ice cream debacle as well as the great money heist, when Watchtower up and took all the money from the halls working so hard to pay for new/ remodel jobs. Money that was not theirs to take.
They robbed the blind, mentally blind followers and we all shook our heads and said “ok”.
Such a crazy time in Watchtower land and also quite a decent exodus. A lot of people left after seeing them steal. We had $750,000 in the bank.
They told us Florida needed a Kingdom Hall more than us.
