another thing that has bothered me-.
if the righteous and the unrighteous will be resurrected, and will have the same chance at paradise as the hard-core dubs, what was the point of being hard core?
i know the point used to be "well, armageddon is gonna happen this weekend, and you'll survive and they won't!
If the righteous AND the unrighteous will be resurrected, and will have the same chance at paradise as the hard-core dubs, what was the point of being hard core?
The real problem was that the Watchtower had every teaching upside down. A person has to tear everything he learned from the WT and start over from scratch.
the local hall recently sold some property to the state for a road improvement project that is sorely needed.
they received about $20,000.
guess what?
Don't feel to bad, Wednesday morning I'm taking two elderly sisters to a law office so they can change their Wills. They are removing the Watchtower. I know they had willed their houses which value I estimate at about 100k each. What I didn't know was that one of them had kept a life insurance policy going- that was supposed to go to her children but they died before her. She kept paying it for "Kingdom Interest" or shall we just say it, "The Watchtower"
Now it's going to someone else, 300k
So that's a total of about half a million in property and cash the Watchtower will not get.
That just makes my week.
do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?
i wonder many times why me.
i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.
i've been fading for about 9 months.
the elders know exactly why.
i received a phone call a couple of days ago.
Wow!
at our recent rc i was advised by a sister who was an attendant that they have been advised not to be able to give brothers directions as this should be dealt with by the brothers.
apparently at the pre-convention attendants meeting, the sisters were asked to stay behind.
this was when they were given the news that the brothers should deal with brothers.
the embarrassing situation of a brother asking the sister for directions. The sister just looked at the brother and said 'I'm afraid i can't help you, you'll have to ask the brother who i'm attending with'.
That's just crazy, no other way to explain it. Poor people.
it seems that as ex jw's, we have a harder time with ttatt then other religions.
is that just because we claim to only use the bible unlike mormons?
is it because they like no other religion keep claiming to be jehovah's organization?
It’s hard because you were promised that you wouldn’t die.
You were promised that you would live forever in paradise earth.
It was explained perfectly why there was wickedness on the earth and why we grow old and die.
Then after many years and when your life is almost over, they pull the carpet under your feet and take away your family.
Other religions don’t do these things.
do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?
i wonder many times why me.
i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.
Driving Force
When I first became a witness I use to think, "Why do I have the privilege of knowing the truth", now I think, "Why do I have the privilege to know TTATT".
Oh shit, I went in a complete circle, and it took me nearly thirty years to do so.
It better not be a half circle, I don't think I can take any more awakings. Plus I don't have another 30 years.
do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?
i wonder many times why me.
i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.
john your avatar is Dexter?
Yea I liked Dexter. Serial killer BUT, only killed those who deserved it. True Justice. No beating around the bush. No judicial committees. No two witness rule. No waiting for Jehovah to take care of the matter. And he always got away with it. Like someone higher was watching over him so he could mete out justice.
do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?
i wonder many times why me.
i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.
. What I am seeing and reading in books like Diane Wilson's book, The Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness, actually is irritating to me. Why? If you read this book, you will see clearly that she remained in the organization for years. However, it is clear that her thinking processes were always in tact. She was never really asleep. Just complaining in her head why this and that were wrong.
Holy cow! I never heard of that. To remain for years despite knowing. Another curve ball!
do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?
i wonder many times why me.
i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.
Ucantnome
Was this a reference to 2 Peter
2 Peter 2:9,10 Jehovah knows how to deliver people of godly devotion out of trial, but to reserve unrighteous people for the day of judgment to be cut off, 10 especially, however, those who go on after flesh with the desire to defile [it] and who look down on lordship.
Yep, and it didn't work well for Lot either. The city of Zoar was spared probably thousands of those who go on after the flesh with the desire to defile it, but God executed Poor Lot's wife for just looking back. Which sin was worse, looking back or going after flesh to defile it?
The chances of surviving that destruction were better if you were a flesh defiling Zoarite rather than the Wife of Godly Lot.
