Posts by John Aquila

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I never realized how boring I was.

by John Aquila in

as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

thats what happened this morning.

i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

John Aquila

Sabin
Bastards!

Yea I feel like saying that too.

Bastards!

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I never realized how boring I was.

by John Aquila in

as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

thats what happened this morning.

i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

John Aquila

LisaRose
I knew a person that was proud of the fact that the only thing they ever read was the Watchtower and Awake. I could not relate to that as I am a lifelong reader and interested in many things,

Yea, I understand, I'm at that point now where I read anything I can get my hands on. On the other side of the spectrum, I can't stand to read even one sentence of WT publications. They disgust me.

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I never realized how boring I was.

by John Aquila in

as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

thats what happened this morning.

i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

John Aquila

Sabin
For others it`s self-righteousnes

I believe that describes a lot of people in the WT organization. Most just can't see it though, and the ones that finally do and can't take it anymore, are posting on this site-LOL!

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I never realized how boring I was.

by John Aquila in

as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

thats what happened this morning.

i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

Thanks for that, it really helps and I'll tell you why. When my wife finally decided that she had to end the marriage because I was a danger to her spirituality, I tried to reason with her that I was not a danger. In fact I tried to help her see that everything I did was to help our family now and into the future. I remember telling her;

"What man is willing to go back to school for 10 years and get a degree while working full time, so he can better his family?"

I still remember her reply.

"Any Stupid Dog can be trained to sit and lie down, but that doesn't make him smart or interesting"

On top of that, all her JW friends view me as a stupid man and her as exceptionally wise because she is still regular pioneering and I became inactive.

I keep having these dreams that one day everyone will see what I finally discovered----TTATT.

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I never realized how boring I was.

by John Aquila in

as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

thats what happened this morning.

i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

John Aquila

Sabin
it is quite a shock when you listen to them & it`s the only thing they can talk about. Why is that do you suppose?

It's because those poor souls eat, drink, work, play, sleep Watchtower doctrine.

When a person finally leaves the WT and starts assimilating with the rest of the world of humankind, you feel like someone who has been living in some hidden jungle with a small group of people who always believed and taught that the rest of the world was demonic. It takes awhile to get rid of the fear and let people into your life.

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I never realized how boring I was.

by John Aquila in

as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

thats what happened this morning.

i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

John Aquila

As a true believer in the Watchtower, I never knew how truly boring I was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of JWs and having a conversation.

That’s what happened this morning. I decided to go have breakfast at McDonalds and a group of JWs who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

I was kind of excited, because I wanted to share some of the things I’ve been musing about.

I felt like talking about what I have been learning, but then I realized that what was on my mind was something they would not comprehend. I wanted to ask them what they thought about the new species that was found recently and what they thought?

But alas, I knew their response would be; “It’s a hoax, man has only been here 6,000 years”

I wanted to ask about their opinion on the; “EU Refugee Crisis”

But alas, I knew their response would be; “Jehovah will take care of that soon, if all those people don’t change anyway, they will be destroyed, problem solved.”

I wanted to ask what they thought about how long dinosaurs were here on the earth and how they disappeared.

But alas, I knew their response would be; “Dinosaurs –ski-e-saurs, that’s not what’s important, The Kingdom is what’s important, and it’s just around the corner.”

On the personal side I wanted to ask, “What do you think are some important outstanding qualities a woman can have these days?

But alas, I knew their response would be, “She should be pioneering”

I wanted to ask, “What would be a good career for young people to enter these days?”

But alas, I knew their response would be; “Forget careers, we are so close to the End.”

I wanted to share my experience of learning how to play the Guitar.

But alas, I knew their response would be; “No time for that now, we will have plenty of time to learn all the instruments in the NEW ORDER.”

One of them brought up the subject about the latest Watchtower Study and how close we are to the end. Another brought up the subject and how the organization is growing so fast, and another brought up the subject on how simple the overlapping generation idea is to comprehend. Another brought out the idea of how people are asking for Bible studies by the thousands because of the cart witnessing. A young one expressed his desire to pioneer and another wanted to volunteer full time in the construction work.

All Jehovah’s Witness can talk about is; “Paradise Earth is around the corner, Jehovah will solve everything, the organization is growing so fast, lets pioneer, The Devil is controlling everything, we need to reach out for privileges, the Governing Body is taking care of us, just obey the Governing body no matter what, and last but not least, “Paradise is going to be so nice”

Just before our visit ended, I realized one thing,

That was me, that’s all I used to talk about, nothing else.

That’s why it takes a while to adjust as an Ex-jw.

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Jesus foretold corruption of scriptures (rather than apostasy of Christendom)

by iconoclastic in

jws apply the fulfillment of what jesus fold in mathew 13:24-30 in what they call the great apostasy of christendom.

here jesus was speaking in parable, hence application should be made in its essence.

jesus sowed the seed (which means he preached the truth), later when it was compiled, selfish writers sowed weeds (interpolated their own ideas), and it became one book where on cannot distinguish what is good seed and weed.

John Aquila

This just proves to me that anyone can come up with any kind of explanation of any Bible verse or story or parable.

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Need clarification from someone who speaks JW: What is an "apostate" ...or... an "apostate website?"

by Faithful Witness in

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/27/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-notes-about-child-sex-abuse-inquiry-told.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-australia-religion-sexcrimes-iduskcn0q10ih20150727.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/28/australia-jehovah-witness-sex-abuse-hannigan-lklv.cnn.

John Aquila

An apostate in every jdub's mind is someone who is going to be destroyed forever and ever.

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I JUST FOUND out that my husband was in one of the Dramas at the RC

by PaintedToeNail in

jw
friends

i just learned that my husband was in one of the dramas at this year's rc.

i have no idea which one.

the way that i found out is: while looking for a confirmation email for a plane trip we are making, i opened his account.

John Aquila

All live dramas are gone-wipeout-forever. Everything is video. Even the paradise earth will be video!

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Frederick W. Franz and September 5, 1975

by StarTrekAngel in

http://www.jw-archive.org/post/128775480828/frederick-w-franz-and-september-5-1975#disqus_thread

John Aquila

I actually remember that talk, but when you're a teen who dropped out of school, with very little life experience, it sounds very authoritative. And when you see tons of adult people clapping like crazy, you say to yourself, surely all these adult people can't be wrong. We as kids depended on adult people to help us navigate our way through life. Little did I realized I was in a group of idiotic adults.

That same thing goes with young jws today, they trust their deceived JW adults.