Posts by Phizzy

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Ages of each user here?

by ukpimo in

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i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.

Has The "Evil Slave" Died Out?

by Sea Breeze in

those of us who have deep roots into watchtower remember the shadowy whispers about "the evil slave" when we were kids.. for those that need to get up to speed: .

the internal crisis came to its full with the occurrence of an outstanding bible-predicted event, namely, the coming of jehovah’s “messenger,” christ jesus, to jehovah’s temple for judgment in the spring of 1918, to separate the “faithful and discreet slave” class from the “evil slave” group.

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Phizzy

Thanks S.B great question, as someone else said. They do this a lot of course, picking which bits they say are symbolic and which bits literal.

I spoke with an old J.W a few weeks back, and though much of my side of the conversation was showing the errors in having faith in the words of men, he maintained that he felt the J.W's had "got most of it right", I did not launch in to lots of stuff, or anything much that I could have, as I feel at this time he needs the religion, he is in his eighties, and his wife is terminally ill.

But he DID say he could not believe the figure of 144,000 in Rev. was literal, which surprised me a bit, I just said "Yes, if that is literal why not the all that is in the verses around it ?"

I hope to speak with him again soon, not to attack his faith in any way, but to be a support to him in his time of need, I love the old boy, he was a generous guy, and an Elder that, rarely, for an Elder, "got his hands dirty" by doing work other Elders would have assigned to someone else. Work that many did not know he did, he would tidy up a garden for one of the J.W's for example, but not many would have known of this, or the other things like that which he was accustomed to doing, he was a real Shepherd too, he did real pastoral work.

But, if a chink is appearing with him, a lifelong J.W for over 80 years, then others must be having more questions that they do not push to the backs of their minds.

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Interesting that the other cult-cousins are going thru nearly identical hemmoraging of members.....

by WingCommander in

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i still read on reddit.

(though no longer post) occasionally, i'll venture over to the ex-seventh day adventist (sda) sub and catch up a bit.

it's been a long time.

Phizzy

An excellent and very encouraging Post, thanks WingCo !

Mere numbers mean nothing, what they cannot show is the vast numbers of PIMOS there HAVE to be in all the Cults.

Once cults start to go down in the number of true believers in their Bullshit, the downward spiral accelerates.

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Is There Some Sort of Campaign Going on?

by NotFormer in

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a pair of young blokes came to my door @ 10am (ish) today (wednesday, if that matters).

i opened the door a crack to : hi!

just asking a question: do you think that the world is getting better or worse?*".

Phizzy

I wonder if anyone has stats/experience of how much actual door knocking they do now ? I got the impression in my area in the U.K it dropped off a little when the carts were introduced, but dropped a LONG way when the new reporting thing came in ??

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JW Opening Questions

by NotFormer in

i had a visit from jws yesterday.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5993895939276800/there-some-sort-campaign-going-on.

the opening question was "do you think that the world is getting better or worse?".

Phizzy

They identify themselves as to who they are to those of us in the know by the old openers they use, they have no really new ones.

Plus the openers come across as weird, walking up to a stranger's front door, uninvited, and then asking one of those dumb questions, IS WEIRD ! and the general public as soon as they hear the "opener" think, "Oh Oh,Religious Nutter".

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Holding a grudge

by LongHairGal in

i read something recently on reddit (not sure what thread) where a person related how some jw told them that ‘they hold a grudge’.. this reminded me of something an old jw acquaintance said to me some years back when i related my bad experience in the religion.. so, apparently, jehovah’s witnesses feel they should be forgiven for anything.

people should forget all about it and act like nothing happened and be charitable towards them, etc… when i read in james and ephesians i got the sense ‘holding a grudge’ was referring to the things average people do to offend each other.. i don’t see it applying to a religion that claimed to speak for god and who engendered hateful and unchristian attitudes towards people.. i know because i experienced this.. in addition, some people’s lives were damaged by listening to faulty teachings and interference in things that were clearly none of anybody’s business.. one case in point: them knocking worldly careers and now there are thousands of destitute jws in senior years with nothing.. then in 2023 the religion does away with a century old teaching about counting hours in the ministry.

meanwhile, i got judged over this.

Phizzy

Dearest Long Hair Gal,

I think holding a grudge against the Org. itself is a GOOD thing, at least for me, it motivates me to continue spending time in various places on-line to counter J.W nonsense they have posted, so that people can see the errors and often lies they post, and see them for what they are.

And I think that what the Org. itself has done to us, and is still doing to many, is UNFORGIVEABLE , why ? because they KNOW exactly what they are doing, Mind Controlling people for $$$, they KNOW they are telling Huge Lies, they KNOW the damage they do, even causing suicides, and they do not CARE ! as long as the $$$ keeps on rolling in.

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The true pronunciation of God's name....

by Kosonen in

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i found a very interesting video by a jewish biblical scholar about how to correctly pronounce jehovah.

it's not yahweh as other scholars claim.. https://youtu.be/4vgxmmbst8w?si=yq7ggwstkpnd3f18.

Phizzy

Truth is nobody knows, and never will, and I don't care !

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Re-activate me?

by punkofnice in

there was a knock at my door and i thought it was my take-away being delivered.. long story short, it was 2 elders calling to see me.

i guess to re-activate me.

once they said who they were i recognised them.

Phizzy

" someone might think i was still a JW. "

I would hate that for myself ! I simply would not wish to be associated with that lot in anyone's mind ! How EMBARRASSING !

Plus, if you ever attend a K.H for any other reason than a Funeral, the J.W's fondly imagine that deep down you still believe, and that relieves their Cognitive Dissonance, now, I wouldn't want to do that, it was the Cog. Diss, that grew stronger in me that made me wake up !

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Phizzy

This Thread has reminded me of the time a JW dad was trying to instil in his son the need to always tell the truth, so dad asked his son "Who told the first Lie ?", and his little son promptly replied "Rosie", referring to his little friend who had lied an hour or so before.

Dad gave up with the Lesson for the time being, he was laughing too much !

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Re-activate me?

by punkofnice in

there was a knock at my door and i thought it was my take-away being delivered.. long story short, it was 2 elders calling to see me.

i guess to re-activate me.

once they said who they were i recognised them.

Phizzy

I think the only way they could reactivate me is to enforce a Frontal Lobotomy !