i am halfway through my master's program in psychology/sociology and plan on being a therapist/sounselor.
i left jw's in 1988 and i have never looked back.
i enjoy my life so much after getting my aa degree, then my ba degree, and now i will soon get my ma degree.
when you figure it out let me Know.. because I was hoping to go to therapy for just that..
Don't they cover that in therapy 101?
I'm being serious too. I know I kid alot..
My not being able to move on after 20+ years out, lead me here.... It's kinda hard when you've been brainwashed since birth that nothing in this world is worthwhile.. except waiting for god to FIX IT all in his new order..
Please let me know if you have a cure for this
......well, that's my question.. i have no stats to back anything up.
just putting it out there for thoughts/comments..
way more.. if you look at COC the first thing Ray noticed when he got to bethal was, The number of baptism and increase of Publishers was way out of skew.. they lose 25% in the first year..
it's a revolving door.. most just move on as a bad experince and never look at it again ..
i just thought this was funny when it popped into my head this morning.
funny because i should have thought of it long ago and i'm sure that i'm not the first to think this.
the big point comes after my little spiel.. so, god tells noah to build an ark because he has a lot of killing of the wicked to do and only noah and his family seem to be good enough.
ya! great one ..
so today after the meeting an older pioneer sister was outside as people were talking about the wonderful experience from the yearbook of the family in nigeria or wherever that went to the meeting and the plane destroyed their neighborhood.
but since they were at the metting they lived..... .
so she says, "you heard about the ones that died in a bus crash on the way to the convention????
straight to paradise ... hunh!! as opposed to the alternate where you DIE and wait to be resurrected, is this paradise in an unknown realm..
and not on the future earth... or do the just go to the front of the line in the resurection order..
I think the Koolaid is currently being served..
think about this .. are there any Cults that ended in a Good way?
I couldn't find any examples .. but, a bunch that end badly very badly
is the information on this webpage* regarding the socioeconomic conditions of jws a fair connection to the all too familiar wts quote of 1969?
does the report's statistics appear to be plausible given your personal observations?
*even though many others have copied and pasted the article (including the individual who created the page hyperlinked above), i'm apprehensive about doing so for copyright reasons.
here is Grandpa .. he was a Bible student born in 1905 died 2003.. his son my Dad was told he won't make it out of High School.. I was told I wouldn't need College..
The beautiful little Girl is now 22 and going to graduate college this year.. She is this original Bible Students GreatGrand Daughter..
I broke the the cycle of spiritual Abuse in my family
Yea for me and my Baby!!
Iam the Tater-T
so as someone newly awakened, my thoughts have turned to "why didn't i see this sooner?
how could i be so blind?
" part of it is that i never realized anyone may have left due to differences with the doctrine.
my thoughts have turned to "why didn't I see this sooner? How could I be so blind?
Totally feel you there.. I left thinking, they had problems but still had the truth... didn't think it good to teach to my daughter..
then one day while explaining to someone why I didn't celebrate christmas.. " I said God don't any of you people, research where your beliefs come from!!!"... light bulb went off ...I never did for the religion I was born in!!
I like to say JWFACTS showed me they were wrong... The poster on this site Terry showed me they are pure evil...
and now I want to picket Kingdom Halls .. but I'll probably just chase them out of my neighborhood if I see them.. LOL .. no really I will
good luck .. I know how you feel ..
when i read the gospels, i don't find a bunch of numbers.
i loved that jesus talked in a way that left me wide open to respond to god.
"love god with your whole heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself".
I love the dub term accurate knowledge.. was that the key to salvation? or as Ding said secret knowledge..
I left maintaining spirit and truth where enough for me..
It always bugged me all this chronologies stuff ... it blows me a way that people on here spend the time and energy they do on it..
To what end... I love this line from Jim Mora .. you think you know .. but you really don't know .. and you never will
when i read the gospels, i don't find a bunch of numbers.
i loved that jesus talked in a way that left me wide open to respond to god.
"love god with your whole heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself".
agreed ... when I realised " Does God really expect me to figure all this mumbo jumbo out, to please him? I think he would have made things a little more certain!"
He didn't doesn't care about that.. why should anyone.. I think anyone that thinks they can, or it matters is way out of touch with reality..
and narcissistic
Wrong!!!!! a cult has ONE leader ..they don't have One leader... so they can't be a cult..period
at least that is what they told me repeatedly.. when I was studing ... how can anyone argue with that stellar logic?
