what is the stupidest thing a jw ever told you?
we all know that they say a lot of stupid things, but what really topped the cake?.
for me, it was an elder telling me i was progressing really well when my meeting attendance was down and my field service hours were slipping.
I remember the most stupid thing I ever heard at an assembly was an elder got up on the stage and said "this is how we know Jehovah made man, is how a mans penis fits so wonderfully inside a womens vagina". Needless to say many got up and walked out cussing as they left. someone approched the elder and quickly escorted him off the stage. Too F***ing funny but true.
Pepper,
would you agree?
or do you think that statement is just an "emotional outcry" by some unbalanced apostate?
and even if it was an emotional outcry, does that mean its wrong?.
You right on the mark their Kitty. It reminds me of the people in Africa who had to be rapped and killed for not having a stupid card, ahh but now you can have a card and won't be distroyed. Pepper
well, after our baptismal nullification letter, most of the witnesses snub us when we bump into them.
saw a snooty sister from my own book study, and she pretended i was the invisible man.. so, i decided to do a "maverick" and have launched a top secret email campaign to help raise the news iq of my former witness friends and family.. i have created a dummy email account at a major portal and i am bccing all my old witness friends and relatives (mostly relatives) hyperlinks to the juicy news articles on jws and the un, jws and child abuse, etc.
i put a simple subject line and a simple one line "read this article" followed by a hyperlink to the newspaper article.. it has been very effective.
Ahh yes very commendable brother, I am sure all the friends will find your purely invasive reasoning a shock to their senses. Well done good and faithful slave, "move ahead move ahead always follow through". Blah Blah Blah... Pepper
in the late 1970's john denver at one point in his concerts would ask any jehovah's witness in the crowd to please stand up.
once they were standing he would play the national anthem!
hillarious.. here's a trick you can try.
I remember my friend who no longer goes to meetings anymore got baptized, and during and after he was jumping off the diving board and laughing like a nut I think he had smoked some chronic. His name was Paul Russell what a maroon. Pepper,
disfellowship
>> i have read many stories here about those who have been disfellowshiped.
they express the pain of the experience, and the emotional trauma they experience.
Disfellowship
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I have read many stories here about those who have been disfellowshiped. They express the pain of the experience, and the emotional trauma they experience.
I have to ask a question. What did you expect? You knew the rules. You knew what happens when you leave, at least I did, so why are you shocked? If you get even a modicum of recognition afterwards, you should be grateful. After all, when you leave, they owe you nothing, and you know it. When you were a true believer, you would have done the same thing that was done to you, so why are you surprised?
I do not understand the mindset of those who leave and are upset over how they have been treated. When I left, I fully understood the consequences.
Could someone explain this to me? <<
I had to ask my self if Jesus is so kind and Jehovah is so full of undeserved kindness how can they condone such things as disfellowshiping, if they do they must be quite confused as to the principle of love and forgiveness as they teach. To leave is much different than being judged by men that you must now be ignored because your too much of a sinner, and have your family friends treat you as if you are not alive. If Monkeys do that to one Monkey that Monkey dies, are we not supposed to be more than Monkeys? They may say its scriptural and Gods will, but it does not ring well with good sense concerning all that love is and forgiveness; Let God judge, men can not do it very well.
Pepper
i have read many stories here about those who have been disfellowshiped.
they express the pain of the experience, and the emotional trauma they experience.
i have to ask a question.
>> I have read many stories here about those who have been disfellowshiped. They express the pain of the experience, and the emotional trauma they experience.
I have to ask a question. What did you expect? You knew the rules. You knew what happens when you leave, at least I did, so why are you shocked? If you get even a modicum of recognition afterwards, you should be grateful. After all, when you leave, they owe you nothing, and you know it. When you were a true believer, you would have done the same thing that was done to you, so why are you surprised?
I do not understand the mindset of those who leave and are upset over how they have been treated. When I left, I fully understood the consequences.
Could someone explain this to me? <<
Yes I would be happy to, I was disfellowshiped once it was not untill then that I seen just how mean and nasty it is hardly loving in the lest. Oh yes I knew what the rules of being a sinner is and the rules as seen through the eyes of the GB and the so called scriptures.
I had to ask my self if Jesus is so kind and Jehovah is so full of undeserved kindness how can they condone such things as disfellowshiping, if they do they must be quite confused as to the principle of love and forgiveness as they teach teach. To leave is much diferent than beinng judged by men that you must now be ignored because your too much of a sinner, and have your family friends treat you as if you are not alive. If Monkeys do that to one Monkey that Monkey dies, are we not supposed to be more than Monkeys? They may say its scriptural and Gods will, but it does not ring reall with good sense concerning all that love is and forgiveness; Let God judge, men can not do it very well.
Pepper
well i went to the assembly yesterday, to see what bullshit they'd come up with this year to be upbuilt and i certainly won't go next year wasn't disappointed!
did you know that there are (gasp!
) apostates on the internet??!!
Yall have to see the show called " Equilibrium " now if that is not a movie about being a Jehovah's Witness nothing is. You can rent this movie on DVD or VCR its a must see for awakened people to keep them sted fast.
Pepper
since i resigned early last year, i did not know where my "pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock book" was.
this weekend i was cleaning out my trunk and i spotted it.
i thought i might share some quotes with you on this fine sunday.....page 35:"do not try to get the brothers to engage in the field service by exerting undue pressure on them.
That is very brother is very commendable we consider it all joy to have as much information as we can from this wonderful book that Jah has provided the elders to distort our own thinking under stressful situations. So continue in like manor pringing this into the light of reason, so that we may be fully ready to put up the hard fight for the faith.
There is a movie you must see, its called "Equilibrium" it taste like being a Jehovah's Witness smells like being a Jehovah's witness's and looks like being a Jehovah's Witness's, for a rip roaring good time see this movie you can rent it on DVD or VCR it has a under tone that is uncany in its semblance of being a Witness.
Pepper
i used to really belive that jehovah was directinng the writeings of the wt, but now i see he does not.
they are just like all the rest, their in it for control of the masses and by that control they have influnce, influnce builds numbers numbers builds power; and power corrupts, and too much power like they have corrupts absolutly".
even now i feel their leanings of control even if i don't want it; its a fantasy world that is hard to break free from, because they dump guilt on by useing the scripture for their own means so thick and heavey it could for some people put them over the edge.
I used to really belive that Jehovah was directinng the writeings of the WT, but now I see he does not. They are just like all the rest, their in it for control of the masses and by that control they have influnce, influnce builds numbers numbers builds power; and power corrupts, and too much power like they have corrupts absolutly". Even now I feel their leanings of control even if I don't want it; its a fantasy world that is hard to break free from, because they dump guilt on by useing the scripture for their own means so thick and heavey it could for some people put them over the edge.
Pepper
i'm just wondering how everyone was changed by the wts emotionally.
i find that after going through being df'd and the shunning, the general loss of everything that i'm much harder, i give people less sympathy than i used to, things that are seriuos such as deaths and the like just don't move me much.
i feel desensitized, sorta detached i let so much just roll off my back than i used to.
I used to really belive that Jehovah was directinng the writeings of the WT, but now I see he does not. They are just like all the rest, their in it for control of the mases and by that control they have influnce, influnce builds numbers numbers builds power; and power corrupts, and too much power like they have corrupts absolutly". Even now I feel their leanings of control even if I don't want it; its a fantasy world that is hard to break free from, because they dump guilt onn you so thick and heavey it could for some people put them over the edge.
Pepper
