Posts by 1234

I'm not quite sure what this means but maybe you have been asked this question in the pass. As in busyness is some kind of sign that things are going good.

Yes, people's lives are full of lots of activities, school, work, shopping, taking kids to soccer ect. and hell, if you are a Jehovah's Witness drop in hundreds of hours of meetings, field service ect.

Years seem to fly by as busy days turn into full weeks, as the months fly off the calendar.

Yes, "life" kept us busy. How much of these activities were really important? Of course my 50 years and 1000's of hours as a Jehovah's Witness, accomplished a lot...lol

But the whole concept of working fifty weeks a year at a job that was not that enjoyable so you could spend two weeks on vacation doing what you really wanted do, didn't seem to make much sense either.

Of course as a Witness there could never be "real" happiness in this old system. True happiness is always in the distant future. Pie in the sky when you die.

The journey should be the enjoyable part, not the destination.

My 40 year old son who has moved back in with me wants to bag the whole thing and move to south America and travel around there for awhile. I told him he should do it.

Being a good Jehovah's Witness I always did what I was suppose to do. I never had a real childhood. Pioneered and went to Bethel. Got married the week after Bethel and went to work. Fifty years later here we are.

Now there is plenty of time to look back on all that "busy" work I was doing.

So what is my advise?

If something doesn't feel right don't do it. If it's a marriage, a job, a religion....Your "gut feeling" will never be wrong. Your mind will be wrong often but your heart never will be. Going against your "gut feeling" will only create a life full of regrets.

Namaste my friends

Keith

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Flipper’s apostafest in view of Covid-19

by Biahi in

is it still going to take place?

maybe we could all participate via zoom.

2 can play at this game.

1234

Where and when was it suppose to happened? Things have opened up here in Arizona

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Thoughts on a WT Reformation

by Fr.RAS in

i posted what follows elsewhere but thought it might be of interest here as well.

my forst posting here so i apologize in advance if this is not in the correct place.. a tribute to ray franz (on what would have been his 98th birthday) and to ed dunlap, his collaborator.

last week would have marked the 98th birthday of a man for whom most of us here have high regard.

1234

I knew both men. Ed Dunlap was my primarily school instructor when I was at Bethel from 1970-1974.

So to answer your question after your long talk/walk memory lane and after being a Jehovah's Witness for over 50 years I have your answer to ...

"Imagine what the cult would look like today had the Society worked itself out of its self-insularity by following Ray Franz vs Fred Franz in 1980/81."

It would still look like a CULT! Just a mutated one. With thousands of suicides, pedophiles and wrongful deaths that would still not have been prevented! They would still be blood guilty! Even if they did everything Ray and Ed said.

Keith Casarona

P.S. I sent you a private message.

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Education vs JW?

by galaxia_moon in

i am 15 years old and recently just doubting this whole religion that was introduced to me when i was very small from a very good family friend.

doubt obviously comes with shame and guilt and i hate those feelings because it feels like i'm betraying this whole organization that i grew up in.... anyways, i've been doing research and found that jehovah's witnesses dislike/shun kids who attend colleges & universities that are more than 4 years long?

have you heard of this?

1234

Yes, neither me or my children attend college because of the harassment that was going on at the time about "higher education."

Jehovah's Witnesses like to keep their people stupid as do most religions, however they have taken it to a higher level.

So my friend it's time to make the choice "the red or blue pill"

Keith Casarona

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Weekly Meeting Importance Being Reduced - Your Thoughts?

by JWTom in

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friends

i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.

nothing was more important than being at the meetings!

over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.

1234

Well the "world" is changing my friend. It is not just changing. It's changing a lot! You are still in a religion that was formed in the 1800's and though it's changing also it is not changing enough to keep up with modern day thinking. It's still stuck in old dogma.The organization could become a totally a video church with with the latest technological, however the content is old and dated and in many ways very toxic, with it's concepts of shunning, sex, pedophiles, (two witness rule) blood transfusions ect ect.

Bottom line they are losing most of their young people. You don't see a massive growth with the Quakers and Amish either....Yes they are still around and the reason is the only thing that is making more/new Quakers, Amish and Jehovah Witnesses is them having sex with themselves.

You might want to read my book "New Boy" I was in for over 50 years and tried to fade too.

Good Luck my friend but your in a dying religion

Keith Casarona

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Comment on BBC News web site

by BoogerMan in

"i've just been told by a nurse just off shift that 6 wards were put aside for cv19 at ninewells hospital in dundee and that only one is being used.

also that the virus is being put as cause of death on almost every death...including one male patient who died of cancer who tested positive but had no effects.

so bear that in mind, and this is genuinely what i've been told what is going on.".

1234

Or maybe it is a plandemic and not a pandemic.

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"You Had to Have Been There"

by Terry in

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friends

from my memoirs ...______.

.....moments later, thoughts inside my head still reverberated as though i were a bell struck into vibrations beyond control.

i trembled.

1234

"THESE PEOPLE - these WORLDLY people's raw instinct was beautiful!
I had been taught to see them as things about to be destroyed."

Funny it takes maybe a thousand of these "Ha Haw" moments put together to finally realize that we were in a mindless cult.

Great story Terry.

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Brainwashing left a stain

by Fadeaway1962 in

hi one of my jw parents died recently of old age , after decades of brainwashing of the dead are just a sleep and if we are good we would see them again in paradise .. i fully understand now you have one life and should make the best of it but finding it difficult at the moment to get my head around it .. it's just a bit of a rant but your the only ones that i can try and express how i feel and be able to understand after the years of brainwashing how it affects my thinking process.. thanks for any help and advice..

1234

Well, who says "you only have one life?" A big chunk the planet don't believe in that. Go to YouTube and type in "Reincarnation." Who knows many you will be seeing your loved ones again....

I believe I will even see my old Jehovah's Witness friends one day.....boy wont they be surprised!

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JW cult suing everyone critical of the cult

by phoenixrising in

its amazing how the cult has changed over the years.

they are now suing everyone who has books or internet presences critical of the cult.

this was never done that i can remember before.

1234

I haven't got my letter yet.

Keith Casarona