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  An honest question for those who were "born-in"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wanted to ask a question of those who were born in as i was.. how did you feel to have been "privileged to have been born into the only true faith - the truth"?.

  did this make you feel confident, or proud - or perhaps arrogant?.

  how did you reconcile the fact that 99% of the earth's population was not born "into the truth"?.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  When I was maybe eight years old, I suddenly said to my mother, "mummy, thank you so, so much for making me a Jehovah's Witness." She was so happy that she got my father in the room so I could repeat what I'd said.

  I did it. I'd found the holy grail to making my parents smile. Within a couple of years, I was baptized and a pioneer.

  This year, I sent her and my father a long email in anger - furious that they had raised me in a cult and angry that they wouldn't hear me out or have any accountability in the matter.

  My, what a couple of decades can do to a puppet child.
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  If You Question The Governing Body, You're Like Korah

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone who questions the governing bodys authority is labelled as an apostate and almost always they bring up the story of korah and his revolt against moses.. watchtower august 1st, 2002, the article loyally submit to godly authority paragraphs 8-15.. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002563.

  in not so subtle hint, the gb likens themselves to moses, and those who disagree with the gb are korah.. paragraph 15 is actually quite damaging to the gb's argument though:.

  it was so unnecessary for all those people to lose their lives.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  Oh, but they ARE just like Moses. I can clearly see them leading an entire nation of Witnesses into a wilderness of darkness to perish.
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  Disfellowshipped in Absentia

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have heard of this happening before, but how often?

  its pretty rare it seems.

  i have often wondered if the elders would go this route with me since they knew i was actively sinning, but as far as i know, no jc was ever formed.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  @stuckinarut2 I have wondered if that did happen to you and @unstuck. But then I realized, my mother's gossiping allies from your cong would have informed her if that had happened.
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  The Golden rule (Matt 7:12) - Do JW's apply it?

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is no doubt (in my mind at least from my own personal experience) that in day to day matters most witnesses are genuinely loving and kind (or "nice") people (though their indoctrination and fundamentalist mentality often inhibits their natural kindness and tolerance and often gets in the way of fulling showing it).

  however i would like to put the case that when it comes to their ministry and theological/scientific discussion of any type, they fail to apply even the most basic of bible principles that they claim to espouse - the golden rule!

  here is what occurred to me.... some things jw's would like men to do to them:.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  @doubtful1799 Oh, but they DO apply it... among themselves. Outsiders... forget it.

  Yo, JWs. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 5:43-48?

  "If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?"

  Hypocrites.
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  My Father has brandished me with the "APOSTATE" word for talking about the BIBLE!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so after three years of fading, my elder father has never really asked why we have chosen to stop attending.. today, after a mixed discussion, he starts talking about the "solution to all the world problems" and says "i don't know what you now believe, but i believe gods kingdom will fix everything" i let the comment go, and didn't respond.. then he goes on about the video "remember the wife of lot" because he just came from the convention last weekend.

  "don't get caught up in this system...blah blah".

  i couldn't help myself, and said one thing "dad, that video failed to show the next chapter of that account.

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  @stuckinarut2 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires", 2Tim 4:3.
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  Updates on the workload of Bethelites

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?

  how are they coping?.

  paul.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  @_Morpheus There may be a fully-stacked buffet, but last I heard, they're spiritually starving.
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  My Personal Experience

  by victimofdeceit in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i want to share my personal twenty year experience with you, bit of an online biography if you like.

  i've put this under the scandals and coverups section because that's what my personal experience is all about.

  it's been a massive scandal.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  Hey, just had a read. Thanks for putting yourself out there! I read your post with an Australian accent ("teenagish banta"), lol. Are you from Down Under, by any chance?
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  "The purpose of reporting field service time is for encouragement"

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was told this when i was an aspiring jw, aka unbaptized publisher.

  the above explanation didn't make sense to me then and it never did make sense throughout my jw career.

  over time, it appeared to me the real purpose of field service time reporting was to gauge one's spirituality and for the ceo *cough* co to make sure the elders were on top of things during his visit..

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  I think the purpose of field service hours being reported is to keep JWs busy and consumed in the cult. It's hard to realize how happy you can be without all the WT propaganda when you're constantly trying to meet a quota or rushing to meet your monthly deadline. "Staying busy in the service" is a cunning way to keep JWs on a hamster wheel that does't permit down-time to experience what real life is like. What true contentment is. What time to think critically can do for us.
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  Laziness of JW parents?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it seems that many witness parents are simply taking the lazy option when it comes to raising their children.. by this i mean, they will happily outsource the education of their kids to the ready-made information on jwdotorg.. need to keep the toddler busy?

  just stick him in front of a colourful caleb and sophia cartoon.

  or lets play coloring-in on ready made pictures of bible characters getting killed.. need to manipulate the mind of your growing child?

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  I'm a parent. And I'd be damned if I imitated the parents of Caleb and Sophia. I've often heard from the platform that the Become Jehovah's Friend series is not just for children, but a learning instrument for parents, too. The parent/child dynamic in those cartoons of instilling guilt and using fear tactics to curb a child's natural sense of imagination, curiosity (or sleep cycle) is deplorable. I'd sooner take parenting advice from the Octomom.
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  My Father has brandished me with the "APOSTATE" word for talking about the BIBLE!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so after three years of fading, my elder father has never really asked why we have chosen to stop attending.. today, after a mixed discussion, he starts talking about the "solution to all the world problems" and says "i don't know what you now believe, but i believe gods kingdom will fix everything" i let the comment go, and didn't respond.. then he goes on about the video "remember the wife of lot" because he just came from the convention last weekend.

  "don't get caught up in this system...blah blah".

  i couldn't help myself, and said one thing "dad, that video failed to show the next chapter of that account.

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  Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

  Sadly, your father is STILL more progressive and open-minded than my mother (AKA Dragon Lady).