Posts by redpilltwice

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Fb pages

by Drwho in

im not a jw and never was but had a bad encounter with one , ie my gf was one .

anyway , i was wondering if fb pages are actually allowed , i thought the wt frowned upon them ?

here is one i discus in regularly , maybe take a look and leave a comment on the tripe they write , it looks very well done and presented ,https://www.facebook.com/honor.jehovah/.

About two years ago, while I was still in, I had a discussion with a brother in his 60's about how some youngsters got in trouble because of social media. He literally told me that everyone who had a facebook account, should be disfellowshipped! He may have been a bit emotional at that point, but I had facebook as well (didnd't tell him) and I was so shocked by this cultish statement that I couldn't even respond . Can you imagine how many would have been disfellowshipped if this "brother" would have had the power to make the rules? I think that, besides card-witnessing for those who are approved by the BoE, more and more jw's choose easy "online" preaching to complement "hard" hours (door-to-door) to please the elders. Jworg is the bait. No exhausting discussions anymore, just redirecting to a cultish website.

Looking back, this deluded comment must have been one of those many stones that laid the foundation for my eventual awakening.

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Alligators Infested Waters

by Iamallcool in

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do you know the name of the country where the wt said the brothers walked thru alligators infested waters to go to the assembly, etc?

there is no way i will do that for jehoober!

they sound like rick fearon.

redpilltwice

Some have to cross crocodile-infested rivers.... Why do all these people put forth so much effort?

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Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

by redpilltwice in

this is what happened.

i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

redpilltwice

Mad Irishman, you wrote:

It's called the placebo effect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The power of suggestion.

Thanks for your "eureka!" - comment, but, with all respect, have you read all the comments? Your answer gives me the impression you haven't. I believe that "the placebo effect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is not that one definite explanation in all cases, it doesn't seem to cover the whole subject. If you think otherwise, I'll respect that, but then I'd like to hear more from you about it.

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why would God and Jesus hate the united nations?

by nowwhat? in

shouldn't they say thanks for" holding down the fort" until we take over?.

redpilltwice

Blondie, you wrote:

The Christian religions of the day of that first organization declared it God's kingdom on earth...setting it up as a rival to the Messianic kingdom the WTS said was established in 1914.

Even this is false. Not all Christian religions! On this thread

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5442474222813184/who-wondered-admiringly-league-nations-fulfill-revelation-17-8

you can read a comment from Gilgamesj (bold is mine), which explains:

That thread points out that the most serious problem with the Watch Tower’s claim is that the WTS doesn’t seem to realize or admit that this publication of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ was speaking about what the League “should be” not what it was. They were speaking of an “ideal.” They were not promoting “worship” any more than the Watchtower itself was in the article they published the following month with similar sentiments. Also, this declaration about the proposed League only represented a small number of Protestant churches although it was presented as representing all of Christendom, Protestant and Catholic. The statement itself was evidently an invention of the executive committee of the FCCC.

The WT cult is sooooo dangerous. They simply cannot be trusted when citing sources to back up their claims!

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Jehovah's Witnesses age demographics compared to US population and other beliefs- PEW study

by Balaamsass2 in

i found this pew data of passing interest.

it flies in the face of what i have seen in english congregations, but when i think of all the spanish congregations, it made sense.

jws show fewer senior members than mainline churches.

redpilltwice

Good observation. The younger the JW members are, the bigger the chance they will discover TTATT (by using internet), which is good of course! And for the baby boomers themselves, who shouldn't want the best for their children, right?

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Convention Distances: Jamaica

by jw07 in

for the past few years conventions in eastern jamaica have been held at a cricket stadium, in the capital city, known as sabina park.

this venue is a central location for the bulk of the attendees who make it there from the capital kingston, as well as the adjoining areas of portmore and spanish town.

yeah, that's where jws are concentrated, as well as their non-jw friends, work mates and family who they coerce into attendance.

redpilltwice

Thanks for the story jw07, I'm so glad I'm out. Over here, they are building a new convention venue in the north that will replace a worldly venue in the middle of our country. From where I live, the distance would be more than double, but they won't get my time or money anyway, so I don't give a shit! Another alternative would be a convention in our southern neighbor country, but again...NOT FOR ME ANYMORE! I feel so sorry for all the WT drones that already kept their life <$imple and the families with little children that will go through hell because of all the extra efforts and the pressure to go and be fed by the slave .

At the past two meetings it has been announced that we need to get people to "not concentrate on the distance, but on the message instead. Helping them to focus on the prospect of living forever instead of how long it will take them to reach to the convention".

How naive! Deep in their hearts they know it doesn't work that way

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New Here ... Just woke up

by Sevan in

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hey all, .

this is my first post.

i haven't been out in service or to a meeting in over a month.. i realize now that i've been having serious questions for years and many articles and talks have greatly disturbed me over the years.

redpilltwice

Welcome to this healing and inspiring forum Sevan and nice to meet you too.

I haven't been out in service or to a meeting in over a month.

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spiritual crisis

by indi7 in

two years ago i had a kundalini experience.

i felt energy or chi pulsate through each of my chakras, from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, then back, after that i felt like a newborn for three days.

i felt like i was reborn spiritually and god gave me a new name - indi.

redpilltwice

So many questions. I feel sorry for your struggle indi7, but... holy crap!! And I really thought I'd heard it all ...stumbled upon this full-blown-kundalini-awakening story on the net. You can't make this shit up:

Then it happened!
A bolt of lightning
Out of nowhere a megalithic wave of energy surged from the base of my spine up through the central core of my body and out through the crown of my head. A bolt of energetic 'lightning' sent my entire body into a huge convulsion (somewhat like you'd imagine if someone had died and been brought back to life with a paramedic defibrillator machine!). From lying in a relaxed position, my entire body tensed into the height of rigidity as I was thrown upwards and then immediately collapsing into a heap on the floor. It was as if every cell of my being had been fiercely squeezed out.
Clearly once was not enough - this happened seven times in rapid succession. Each time I'd experience a bolt of lightning from the base through to and beyond the crown accompanied with an involuntary convulsion, throughout my entire physical body. The last vestiges of the 'me' that I thought I was were being shattered, whilst my entire being was infused with universal life energy.
My world was shattered
It was totally exhausting! This event didn't come with a text book explanation so initially I felt major disorientation. It's not every day that you have seven 'lightning bolts' shoot through your body after all! It's not the type of thing that you learn about in high school. Before to the experience, I had no concept in my brain about kundalini energy. At the time, all I knew was that it was exceptionally powerful and a defining moment in the journey of my spiritual evolution.
My whole frame of relating to the world had been shattered again (it had happened once before in previous years during my Awakening, although the universe had deemed that I was not at that time ready for a full blown kundalini activation). My body felt peculiar. I struggled to understand that it had anything to do with 'me', unsure how I was able to move my limbs. When I did, I observed with astonished fascination as if it were the first time I'd been infused into a physical body! Gazing into the mirror in the bathroom was really puzzling. I didn't recognise my own image! In fact "Who are you?" was about the only sentence I could muster for a while.
Soul infusion
Over the next few weeks I encountered constant experiences of soul infusion and spiritual intensity. The journey took me through a myriad of different practicalities providing an first hand education into the intricacies of kundalini awareness.
On one day I would experience the left side of my body become infused with darkness, whilst the right side would be infused of the purest light. As I learned to embrace it all, the lessons came thick and fast. Without judgement, I would rise through each spiritual encounter as non-identified pure presence, turning each page of the cosmic library with lightning purpose.
On another day I would experience intertwining columns of light rise up my spine as the universe dissolved from around me. There would be intense surges of electrifying energy that served to show me any internal blockages within my bodily vehicles (of which I learned that we have quite a few).

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"Hello from Phats"

by phats in

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hay out there.. wife got back from her thursday meeting & now she's setteled down with the dog, a v large g&t (maid be me) & watching terminator 2 on the telly with her ipad on her lap looking up places to go for our holiday (& googling symptoms of to many antibiotics as my 16 year old is getting signs of ibs).

so now is a good time to say hello.. well hello.

my name is phats & i'm an ex jehovah's witness.. there, i've said it.. this must be like it is going to your first aa meeting.. i've already used up some of my posts for a newbe but i'm not in to the whole long story thing.. basically i've been out now for 8 years (mentally out for all but four or five of those years of my life when i made the commitment, got baptized & married.).

redpilltwice

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Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

by redpilltwice in

this is what happened.

i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

redpilltwice

Twith > No its from "The Gate", a low budget 80s schlock horror film, a fav from days gone by

Hmm, probably too old and too cheap to be on netflix. lol Never heard of it, and boy, did I see a lot of 80's horror stuff (might explain my choice for the title of this topic)