hello forum,.
i'm new here and not sure where to post.
so, i'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, i'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.. first, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.
As others have said DO NOT put anything in writing.
The written word can stand forever against a person, however the spoken word can be explained, denied or ignored. Much safer that way. Whenever I get questioned I just give them a baseball bat look and walk away.
new kindumb halls in a neighborhood near you.
notes and highlights from todays meeting.
opening statement about this meeting being a historic event, over 100k elders under the us branch together live from nyc..
We cannot be like the Israelites that complained about leaving Egypt, WE MUST ACCEPT THE CHANGES.
Interesting statement. So now what the JDubya's were in the past is likened to Egypt? I thought Egypt was a nation opposing JeeHOvaaahhhh. So by the speakers own word the implication is that JDubya's did not have the truth then. It would follow that they couldn't have it now. The blind leading the blind y'know.
well i'm sure we can come up with clever comments that make people feel uncomfortable by serving to decompartmentalize things that have been compartmentalized in the thinking of the average jw.
or comments that make the cognitive dissonance stand out plainly, these have to be said in innocent manner and with an apparent obliviousness to the contradiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/compartmentalization_%28psychology%29.
Not sure if the comment I made last Tuesday would fit, but referring to Gideon's asking for two assurances of God's favor with the test of the fleece on the threshing floor I commented that the WT had in the past stated that was not an indication of Gideon's doubt, but rather simply wanting total assurance of God's direction. That WT continued to state that we today could benefit by making sure of all things. One of the most important ways would to be asking ourselves if what we are being told is directly provable from the Bible, and does it glorify God rather than the person saying it? Even Paul said that if he or an angel from heaven said something not in line with God's words they would be accursed, and so too today. If someone, even one of the anointed said something not directly from the Bible or bringing attention to themselves we should not listen to them as they would be accursed, in Paul's words.
I saw many heads bobbing in agreement evidently not realizing exactly what I had just said.
i have been a regular visitor to this site for several years now.
i never really felt the need to set up an account and post...until now.
at the close of yesterdays meeting, an older brother gave the prayer.
i know dubs are delusional.
i know dubs don't reason well.
i know dubs are a bit off, like many groups.
"Watchtower Tract and Video Society".
That's a good one. Perhaps though it will need to be changed to Watchtower Tablet &Video Society. As a matter of fact I am going to start using that phrase from now on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0cd2cocs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0cd2cocs.
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@Reopened Mind said, "I would constantly correct my husband's grammar and pronounciation."
HaHa. . .that's a good one. How was his pronunciation though?
@Snowbird said, "HIV virus ticks me off greatly."
I really cringe when people refer to the VIN number on their vehicle.
i think i've seen it all now.
nothing surprises me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfzs7l_3sq.
Like others have said...."what happened to the religion we were born into"?
I heard an elderly JDubya say pretty much that same thing, followed by, "If Witnesses then believed and taught the same things they do now, I would NEVER have been one!"
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Choose ignorance? Should jws or anyone choose ignorance if they know or suspect child sexual/physical abuse, that a husband is beating his wife, that a jw (or anyone) is stealing, etc.
Of course! If one is to be a "good" JDubya that is. Gotta wait on the big guy in the sky, y'know?
well i must say that after the serve us meeting tonight i feel so much more intelligent.
almost as if i had four years of college condensed into ten minutes.. that is what was spent going on about how to use the glossary in the back of the "wonderful" new revised bible.
we got a crash course on how to look up the words listed alphabetically.
Well I must say that after the serve us meeting tonight I feel so much more intelligent. Almost as if I had four years of college condensed into ten minutes.
That is what was spent going on about how to use the glossary in the back of the "wonderful" new revised Bible. We got a crash course on how to look up the words listed alphabetically. How to read the definition of words used in the new revised Bible which were hard to understand to make those words more understandable. For instance "covenant". We had to look it up and see it meant contract. WTF?? Why didn't they just say that in the first place with their super revised Bible?
What a frigging waste!
