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  Favorite Bumper Stickers!

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one the jws like.. "get busy!

  god is coming and he is pissed.".

  one the that people who are not jws like.. "please god protect me from your people".

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  The Bethelite

  One the JWs like.

  "Get busy! God is coming and he is pissed."

  One the that people who are not JWs like.

  "Please God protect me from your people"

  What is your favorite bumper sticker?
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  Living in the last of the last days - A new prophecy

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  although not a new concept by the watchtower, particularly in public talks and at assemblies, they have now put this prophecy in writing.watchtower oct 2019 page 8 -13 study no.40 titled -keep busy during the last of "the last days".

  the first paragraph asks '1.

  what convinces us that we are living in “the last days”?

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  So how can the average JW prepare for this?

  1. They should all buy houses with basements! Because how can you move into the bunker/basement unless you have one.

  2. They must go to every meeting so that when the day comes when they are told what the secret knock is to get into someone else basement/bunker they will know it, other wise they might be outside where they will be "weeping and gashing their teeth"

  3. Stay busy! As the bumper sticker says "Get busy God is coming and he is pissed!"
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  Lack of zeal

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.

  waste of a whole morning.

  isolated.

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  They have been asking their followers to "sprint" towards Armageddon for how how many years now?

  "Just a little more! You can make it! Just push a little harder.... You can make it! Give all you have! Trust that your reward is almost here.....

  Yes just go to any meeting at any Kingdom Hall.... and just look at their faces.

  Their look says it all!

  Tired?

  You bet they are!

  They are at the point that if the Society asked them to drink the "Kool Aide" most would be willing to take it.... just to be done with it!
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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  "Whilst I don't expect they will become a totally internet based religion with no meetings, I do suspect that in future all parts will done as pre-recorded items from head office."

  Why not? Once they sell off all their kingdom halls to pay for their many law suits... it may become just that.

  People with be going to their lap tops to get their "spiritual food" with assemblies once or twice a year.

  The Watchtower Bible and Truck society use to be a publishing company and is now moving into being a media organization.

  Who knows maybe they will even have their own TV station.....

  Follow the money my friend
  
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  "Get Over It!"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is what my children tell me... get over the whole jehovah's witness thing!

  yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and i need to also.

  my exgirl friend who was raised as a jw also has said the same thing.. my children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities.

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  SPARKY1:

  Your post is excellent!

  I would have to agree! I guess all this is really more complicated than we will ever know.

  If all of us "just got over it" than none of us would ever come to this website or websites like this. I believe places like this have helped a lot of people to "get over it" to some degree at least. So I guess I thank god some of us haven't got over it....Everyone makes a difference and we all do what we can. I salute everyone here and thank you for your wise words!
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  "Get Over It!"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is what my children tell me... get over the whole jehovah's witness thing!

  yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and i need to also.

  my exgirl friend who was raised as a jw also has said the same thing.. my children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities.

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  This is what my children tell me... get over the whole Jehovah's Witness thing!

  Yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and I need to also. My exgirl friend who was raised as a JW also has said the same thing.

  My children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities. Of course it has effected them and I don't believe they have gotten over it. They just don't want to relive it.

  OK, I get it. However I think we are here to help others too.

  So maybe there is a fine line between obsessing over what the JWs did/took from you and moving pass it all and just trying to help others escape the Borg.
  

  Hundreds of people have read my book. Yet the two people I care about the most in the world (my children) haven't. They say, I wrote the book to say look at me poor me and they don't want to relive those years. I sure they will read it one day.
  

  That was never my intention. The book is dedicated to the thousands of people that have taken their own lives because they couldn't live in the Jehovah's Witness hell that their world had become.

  Anyway just feeling bad and just needed a place to vent.

  I wish all of you the best and happiest holidays this year!
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  Jehovah's house for Sale?

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

  the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

  how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

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  How can one false religion sell their building to another false religion?

  Good question....I guess by putting it in escrow....

  d question....I guess by putting i4
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  Honoring Our Dead

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday, i was driving around on a beautiful fall day in arizona and thinking about how lucky i was.

  how my dead friends could never enjoy this day or the thousands of other days they had missed over the years.

  i'm still alive yet they are gone..... .

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  "I'm not saying the WTS wasn't to blame for their deaths, I just don't know, but just because a JW kills themselves doesn't make it the fault of the WTS."

  Yes maybe sometimes. But no fault to the watchtower.......really?

  You want to minimize their organizations involvement and let them off the hook for thousands of people's demise. Your right they should have just snapped out of it and realized it was all bull shit and moved on with their lives like we all have done here....nice to say I guess.

  I guess you don't know the same people I have known. Lets see these are some of the people I've known over the years who just should have just "snapped" out of it but decided to kill themselves instead.

  One person who couldn't stand the guilt of leaving Bethel.

  Three people who could not have any contact with all their children and grand children.

  One person who was gay and could not live guilt.

  Two people who left the organization but still believed it was real and killed themselves before god could.

  How about the hundreds of people who have killed themselves because of refusing a blood transfusion? Isn't that really suicide....or do you call this mental illness?

  Your right no big deal....

  PS I don't believe everyone who kills themselves has mental illness.
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  Good memories of full-time service?

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  perhaps not a topic for everybody... mine.. in both sp service in a foreign field in europe , the freedom and helping people to read and write in spanish .

  doing a lot of work in the congregations.. in missionary-service.. helping congregations in a third-world country and see good results in family relations.

  and the siestas from 13:00 to 15:00..... who has good memories of bethel?

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  YES!

  All those wonderful memories of helping others to join god's only true religion!

  How we would bring people into the fold. Studying with them and helping them to realize what god expects from them.....molding them into good Nazis Jehovah Witnesses.

  So that years latter your bible studies would have no problem standing by and letting their own children die because of a lack of a blood transfusion,

  Or better yet, teaching them importance of shunning their own children and family members, so that maybe their gay child might commit suicide because of all the guilt and pain this religion has created.

  As one Nazis solider said looking back on his life, "We use to take the old ladies boots and tie them around their throats and shoot them with our lugars.... those were the fun times!"
  

  Yes, the GOOD memories of full time service. Spreading our filth and contamination everywhere.....those were the fun times indeed!
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  Honoring Our Dead

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday, i was driving around on a beautiful fall day in arizona and thinking about how lucky i was.

  how my dead friends could never enjoy this day or the thousands of other days they had missed over the years.

  i'm still alive yet they are gone..... .

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  Yesterday, I was driving around on a beautiful fall day in Arizona and thinking about how lucky I was. How my dead friends could never enjoy this day or the thousands of other days they had missed over the years. I'm still alive yet they are gone.....

  Halloween has been a special day for me for 46 years.

  It was on this night 46 years ago that James Olson (the Bethelite) killed himself at the factory at Brooklyn Bethel.

  He was the first Jehovah's Witness I knew of, that took his own life.

  Sadly over the last 46 many more of my friends and family would follow in his foot steps, including my own Father in Law Robert Stillman.

  Their life of guilt and pain was so bad that death was their only option....their only way out!

  I hate this religion and what it has done to people. They are truly blood guilty.

  I miss my friends,