I realized how much good TV I was missing while I was at meeting, lol. Actually my previous post on the subject is the real reason, but in reality when I started stay home from meeting I really did realize how much normal life I was missing.
craigulous
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Matrix moment - what was it and when did you share it?
by MMXIV infor those of you who had a moment like that from the matrix when you realised what you'd believed was fundamentally flawed or a lie - what caused that defining moment and how long was it before you could share your thoughts?.
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Matrix moment - what was it and when did you share it?
by MMXIV infor those of you who had a moment like that from the matrix when you realised what you'd believed was fundamentally flawed or a lie - what caused that defining moment and how long was it before you could share your thoughts?.
mmxiv.
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craigulous
Mine started a little bit at a time. When I was a "youth" (as the society refers to children and adolescents) I was starting to become discontented with loosing friends and family members to being df'ed. Especially when I moved to a new congregation and my new best friends was df'ed for smoking weed. That really disheartened me, normal teen behavior, and instead of helping him kick him out??? Then I got married at 19, and all of my in-laws got df'ed in a period of about 3 years. My wife at the time developed a drinking problem, a very serious one, as we went to the elders for help. What a joke that was! One of the elders kept calling her a drug addict, and being so rude and disrespectful to her. She was practicaly crying out for help, and that was the reaction. I eventually told him to shut up, I had no fear of any consequences, and told him look at what you are doing to one of the congregation who is asking for help, and you are being hateful. Eventually my father in-law gave me "Crisis of conscience" and that was very eye opening. The other thing is that I have always been a reader, and did not limit it to the societies publications, so that helped me develop critical thinking skills. Another thing that helped me, but this was after I had already faded, was to read "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsh. That helped me to reconcile with God, and realize that God does not have to be the bastard that is presented in the Bible, in particular the OT.
Peace
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What changes have you noticed in the Witness
by d ini have noticed are more angrier then when i was a child in the 90's and that they seem more uptight.what changes have you seen?.
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Btw, d, I am wondering how the conventions could be more boring. The last one I attended was in the late 80's and my ex and I went to the first session to show our faces and spent the rest of the time going to movies, and playing nickel poker at the casino in Reno. Best Assembly I ever went to, not even close.
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What changes have you noticed in the Witness
by d ini have noticed are more angrier then when i was a child in the 90's and that they seem more uptight.what changes have you seen?.
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craigulous
I think the reason why so many are depressed is that they have invested so much of there life in the delusion, that they feel they can not go back. I feel bad for people like my Mom and Dad, who are in there late years and I am sure have doubts, but would never voice them.
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Does the Watchtower Society Monitor this Board???
by integ inmaybe this has been addressed before, but after reading certain comments about people being "outed", i wonder if the wts really monitors this site?
if so, to what extent?
or is it just individual elders etc.?.
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craigulous
I have not been on the post long enough to make an educated guess, but it makes sense that they would. I will defer to the battle hardened veterans.
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Be Honest---Describe your most prevalent feeling as a witness in ONE WORD!
by MsGrowingGirl20 inlets's go!!.
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suffocating.
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craigulous
soul-less, btw if you use a hyphen it counts as one. Just sayin!
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has anyone lied to the two elders
by wasted injust a ?
as ive got cobe and my daughters fil coming round nxt wk to grill me, first time 2 of the blighters have turned up together so im expecting the inevitable.
by the way not been to a meeting in 2.5 yrs after 35 yrs in the b/s,and just wondering how much they pressure to get the answers they want.
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the false prophets.
by serein inare jehovahs wittneses a prophet of god.. are the govening body a prophet of the true and living,.
god?
there are two ways to find out.
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craigulous
As long as we keep waiting for someone else to fix it, we are screwed. We have been pacified by the promise of a savior, and he/she is not coming. There is a funny saying "get busy Jesus is coming". I say get busy, Jesus is not coming, and we have a mess to fix. Or like the like the theme song to that pathetic show Dukes of Hazzard said, "we got a long way to go and a short time to get there".
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on the fence - an introduction
by so confused ini was brought up around the truth.
my dad was disfellowshiped when i was young, around 6-7. he was a elder and very devoted even going to jail when he was younger for the truth.
he had a stroke and started preaching things that the society was not teaching and he was disfellowshiped.
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craigulous
They use many tools to indoctrinate us, things like saying the "heart is treacherous". That is trying to get us to deny our own intuition and not listen to our own conscience, when it may be screaming leave. Martin Luther said that "reason is the great enemy of faith". That is true, but that is not a bad thing. Having faith without reason is the tool of the manipulator, we were given reason.... for a reason, to use critically. Do not ignore common sense and logic, it is your friend. Your husband sounds like a sharp guy, he is not trying to steer you wrong. Read the Old Testament without the blinders on, and without the aid of the "societies" publications, and see what you honestly think of Jehovah. Is this a loving God?
You are on the right path, but I will not tell you it is easy. Do not limit your studies to Christianity, go on a quest for truth, and it does not exist in one location. Anyone who tells you they have it is a liar, because absolute truth can never be reached on this mortal plane. The journey is more important than the destination.
Good luck on your new adventure, seeking is the most exciting thing in the world. Thinking that you already know, or have the truth limits anything new or outside of what you already believe. That is the example of dead faith and belief.
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craigulous
Anyone who does would truly be an april fool, lol.