i guess this is cognitive dissonance calling loud and clear!.
i remember being proud to be a jw yet at the same time i felt that i was just fooling myself.. i think this also applies to the stupid doctrines of the watchtower(r).......they made sense but at the same time they didn't.. i had secret self loathing for not being 'zealous(tm)' enough but on the other hand i didn't.. seems to me i had a separation of authentic persona from cult persona.. anyone else get this?.
When I was still a believer, I secretly but regularly watched gay porn. I don't know how I justified it. After a period of trying to stop watching it, I just said "fuck this" and went back to watching it.
Because of this, there were times when I felt like a total hypocrite going door to door. It wasn't long before I discovered TTATT.
Interestingly enough, I'm 22 and gay, and I can't seem to attract anyone but guys like the one you posted a picture of. It's very discouraging.
The only time I've had a little bit of success but not really was when I ran into some tourists from europe at the beach. They were cute, nice, some a little freaky (I love that), and amazing, but none of them were locals :(
"the first step toward apostasy is a drop in field service activity.
i have read that statement in wts publications and heard it many times from the platform.
i haven't studied philosphy so i'm not sure what type of logical fallacy this is an example of, but it is one for sure.
WTF Soc? Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. If you don't like it, GTFO! His statement makes every bit of sense, and has a literal meaning for me personally.
someone sent this to me via facebook a few minutes ago... this is shameful, but hey that is what religion can do for you.
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh6pvv04cdowpmoe4a.
Holy shit. Since when are bank account details posted publicly like that?
what is the stupidest thing a jw ever told you?
we all know that they say a lot of stupid things, but what really topped the cake?.
for me, it was an elder telling me i was progressing really well when my meeting attendance was down and my field service hours were slipping.
My mom told me that I have to be careful when reading the bible, because Satan might try to use it to trick me.
even with the change to "just domestics", i can't see the number going down.
13,153
hi folks.
that's right, the new june 15th 2013 study edition is out now on this link.... http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/28/w_e_20130615.pdf.
the following quote caught my eye, from the final study article on page 28.... .
Because most (if not all) of their "examples" are fake!
last week a sister in my new hall made the following comment,.
"a brother once told me that it is better to be wrong with the organization, than to be right and be on your own without the organization.".
wow.
"i f the society says this bible is green..then we believe it brothers"
If I ever heard that at a meeting, I would grab my bag, leave the hall, and catch the bus home, never to step foot into a kingdom hall again.
feels real strange typing this.
i was what you all call born in.
i was happy growing up.
Ah, the quote-mining... exactly what made me 100% certain that this religion is full of shit.
It doesn't stop there... if you go back and look through the verses that the WT uses to back their doctrines like paradise earth, great crowd of other sheep, mediator for the few, etc., you'll find that none of it is actually set in stone. The WT uses lots of weasel words to bend the verses to their doctrines - words like evidently, logically, clearly, apparently, etc. They'd have you think that you can find all of this straight out of the bible, but that's not the case at all. They claim that they're beliefs are based on the bible, but it's the other way around. That's why there's always "new light" - just a new way to bend the bible verses to conform to their beliefs.
attend the memorial this year..
I'm going because I still live with my family, and they don't know that I'm out mentally. This year will be my last one though...I'm not even going to this year's convention.
