Pray more
Study more
Go to meetings more
Go out in service more
Shockingly, that formula doesn't work. I tried it and just became more miserable.
cobaltcupcake
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Jehovah's Witnesses What Can We Do To Help Our Elders
by BlindersOff1 ini suggest hire a monkey.. since all elders do if you ask them for help.
is tell a person to.
pray more.
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cobaltcupcake
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I found this paragraph in the Watchtower study to be so ridiculous and offensive......
by Pyramid Scheme inusually i read through the study article for the week to see if there are good points of discussion with my family.. when i read this paragraph, i nearly fell off my chair.
this is complete and utter garbage.
i have had discussions with my wife and other family members who also agreed it was complete rubbish.
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cobaltcupcake
Last time I checked, the GB is made up of imperfect men too. Of course, now they're very close to claiming infallibility.
I watched a program about a cult made up of a few people who broke off of the Reformed Mormon Church to follow a guy who claimed to be God's prophet.
For some reason, a family of 5 of his followers were deemed to be sinners and essentially shunned within a very tiny cult. The "prophet" claimed that the family members were responsible for one of his failed prophecies and the group needed to be "cleansed" of these holy-spirit-sapping sinners. One night they were all killed and the whole cult decamped for a distant mountain town.
Later, the whole cult was rounded up and thrown in prison for the murders.
Stuff like this scares me when I see the GB consolidating power and retreating to a remote location that could easily become a "compound."
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Why should this annoy me?
by punkofnice inlong story short.
i left the wbt$ and was forcibly da'd for attending a church.. wifey says she 'chooses' not to talk to me about 'spiritual'(tm) matters.
i told wifey that she didn't 'choose' but was told not to talk to me about such matters by some men in brooklyn.
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cobaltcupcake
There comes a point where you stop caring what those people think of you.
When I left, as I found out years later, rumors were rife:
I'd had a mid-life crisis.
I'd run off to chase my favorite singing star.
I was crazy.
I'd become a lesbian.
It couldn't possibly be that I didn't believe that codswallop any longer. None of the rumors bothered me because I simply didn't give a flying fork what any JW thought of me.
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First post / 1914 info
by whichway2go inmy first post here after about 6 months of lurking.
i will comment more and give some more info later, but i am still active, and looking for my way to exit.
i had a question that i'm hoping someone can help with.
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cobaltcupcake
Welcome, WWTG!
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Just had a shep visit
by Captain Obvious inthey just left.
we had a nice "encouraging" chat about my inactivity.
they went through the usual guilt routine, that didnt seem to work so they turned to fear.
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cobaltcupcake
That must have been tough. I would have been gritting my teeth the whole time.
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New Member-Active Elder
by Promitheas ini'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.
i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.
some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..
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cobaltcupcake
Welcome Promitheus!
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New Member / MS still in...
by Comatose infeels real strange typing this.
i was what you all call born in.
i was happy growing up.
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cobaltcupcake
Welcome, Comatose! Everyone here understands that initial feeling of disorientation when you start to wake up to the truth. Feel free to share all of your doubts and concerns here.
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Cool Job for Brooklyn Bethelites
by Iamallcool incool job posting: earn $20 pretending to hate wind energyby philip bump.
important job opportunity, everyone.
from craigslist:.
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cobaltcupcake
Love the intelligent sign work!
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Annoying 2/15 WT - Don't Be Stumbled- your Mind Just Misunderstands !
by flipper inanother wt article which causes jw's to doubt their own perceptions of reality.
) in this particular article titled " for those loving jehovah, " there is no stumbling block " - the wt society stoops to new, or rather re-hashed lows to insinuate that most if not all jw's really misunderstand causes of stumbling as it's just their minds that are imperfect, messed up, or gone entirely anyway.
the first abhorrent bit of information here describes a witness man who " fought " with feelings of being homosexual and of course the elders thought they had the perfect antidote to keep him from his alleged " abnormal " desires.
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cobaltcupcake
Don't trust your heart. Don't trust your mind. Don't trust anyone except the Governing Body.
It's no wonder we're all traumatized.
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My questions for YOU
by Terry ini'm curious about human intelligence and beliefs as a natural phenomenon.. i've long suspected that even the most "normal" and well-educated person harbors "fringe" beliefs.. the purpose of this thread is not to mock beliefs of any kind.
rather it is for all of us to toss in to a pile our own unprovables so .
we can, as a group, evaluate how natural and non-neurotic such thinking might well be.. .
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cobaltcupcake
I'm a no on everything except #3 - ESP and psychic powers.
My BFF lives 1000 miles away from me, but she knows, without any sort of communication from me, when I'm having a bad day. She'll call and say, "What's wrong?"
I believe.