i remember when my faith left me.
i used to enjoy meetings and used to participate but then all of a sudden i was finding myself bored shitless at meetings.
i was taken off the theocratic ministry school for not attending when i was due to give a talk and not long after did something naughty and got disfellowshiped.
Me: Standing on the platform, about half way through the Memorial Discourse I was giving in 2017.
Wife: At a meeting for FS with the CO present, looking around realizing no one really wanted to be there + seeing the effect on me of a child sex abuse committee I served on where the pedophile walked free.
Of course the rabbit hole goes much deeper than this in both directions of waking up, but the above is the quick condensed versions.
last weekend's wt study (nov. 18) had 3 count em three biblical references to the christian hope of heavenly resurrection that had to be twisted into talking about earth to fit their doctrine.. 1:.
in what sense do the mild-tempered “inherit the earth”?
jesus’ spirit-anointed disciples inherit the earth when they rule over it as kings and priests.
My JW conversation with an old preacher down in a holler in Western NC not too long ago:
ME: Show me the word Trinity in your Bible and I'll be down front and center at your church come Sunday.
HIM: Show me the word Bible in your Bible and I'll be down front and center at you Kingdom Hall come Sunday
Pure narcissistic twisted JW reasoning on my part. JW logic is usually shut down via the easiest of methods.
i just wanted to express a sincere thanks for the amazing community of friends we have built up thanks to sites like this.. the genuine people we can now call true friends is outstanding.. to all those who are newly awakening, or are just starting to contemplate a life outside of the jw bubble, please be reassured that you will indeed make good friends if you put yourself out there.. true,not every ex-jw will be an instant friend.
you will not click with everyone.
but as with life in general, if you put in the effort, a new circle of genuine friends exist out there!.
Amen²
holidays.
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-celebrate-holidays/ .
"regarding other holidays, each witness makes his or her own choice, striving “to maintain a clear conscience before god and men.”.
Holidays
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-celebrate-holidays/
"Regarding other holidays, each Witness makes his or her own choice, striving “to maintain a clear conscience before God and men.”
Until recently, I was PIMI for 40 years.
Could someone please tell me what "other holidays" I could "make my own choice" to openly celebrate?
i think there will be a change in the 144000 belief.
too many witnesses think they have a heavenly hope.
maybe 1914 will be discarded too.. what is your watchtower prediction?
Government Taxation (persecution)
Child abuse court cases gain publicity traction (persecution)
this sundays 11/18 wt p.18 pp.3.
/ happy are those who serve "the happy god".
"stressful events-such as when a loved one dies or is disfellowshipped...".
This Sundays 11/18 WT P.18 pp.3. / Happy Are Those Who Serve "the Happy God"
"Stressful events-such as when a loved one dies or is disfellowshipped..."
Thank you F&DS @ the Watchtower! Thank you! Thank you!
This one sentence sealed the deal for my wife to for the first time verbally declare "death and disfellowshipping the top two stress triggers? these people are sick. OMG this is fear mongering. I have been spinning my wheels for nothing for almost 40 years."
She read it on her own, she reasoned on her own, then voiced it out of the blue. Twas like a light bulb went off.
God I'm going to sleep good tonight.
how many here have been active here on this site in the the last seven days?.
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before i left the organization, i remember having this thought go through my mind, it was not something that i dwelled on too much.
i was thinking of an interesting way i could get away with something, especially with my anal jw relatives, my brother-in-law was the worst.
i didn't have this idea pop in my head until after i had moved into a duplex, and then it went off like a light bulb.
A crazy THOUGHT to:
...wire up the sound and TV system at every KH in the world in such a way that couldn't be disconnected by anyone and in the middle of the memorial play a thought provoking power point presentation including Geoffrey Jackson saying under oath at the Australian Commission "it would be presumptuous to say we are the only true religion..."
...mail to every JW household in our region copies of the child abuse documents including perps info I accidentally kept on my computer before stepping down.
...wake each GB member up at 2am and tell them, "too bad there aren't 2 witnesses here to testify to what I'm about to do....."
...redirect jw.org to jwfacts.com
i tend to think that many jws who joined the religion in their later years feel foolish or are embarrassed by their decision to become one of jehovah’s witnesses.
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i’m not embarrassed by my years “in the truth “ because i was raised from infancy to believe everything was god’s word and who are we to question jehovah and his organization?
I became an ordained JW minister at 8 after a rigorous study of the bible for the previous 7 years.
Born In: Indoctrinated from birth. Totally thought/action approval dependent on organization. Robbed of the ability to accept and solve ones own life situations and/or problems which translates into being emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually immature.
Converted: A JW knocked at a moment of ones duress, with low self esteem, and/or being vulnerable and offered emotional, psychological, and/or spiritual shelter.
7 years ago i had my last conversation with the toxic jw that mostly raised me.
every conversation was toxic for my entire adult life with her.
the last time we spoke was right before the memorial 7 years ago and she was laying on the usual heavy guilt and fear mongering about how jeho counts his people at the memorial.
"Well OK then, but I still love you Mom"
