Posts by FedUpJW

Yeah, they want to make it a crime to give someone food or to honk your horn. They arrested some small old guy yesterday who'd just honked his horn. Incredibly rough and aggressive, that was totally unnecessary.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/brutal-video-shows-cops-arresting-tiny-elderly-man-during-freedom-convoy-protests-his-crime-he-reportedly-honked-his-horn?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202022-02-09&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM

And I thought things were bad in my neck of the woods (U.S) with out of control leftist cops who are "compensating".

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JW’s and Charity Organizations

by longgone in

i was wondering if anyone is aware of the jw’s in general being involved financially and/or as volunteers in charity organizations?

i was a born in jw for 56 years and left in 2016. as far as i remember there was never any encouragement to help in the community in any way.

including soup kitchens, tutoring at schools, united way, etc.

FedUpJW

Or how about the "free" COVID test kits that were sent out by the government, and then an elder had this to say, " It is nice to know that the brothers are always watching out for us."

Either those brothers thought all JW's were so stupid they could not figure out how to follow a secular link for mo' free stuff, or they were once again taking credit for someone else work.

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Righteousness According To Watchtower

by Sea Breeze in

take a look at this heresy:"righteousness is the state of being right with god by complying with his standards of good and bad.

"- the watchtower—study edition | july 15, 2001 | blessings are for the righteous onewow!

my bible says in several places that "there is no one righteous, no not one".

FedUpJW

The one who is pure and righteous at heart gives ample evidence of his righteousness. His speech is kind and upbuilding, his actions positive and generous. . .

Well that certainly disqualifies 99.9% of JW's!

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Watchtower Study: How Strong Will Your Faith Be?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | november 2021. study article 47. how strong will your faith be?.

16 note the example of geydi, a sister from guatemala.

her husband, edi, was murdered as they were returning home from a congregation meeting.

Some time ago in my areas a JW woman's husband had a heart attack on Friday evening. Saturday morning while he was laying in an I.C.U. bed she traveled to the circus ass-embly about a three hour drive away.

During the mid-morning begging for donations and song break an attendant came from behind the stage to inform her that her husband had died. When they asked if she would like someone to ride with her to return to her home town she said "No". She let them know that he was dead so there was nothing she could do for him by returning home, so she would stay for the rest of the ass-emly.

Of course they let everyone know what had happened and what a "fine example of loyalty" she was when they made the noon announcements before meal break, and of course the greater majority of people in attendance stood there clapping like a bunch of trained seals.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

FedUpJW

I never really got into his stuff because I find the videos irritating and can’t watch.

That pretty well sums up my opinion, even though I don't have a dog in this fight. That said, there are other exJW's that have Y.T. video channels that I find just as arrogant, smug, smarmy, and irritating, and I do not watch those either.

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Turning up The Insanity To 11

by FedUpJW in

so a jw elder acquaintance sent me an email "encouraging" me to return to the organization, including this little nugget of a quote from today's wt session,*** w21 november p. 23 par.

11 how strong will your faith be?

***learn to trust those whom jehovah and jesus trust.

FedUpJW

The governing body is god's sole channel of communication. How do you know? God told us so. How do you know that he told you that? Because we are the governing body, god's sole channel of communications. How do you know? Because god told us so. And just like a roulette wheel, round and round it goes, where it stops who knows?

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Turning up The Insanity To 11

by FedUpJW in

so a jw elder acquaintance sent me an email "encouraging" me to return to the organization, including this little nugget of a quote from today's wt session,*** w21 november p. 23 par.

11 how strong will your faith be?

***learn to trust those whom jehovah and jesus trust.

FedUpJW

So a JW elder acquaintance sent me an email "encouraging" me to return to the organization, including this little nugget of a quote from today's WT session,*** w21 November p. 23 par. 11 How Strong Will Your Faith Be? ***
Learn to trust those whom Jehovah and Jesus trust. At times, those appointed to take the lead may give direction that does not make sense to us. However, Jehovah blesses obedience.

He said that this article proves that The Slave 'loves' me and is telling me to return and I should even though I feel that it makes no sense for me to do so.

I replied with a simple Thank You, and then blocked him.

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Ukraine - Nato - US crisis

by mikeflood in

don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....

FedUpJW

America’s commander in chief will sit there and put sanctions on an ever shrinking free world.

Well SOMEONE may put sanctions on an ever shrinking free world, but it won't be Brandon. The best he can do between naps is mumble what is put on a teleprompter (and not very well) and wait for someone to change his Depends while he sits gazing at his navel. Meanwhile the politicians who idiotically agitate for nuclear war edge the world ever closer to Armageddon, and not the one the JW's pray for.

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Does anything about your religion trouble you as a Jehovah’s Witness or is it all good?

by Vanderhoven7 in

can you add to this:.

"does anything about your religion trouble you as a jehovah’s witness or is it all good?

some of the things that would trouble me if i were a jehovah’s witness would include:.

FedUpJW

I . . .got the sense that they hate thinkers!

That is it in a nutshell. I remember my father telling me once during one of our many discussions, "Son, it isn't that you think too much. It is that others do not think enough!"

Then he proceeded to show me five cases where Jesus asked, "What do you think?", of persons he was talking to. Can you imagine any one of the governing body EVER asking one of the R&F JW's, "What do you think?"