Posts by Hopeless1

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Why isn't this forum growing like reddit exjw??

by nowwhat? in

admittedly it 90% crap over there but still they are up to 80k in subscribers.

over here it's the same half dozen or so that posts something, including myself.

why is that?.

Hopeless1

I live with an 86 year old die-hard, life-long Jehovah’s Witness husband who requires looking after at all levels at all times, …. He has always been difficult to live with due to some brain issue which makes him emotionally unavailable and unempathetic, and sometimes unreasonable, but I continue to live with him simply because I considered a promise to stick by him whatever our marriage turned out to be, was sacred.

Therefore, this web-site is to me, a god-send (sorry, all you atheists and agnostics) because whenever things get too much, which is practically every day, I can come and loose myself in the comments of all of you facing similar challenges in life, and know I’m not alone.

Personally I find exJW Reddit somewhat difficult to navigate, and not half as interesting as this website. Most people who post on here are, in their own way encouraging, and for the most part intelligent, witty and helpful. You people keep me sane.

(please pardon grammatical/syntax and spelling errors) (and any other mistakes, which I promise were unintentional and not meant to offend)

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UN and Governing Body and an accounting

by AnnaNana in

joseph and mary were not in a spiritually adulterous relationship with the roman authorities, the "legs of iron".

joseph and mary were not perfect.

the governing body of the modern-day organization of jehovah's witnesses is not perfect.

Hopeless1

Smiddy said,

“Are you aware that you are probably using the wrong pronunciation for the name of GOD -Jehovah ?”

yes, yes, yes, a million times yes!

There’s some good articles on the web that discuss this, but the bottom line is would a god who forbids his people to wear cloth woven from two different yarns, or to sow a field with two different types of seed, or use a plough with two different types of animal etc, be happy to have them use a name that is an amalgamation to the sacred Tetragrammaton and a title used for every false god under the sun, as well as imperfect humans? Leviticus 19:19, Deuteronomy 22:9

Okay, we are not under the Mosaic law now, but I think our Heavenly Father made his feelings understood on this matter.

There is a reason why no-one on earth today knows God’s name, more than one good reason, but the fact is that Jehovah’s Witnesses even by their very use of the name ‘Jehovah’ prove they are not his ‘special’ people entrusted with divine truth.

Jehovahs Witnesses have a very strong hold over the minds of people that gave their hearts and minds over to them, personally I believe ‘they worship what they do not know’, yet I was one for over 60 years!

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Stupid WT Q's : Is It Wise or Safe to Keep a Dog? Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

by Sea Breeze in

yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.

jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.

as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.

Hopeless1

You are right, B.B.

not in print even in the early 60’s, but an interpretation convenient to themselves of an article in a Watchtower in the 50’s about Christians should not be wearing apparel of the opposite sex.

My mother was a violent woman and became a JW when I was about 12 years old, she was also violent with a short fuse. She justified her attacks on me by saying I was a problem child. There were occasions when she claimed that I was demonised and that the demons were persecuting her by means of me! I asked a sister who was the wife of a book study servant if this could be true, she said “yes, possibly “. Can you imagine what good that did me?

I used to spend my free time at a local stable mucking out, grooming, cleaning tack etc. Loved being around animals, who were a lot kinder than humans,- still find it hard these 60 years later to trust humans.

I was a guilt- ridden messed up individual trying against all odds for all of these 60 years later, never found real friends among them.

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Why are so many Jehovah’s Witnesses Angry and Rude?

by Vanderhoven7 in

why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?

or is that just my imagination?.

mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.

Hopeless1

They are vindictive.

They feel the need to justify themselves as being the ‘only true Christian’s’ on the planet, consider that the rest of us are misled and need converting or that we are incorrigible and deserving of destruction, - either way it makes them feel better to tell us about it.

The principles laid down in the sermon on the mount are totally lost on them!

And they can also count time, perhaps?

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Stupid WT Q's : Is It Wise or Safe to Keep a Dog? Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

by Sea Breeze in

yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.

jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.

as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.

Hopeless1

FedUpJW -

A hat tipping article is to be found in W52 4/15 p.255/256 under ‘Questions from Readers’ on JW website.

Thinking about things, the stuff about ‘No females to wear jeans etc’ and ‘No riding of horses by females’ was probably local to the U.K., - can’t imagine anyone in USA, Canada, Australia and the likes and living/working on a ranch or farm would swallow that line of reasoning. However, being in my teens and being that the wonderful worldwide web had not yet been invented, I miserably had to endure the naggings.

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Stupid WT Q's : Is It Wise or Safe to Keep a Dog? Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

by Sea Breeze in

yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.

jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.

as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.

Hopeless1

Well I came on here a bit depressed today, but you lot have certainly cheered me up and made me smile.

They did a similar article on cats, I remember, and didn’t they say not to let pets in the room if a book study group was in session?

I just know I should have gone then, or before in the 60’s when they said females wouldn’t be allowed to wear jeans or ride horses in the ‘new system’

(Big animal lover here.)

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Why do JWs love bomb?

by Smiles in

💣.

we know what mentally-in jws believe they are doing when they "love one another"... and many of us here formerly participated in that culty love bombing behavior.. why?.

Hopeless1

It’s because love-bombing makes them feel good about themselves, also because they perceive it to be a good advert about themselves, as M.M.M says like the McDonalds adverts.

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1 Kings 8:21 a woman's perspective.

by waton in

this week's bible stories, temple dedication, key text .

prayer to the father; "-- [even] the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you.--" comment from a sister i missed, would have given if permitted: .

given that jehovah was alone, with absolutely nothing else around him, when he made the heavens,(including his firstborn), fashioned the universe, it could have only be inside him, with no outside existing.

Hopeless1

Oh yes, can creator be described as unisexual or bi-sexual, because such did not exist before he created it?

An amoeba, for example, reproduces itself asexually. - (Anyone who does not know that fact will have to Google it, I’m too old and possibly senile to start explaining the process.)

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1 Kings 8:21 a woman's perspective.

by waton in

this week's bible stories, temple dedication, key text .

prayer to the father; "-- [even] the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you.--" comment from a sister i missed, would have given if permitted: .

given that jehovah was alone, with absolutely nothing else around him, when he made the heavens,(including his firstborn), fashioned the universe, it could have only be inside him, with no outside existing.

Hopeless1

I came to this conclusion too, a few years ago.

When I tried explaining it to people (JWs), they just looked at me like I was mad. Perhaps because infinity it is beyond the imagination of many people, that this fact has not been mentioned before.

All that exists must exist within him, otherwise it is bigger than he is?

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According to Jehovah's Witnesses, who will be saved?

by Vanderhoven7 in

i know who won't be saved according to witnesses and that includes just about everyone alive at armageddon who is not a jehovah’s witness.

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others who are permanently lost include adam and eve, those who died in the flood, people of sodom and gomorrah and apostates to their one true religion..

Hopeless1

Sea breeze

I love your reasoning on this subject, although I completely have faith in God, personally I find it hard sometimes to believe Yeshua would want to save me, - but what you say is logical, and very helpful to me.

Many thanks.

J.