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  Lots Of Whining And Complaining About Us JW's

  by Deaconblues1914 in

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  in reading these posts, it sounds like a lot of you are very jealous of the wt.

  society’s annual income and the money they/we have in the bank.

  jehovah has indeed blessed us.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  It has nothing to with jealousy, but indignation. The fact that organizations like the Watchtower and Roman Catholic Church continue to not only exist, but prosper, is probably the best empirical evidence for the nonexistence of God that any atheist could ask for. Since I'm pretty sure you are a troll, I'm not even going to get in to WHY the WT is evil.
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  Do JWs Regard You As An APOSTATE?

  by minimus in

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  i doubt people consider me an apostate but you never know.🤓.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  Well, let's see:

  a·pos·ta·sy
  əˈpästəsē/
  noun
  1. the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief.

  So yes, I guess I am! But I'm only carrying on a hallowed family tradition. My mom apostacized from the Methodist church when she was a youngster, so I had to apostacize from the Jehovah's Witnesses. Nothing personal.

  Seriously though, I wonder how many converts to the Watchtower recognize that, if they had a religion before they became JWs, they are now apostates? Actually, I don't wonder at all. It's just a rhetorical device I use to humiliate any JW who confronts me with my apostasy.
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  Here is your typical Kingdom Hall of Jehovah'w Witnesses attendance!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  kingdom hall south dakota live stream.....i found this video on youtube.com.

  it reminds me of my old kingdom hall where hardly anyone is sitting in the front rows and doesn't seem like they have a large membership.most kingdom halls sit around 200 people at the most and seem to have a hard time filling the seats.. my old congregation had around 45 members when i left 4 years ago.we always seemed to have a hard time meeting the monthly expenses.some months,i was told that some elders would contribute extra money so the congregation would not be in the negative for the month.. how many members did your congregation have while you were still attending and did meet its expenses for the month?.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  I grew up in a small town and my congregation was always packed. That's very strange, now that I reflect on it.
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  Was There ANYTHING Positive That You Experienced Because of Being a JW?

  by minimus in

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  was there anything positive about your jehovah's witness experience?.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  I said it before (to everyone's consternation) and I'll say it again:

  Thanks to Jehovah I will never have kids. The vicious circle of life ends with me. Take that selfish genes!

  
  
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  The true cost of being raised as a witness

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  how do you view your upbringing as a witness?.

  most of us who were raised as witnesses would appreciate that some aspects of our upbringing were ok. a foundation and measure of stability came with it.. but, it struck me too, that we also lost so very much!

  and we lost a lot of potential.. by this i mean, we need to look at not just what we lost, or what was deprived of us, but what that ended up costing us as adults into the future.. if i take $10 from you, you have lost just $10.. but, if you were going to use that $10 to buy something that would end up earning you $1000, then i actually took $1000 from you!.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  WTWizard, I like the way you write. Are you, by any chance, the reincarnation of James Joyce?
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  Violent Games/Movie

  by Saethydd in

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  all through my childhood, i was told about the evils of violence (and magic) in entertainment, i doubt i could count the number of movies and video games i wasn't allowed to enjoy for that very reason.

  i did always watch movies and play video games with a certain amount of violence in them, but i was careful to keep it at the teen/pg-13 rating.. in the last year or so though i've started trying out games like skyrim, fallout 3, and thief.

  (since i still live with my parents i'm careful about where and when i play them.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  I don't play violent video games myself and I personally find simulated gore and murder distasteful (though I enjoy kungfu/martial arts movies on an aesthetic level). That said all of my experience and knowledge of psychology tells me that there is no causal relationship between violent entertainment and real violence. You may as well suggest that people who watch porn are more likely to have sex.

  The most that can be said is that violent people like violent entertainment. Gee, who would have guessed that?
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  The true cost of being raised as a witness

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
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  how do you view your upbringing as a witness?.

  most of us who were raised as witnesses would appreciate that some aspects of our upbringing were ok. a foundation and measure of stability came with it.. but, it struck me too, that we also lost so very much!

  and we lost a lot of potential.. by this i mean, we need to look at not just what we lost, or what was deprived of us, but what that ended up costing us as adults into the future.. if i take $10 from you, you have lost just $10.. but, if you were going to use that $10 to buy something that would end up earning you $1000, then i actually took $1000 from you!.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  What you are saying is definitely true, but I try to look on the bright side:

  • Since JWs don't date I got into the habit of being celibate and thus didn't fall into the parent-trap that most twenty-somethings do. That means one, two, possibly three less innocent children did not get born into this shitty world. The same goes for their descendants. I've potentially spared hundreds of people from living terrible, empty lives simply by remaining a virgin.
  • Being exposed to a cult so early has effectively immunized me against every form of group-think. I'm probably much more skeptical and independent than I would have been had I not been a JW.
  • Field service was excellent for overcoming social anxiety. Most people are utterly terrified of knocking on a stranger's door and trying to sell them something. But I'm not intimidated in the least.
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  Anyone read the latest Awake (on the supernatural)?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. watchtower
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  just read some of this latest awake on the org's webshite.. it begins by talking about the 'supernatural' - wizards, witches, vampires, etc.

  - their popularity and why they might appeal to people.

  then it goes on to state the wt belief that someone is 'behind it'.. now, i like a few horror/scary films - when i was a kid, i always actually liked being a bit scared by them, tbh.. the silence of the lambs, a nightmare on elm street (1984), the ring, the witch, the thing (1982) and a few others are all great, imo.. they are just genres and subgenres of film, that's all.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  Phizzy16 hours ago

  The JW Org Cult is full of Mediaeval superstitious nonsense.

  Satan is used as a tool to instill fear, i.e "Stay away from anything demonic, or you will stop serving Jehovah".

  It's totally messed up my mom's life.

  She bought a house about 17 years back and intended to live in it for the rest of her life. For years everything was cool until she started hearing things. She thought it was demons, but it sounded to me like rats were living in the walls and perhaps some raccoons were squatting in the basement. Then there were some electrical problems, which she blamed on demons, though I convinced her to get an electrician over there (he fixed it).

  But things just got worse from there. She says the demons would not only make noises, but pull the covers off her at night. Then they possessed a bed in another room and caused it to jump up and down. She eventually put the house up for sale and moved into an apartment. Since she had already gotten a reverse mortgage on the place and wasn't living there anymore, the bank only gave her a limited amount of time to sell it. When it didn't sell within their time frame, it went into foreclosure and my mom lost everything!

  My mom still lives in her apartment and guess what? The demons have followed her. They tried to kill her recently by causing a light fixture to fall and nearly miss her head. One also tried to possess her by entering her mouth when she yawned, but she coughed the demon out (no kidding!).

  I don't know what to believe. Maybe she's just nuts or maybe there really is something going on; probably a little bit of both. What I do know is that none of this would have happened if the Watchtower hadn't fostered fear of demons in someone as gullible and emotionally vulnerable as my mom. It's criminal! It's like telling a child who trusts you 100% that if she doesn't do as she's told, the boogie man will eat her!

  My mom had it good! She was retired, paying no mortgage, and actually getting paid by the bank just to live in that house. Now all she has is social security and a $500 a month rent that she will have to pay until she dies.

  Thanks a lot Watchtower.

  
  
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  Anyone read the latest Awake (on the supernatural)?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read some of this latest awake on the org's webshite.. it begins by talking about the 'supernatural' - wizards, witches, vampires, etc.

  - their popularity and why they might appeal to people.

  then it goes on to state the wt belief that someone is 'behind it'.. now, i like a few horror/scary films - when i was a kid, i always actually liked being a bit scared by them, tbh.. the silence of the lambs, a nightmare on elm street (1984), the ring, the witch, the thing (1982) and a few others are all great, imo.. they are just genres and subgenres of film, that's all.

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  Rainbow_Troll

  Thanks for the movie Schnell. It reminded me of why I chose the dark side all those years ago and never looked back.
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  New "Become Jehovah's Friend" Video - The Ransom

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  : https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/#mediaitems/allvideos/pub-pk_e_26_video.

  sickening propaganda for our young ones.

  they've laid off on the "armageddon will be here soon" angle and now it's all about "hope".

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  Rainbow_Troll

  I've often thought about how sad it would be if it were all true. Imagine being a JW in the new system knowing that disfellowshipped friends and family are gone for good and will never be resurrected, while you will live for an eternity without any hope of seeing them ever again.

  I think this may have been a unconscious incentive for me leaving the WT. I knew that, even if it were all true, I would never see my father again, nor my aunts, uncles or cousin. My worldly friends would be gone too. So there was less to look forward to in the new system.