Posts by moreconfusedthanever

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My personal invitation

by Normalfulla in

so i got a message from my auntie yesterday .

hi normalfulla , i was hoping id see you at the memorial this saturday 😊i miss you and the family.

please dont be one of the ones that give up right at the end.

Loving a JW

by stevilla in

here’s a little back story.

i met this jw girl 4 months ago online and found out she was a jw 2 months later after confessing my liking for her.

we had a long conversation about it with her explaining what exactly a jw is and the rules and what not.

moreconfusedthanever

There are a few questions that would impact on any advice we could give?

The main one being - Is she baptised?

The other thing that is concerning is that you met online. People can be anything on line. I would be wary.

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Memorial.. To go or not to go

by Emily1987 in

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friends

so, as some of you will know myself and my husband are in the process of fading.

haven't been to a meeting since beginning of 2017. .

we weren't planning on going to the memorial, but last week my mother broke down and said that we have to go to the memorial even if it's the only meeting i go to this year.

Back in the 70s and 80s if you needed to miss the memorial due to being in hospital or sick in bed, the elders would come to you on the night of the memorial so you could pass the emblems too. It was very important.

This is no longer the case. Two of my family had to miss memorials due to being in hospital and they asked if they elders would come and the answer was no.

The memorial is a do or die deal only for the anointed and everyone else is just there to watch. In this case it is my opinion that for the "great crowd" it is nothing more than a regular meeting.

I am not going. My mother I devastated and has begun bullying tactics to get me to change my mind. I will not. She made her choice when she chose this cult and "hurt" her family by doing so. I will now make mine and she will either give me the same respect her parents gave her or she will shun me. That will be on her.

I have children and I will not muddy the waters for them.

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WT study

by inbetween09 in

it became rare, i thought, when considering last weekends study article.

it became rare, that most of the message is actually quite ok. the gist was to avoid loving oneself, money and pleasures more than god.

thats ok, if you're a believer.. this was my take until i saw the pictures, and discovered the real message behind the article.. as often, they use pictures to contrast bad and good behaviour (in their eyes at least).

moreconfusedthanever

Exactly sparrowdown. Bullying and intimidation are the current modes used by our family to get us to "return to Jehovah".

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God! No one really cares!!!!

by JaniceA in

there are exposes right and left.

australia, canada , uk, usa.

news reports, court cases.

moreconfusedthanever

You are right. Ones like my mother have latched onto the idea of eternal life in a paradise and no amount of scandal and evidence that JW are just another false religion, will shake her from her resolve to do exactly as they say in order to get there.

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Special Talk

by EmptyInside in

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friends

anyone listen to the "special" talk today?

i guess it was given by one of the governing body members and shown at all the halls.

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moreconfusedthanever

Wow! If I had gone and seen Terry O'Brien on the screen I would have had to leave. His outright lies and deception during the ARC can not be forgotten.

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A funny idea about dating in the paradise...

by JW_Rogue in

how in the hell would it ever work?

everyone is youthful, everyone is perfect, everyone's personality is loving and kind.

how would you choose somebody?

moreconfusedthanever

HB the answer to your question would be Matthew 22:23-30

23 On that day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came and asked him: 24 “Teacher, Moses said: ‘If any man dies without having children, his brother must marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers with us. The first married and died, and having no offspring, he left his wife for his brother. 26 The same thing happened with the second and the third, through all seven. 27 Last of all, the woman died. 28 So in the resurrection, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her as a wife.”29 In reply Jesus said to them: “You are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God; 30 for in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are as angels in heaven.

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After leaving the JWs - Has anyone stayed with Christianity?

by rulehayl in

i recently made the decision to stop studying with my study conductor, due to a situation i found myself in that led to a high possibility of my unbaptized publisher "rights" being taken away from me.

i have since told my study conductor i have joined a new church (to which she dropped me like a hot rock, of course).... last time i posted on here, i was progressing nicely towards baptism, and was well into it.anyhoo, i like my new church, very hillsong-esqe.

so just wondering if anyone else has stayed the course of christianity after leaving the jws, and if so - where did you go?

moreconfusedthanever

Welcome back. Speaking for myself, I have trust issues now and can't believe any religion.

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What is this "religion"?

by Kom 197 in

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for a long time, i was convinced jehovah witnesses were just people preaching the word of god in a different way than other christians.

i was shown the real truth over the past few months.

i've been friends with this guy for over 5 years.

moreconfusedthanever

It is unfortunate that your heart is already taken by this man. Your path choices will hurt which ever way you choose to go.

If you had only just met him and came here for advice, I would say run run run. Plenty of fish in the sea and all that.

You are not a JW. The elders have no say over you or control of you.

You should continue to research this religion as much as you can. Share what you find with your boyfriend. It is NOT a harmless, loving religion. It IS a mind control cult.

He started this relationship with you in contravention of the rules of the cult. The burden is his not yours.

Make no mistake, if you want to continue to see him, you will be expected to convert.

Choose wisely.

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"DO NOT look here! Seriously...just dont!"

by stuckinarut2 in

ok, so you all looked here??.

this thread is prompted by losch's stupid 'decrees' in the march 2018 broadcast, where he denounced online information that may be 'negative' about the organization.. it strikes me that the gb are so dumb!

the moment someone says "dont look at something", human curiousity will make most people look.

moreconfusedthanever

Unfortunately there are still those who will not look at anything other than the borg site for fear of Satan taking over their brains.