GOTCHA!
Hook, line, and sinker, you sharks smelled blood and went for it.
Too bad it was fake.
My last post was nothing but a cut and paste of other posts in this SAME forum (with a couple of word changes, like world for witnesses and WTS for Ray Franz), just to test your objectivity.
It came out as expected- Witnesses=bad, world=good. I love it when everything is so black and white.
The post even pulled in the big guns- poet-and-don’t-know-it Frenchy (who thinks Port Arthur is the center of the universe) and Simple Simon (ah, if only Eton had taken you, you might have escaped the Manchester cesspool). They were so fired up they didn’t even notice the quotes from their own posts.
As if- any real Witness is going to send some sort of serious confessional to a board full of soccer hooligan wankers.
You people are so ‘70’s; (still crying about the 25 cent cards but nary a word about the churches condoning genocide in Rwanda and rebels hacking off the limbs of babies in Sierra Leone- of course not, you might accidentally say something positive about JW’s).
I bet you’re still wearing polyester suits.
I love the way that posters who have never seen a Star Trek episode make the Borg comparison.
No self respecting Borg would stop at a mere six million. Ah, but the six BILLION on the other side….
I wonder who assimilated them?
When I came across this board, I had hoped for a satisfying battle of the wits. Now I see I’m up against the unarmed.
Later, losers.
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Feeling sorry...
by TR in...for the average jw as i see them out in door to door work.
i shake my head and think; they just don't know.
or maybe they do, but are in a dilemma similar to thousands if not millions right now.
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Feeling sorry...
by TR in...for the average jw as i see them out in door to door work.
i shake my head and think; they just don't know.
or maybe they do, but are in a dilemma similar to thousands if not millions right now.
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...for the average worldly person as I see them going out the doors of their cookie-cutter houses and driving to work in their cookie-cutter cars- actually thinking they are getting ahead in this system.
I shake my head and think; they just don't know. Or maybe they do, but are in a dilemma similar to thousands if not millions right now. Theirs is a belief system controlled by multi-national corporations and governments. How could they let this go on? How did I let it go on? Fear. Wanting to do the right thing, but there's the fear. All or nothing.
They want me to be willing to send my son to a foreign land and die for a piece of cloth. They build obsolescence into everything I buy so I’ll have to stay in debt by buying more.
They want me to vote for liars, drug users, and adulterers to be my leaders.
I can't give enough thanks to my family for sticking with me, for other JW's sharing their experiences, several books I've read, and I'll give myself a little credit for having enough balls to act on my conscience.
As someone who was taught to be a devout patriot from infancy, the teachings of the Borg (worship of the State) were in every fiber of my being. They shaped every thought I had and every perception of myself and others.
This induced a denial about the very nature of my existence and the world that is more pervasive than any other that I can imagine. I was willing to sacrifice my life for my country. I believed the newspapers. I believed my government. I believed my church. Peer pressure forced me to participate in inane patriotic displays. My Catholic priest molested my best friends.
It took over a year for me to completely divorce my mental indoctrinations. It took countless hours of studying everything I had been taught and re-evaluating them and how they had affected me. I would still be in that process if I had not had access to the thorough, well-researched books by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and the love of a united worldwide brotherhood. I went through many painful evenings, and yet I knew that this was a very important process, if I was to regain my life and my find my true identity. Of course, that was only a start, but it sure feels good to finally start.
I feel bad too. Driving by a church and seeing all the cars parked. Or seeing some people all dressed up in their Sunday best on an Easter egg hunt, or dressing their kids in devil suits to extort candy on Halloween, or lying to them about Santa.
Its not that I don't think what they are doing is bad, or that they shouldn't be free to do what they are doing. It’s that they never considered all sides to the story.
I feel sorry for the people that are unknowingly wasting their lives posting on boards like this one, who have returned to the vomit, who revel in the lies of this system, who are not strong enough to sacrifice even one iota of their being for the benefit of another person, who have let the world suck them back in, but who are really genuine people.
I hope that when they do realise things out there in the world aren't what they seem that they don't hurt too much.
I feel sorry for the teenagers who have ruined their lives with drugs and sexual promiscuity. I know of people who did really well in their exams and could have a good career, but they have ended up getting a crappy dogsbody job because their parents never warned them of the dangers of this system, and before they knew it, they were Borg drones in a dead-end job, or else on the dole.
I hate to brag, but I have one helluva great family. My JW wife stood by me for ten years when I was drinking, fooling around , and a Baptist deacon, when she could have left.
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Having some fun
by Scorpion injust picture this.. two jehovah's witnesses walking through the local mall or shopping center on saturday morning doing what most active jws do on saturday.
trying to get in their hours to report to big brother, or in this case, mother.. the two witnesses are doing street work.
one of the witnesses is a well known jw elder in the congregation.
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Just thought I would clarify Scorpion’s work of fiction. How do I know? I was the one he was talking to.
Yes, we were working a shopping center and this kid with greasy hair and bad teeth comes up and asks what he perceives to be some sort of trick question.
The answer is as it always has been:
Well, DUH, like that’s a real revelation, that adherents of a religious faith would believe theirs to be the only true one.
Why not ask the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland who are slaughtering each other if they expect to see members of the other side sitting next to them in heaven?
Why not ask any faithful Muslim if he expects to see infidels in the afterlife?
You losers act like belief in “one way” is unique to Jehovah’s Witnesses, when in fact it has been in practice for many centuries. (Look under “I” for inquisition)
Looks like you’re the one that needs to start thinking for yourself.
Tell you what, sonny boy- go back to school, study a little history, and then come back with a question that you didn’t get off www.cliché.com. -
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by Dubby indear truthbknown,.
don't be so afraid to let the truthbknown!
devoting yourself to men and their rules puts you in a precarious position with jehovah.
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Dubby,
Why would you want to belong to an organization that has lied to you?
Let's assume JWTruth has swayed me, and I just don't feel I can trust the WTS anymore.
Where do I go and what do I believe?
It appears the posters on these boards believe many different things, but agree that the WTS as it exists presently is not showing us the way.
I would just appreciate an insight into what the new theology will consist of.
Unlike others, I have no fear of man (meaning opinions of friends and relatives) if I walk away. I just want to make sure I've found something better so I can bring them along.
So far, no-one's presenting any attractive alternatives.