The second biggest scam for me (not counting the WT) was my sister. I always believed that as family, we would look out for each other. Also, that she wouldn't lie to me. Wrong on those two as well as many others.
days of future passed
JoinedPosts by days of future passed
-
13
Have You Ever Been Scammed?
by minimus inof course we all were scammed while we were jehovah’s witnesses.
i’m thinking of ways besides religion.. a popular scam is to get a call from your electric company saying they overbilled you and needed to verify your name, address and social security number.
then they will send you your money back.
-
-
-
33
Special meeting next month (February 2020)
by Jofi_Wofo init was announced today that we will have a special weekend meeting next month.
it will be 3 hours long and will include some streamed content.. no explanation was given as to what the meeting will be about, only that it will be exciting and we will not want to miss it..
-
-
days of future passed
Hear any chatter about it after the meeting? Probably how now easily to donate money by having automatic withdrawing from your bank account by the WT.
-
6
Poem about shunning.
by R1001 inthe shunning .
he places the smiles .
wherever politeness asks, .
-
-
days of future passed
You have a lot of truth in that poem. What most have gone thru and more will go thru. I don't find it negative, it's just your experience and frustration and sadness.
Keep writing.
-
8
The large shield of blind[ing] faith
by waton in2 thoughts on yesterday's jan 19.
2020 wt study.
no 46 wt nov 2019.. the shield of faith, that jws are told to hide behind is so large, page 19, that if held comfortably would require it to have rear view mirrors, (to see 1975).
-
-
days of future passed
I saw the picture on reddit they used. Most significant to me was that they used a woman in the illustration and not a man. How many times in the past did they use a man, most probably an Israelite, to wield that shield?
So they are recognizing that they better bolster up the "large" army of women cause the men are leaving. Wow really, I am pretty surprised with that.
-
26
Watchtower Study March 2020.....Make peace with your brothers
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .
4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.
(read matthew 5:23, 24.
-
-
days of future passed
JTrottigy
My, my. So many who perceive that they may have been wronged. Didn't the lord and savior Jesus Christ counsel to remove the rafter from your own eye so you could see how to remove the (tiny) straw from your brothers eye? And what about let the one without sin cast the first stone. I must be in good company here as so many of you are perfect.
This is how they guilt people into not standing up for themselves.By the way, from the mouth of the Watchtower itself:Tampering Discovered and Corrected
It was obvious from the start that the text of Tischendorf’s discovery was basically identical with that which was the foundation for today’s Bibles. Yet it revealed evidence of tampering.
An example is the familiar account at John 8:1-11 (Authorized Version) about an adulterous woman about to be stoned, and that reports Jesus as saying, ‘Let him that is without sin cast the first stone.’ It was not in this early manuscript. So later editions of the Bible have removed it or put it in a footnote to refine the Bible text. Other additions were also found and deleted.
So using a "tampered" text is funny coming from a JW.
-
26
Watchtower Study March 2020.....Make peace with your brothers
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .
4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.
(read matthew 5:23, 24.
-
-
days of future passed
I just found it annoying that articles like that, only had results from the "nice" people who did try to smooth things over. The takers and the mean ones - they never apologized. In fact, I think it encouraged the selfish to take advantage of the others because people who were trying to be christian, were guilted into forgiving them without any evidence of "repentance".
-
54
Adam could have put Jehovah In Paradox!
by JohnTron72 ini'm going to be the first and throw this out there for others but, from careful study of the scriptures i've found a loophole that even adam who was perfect at the time missed!
i'm sure everyone has heard the conundrum about ,"can god create a rock he can't lift?
" and if he can't create one he can't lift, then god cannot do everything" well that doesn't really matter since we know jehovah says himself he cannot lie right?
-
-
days of future passed
It was also punishable by death to have sex with a married woman. Also it was a penalty of death to murder another person. Saying sorry wasn't a condition to get out of it. It was also against the law to count the people. How many died because of it? All of these things were done by David. He got confronted and only then did he say sorry.
I guess it's good to be a favorite of God - you get to say sorry and live. Unlike the regular people like Uzzah. He didn't a chance to repent. And as I said before, David was responsible for not having it carried by the levites.
NOVEMBER 15, 2012 study article
Life was considered sacred under the Law. A deliberate murderer could in no way be exonerated. He was to be put to death without fail. Thus in Numbers 35:30-33 we read: “Every fatal striker of a soul should be slain as a murderer at the mouth of witnesses, and one witness may not testify against a soul for him to die. And you must take no ransom for the soul of a murderer who is deserving to die, for without fail he should be put to death. . . . And you must not pollute the land in which you are; because it is blood that pollutes the land, and for the land there may be no atonement respecting the blood that has been spilled upon it except by the blood of the one spilling it.” This law removed such a wicked person from Israelite society. He did not run free to commit more murders.
I am not saying that there shouldn't be consequences for actions that hurt others. I am showing that God picks and chooses his justice depending on the person - it isn't consistent. Is it fair that the child died because of David and Bathsheba's lust?
From the same study article as above:
(Deuteronomy 24:16) 16 “Fathers should not be put to death on account of children, and children should not be put to death on account of fathers. Each one should be put to death for his own sin.
-
8
Pressures from world is like wind
by road to nowhere inthat lesson for today likens holy spirit to wind.
any sailor knows you have to sail across or into the wind to get someplace.
the wind will shipwreck you.
-
-
days of future passed
Do you mean that they are emphasizing that you have to "tack" to go forward? As in "we get to swerve back and forth in our teachings to go straight?" Or are you trying to formulate an answer to counter it?
-
54
Adam could have put Jehovah In Paradox!
by JohnTron72 ini'm going to be the first and throw this out there for others but, from careful study of the scriptures i've found a loophole that even adam who was perfect at the time missed!
i'm sure everyone has heard the conundrum about ,"can god create a rock he can't lift?
" and if he can't create one he can't lift, then god cannot do everything" well that doesn't really matter since we know jehovah says himself he cannot lie right?
-
-
days of future passed
To define unconditional love is to say that a person loves someone unselfishly, that he or she cares about the happiness of the other person and will do anything to help that person feel happiness without expecting anything in return. In other words, the definition of unconditional love is "love without conditions."Nov 28, 2019
Animals can give this kind of love and most will say that dogs exemplify that quality. When I've had nothing else in this world, I've held my dog, cat, rat and have at least been comforted by them. You are right, God has conditional love.
That is why many who are raised in the JW religion have felt anxious about how God is judging them. Was I forgiven? Will the mistake I did, keep me from being in the paradise? What if I make a wrong decision during the Great Tribulation and that takes away my chance at life? One tiny mistake, and you are gone.
There are many that have expressed those fears to me and I myself who have grown up in this religion, have felt them too.
If God is love, why did he allow Adam and Eve to have children? Just like the child of David & Bathsheba whom God killed as a punishment to David, we are also "killed" by God as a punishment to Adam. That child suffered several days before dying. We can suffer years before dying of old age, diseases, genetic malfunctions etc. Heck we don't even have to be old to suffer and die. How many millions/billions have experienced this already? Yet God, because he loves us, wants to be absolutely sure that everyone knows how bad it is to disobey him. And so the suffering goes on and on. Oh I forgot, he wants us to know that it hurts him too.
-
32
confused with nowhere to turn
by Rebecca ini'm 43 and a divorced mother of 2. in january 2019 i met the man i thought i could spend the rest of my life with.
we were happy and even though our relationship wasn't perfect (like all relationships) i thought we had a chance and were building a life together with our young kids.
background on me - i've been divorced since 2012 after 12 years of marriage.
-
-
days of future passed
His whole family is JW and his mother is very sick.
This is what probably started his return. Once he contacted them again, his mother would express a wish for him to come back to Jehovah.
If he has never examined the religion and came to the realization that it isn't truthful at all, it's like a virus that has reactivated. Probably he has been living life while looking over his shoulder in fear of Armageddon. Or the other reason may be that in order for him to have time with his mom before she dies, he was willing to sacrifice you and your children. Because JW's shun as others have said. That would have meant no contact if she and the others are hard case witnesses.Sorry that you have to be betrayed like that. The religion doesn't really care about those that follow them no matter what their literature says. It's just money that they care about.