Posts by days of future passed

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Did you ever buy into 1975?

by tornapart in

for those of you that can remember.... did you really believe that armageddon was going to come in 1975?

i was a child of the 60s, in my teens in the 70s and can honestly say that i never bought into it.

i saw brothers and sisters selling their homes and moving into rented property.

I believed it like I believed everything else they said. Since I knew that God would kill me at armageddon, it was terrifying. I remember the part of the talk where the speaker said that it had been 6,000 years that Adam had been created. How long did it take for him to name the animals? Not long. How long after that was Eve created? Not long. So brothers and Sisters, it won't be long for the new order to be here. You could have heard someone cough on the other side of the stadium because the audience was silent. (this isn't word for word but you get the idea)

The WT has on several occasions in the past years, mocked those that sincerely followed what the Society said. Hahaha laughing even. Cruel evil money loving jerks. I mean those that are in the shadows behind the GB. The GB are over inflated ego loving jerks.

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Coping With Parents' Becoming Jehovah's Witnesses

by DNCall in

my sister recently wrote a short piece on the impact of our parents' becoming jehovah's witnesses in the 1950s.

she was a teenager at the time.

what is so striking and disturbing is that the same predicament faces so many teenagers to this day.

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That's great that she escaped and had support doing it. There are some on the board that are of that age and I hope it helps them.

It's fortunate that she had a strong sense of life outside the JW world. Those like me who were drug to meetings at 5, or were born in, knew nothing else.

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We don't take collections like other religions do...

by Alfred in

i think this screen shot says it all... need i say more?.

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I like the part about the rewards program. Do you get extra points in Paradise? Maybe points go towards being a MS or Elder. For sisters, points towards Head of the Cleaning Crew?

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Laziness of JW parents?

by stuckinarut2 in

it seems that many witness parents are simply taking the lazy option when it comes to raising their children.. by this i mean, they will happily outsource the education of their kids to the ready-made information on jwdotorg.. need to keep the toddler busy?

just stick him in front of a colourful caleb and sophia cartoon.

or lets play coloring-in on ready made pictures of bible characters getting killed.. need to manipulate the mind of your growing child?

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I recently checked out a kid vid there. Poor Caleb had a talk with all those hard biblical names in it. What was Dad's solution? Practice with Caleb on how to say them? NO He had a much better way. Talk about God's name and how it means He will help you with those difficult names.

So Dad didn't have to spend time with Caleb except to pray. Amazingly, Caleb could pronounce them all! Now Caleb knows that instead of bugging dad for help, he should just pray.

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How Many Here EVER Considered Going Back To Meetings?

by minimus in

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once i left ,i was done.

in over 10 years i didn't return except for my mother's funeral.

did you ever re enter the kh after you left?.

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The last few meetings were excruciating. I had to keep my head down so no one saw my mouth drop open at the audacity of the Governing Body to use scriptures to boast about themselves. Have you ever experienced sleep walking? Where you believe you are at a certain place or doing something and it is real - until you realize that it can't be true and you are dreaming? The scene suddenly dissolves and you see what is really there.

Going back would be like going to an episode of the Twilight Zone. You'd see people who don't know that they are in a never ending dream. Anyone see "Dark City"? Always riding the train trying to get to the beach and never arriving.

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Make Your Excellent Point to a JW, But- Remember, it's a Mind Control Cult.

by OnTheWayOut in

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so i am reading from many that they have an excellent thought-stopper for jw's.

(remember reasoning from the scriptures used "thought-stoppers?

)"if you just show them [this scripture or use this logic or expose this problem with the organization], you will shut them down.".

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I agree that thinking that you'll spring an amazing question on a JW that they can't answer, will get them out, probably won't work.

But from my own experience, little annoying truths might eventually make a difference. Maybe I shouldn't say annoying but disturbing.

I'm presently working on a "sister" at work. She knows that I don't believe it's the truth anymore but has that duo thinking going on. Yes it's ok to talk to me as long as I don't discuss scriptures and maybe she can help me....

When ISIS was going around destroying artifacts and buildings, she lamented over the loss of art. I said well, they think of them as pagan. The Israelites went around destroying temples and art too. Then I shrugged. ISIS is just doing the same thing I said. Deer In Headlights Stare.

ISIS throwing homosexuals off the building - Israelites gutting women and children.... Stare.... She didn't talk about ISIS after that.

It may never get her out, but there may be other incidents she'll experience that will cause her to reflect on these disturbing examples and her view of the "truth" might change.

See for me, the Dateline show from 20+ years ago and an elder saying at a bookstudy "we don't need to tell the truth" (meaning we could lie) were saved up for years until other things happened.

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Christian Farm

by Ray Frankz in

by the time i'm in this forum i suppose plenty of you have already made the obvious comparison between the wt and many totalitarian kinds of government.. based on the 1984 novel by orwell, a satiric comment about the socialist regime, it's amazing how it fits almost perfectly the history of the wt.. the farms= the christendom (mainly ruled by the roman catholic church).

the animal farm = the bible students group.

the pigs = the wt leaders in brooklyn.

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Eerie how Orwell understood how it all works, isn't it?

Thanks for taking the time to write it out like that. I'm not sure I could read Animal Farm again (so annoyingly true about the WT) so having a list of the major points makes it simple to remember as well as the comparison of the wT.

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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

by flipper in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnT9LmmlLXw

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Today's Text for J.W.'s

by The Fall Guy in

's perverted & self-condemnatory language is inescapable.

"......but what does this tell us about our enemy satan?.........

he certainly does not have a soft spot for children.

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We can't even count on the angels to help us out because they have to keep Jehovah's chariot detailed. Oh but god has given us weapons to defeat this lion. We only have to wave the Watchtower and Awake magazines in his face to make him cower.

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Return of the Dub (plus surprise guest)

by TerryWalstrom in

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return of the dub (plus surprise guest)dealing with just one frisky, bright-eyed jehovah’s witness is a handful.one on one is manageable.

two jw’s is more like juggling chainsaws or french kissing alligators.i had a return visit the other day and now, the jw was returning the 2nd time, but with another dub.what would my strategy be?

that’s how the day was spent.

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Haha All the scriptures that were meant for you, will now be used on Cheerful Earl to rid him of those uneasy thoughts.

And like Vivian Leigh in Gone With the Wind, the elder will advise that "Tomorrow is another Day" and smile.

But I imagine that Earl will keep in my mind several points. One being what you said about your Grandfather and all those religious salesmen. Another being how to view events in a different light. Those might rattle around in his brain for a long while.