Posts by KerryKing

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Watch Tower PA sues Russia in DC district over confiscation of Bethel

by Corney in

the watch tower society of pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on september 3, 2024, naming as defendants the russian federation, the russian ministry of health, and the almazov national medical research center.

unfortunately, i can't access the case documents, including the complaint.

i would appreciate if someone with an active pacer account could make them available.. anyway, it is enough to know the almazov center is one of the entities sued by the wts to say what this case is about.

KerryKing

How much suffering are they causing the rnf indirectly by pi!ss!ng off the Russian state this way?

It's like Malawi all over again. Makes my blood boil!

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Why so many cult leaders have weird relationship issues and dysfunctional marriages?

by buzkid in

why do so many cult leaders have weird relationship issues and dysfunctional marriages?russell coudn't get along with his wife mariah.

rutherford had trouble with his wife and sent her away.. eric wilson says it's o.k.

if you don't get legally married as long as you have a "spiritual marriage" in his latest video response to the situation of people coming forward complaining about the abusive religious tactics his "wife" practices and he condones.. i ask this question in a previous post but it deserves it's own discussion definitely:why is it that so many cult leaders have weird relationship issues and dysfunctional marriages?.

KerryKing

Eric is right in that a legal marriage was never a biblical requirement, that came centuries later.

It isn't a legal requirement anymore today either, a common law marriage is accepted in most western nations, but for inheritance and tax purposes, a legal marriage is still often preferred.

The WT uses the paying Caesar's things back to Caesar as a reason to be legally married but thats taking the verse completely out of context, as it refers to taxation, not marriage. The WT is also REALLY good at only applying this to their r and f but never themselves as an organisation.

In fairness to Eric, he has exposed the WT and Christendom lies re women and their role in first century Christianity, he acknowledges clearly that the scriptures speak of women judges, prophets, apostles, teachers and healers.

Whether Eric and Wendy are legally married or not is nobody's business but their own, same goes for anyone else.

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follower of Eric Wilson, abusive to single women covered by paying sums of money to support Beroean Pickets tourism trips.

by buzkid in

susanne eigenheer is an ex-jw and suffered religious abuse in eric wilson's group.

her personal statement and experiences within the beroean pickets study groups was one of betrayal where she was taken advantage of financially.

in one text conversation, wendy wiens disfellowshiped susanne and demanded an apology from her.

KerryKing

I've recently realised that many of us who left the JWS still carry the belief that the bible has all the answers, if only we interpret it right.

For which we believe we need to pray and ask for holy spirit, in order to understand.

Then arises the scenario, and I see this in all the ex jw groups; Hey, I understand now, because I HAVE hs! If you don't agree/understand like I do then you obv do NOT have hs!

There's a constant them v us thinking.

Yet the Bible is a product of human writing, we're regurgitating and perpetuating the very notions and cultural beliefs that Jesus actively resisted. That's the scholarly and historical conclusion to the life and ministry of Jesus, without any religious interpretation.

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I need to vent sorry!

by KerryKing in

i couldn't get back to sleep last night, something my father said a few weeks ago popped into my head.. we were talking about obtaining citizenship, he doesn't need it, but was contemplating what benefits it could get him now he's a pensioner.. background : i've been disfellowhipped for 15 years, i was born in, he is an elder, very much pimi, he was also born in.. i said to him how citizenship would be difficult for him as it would require him to swear allegiance to the state?.

oh he said, thats just a crowd of people together in a big room for the swearing in event, it would be easy to just mumble or say nothing, nobody would know.. this has quietly been eating away in my mind, why did it bother me?.

last night it hit me, when i was in my first year of school, age 5, i came out of school one day with a balloon with two little pencils attached, a gift from a classmate who's birthday it was, every child got one.

KerryKing

I didn't know the WT went back on the military service requirement? When did that change?

When I lived in Spain in the 90s I knew men who refused the military and had to do some other public job like library assistant.

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follower of Eric Wilson, abusive to single women covered by paying sums of money to support Beroean Pickets tourism trips.

by buzkid in

susanne eigenheer is an ex-jw and suffered religious abuse in eric wilson's group.

her personal statement and experiences within the beroean pickets study groups was one of betrayal where she was taken advantage of financially.

in one text conversation, wendy wiens disfellowshiped susanne and demanded an apology from her.

KerryKing

https://youtu.be/_zid2LUFPME?si=wQBRmgTMZQVMwxtq

Eric's response to the situation.

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I need to vent sorry!

by KerryKing in

i couldn't get back to sleep last night, something my father said a few weeks ago popped into my head.. we were talking about obtaining citizenship, he doesn't need it, but was contemplating what benefits it could get him now he's a pensioner.. background : i've been disfellowhipped for 15 years, i was born in, he is an elder, very much pimi, he was also born in.. i said to him how citizenship would be difficult for him as it would require him to swear allegiance to the state?.

oh he said, thats just a crowd of people together in a big room for the swearing in event, it would be easy to just mumble or say nothing, nobody would know.. this has quietly been eating away in my mind, why did it bother me?.

last night it hit me, when i was in my first year of school, age 5, i came out of school one day with a balloon with two little pencils attached, a gift from a classmate who's birthday it was, every child got one.

KerryKing

Thanks for all your honest viewpoints, I appreciate the understanding.

I will move on, as I have always done, I am content that my children will never have to live with the mental abuse like we did, they can believe and celebrate what they want, I just can't bring myself to lie about a fat man in red bringing presents down the chimney! 😅🙈

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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

KerryKing

I'm never confident about anything the government tells me, unless they promise to raise taxes, I'm very confident they will do that.

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I need to vent sorry!

by KerryKing in

i couldn't get back to sleep last night, something my father said a few weeks ago popped into my head.. we were talking about obtaining citizenship, he doesn't need it, but was contemplating what benefits it could get him now he's a pensioner.. background : i've been disfellowhipped for 15 years, i was born in, he is an elder, very much pimi, he was also born in.. i said to him how citizenship would be difficult for him as it would require him to swear allegiance to the state?.

oh he said, thats just a crowd of people together in a big room for the swearing in event, it would be easy to just mumble or say nothing, nobody would know.. this has quietly been eating away in my mind, why did it bother me?.

last night it hit me, when i was in my first year of school, age 5, i came out of school one day with a balloon with two little pencils attached, a gift from a classmate who's birthday it was, every child got one.

KerryKing

I couldn't get back to sleep last night, something my father said a few weeks ago popped into my head.

We were talking about obtaining citizenship, he doesn't need it, but was contemplating what benefits it could get him now he's a pensioner.

Background : I've been disfellowhipped for 15 years, I was born in, he is an elder, very much pimi, he was also born in.

I said to him how citizenship would be difficult for him as it would require him to swear allegiance to the state?

Oh he said, thats just a crowd of people together in a big room for the swearing in event, it would be easy to just mumble or say nothing, nobody would know.

This has quietly been eating away in my mind, why did it bother me?

Last night it hit me, when I was in my first year of school, age 5, I came out of school one day with a balloon with two little pencils attached, a gift from a classmate who's birthday it was, every child got one. Walking home with my mother, she said how said Jehovah was that I had accepted a birthday party gift, and how happy Satan was. As she walked on, she heard a bang behind her, I had stuffed the balloon and pencils into the nearest bin.

I have no memory of this, but I have grown up with the story and my parents pride in 'my decision' to please Jehovah.

This doesnt even touch on all the explanations in school about why I didn't celebrate birthdays, xmas, easter, halloween, valentines, or play sports, participate in school plays etc etc. From the age of 5, I was expected to and emotionally blackmailed to live up to the standards of my parents religion.

Then last night I remembered all those kids in the USA and elsewhere who had to deal with national anthems and flag saluting at their schools, it was always in the WT, and us kids were constantly being reminded how good and brave those kids were, how loved by Jehovah.

And now, the parents who held us to those standards, who told us we would die at Armageddon if we didn't, are doing the very thing we were practically blackmailed and bullied into not doing.

Right now I feel angry, and its the first time in 15 years that I have felt angry, betrayed actually.

They can't live up to the standards they set for their own children, and crumble at the first hurdle.

Am I completely over reacting?? Am I just rambling through insomnia??

And if I'm not nuts, should I have this conversation with my parents, or is it too late? Maybe venting here is the best way to release? 🙊

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Memories of Excessive Laughter

by Sea Breeze in

jw
friends

jw's are not known for laughter.

there are the rare exceptions.

they are more known for their fear mongering and doomsday scenarios where "the dead shall come to be as manure on the surface of the ground from one end of the earth clear to the other".

KerryKing

First thing my husband said when he attended his first ever JW meeting years ago, was how sour everyone looked with deeply lined down turned lips!

He said as much to my pimi parents who were taken aback, 'But people usually comment how happy we look!'

No, people don't say that about JWs, the WT just tells them that.

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

KerryKing

I remember JWs saying that Christmas is like throwing a birthday party for the birthday boy, everyone bringing presents for each other, but not for Jesus, and how sad and left out he would feel on his own birthday.

The sheer amount of emotional manipulation, especially on the poor JW children who have to go through months of this hype at school, is the disgusting bit.

All the daft arguments about whether it was 'commanded' or not, Jesus commanded people to love each other, that's it. The rest was left up to individuals themselves. That's the whole and sole point of being a Jesus follower.

Not lording it over each other, not mastering another's faith.

Jesus never commanded anyone to write down his teachings, or that those teachings should be compiled into a book to bash others over the head with, and control them with.