but im still in and on the fence.
" remember who owns the fence?".
shunning needs to be tempered.
I agree with your sentiments, venting. But....
One change you could implement immediately, fence sitting or not, is using a spellchecker. Decission, shunn, parrents, alot, embarising??
Seriously? Misspelling on that scale takes some effort.
And let's not even get started on the apostrophe abuse.
i am going to throw down the gaunlet.
those who know the truth but stay in anyways are complicit in actions of the jehovah witness organization.
while i am sympathetic to the very difficult choices that they have to make, their unwillingness to confront the jw enables the organization.. some of you may remember my story.
I agree with the OP's premise.
Those who know the TATT and yet continue to stay in are helping to prop up and enable this evil.
It would greatly damage the organisation if those hypocritical people just left. There are elders who are disfellowshipping and destroying the lives of others (some are active on this board) who know the real truth about the society. This is just wrong.
The jws thrive on numbers. They beat their flock around the head with the statistics of growth and the numerical weight of the amount of people attending. Everyone who goes along to meetings helps them in this regard. Your presence is noted, recorded and used to keep the rank and file in line. Even lowly "sisters" warming a chair in the hall assist in this.
Yes it is difficult and painful and it can have long lasting consequences, if you decide to make a stand and stop being part of the organisation. But if you choose to stay in while knowing the TATT you have to acknowledge that you are contributing a small part to the misery of others.
when you were a devout jw.
did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.
or that this was actually even possible deep down?.
@a watcher " It's like being in love. I talk to Him in prayers, He answers me with actions."
If you think that having a 'relationship' with an imaginary, invisible old guy in the sky, is "like being in love", than I can guarantee that you have never really been in love with a real, warm, flesh and blood, passionate fellow human.
when you were a devout jw.
did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.
or that this was actually even possible deep down?.
Nope. No relationship with Jahoover. Tried a few times but it just didn't take.
I hate his guts with a passion now though.
according to the bible humans cannot be older than 6,000 years old...... yet more evidence obviously planted by satan to mislead us has been found:.
.. .. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27432234.
the ancient remains of a teenage girl discovered deep underground in mexico are providing additional insights on how the americas came to be populated.. divers found the juvenile's bones by chance in a vast, flooded limestone chamber on the yucatan peninsula.. aged 15 or 16 at death, the girl lived at least 12,000 years ago.. researchers have told science magazine her dna backs the idea that the first americans and modern native american indians share a common ancestry.. this theory argues that people from siberia settled on the land bridge dubbed beringia that linked asia and the americas some 20,000 years ago before sea levels rose.. sea levels 20,000 years ago were low enough to expose a land bridge across the bering seathese people then moved south to populate the american continents.. the genetics of modern native americans would certainly appear to link them into this story.
Satan, he's a crafty bugger.
over the next five years we will be reading through the book again and commenting at the highlights.
here are some jewels to comment on in the next few years:.
this year:.
TL;DR
do they actually believe that if they tell you that you are "missed", that you will desire to return to the sheepfold?
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Evidently, some people love the taste of vomit.
Lots of people posting here know it's puke, but they keep lapping it up anyway.
so i am sitting here at the meeting during the "book study".... the study is all about gods protective power!.
oh, yes, protective power....for righteous servants of his.....but what about all those who are trying to be good witnesses, serving the gb, who are not protected from harm?
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Get up and leave. Never go back.
You only go along because you think you have to.
When you do finally leave, one of your biggest regrets will be that you didn't do it sooner.
You are, quite literally, wasting your life.
i have lots and lots of watchtower literature... and i don't know what could be useful in the future to have as a reference or as a keeper.
i am definitely keeping the 1993 and 1994 bound volumes of the awake!
(no, we are not false prophets... down in the same page, the generation of 1914 will not pass... also the youths who put god the watchtower first).
Send it all in for recycling.
i have fed a number of birds regularly thru winter, and among the species were some doves.
this spring, two of them took a liking for each other and teamed up.
for a couple of weeks, extensive construction work was jointly done and resulted in a nice little nest, undoubtedly a cosy home for the small family which expected to multiply.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
