i was informed today by a jw that the watchtower doesn't use images and propaganda to instil fear.
i would really like to see a compilation of all their armageddon illustrations.
maybe a thread or web page already exists that had this content.. the one i am really wanting is the most recent picture of the witnesses in the basement during the tribulation.. this will be a massive help so thank you..
I was born in 1958 and I got goose bumps looking at that pic. The earth opening up in the right of the picture is branded in my mind from a tender age. I used to fall asleep in the KH on a day bed at the rear of the Hall provided for the purpose of putting infants down to sleep during the fear mongering. Night terrors for the next 30 odd years!
Bastards!
myself being a born in and completely out for more than 30 years i see more of the damage of what this religious cult causes people .. part of myself leaving had to do with the psychological harm it was causing people back in the 1970's, one guy my age at the time hung himself out anxiety and depression.. the numerous suicides that have occurred in numbers is shocking to say the least.. then there is the many families breaking up.. marriages breaking apart because one member decides to leave the jws.. the deaths of members or their children from refusing a blood transfusion.. this hit me personally when my mother refused a bt when she was ill in the hospital and died.. over the years and observing all of these things reminds me how glad and fortunate i left when i did but i do find it responsible to others to expose this religious cult to what can happen to people who get involved with it and that's what i've been doing on this forum and elsewhere.
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I have been out for forty plus years but only really truly mentally out for a few years. I was real angry for a couple of years when I woke up properly then a bit sorry for myself for a while. Now I rarely discuss it unless someone else starts to talk about religion and don't visit ExJWsites as much. Pretty much over it I guess. I get that they are an evil and nasty cult but I don't allow them any more power over me.Free and happy!
hi , this is my first post .. i left jws 30 years ago as 18 year old unbaptised youth and after the initial fallout from leaving pretty much put the whole thing in a box and buried it .. however , i am now starting to realise how much the doomsday messages and the ‘them and us’ doctrines that’s fed to you from birth has remained in my core beliefs.. how have others managed to reprogram themselves ?.
thanks for reading , have a good day .
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Hi doubledecker, I too was born in, left about 18 years old and it took me fourty years to shake the chains off. For me it was education that cured me. By that I mean researching the JWs and religion generally and reading Crisis of Conscience, Captives of a Concept, every word of JWfacts website and every exJW group I could sign up to. Also have a very loyal and supportive "worldly" wife, that helped heaps.
Now I sleep well; no more nightmares. I can watch movies with supernatural themes without getting anxious and have never felt so emotionally well. I also cut relations with my still in family so they could not "trigger " me anymore.
Atheist and free and happy!!
for the past year, the trial for this jw has been going on.
he was sentenced on 12/19 .. http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/10/23/13-years-of-sexual-abuse-results-in-37-year-sentence/.
i have been following the comments on fb regarding the aftereffects of this case, and there have been quite a lot of incendiary statements about what a scum he is.. one lady posted the following comments about how the witnesses deal with abusers is quite hilarious :.
This woman alleges she has witnessed first hand the turning of others over to the authorities for child abuse. How many pedos do they have in their ranks? She didn't think that through before she started telling porky pies now did she? So is it apostate lies or do they have a huge pedo problem?
i'm not really sure where to put this post or "thread", so i'll just put it in the physical activities area.
i just want to know if anyone on the forum has any experience with having a hip replacement surgery done on them, or perhaps a friend or relative.
what was your experience, if it was you?
My Mum had both done, a couple of years apart in her late sixties. Very good outcome, no problems at all.Now in her late 80s, all good still.
so i use to go this hall that was basically 100 percent white and basically anyone under the age of 40 has either faded or makes a token effort to keep the peace at home, of course outside of the usual dregs of society .
the hall went from two congs to one and i was quite happy that in ten years they would be lights out.
then in the last two years about six young filipino families have moved in and three of them are newly baptized .
Not at all, I have met fools and A'holes of various colours and creeds including good ole white boys. I have also had good relationships with "people of colour". We are one race; humans, many of the problems we see are the result of religion. I can't count the amount of times I tell people just because I am anti-Muslim does not make me racist, it is a religion not a race. I should point out I am anti religion generally, not just picking on Islam.
probably not new to many of you but i'm gonna post it anyway!.
i went to a circuit assembly last week at the fremont, ca assembly hall in fremont, ca to be with my wife so she could be there to 'witness' the baptism of a person she "studied" with about 2 decades ago!.
at the main entry to the assembly hall there are 3 or 4 large double door entrances.
My father is so deluded he tithed his entire working life and even into his retirement.He would donate the entire proceeds of his hobby, selling plants and flowers, to the BORG not even holding back an amount the Gov't would allow pensioners to earn. I should do the math one day, be a lot of money; over 60 years a WT slave.
Now he and Mum are frail and when I ask how many of the "friends" come to help them I am met with silence or excuses on behalf of the missing "friends".
Let's review; it's a cult!
i posted some time back that i was having vision difficulties.
at sydney eye hospital it was determined that i had no other serious eye problems except a growing cataract.. i was referred to another hospital for a removal of the natural lens in my left eye and its replacement by an artificial lens,.
had that operation a week ago - no problems except my iris did not expand enough to permit the lens procedure, so they had to use hooks to expand it, turning a less than 30 minute operation into a 90 minute procedure.. all very professional and first class treatment.
"There is a lot that was not recorded",
Tenacious,how then do you have knowledge of these unrecorded miracles? Or do you mean that they are not in the Bible but recorded elsewhere?
Fulltime, I too have had successful cataract surgery thanks to the miracle of modern medicine and the Aus healthcare system.My perception of color is now a little different,I love it. One eye sees blue light and the original equipment sees yellow light; very obvious when viewing white objects. Fascinating!
study watchtower october 2019, page 12, par.
17 - "a true christian must make sure that his secular employment has nothing to do with babylon the great.
for example, he would not be an employee of a church.
"And if he owns a business, he would certainly not bid on a job or do contract work for any part of Babylon the Great."
I have a JW contact who I regularly give contracts to in my role as Senior Grounds Person at a Catholic school.He does fine work too.And before he got ill his father used to labor for him.
They, father and son, used to call regularly at my home in the course of their preaching activity until my brazen apostasy put a stop to that. He still took a contract as recently as 6 months ago, long after my apostasy was revealed, he never flinched, drove in, measured, quoted and accepted the job.Good price and well done.I'm pretty sure Catholic money would be as dirty as anyones.
I just laughed my arse off! I look forward to any future opportunity to offer him a contract.
PS..I am not a Catholic which worries my employer not at all.
if it does not have hips it dies if i see it.
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I live in rural Australia and we have snakes! Mulga, king brown, dugite, western brown,tiger, death adder,just to name a few.These are the ones I am familiar with, the country as a whole has quite a few more types, most venomous and a few deadly depending which region you live in.
Now and then we see one in the house yard but I know that there are many more that go unseen. If one is near the house and I can dispatch it safely I will do so other wise I will quietly watch them 'til they bugger off. Even aggressive ones will go away if you give them a chance.They have a role to play in the ecosystem. Always keep my eye out when tending the chickens or feeding the horse in warm weather. It is not common for people to die from them, considering. More people die driving up the coast road in holiday season!
