Posts by Doubledecker

My Dad was an elder and he didn’t like me drawing flip book animations in the bible margins ..... that might not have been a congregation rule though 😂

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Exiting After Effects Part 2

by Victor in

approval .

as children we have a need to bond with our caregivers or parents.

this bond leads to needing their approval.

Brazen conduct

by road to nowhere in

i just noticed the clam illustration of "reject brazen conduct" a young man in service walking past 2 others drinking beer and playing cards.

i know elders who do both.

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Doubledecker

Like most things with WT, it’s who you do it with . Having a beer and playing cards with worldly people is WRONG ... playing cards with other JWS is RIGHT .

Go figure

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Do JWs believe that animals were created to live in harmony? Lion and the lamb

by Doubledecker in

thanks to all who replied to my first post, i appreciate you taking the time to do so.. i left jws for my own reasons as a teenager as i just simply didn’t believe it .

i am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the jw broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before i’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.. however i digress .... as a young kid i used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”.

like i say i was 10 years old i remember so please excuse the childish question.. but do they actually believe that was gods original plan for animals ?

Doubledecker

@magnum @redvip2000 Glad it wasn’t just me then ! ☺️

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Do JWs believe that animals were created to live in harmony? Lion and the lamb

by Doubledecker in

thanks to all who replied to my first post, i appreciate you taking the time to do so.. i left jws for my own reasons as a teenager as i just simply didn’t believe it .

i am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the jw broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before i’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.. however i digress .... as a young kid i used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”.

like i say i was 10 years old i remember so please excuse the childish question.. but do they actually believe that was gods original plan for animals ?

Doubledecker

everapostate haha

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Do JWs believe that animals were created to live in harmony? Lion and the lamb

by Doubledecker in

thanks to all who replied to my first post, i appreciate you taking the time to do so.. i left jws for my own reasons as a teenager as i just simply didn’t believe it .

i am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the jw broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before i’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.. however i digress .... as a young kid i used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”.

like i say i was 10 years old i remember so please excuse the childish question.. but do they actually believe that was gods original plan for animals ?

Doubledecker

Thanks to all who replied to my first post, I appreciate you taking the time to do so.

I left JWs for my own reasons as a teenager as I just simply didn’t believe it . I am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the JW broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before I’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.

However I digress ...

As a young kid I used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”

Like I say I was 10 years old I remember so please excuse the childish question.

But do they actually believe that was Gods original plan for animals ? I never understood why a cheetah would need to run at 100kph to catch a potato.

Im not going to ask my still in family as they will probably see it as an ‘interest’ !

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How do you feel about the JWS religion after being out more than 10, 20, 30 years ?

by Finkelstein in

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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Doubledecker

Finklestein,

further to my first post yesterday which outlines the effects the cult had on me from just 18 years exposure , I am finally starting to wake up to the fact the although I never truly believed In it , I let it pass thinking they were just another religion and that apart from causing a nuisance knocking on doors didn’t really cause any harm .

However , now, educating myself on their mind control techniques and shameful policy on child sex abuse , which I actually had experience with as a JW , I think they are a most dangerous organisation and am considering my relationship stance with my family members who are active . I would like them to wake up to

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Ex JW of 30 years , still messed up from it

by Doubledecker in

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friends

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 .

dd.

Doubledecker

hi Double decker--a warm welcome here
you:" has remained in my core beliefs."
would you care to say what your core beliefs are ?

Pretty much echoing others comments .

Fight or flight mentality is very strong, don’t take criticism, a sort of superiority complex that’s its ”my way or the highway”. But that is also countered by a feeling that whatever you do is never good enough.

Thanks to all taking the time to reply , looks like I might need to get some professional counselling to try and address these issues.

Ive had dealings with counsellors in the past but I don’t think any of them can fully understand the deep programming you have from a mind control cult.

For a few years, I still had some irrational fears of demons even though I knew it was Poppycock

Yes , I agree with this . I still don’t like watching supernatural horror movies ! Similarly I have stayed away from ‘apostate’ articles and videos but go have recently let myself read them and find it very educational .

One thing I was really surprised at was that JWorg is now doing broadcasts , and how evangelical and false it seems looking from the outside in . I can’t believe my family , parents and siblings buy into it!