Help with acceptance for JW family still in

by MaryKN in

well, it's been a long time!

i first lurked here around 20 years ago and read huge amounts of threads which certainly helped when i was making my decision to leave the religion.

i was never baptised (resisted it!

smiddy3

Help with acceptance for JW family still in

YOU just need to accept that they are happy being JW`s in their delusional state of mind and get your head around the fact that they never want to know or believe they are in a false /cult religion.

You getting frustrated because of their continued trying to influence /convert you to their way of thinking is not doing your health any good

Maybe you need to step back and minimize your association with your family and take a low key and just see how much they want to keep in touch with you once they know for sure you dont want to be a part of the JW religion.

You are not going to change their thinking however they believe they can change yours.

Once you make it plain to them they cant you will be dropped like a hot potato.

Don`t put yourself through such trauma go and find new friends and acquaintances.

What sort of family will only truly accept you on their terms only.

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Just woke up turn TV on to hear yet another nut case with a gun.

by Still Totally ADD in

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first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.

now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.

whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.

smiddy3

I fail to understand why a country ,any country has different laws in different states .Surely it makes more sense for a nation to have uniform laws all over the country ?

I believe their are currently 630,000 machine guns registered with the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms,and Explosives,including law enforcement weapons in the country.

In the past 18 months there have been more than 500 mass shootings in the USA in which 4 or more people have been injured or killed.

And unless the pro and anti gun lobbies find a way to negotiate sensible reforms there will be many more deaths and injuries.

The USA has a population roughly of 325 million people with over 300 million firearms strewn among the population .

The future does not look good to me unless the American Government gets serious and acts on Gun Control .

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When is the last time you saw an educated middle class family become Jehovah's Witnesses?

by xjwsrock in

we know from casual observation that if anybody does respond to their preaching/recruiting work it is usually someone that is a social misfit in some way or a person that was indoctrinated early in life.. think about all the nicer neighborhoods witnesses preach in.

if a family of four with a father that is an engineer and a mother who is a medical professional ever walked into a kingdom hall for the first time and said they were studying, people would faint.

lol.... this of course isn't what you would expect from a religion backed by the ultimate intelligent creator.

smiddy3

Dw, Now I know what Jehovah thought of me .

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Need help understanding the Overlapping Generation teaching

by Jules Saturn in

so this is a topic that seriously boggles my mind and please correct me if i'm wrong.

to me, the jw definition of the overlapping generation teaching is that the lives of the anointed from 1914 overlap with the lives of the anointed right now.

david splane used the example of fred franz and how he finished his "earthly course" in 1992 but while he did, he had a lot of "contemporaries" that outlived him and are currently living today.

smiddy3

Don`t we all ? LOL ?

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Why should WE be the bloodguilty ones??

by stuckinarut2 in

it struck me just how odd and weird it is that jws are told that if they do not preach, they are "bloodguilty" for failing to warn people of the upcoming destruction at armageddon.. hang on a minute now, hang on!.

why should a mere human be made to feel "bloodguilty" and "responsible" for "failing to warn someone" of gods wrath??.

these average people are not the ones who are about to unleash a genocidal massacre on 99% of humanity (including babies born to non-witnesses).

smiddy3

A Good point stuck ,just another example of us ex JW`s accepting something without thinking it through in our willingness to believe whatever came out of the G.B.`s mouth but not anymore.

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JW Stumper Questions - List You Best Here

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.

sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.

just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.

smiddy3

Why, in all of the illustrations in J.W literature of the anointed in heaven are they portrayed as men with beards.?

Aren`t their women in your organization that are women who are of the Anointed ? It`s not just restricted to men ?

So why are all the illustrations in your publications portrayed as only men ?

{J.W}. because in heaven their is no gender neither male or female .

{You}. If their is no gender neither male or female then why are those pictured as having beards ? doesn`t that give the impression that they are all male ? and that their are no females ruling with Christ Jesus.?

how do you answer this conundrum ?

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"Oh, That Fine Red Glow" in Brooklyn

by Wild_Thing in

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this journalist's love of the watchtower sign in brooklyn is a bit disturbing ... and weird.

i assume he was not raised a jehovah's witness, as the sign evokes fond memories for him seeing the sign's night glow of red showing the time and temp.

he takes pictures of the sign from multiple locations and angles as a "keepsake".

smiddy3

Why was the word "Watchtower" so prominent on the building anyway ? Wasn`t the Jehovahs Witnesses supposed to make the name "Jehovah" known in all the inhabited earth ?

However the Bible in the New Testament /Christian Greek Scriptures explicitly states that the name of Jesus is the name above every other name in heaven ,on earth,and under the ground.Phil.2:9-11 { including Jehovah`s name } during the Christian Era.

Isn`t red a symbol of fire ? ,so maybe that is prophetic of what will eventually happen to the WTB&TS .

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Paradise? Was it?

by TerryWalstrom in

paradisewas it really paradise to be in paradise?adam and eve never were held by a mother, never cuddled and sung to with a lullaby nor nursed or coddled with tenderness or any human familial embrace.

the first humans (adam and eve) never learned to toddle surrounded by brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles and grandparents cheering them on.

the entire experience of childhood was excised surgically like a trauma patient awakening from an accident with amnesia.adam and eve were never in a neighborhood with other kids forming friendship bonds for life and exchanging dreams and hopes for a future they were building in their community.

smiddy3

It never ceases to amaze me what you guys come up with,why didn`t I think of that ? .

So simple yet so true a word or paragraph was ever spoken.

Thank you Terry An excellent thought provoking post..not that you need to think that much as it`s so obvious.

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What Could Jehovah’s Special Provision Be to Save His People From the Wicked Watchtower Society?

by MADMARY in

i was baptized as one of jehovah witnesses in 1986. then in 2003, i disassociated myself officially with a letter.

but i did not stop reading the bible or believing in god.

but i have noticed everyone’s reaction here is very different to the great wickedness of the watchtower society.. some of us do not believe in god anymore, and threw their bibles away completely.

smiddy3

Maybe by just pointing out the obvious.

Jehovah`s Witnesses claim to be Bible based in Scripture.

Philipians 2:9- 10 says God gave Jesus a name that is above every other name and that every knee should bend of those in heaven on earth and those under the ground.

{That obviously excludes the name Jehovah that is not found in the Christian Greek Scriptures and neither is the Tetragrammaton or its Greek equivalent.

Also ,at Acts 11: "it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians "

Note : "by divine providence" and "they were to be called Christians"

Not Jehovah`s Witnesses.

And even after Isa,43 : 10- 12 ,the Jews never ever identified themselves as Jehovah`s witnesses even though that scripture was meant for them primarily.

Secondly: Jesus never identified his followers as Jehovah`s Witnesses

In conclusion Acts and Phillipians clearly show that Jesus is the one name to put your trust and hope in as that is the name GOD gave to Christians to put faith in.

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Not A Day Goes By Without Me Thinking About Watchtower

by pale.emperor in

although i consider myself completely "cured" from watchtower brainwashing, guilt tripping and propaganda, i realised today that there's not a day that goes by without me thinking of the cult we left.

i think of my former family and what i'd like to say to them, what i'd try to explain and how i'd say it without them switching the "ignore" button and running away.. today on my instagram account my little step-brother "liked" a picture i posted.

i didn't even know he was still on my friends list.

smiddy3

It`s about 25 years since my wife & I set foot in a KH yet since I`ve had a PC thanks to my son for the past 10-12 years I have been interested in whats going on in JW land and I check in almost daily.

It`s become like an addiction with me .I am interested in peoples experience`s and those who exit the cult as well as any news that will bring them down such as the ARC and the many law suits against them from all over the world.

And I try to add my 2 cents worth by commenting and/or posting hoping I can contribute to someone leaving the religion.

Trying to make up for the many hours I spent in my 33 years as a JW trying to make converts into the JW ranks.

smiddy3

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