The wife and I did have a good social life with a certain few,camping ( booze) Restuarants (booze) scrabble nights (booze) house get togethers (booze) this was a congregation with Elders and MS which I was one about our own age.
And I often wonder now if any of them have left
do today's elders ever meet with inactive members and pressure them to write a letter disassociating themselves from the congregation stating that, ''you no longer wish to a jehovah witness"?.
i was baptized at the young age of 16. after turning 18, i stopped attending meetings, field service, and all jehovah's witness activities.
i wanted to be with my high school friends, go to rock concerts, have a girlfriend, and live like a normal teen.
Their must be a few others on here if not plenty of them that must be wondering if they are officially DA ,LOL
Why ? because when I DA`d myself many years after leaving the Borg I was never contacted back again to verify my action and since i had moved to another state that they knew of I wonder if it was ever announced from the platform.?
Not that I really give a rats arse
Just saying
the jehovah's witnesses claim that the holy spirit is none other than a force... however when we compare scripture with scripture, we begin to see that the holy spirit is a person.as the jehovah's witnesses dispute this, the question still remains..."who/what is the holy spirit?".
the holy spirit can :.
be grieved.
Says who JW Answers ?
the new bethel is in bologna city.
rome be for sale.
the new bethel not ready until 2020.
JW`s a Real Estate Cult posing as a religion .
do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?
are they now infrequent lurkers?.
did they go back to the watchtower?.
All you guys are awesome and i appreciate all including newbies that contribute to this site to make it what it is .
A place where JW`s who have doubts can come and voice their concerns and ask questions without being grilled for having doubts and asking questions by Elders.
And I`m positive many newbies are a result of sites like this where they can get satisfying answers to questions they raise .
Kudos to you all .
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/respond-to-accusations/.
They are masters of manipulation ,sophistry , deception , and obfuscation ,I`ll grant them that .
however one day that will be their downfall and it will all come back to bite them in the bum.
i really like my alexa.
a little creepy at first, but quite interesting.. i asked her if i should attend the assembly day on saturday.. she said "in your case, just go in the morning, walk around, see everyone, then at lunch walk to your car while talking on your cell phone.
then just leave.
I was confused with your post and then I googled Alexa ,LOL
You learn something everyday on this site
Ask her what`s the latest Nu-Lite going to be ? or maybe the next Lotto numbers .?
i know what you may be thinking by the title but bear with me.
have you ever reflected on past service experiences and think wow if only i had listened to a householder?
two things come to my mind of personal experience.
I read "I Was A WatchTower Slave For Thirty Years" when I was relatively new as a convert, however i was conditioned then that we would be persecuted for the truths sake even by disgruntled members .
And that`s what I put it down too a disgruntled member .
At that time I believed what I wanted to believe ,I was disillusioned with where I thought my life was heading.
So his book made no impression upon me , sad to say.
could someone help me with this question please as it has been on my mind for sometime.
watchtower comes along and changes the typical anti typical beliefs and with a stroke of the pen eliminates years of books and teachings.
why does this not apply to 1914?
Thanks johnamos for those clarifications I have been out for so long I wasn`t aware of those changes .
And it makes you wonder why the old timers aren`t leaving in droves ....or are they ?
whatever we think of it, you have to admit that it's quite "genius".. the door to door ministry as done in western developed countries where the jw quirky religion has probably reached their saturation level was a complete and utter waste of time in terms of the effort expended to recruit people.. at the same time, it was rarely something that anyone enjoyed which led to people being labelled as inactive, being pressured to doing more and maybe ultimately deciding jwism wasn't for them and leaving.. there was also the issue that many jws are actually pretty bad at knowing and articulating their beliefs so were pretty incapable of getting any meaningful message across.. they solved all this with the cart witnessing.
the real point isn't to recruit, it's to make life easier for jws.
now they can stand and chat with their friend, have a coffee, not talk to anyone or make eye contact and still act as a walking billboard for jw.org.
I agree with you 100% Amelia Ashton
