i think i’m going insane.... i’m 17 years old and being raised in a jw household.
i really want friends and a boyfriend but i can’t have that because my parents are jw and i’m also homeschooled.
they are those jw parents that refuse to let me go to public school because of bad influences.
huniepie
Welcome to the board ,
"If I leave my family will be torn apart". Do you want to live your life based on what your family want`s you to do ?
Or do you want to live your life based on what you want to do ?
Its your life and only you have to live it nobody else ,do what you want to do.
Your nearly 18 so make plans to adopt some of the good advice that`s already been given you here on this site ,don`t rush it ,take your time and plan your exit well.
I wish you well
Take care.
those wanting a copy of this file.
https://docdro.id/fllorzffile example:4. circuit overseer assistance arrangement: in harmony with the announcement to the congregation, please arrange for a resolution to be put to the congregation, authorising payment from congregation funds equivalent to £4.50/€5.00 per congregation publisher for the 2019 service year.
if the body of elders believes the suggested amount would impose a hardship on the congregation, the resolved amount can be adjusted accordingly.. .
Whatever happened to the statement of Charles Taze Russell the founder of the International Bible Students Association that later became known as Jehovah`s Witnesses that said words to the effect that
They would never beg / ask for money ,when it wasn`t given freely out of the generosity of the people and not under compulsion then they would know the work was accomplished /finished .
Or words to that effect.
And if that resolution is put forward to Australian Congregations that would amount to about $10 per publisher .
And with a membership of about 60-70,000 publishers thats not a bad scam is it.
what advice do you have for a teenager that is being raised as a witness but not baptized?
everyone is pressuring her to get baptized how to avoid that till they are 18 and they are 16?
how to stay sane in a household of religion you don´t believe in.
Wagurl
Whatever you/she does do not be pressured by anyone into doing something your not ready for .Tactfully point out that you will make your own decision when you are ready to do so and not before .
Whatever you do it has to be a heartfelt decision you make and not one that is made under pressure from anybody else family included .
I wish you well in how you handle it
i was doing some reminiscing and remember the days back in the late 80s and early 90s where i truly could say the meetings were so encouraging and that i felt the holy spirit present and operating on all of us.
today when i attend, there is nothing of the sort.
is it because jehovah has withheld it?
The new World Translation of The Christian Greek Scriptures as JW`s like to call it otherwise known as The New Testament by most other Christians contains this interesting fact.
1. Their are something like 20 scriptures in the New Testament that charges Christians to be witnesses to, , for, or about Jesus Christ ......Not Jehovah
2 .In Php.2:10 "That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend those in Heaven those on earth and those under the ground" .......Not Jehovah
3. Their are no scriptures none at all in the New Testament /Christian Greek scriptures that admonish Christians to witness to,for, or about Jehovah
4. Isa.43:10-12 that JW`s like to bring up ,however notice that the Jews / Israelites never ever adopted that name ? And when Jesus was on the earth he never challenged the Jews for not adopting that name .
5. Isa.62:2 b "And you will actually be called by a new name which the very mouth of Jehovah will designate"
6. Acts.11:26 b " And it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians"
Do i need to highlight that it was by DIVINE PROVIDENCE that they were called Christians and not Jehovah`s Witnesses ?
7. The publication the WTB&TS printed ,The Kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures never contained the Tetragrammaton in either Hebrew or Greek letters a word for word Greek text into English and the name of God they render Jehovah never appears there.
So my question to you and anybody else who thinks that way is :
Was GOD / JEHOVAH`s HOLY SPIRIT ever with the International Bible Students Association that morphed into the Jehovah`s Witness religion in the first place ?
Judging by the above I would say no
What do you say ?
summary and blog about last years national apology and the attendance by victims and survivors of jehovah’s witnesses.. personal account by steven unthank and lara kaput.. https://saysorry.org/2019/03/31/national-apology-to-victims-and-survivors-of-institutional-child-sexual-abuse/.
That was an excellent summary jwleaks and the work that Steven Unthank and Lara Kaput as well as others in getting this message out their about the abuse of children in the Jehovah`s Witness organization into Government and Legal circles on a Worldwide scale is truly commendable .
Thank you for sharing .
dont know if anyone has picked up on this news.
putting it out there anyway.. http://www.zocalo.com.mx/new_site/articulo/permitieron-en-iglesia-abuso-de-una-joven.
translated into english (by someone on reddit).
All the more reason zeb that law enforcement agencies / Governments should take more seriously that hiding offences of child sexual abuse in the guise of religion should not be tolerated and those that do should be prosecuted .
i was just enjoying a you tube video clip of george carlin explaining euphemisms.
one of the ones he commented about is how people try to soften the fact someone is dead by saying, "they passed away.
" noo...they died!.
One thing we all have to use a euphemism for is the room we go to "ease nature" ( a NWT euphemism), there simply is no proper word for it ! The American "Bathroom" or "Restroom"
Down under in OZ I think we are a bit more to the point as in the Thunder Box or more plainly just the Shit House or more refined people might have called it the Out-house .
we all know the society would love to get rid of all the problems caused by clinging to 1914 and all they claimed it meant for the last 100+ years.. it looks like they are laying the groundwork for easing away from the whole concept of 1914. this would also let them do away with the ridiculous "overlapping generation" bullcrap.
what a diaper load that has been.... anyway, the following is from their super secret marching orders for april, 2019. draw your own conclusions.... "3.
“100 years of faithfulness”: the coordinator of the body of elders, or another elder, should be invited to read the following special announcement.
I go with the April fools joke ,too good to be true.
state intelligence homing in on jws 28 march ,2019. .
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/03/28/jehovah-witnesses-scandal-state-intelligence-to-home-in-on-sec/.
it is in english so we all can read it easy.. .
The justice minister also insists that elders within the Jehovah's Witnesses movement should report criminal acts. There are claims that the names of child abuse suspects are kept in a blue envelope that hasn't been shown to the justice department. Moreover, there are worries that child abusers have been tried by internal courts and that offences have been kept from the wider public. Mr Geens notes that negligence is a punishable act.
I`m sure we would all like to be kept informed of any future developments .
thanks for posting Zing
Belgian justice minister Koen Geens (Flemish Christian democrat) wants Jehovah’s Witnesses wishing to leave the organisation to receive help from the sects’ watchdog. The minister was speaking after VRT's Pano programme revealed widespread sexual abuse of children among the Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/watch_tower_society_unfulfilled_predictions.
background[edit].
since its formation in the 1870s, the watch tower bible and tract society has claimed that god has chosen the organization from among the churches to fill a special role in the consummation of prophetic history.
Maybe if all of the men retained their beards Jehovah wouldn`t have abandoned them ,after all with the O.T. men it was a requirement to have a beard and it was never rescinded in the N.T. as they all had beards also.
( I`m not sure about the women ) but we wont go their.
C.T.Russell had a beard so he might have started off on the right foot appearance wise however he did have some wacky beliefs which Jesus in his right mind could never have condoned .
So that may explain Watchtowers unfulfilled predictions .
