dear brothers, july 27, 2020. in 1919, the president of the watchtower society made a bold prediction, “millions now living will never die”.
that quotation was constantly repeated by the organization till the year 2000 when they realized that everyone in attendance at that assembly, who listened to j.r. rutherford repeat those words, are dead.. that teaching has guided my life.
statements were repeatedly made at assemblies, conventions and in print that there was no career in “this system of things” so you don’t need a job with benefits or retirement, your fulltime job is to “preach the good news”!
@LongHairGal,
I did send my JW relatives a heads up before the announcement was made, but it didn't make any difference. They still chose the lies that were spilled and even made up a few of their own. Learned this through other relatives who were not JWs.
dear brothers, july 27, 2020. in 1919, the president of the watchtower society made a bold prediction, “millions now living will never die”.
that quotation was constantly repeated by the organization till the year 2000 when they realized that everyone in attendance at that assembly, who listened to j.r. rutherford repeat those words, are dead.. that teaching has guided my life.
statements were repeatedly made at assemblies, conventions and in print that there was no career in “this system of things” so you don’t need a job with benefits or retirement, your fulltime job is to “preach the good news”!
There is nothing wrong with writing a letter, in fact, it is quite therapeutic, but I wouldn't recommend sending it. They will not read it past the point they realize what you are saying. By sending in a letter of disassociation you are allowing them to have power over your life. My husband and I both disassociated ourselves back in 2001. After we left we were treated just like a person who was disfellowshiped, including having our names slandered. If I could do it all over again, I would have just walked away, never to return. If any did attempt to "encourage" me to return, I would politely say I'm not interested anymore. Never put anything down on paper that can be used against you. During this time of the "pandemic", it is very easy to just slip away.
i was six, not given any choice.
i remember being in the old kh, and my dad told me the brothers wanted to talk to me in the back...i was terrified.
i actually thought they knew i didn’t want to be a dub, my dad told them to just add me as a publisher, so no back room meeting.
I was 17. My folks bounced around a lot when I was growing up. Dad was never a JW, but mom became one when I was quite young, and half of the time she was inactive, and the other half she was all zealous for it.
this is a great movie.
it documents how dangerous the left is.
its on the verge of destroying the country.
I agree with woiverines. My son who is in the military called me not very long ago and informed me that I need to purchase more guns and ammo. He couldn't go into any more than that.
https://youtu.be/p7jx8sbghck .
I remember the night and day terrors I had as a child just from pictures in their publication, and that was many years ago. I would hate to see what they are doing now would have done even worse to my psyche as a child. As it was I was bearly holding it together back then.
for the past couple of days, i have been attempting to change my avatar, but can't.
is this part broken, or is there something else i can do to change it?
i have already changed my avatar over at gravatar, but it is not showing up here either..
For the past couple of days, I have been attempting to change my avatar, but can't. Is this part broken, or is there something else I can do to change it? I have already changed my avatar over at Gravatar, but it is not showing up here either.
after years of being with jws you start to see a certain developmental characterization of most jws, particularly from elders who have the most power in each congregation.
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the ideology follows along the route of holding up a white sheet over the entire organization, as well each identified individual member (brothers and sisters) which no doubt most jws will inevitably exploit toward themselves.. i personally recognized what hypocrisy was at young age from seeing and being around jws at the kingdom halls and what they were like away from the halls.. there is forced pretentiousness at play which comes out by jws.. having being reminded repetitively that god almighty sent his only begotten son to redeem their sins probably had some relevant connection.. there was no question to the fact that jws are associated with delusions, anxiety, fear, ignorance, subsided with prejudice against others who are not recognized as being active jws .. we are the most righteous chosen ones as it were and that self recognizance goes deep into the jws's consciousness in their daily living.
Something I noticed when I was a JW was the attitude they have towards others, especially towards others who were their fellow members. They will stick a knife and twist it in someone else's back if it benefits them.
It was only recently that I finally discovered who was telling a vicious and slanderous lie about my husband and myself. I knew this was going around but I just could never figure out who was responsible for it. It was only a couple weeks ago that I finally was able to find the source, and that person has since passed away. This person was like a father to my husband, or at least we thought he was (he was also an elder). This lie that he was telling any who would listen was started a few years before we had even left the Watchtower. He was the reason why even before we left that our own JW family members cut us out of their lives.
so what the heck are they brainwashing today in the meeting or what ever.
she is in full on cult mode talking about the end of the world.
she asked me to listen to a couple of talks and i respectfully declined.
Same here, so glad left at the same time. Actually hubby already knew it was bunk, he was just waiting quietly on me.
But I believe what I would do once everything is behind us, I would ask, So when is the end suppose to happen?
i loath this cult!!!!!!!!!!
why won't she leave?.
she knows about the australian royal commision, the united nations, failed prediction dates etc...., i have crisis of consciene and she know, it is visiable that she could see the book everyday.
My question to those JWs who buy those "to go" bags? Where are they going to go to? Meaning will they have shelter and safety where they are going to. And what about the current pandemic, they surely don't want to go around others who they don't know, because it won't take much to spread it.
That is just another fear tactic to keep them in line with the Watchtower, like the good little life stock they are. And before someone says I'm not life stock, then why are they always calling people sheep and goats? LIFE STOCK, in the Watchtower's eyes people, are nothing more, both those in and out.
waken up uk sheeple and smell the coffee.. no two-metre distancing for 22 men doing their job; clenched fists touching other clenched fists at the end; no face-masks being worn by the majority of those on the sidelines.. time for people to start demanding answers from their elected politicians..
Those players and the others who are there get tested two weeks before they come together like that. Those who test positive are quarantined.
