Posts by Bugbear

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My JW Sister Called Me Last Night

by pale.emperor in

my sister called me quite out of the blue last night.

she's a full on active jw and actively shunning me like the rest of the family are.

i dont quite know the reason why she felt last night was the right time to call but im glad she did.

Bugbear

Sorry to tell you that your sister suffers from a mental decease called: PTFE brain, or Fact resistant brain. (PTFE similar to Teflon) . Her brain is so stuffed with wrong information, that she is unable to coop with any other facts then those coming from WBTS. There are a variety of this disorder called : cognitive dissonance. Meaning that she knows there is another world outside the cult, but are unable to understand what she must do. This due to other social relations. But obviously she is seeking your attention, and that is good unless she is only counting the hours….!? The good news is that this “disorder” can be cured; however it takes a long time and a lot of patience from you…

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Meeting Attendance levels

by freddo in

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i attended a sunday meeting today after missing a couple due to a bout of chronic apathy.

out of 74 publishers we had a grand total of 33. wonderful.

for those that attend, how are you finding the numbers?.

Bugbear

In 1990 we build a new KH in my little town in northern Europe. We were about 65 publishers and the KH hall could take 125. Today my wife tells me (she is still in) that the average ns. of attendees is 25, except for when the CO comes , then maybe 35 shows up. This means that very little money is coming in the money box… I wonder when they decide to sell it of??

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How many times did you see a JW start a business

by karter in

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with the intention of spending less time working and more time in f.s i saw this many times.

an ex c.o started a carpet cleaning business with the charter being spending less time working more time in f.s.

he has long since passed away and the company is now huge being the major player in flood resteration and employing 100's of people one of the owners i spoke to recently was sick due to using to many chemicals but carries on becouse he loves the money even though he's worth millions.

Bugbear

In my country almost all brothers and sisters are unqualified to have any ordinary job. They haven´t got the education enough to fit todays labor market. So many of them are freelancers, cleaning windows, carrying out the morning papers, doing the lawn. Many of them are doing these sorts of jobs as moonlighting jobs from other brothers in the cong. So quite a number of them have at retirement, no retirement points, they have not a nickel when they are ready to go.
luckily enough, in our country, we do have a welfare system that will keep them alive on a minimum level. But when their cars are broken, the dentist need their payment, when their spouse need a descent funeral, the brothers in the congregation announce that there is a brother in need….

I can see in their eyes that they feel so ashamed of their situation, specially they that worked full time as CO,s and pioneers…. I feel that they were tricked by soc. to believe that the end was so so so SO close now… The soc. don´t give a shit about these sad people…

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Why Did JWs Abandon Brooklyn for the Sticks?

by Room 215 in

i may have missed this, but can anyone tell me what was the pretext the gb concocted to justify their abandonment of a perfectly suitable, high-profile, high-visibility complex in what is arguably the world's greatest metropolis for the bucolic isolation of upstate new york.

any how does the move square with their purported belief in the imminence of armageddon?

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Bugbear

cash

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Do you still go to meetings?

by NikL in

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friends

as i was sitting in the meeting last night i thought about this question.. sometimes it feels really lonely because i don't connect with most others in the congregation and i have to be so careful with the ones with whom i do associate.. quick rundown on my life...got baptized at 17...married at 20...became inactive at 28 wife still active though...came back to meetings with her 20 years later just to keep her quiet and see if they had changed (for a while i actually thought they had)...now i am still inactive and haven't gone out in service or anything.

i just go to meetings with my wife who is happy as a lark to have me there with her...just go to meetings and think...and think...and think.... anyway, i just wondered if there are any out there like me who are going to meetings and nothing else?.

Bugbear

I stopped go 15 years ago. The only meeting I have attended was on a funeral 10 years ago. It was a close friend from many years back in time that had died. Wife still goes on every meeting. She know that even if she ask me to come with her on any I would refuse.

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"50 Years a Watchtower Slave" Chapter 6

by new boy in

chapter 6. jesus and the flag.

my mother told me that “the end” was coming very soon.

so at the encouragement of mother and many others in the congregation i was baptized in january 1967 and started full time ministry as “pioneer” in may of 1968.. in fact she told me when i was younger that i would never even get out of high school before “the end” would come.

Bugbear

New Boy!

You bring up many of the ideas that attracted me when I become a JW. I was only 25 at the time baptized at the year of 1974. I had already taken my High school degree and done my military service (16 month), when I met a girl that I fell in love with. A brother started a study with me and although, I could realize the reality problems with the teachings and contradictions in almost every core stone of this believes I became a Witness. What made me do such a stupid thing? Most probably my love to that girl. But also I did like the idea of worldwide brotherhood. I liked the idea of pacifism and the idea of total refusal of weapons. (remember I had done my military service and seen the capacity of those weapons we use in my country). However soon I became un elder and we were a well know family in our country, having six children!!! But the problems with my faith grow. There were so many questions the SOC. just ignored. So many contradictions in the teaching. Me being an elder could not explain the simplest of questions from my children….It all ended up in a very stressful situation, with o chronical fatigue and in the end a number of hart attacks. This made it possible for me to stop being an elder and start to fade…….. Today none of our family members are JW:s, except, the original, my wife. I have continued study on a University level. And today I think I at least, can give some satisfactory answers based on evidence (not faith) to my children and grandchildren.

Today I have no more hart attacks, no more stress or fatigue symptoms. I am just a happy grandpa trying to learn my grandchildren to read and think for themselves.

I know I am going to die, as all of us, But I don’t have to watch my children or grandchildren dying from the refusal of blood, or dying (in some countries) from persecution from other religious leaders.(Some Islamic and Asian counties) I don’t have to see my children suffer from the burden of being under educated. And I know that they will have a retirement found because they have a job that qualify them for these founds. I am happy that they do not contribute to the GB and their fake found rising to “worldwide preaching” and I am glad that none of them is working for free for one of the world’s most disgusting teachings that scares the hell out of people and children promising the big A if you don´t become “one of us”.

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Why is religion in general so obsessed with what people choose to do with their willies and vaginas?

by jambon1 in

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what was it in the evolution of religion that got them so hung up about what people do with their genitalia?.

i mean, the (mis)use of genitalia is up there with murdering another human being in terms of badness.. and in the 21st century, we have a situation where in the jw religion, it's deemed as acceptable for three middle aged/old men to sit a teenage girl down and ask her the details of her use of her genitals.

to any normal person this is intrusive, completely inappropriate and bordering on deviancy.. why they so obsessed?.

Bugbear

Jambon

It´s an earlier conditional reflex from a male perspective. Girls females are owned by their male suppressors. No other man or male could have their offspring from their girls then the owner of the pack. Of course if it is possible make some money transaction the owner release some or a few of his property to another male. This behavior are developed not only amongst humans, it used in almost all animal species like Chimpanzees, gorillas and other predators. The habit is taken over by religions as a “cultural” habit to control all female….. I´m a man saying this having 4 daughters…!

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Is The Governing Body The Rulers Of A Criminal Organization? Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think we can see that the further we proceed into the future the more criminal this organization looks due to man's more evolved social understanding,, so since this thing is gradual i'm predicting that this evolution will exterminate this cult with a capital fuck you.. since this is a religion that has exported itself(criminal activity) all over the world from usa origins i would expect the usa court system not to come to their aid when reach lawsuits come reaching from all over the world to usa based headquarters living there situated on a contaminated chemical dump site (whether it is properly been clean up it is anybody's guess (i'm guessing not))..

Bugbear

Brokebaks

Yeas I think you are right. But I´m not Shure if they are aware of it themselves. They are captured in their own mind boxes, and think they are right. But from the normal world and from a normal perspective they are only money-gathering and capitalist. Thinking they are doing humanity a good service, assembling money to get a huge sum of money that at will secure their own “eternal” life and some of their followers….????

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Something funny about Armageddon

by evilApostate in

years ago, when i was still a publisher, i had a very interesting conversation with a lady in the field service.

we were talking about punishment for sin and so on.

she believed in hellfire.

Bugbear

evilApostate

15-20 years ago before I faded, I was proud telling those hell-scared people that my god, never ever would punish them and their children for eternity in hell with burning fire a.s.f. God was good caring humble and loving his children and wanted all of them to live. And then I realized that If they didn´t do what I was telling them, they were just about to be exposed another hell in Armageddon within short. So the Jwdubs are proud that their God didn´t make hell, but that he will fix it later….

The philosophical flows in the logic are catastrophic. And I wonder how any intelligent human can believe or even loving a God that shows this fallacy. The fact (according to the bible) is that I has already proven to be a mad God in drowning all humans and animals except for 8 persons in a flood about 4300 years ago……and other horrible thing…..

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Why blame the Watchtower?

by deegee in

if god has a relationship with every christian and every christian is praying to him then wouldn't he tell every christian the same thing so that christians would agree on matters of doctrine and practice?.

it is certainly puzzling why sincere and devout people equally seek god's will and pray to him yet they all come up with different answers so that there are approximately 40,000 different christian denominations (center for the study of global christianity (csgc) at gordon-conwell theological seminary).. before his death, jesus called for agreement among his followers rather than division (john 17:20-21).

he declared that he would send the holy spirit to guide persons into all the truth (john 14:16 - 17, 26, john 15:26, john 16:7,13 - 15).. so shouldn't anyone who has a relationship with jesus, reads the bible, and listens to the holy spirit come to the same conclusions as others who are doing the same thing?.

Bugbear

Deegee

I think you have nailed a quite interesting question but not really hit the very deep of the answers. You ask which of the 40.000 different “Christian” faiths are wrong and who is right, expand your questions to the millions of interpreter of Islamic, Buddhist, Hindus and other. Why not include the Greek God Zeus, or Oden Tor or the myriads of African different tribe “believes”. Are you sure that everyone else is wrong but the Christians?

True is that all these representations of “religion”,,,do pray to their God. Everyone claim that they have been heard….That God is with them.?? Everyone claim to have the answers on some wholly book, or some claims to have a deeper feeling, a closer contact with “the higher” spheres which only they can understand. With that claim goes also a responsibility to really take the consequence of their preaching. When they have found to be wrong, none of them step down and admit, that they have lead their people on the wrong track. Not one admits to be a liar, not one will step down and lose his position as a “father”, priest, pope, or Prophet. Human greed for power is immense. With the power also goes an economical factor. If they can control their followers mind, they also often can control their wallets.

It´s a self-spinning wheel. A perpetum Mobile…. And very few people have the guts or knowledge, or the strength to stop this wheel… and start to ask the right questions: where are your proof, where are your logics, where are the findings that can support your claim.

Interesting thread …..