when we were in we were often read that scripture and told we should work hard at putting on the new personality, which in wt speak meant their cult personality, nothing like the person of christ.. since leaving it has become necessary for us to make deep internal changes, to our worldview, to our emotions, and to our actions.. we have had to change from being controlled in all these areas by the wt cult, to forming our own new personality.. for born-ins like me this is really quite a task, we do not have a "pre-cult" personality to "recover".
but even for converts, there is stilll this work to do, before you joined you may have been racist, homophobic, or perhaps a thief, or immoral in some other way, surely you do not wish to "recover" those aspects of your original personality ?so you too have to "put on" a new one.. how are we all doing with this ?
i know that for me i feel it is still a work in progress, i need to work on certain things that are the result of my being in the jw/wt scam for all those decades, and some things that are a part of my natural personality which are not desireable as traits, laziness for example, and i am the arch-procrastinator, not good.. how do you guys feel you are doing since leaving ?.
No, I dont have "put on" a new personality. Just stopped doing things that are bad for myself and others.
Why would I (or any other sane person for that matter) obey a destructive, grotesque, non-Christian cult promoted by some insane "Governing Body" in Brooklyn, NY?
has anyone seen this post on facebook?
the comments below it are staggering!
so many suffering from depression... along with the few judgementalists.
It´s very sad to see so many potentially good people suffer by the "commands of men" (the G:B). ALL should get out ASAP.
This is no joke, I have seen this first hand with my own eyes and sadly enough, it´s about to get even worse!
this file is now being passed around by jws!
.. .they claim: ..
(" john specifically mentions apostates as among those of the antichrist by referring to those who went out from us, abandoning the christian congregation.
I´m not very up-to-date with all "this new-light bull" but are the GB the new mediators between God and man. Or is it just a bizzare joke?
I´ll guess every things possible with the watch-towel. Is it really true??
i finally decided to post.
i'm so scared of being caught, so i'll be vague.
i'm an appointed brother.
Youré on the path of spiritual recovery. Congratulations! Please check out the last letter from www.AnointedJW.org to the Pharisees AKA the "Governing Body".
i am just curious as to how much of a problem mental illness is among jws.
i would like to hear what others have to say regarding their own experiences in this matter.
specifically, i want to know how these individuals were handled in the congregation and whether or not being a jw contributed to the effects on mental illness.. .
From my personal experince, it´s a combination of both. In my last cong you could actually see in their faces how bad they felt.
Absolutely horrific, something out of "Night of the living dead"
It´s so sad how this evil cult destroys lifes.
P:s I´m NOT exaggerating!
in my 50+ years as a jw i have never been aware of them ever having a campaign.
concentrating on distributing bibles.
their "preaching" is totally about their own.
SFPW!
Really! Do the JW`´s leadership have a good understanding in the first place? Concentrating on the old Jewish system rather than the Christ´s teachings?
i am curious about this.
ever since i realized that there is no proof that jesus=michael the archangel, i wondered about who jesus was.
that's how i think of the father and the son, or the word.
Well, a human is made up of a Body, mind (the I) and spirit.
Perhaps The Father Son relation is something similar. You can´t seperate one entity from another!
one of the biggest things that bothered me as a jehovahs witness was the whole 'we are the world' bullcrap that they used to teach, and that culture, color, and race didnt matter.
as far as i'm concerned thats a bunch of bs.
people have a right to preserve who they, where they came from, and they have a right to be represented.
A little off topic perhaps but don´t know how to create a post!
All nations is important to God! "Armagedon" isn´t "the end" as it´s cracked up to be by the totalitarian Governing Body.
In the end, the enemies of Jerusalem who survive the plague will go up to Jerusalem each year to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters. 17 Any nation in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will have no rain. 18 If the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the Lord will punish them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go. 19 Egypt and the other nations will all be punished if they don’t go to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
(This beeing AFTER "armagedon")
-Zechariah 14:16.
This is whyI ask, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of Israel? Of course not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning.
-Romans 11:1-2
we work hard and continue to struggle, [a] for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers.
-1 Timothy 4:10
apologies is this has already been discussed.
i came across this website www.
is this a new splinter group among jw's?.
Do someone have the website- adress to the other splinter group? (not anointedjw.org)
nwt bible - matthew 24:45-51 says:.
45 who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
46 happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
Since Judge Booze Rutherford shut down the entrance to the Kingdom of the Heavens, the only hope for mankind according to both Jesus and Paul,
how could he be regarded as a "faithful slave"?
Today, the Society are also sworn enemies to the Kingdom as Jesus thaught it. They have even persecuted those within the org. for have taken part in the Lords evening meal, recognizing that they, just as any follower of the Christ are destined to enter the Heavenly Kingdom.