Like the Catholic church? Or the many other churches still going strong after thousands of years?
Nickey
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How Much Longer Can The WBTS Survive?
by SpannerintheWorks ina 2000-year-old-plus religion cannot survive for much longer!
we are questioning the wbts every day!
the web is a great way of exposing the wbts, and we are doing it daily!.
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
by Nickey inthis is an issue that i've had to look into due to the extreme paranoia of my mother.
it's getting ridiculous.
and it get's worse everytime she reads the publications.
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Nickey
This is an issue that I've had to look into due to the extreme PARANOIA of my mother. It's getting ridiculous. And it get's worse everytime she reads the publications. Constantly watching the news. Screaming it's the END and every disagreement is persecution in her eyes. Even when she runs a red light and get's pulled over. The cop who pulls her over is persecuting her because she is a JW. COME OOOOON! She get's a cold and satan is attacking her. She trips on a step and the demons tried to kill her. I disagree on something and I'm being influenced by satan.
It's getting to the point where she's stormed into the room saying I'm an apostate and that I'm unpure. To have my own mother jam her finger in my chest telling me I was evil and might as well die now because I'm going to die anyway... that broke me down in tears. Trying to force me to read the daily text and I better not disagree with what the orginization wrote.
"The government is after us because we are Jehovah's people!"
It's no longer harmless paranoia. And she get's more ridiculous!
Has anybody else had this problem with family or friends?
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Is Christmas Pagan or Christian?
by whyhideit inas the christmas holiday approaches, it brings out the comments from my witness family members to attempt to belittle our practice of enjoying the holiday.
when we first left the jehovah's witnesses and decided to celebrate christmas, we still considered ourselves to be christians.
so the argument of choice from our relatives was, "how can you call yourself christians and celebrate such a pagan holiday.
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Nickey
jgnat,
Really? I had no clue they were doing that. My family and I have been away for nearly 2 years. A special meeting on Christmas... now that's somethin' new to me.
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Home Schooling
by hippikon inwhat are your thoughts on home schooling?
we had a few in one congregation i was in that practiced home schooling for their kids.
i kina think home schooling is isolationists and for loons.
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Nickey
I absolutely HATED it. While it kept me out of trouble, it didn't prepare me for real world experiences. I didn't know how to deal with certain situations and interact with alot of people.
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What was Your Fave Cartoon as a Kid?
by Pleasuredome inmine was.... edited by - pleasuredome on 22 december 2002 15:40:33.
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Nickey
The CARE BEARS!
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Who believes in Ghosts?
by El Kabong ini watched a movie on tv the other night called "the others" with nicole kidman.
it got me thinking about ghosts.
of course, my jw thinking automatically kicks in and tells me that its.........come on, you all know the answer.......demons.
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Nickey
I guess I'm just a scaredy cat. lol I get scared by humans, dogs, cats, rats, bugs...
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Who believes in Ghosts?
by El Kabong ini watched a movie on tv the other night called "the others" with nicole kidman.
it got me thinking about ghosts.
of course, my jw thinking automatically kicks in and tells me that its.........come on, you all know the answer.......demons.
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Nickey
I really don't know. I was staring in the face of something for a few minutes. It looked human, but bright bluish-white. A woman I think. It smiled. I jumped back and it it frowned at my reaction. I just remember it's hair was pulled up. 2 feet from my face just staring at me. I mean, it was just too close to my face that I could stare into it's eyes. See every facial feature. Every strand of hair.
I was so freaked out that I dove to the door and saw it turn around and watch me run. I don't know if it was sad or mad. But I was scared and I wasn't trying to sit there having a hallmark moment with it. I am not the type to ask "What's your name? Can I help you?" Nooooo.... I was diving to to door.
Ghost? Demon? I don't know.
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Lurkers
by Yizuman inseems that the page view out number the posters who actually reply to the thread.. my guess is that there's alot of active jws who are still active within' the so called "truth" are visiting this forum and reading all the threads.
i don't blame them for not wanting to reply for fear of being found out.. how many of you were still active when you found a forum like this one and lurked around for a long time?
how many of you left the organization as a result of reading this forum or other forums like it?.
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Nickey
Exactly. It's like a "comfort zone". Many are too afraid to step out of that and they tend to use it like a pacifier.
Being a JW gave me comfort and hope for the future. But I had to ask myself if that was the right thing to do. Just because it felt good, didn't make it right. False is false and sitting there spending your life trying to justify every wrongdoing proves that you are putting your faith in man rather than God himself. You're devoting your life to man when doing that.
I made a joke one day after a meeting. I said, "If Jesus himself came to me and told me I was wrong to my face, I'd probably whip out a Watchtower and try to prove him wrong."
Nobody laughed. Not even me. Because we all knew it was true. I really had to think about that...
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Lurkers
by Yizuman inseems that the page view out number the posters who actually reply to the thread.. my guess is that there's alot of active jws who are still active within' the so called "truth" are visiting this forum and reading all the threads.
i don't blame them for not wanting to reply for fear of being found out.. how many of you were still active when you found a forum like this one and lurked around for a long time?
how many of you left the organization as a result of reading this forum or other forums like it?.
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Nickey
It's really sad that people would rather have false hope because they'd be suicidal otherwise.
And this is so ironic because my mother is the SAME way. Wanting hope instead of the truth. If the hope they dreamed of turned out to be a different case, who's to say they wouldn't spin off into a depression?
I was the same way. I was depressed but would always "use" the wt orignization as a lifeline. "Save me, give me hope. If you don't, I'd rather die." Hearing those talks pepped me up, hoping it would last me until next week. HOPE. That's what I had.
The odd thing is, I've heard a Catholic say the same thing.
"I know the bad in my religion and the mistakes made, but at least I have hope. A few mistakes doesn't make it false."
Both JW's and Catholics etc have done bad things/mistakes... mistranslations, misquotes, un affiliations for ANY reason... etc....
A JW will go "This is what you're religion did wrong" and a Catholic will go "Well this is what your religion did wrong." All proof is there and the score is even. Yet they both agree on one thing. "HOPE"
One word missing is "TRUTH" are you seeking HOPE or TRUTH.
Maybe BOTH the JW and Catholic are missing the MAIN lesson.
A child sucking on sweet candy because it tastes good, yet not knowing that down the road, they'd have to deal with painful cavities.
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WT writers on PROZAC?
by Smiles inafter reading these quotes from wt literature, you have to wonder if someone at the wt overdosed on the good ol' prozac!
what is your explaination?.
mans salvation, page 45, paragraph 3 .
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Nickey
Well if that's the case, then something must be wrong with me because I just ain't happy.