The hardship of being a 'STRAIGHT' jehovah's witness is pretty gut wrentching too.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
please spare a moment to consider the difiiculties faced by gay jehovahs witnesses.
i was raised and baptised as a very serious jw.
every waking moment of my day was lived for jehovahs and his organization and for nothing else.
The hardship of being a 'STRAIGHT' jehovah's witness is pretty gut wrentching too.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
so i read some threads about why someone remains a ministerial servant or elder, or why they are still active jw's.
others are telling stories about how they cut back slowly, and some of them got removed as ms/elder/pioneer or whatever.
yet others tell of how they just up and stopped going one day.
otwo
i too was an elder when i first realized fully ttatt. i resigned within 6 months and i've been fading ever since, about 7 years now. i'm inactive but my dear wife is still active. 3 of my 4 children have seen that i no longer believe and they too have started to fade. we have not yet had a full on discussion regarding ttatt,but they are smart enough to figure it out for themselves that the only reason that they are jw's is because their mom and i forced it on them same as we had it forced on us. i have hope for my wife because she has accepted my 'awakening' and often asks questions. she has a 87 year old jw mother that she still needs to appease.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
when i think back on when i started losing faith in the borg it all becomes kinda fuzzy.
even when i was 19, a pioneer an ms and the local golden boy i clearly remember lying about my field service time every month.
if i really feared jehovah there's no way i would of done that.
i thought that i feared jah but it was really the displeasing of my mom (and the brothers that i looked up too) that i really feared. since i was very young i often wondered why jah didn't take better care of his 'name' people. when i realized/saw that jw's suffered just like all others,even though jah could have helped them, it was then that i stopped fearing jah and maybe i also stopped believing in jah too.
just saying1
eyeuse2badub
so, witlesses are handing out assembly invitations locally for their gatherings to invite the public to attend...... .
a meeting that's 50, 100, 150 miles away?
there was an era when placards were put in storefront windows and bombastic sermons were delivered by radio.
I'm still waitng on seeing "the stones cry out". that will convince me of the importance of preaching the jw message.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
if someone asked you for information regarding your identity, would you tell them?
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Ok, my real name is Steve, i know that it's a unique name but I don't mind if you call me Steve. What the hell, my dear old mom calls me Steve so it must be ok.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
just curious.
i would love to spend about 3 hours on a plane discussing things with one of these spiritual giants..
Interesting that the number of "helpers" to the gb is 24---just like in revelation, 24 elders around the throne. Damn, now if they can just fix that 144,000 number as being symbolic, and the 1,000 year reign as symbolic, then by golly they might find a little credibility. NOT!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
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focus.
("armageddon" class).
The ones pictured on the Watchtower , May 15, 1984 didn't pass away. They were all of the "annointed" (tm) so it can easily be explained by the gb that they didn't "really" pass away, they just changed bodies and are now in heaven. See how easy that was. I should be on the gb, I know how to bs also. Presto! magic-o, alll fixed so that, once again the wt is correct.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i heard that on sat the jws released a new book at the convention god's kingdom rules.
is it a verse by verse of ezekiel or daniel?
does it mention the "overlapping generation"?
"Those in power get to write the history"!
Such is life----as we know it! Move on and enjoy!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
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if you make a deal with god, should you keep your side of the deal?.
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Yea the 19 a**holes that blew up the twin towers in NY, Pentagon, and downed a loaded in PA, they had FAITH the that were going to receive 50 virgins each on the 'other side'. Faith is a useful tool if used for the right reasons------and based on something besides a 'good feeling'.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
gorby and his lovely wife had during dinner a chat about watchtower hypocrisy.
she faded with me since 2007 and shows sometimes affection for the organization.. we talked about the gb and ray franz.. she asked me if she could read my ray franz books.. now i have a dilemma.
the books gave me a hard time in the '90.. i know the ray franz truth can hurt and shock her so much.
She'll probably 'jump your bones' because you will bring her so much joy and extasy. Ray's books were the best things that happened to me on the road to freedom.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub