how much did your congregation and its bank account get taken for?
share your horror story!.
Do they get loans or gifts to build halls?-JWDaughter
WT are loansharks, they never gift money only lend it, if a cong cannot afford to pay a loan back then no new KH. There is a New everlasting loan system in place now. Congs can never pay off their loans. It's a scam.
Kate xx
there will be a cry of peace and security and then sudden destruction be instantly upon them as a snare.
1 th 5:3.. wts have been claiming peace and security in their organisation for years, which of course, has been anything but.
now they are being investigated by the charity commission for their handling of child abuse and other cases.
Have you got a news paper link about the investigation?
Kate xx
i am going to throw down the gaunlet.
those who know the truth but stay in anyways are complicit in actions of the jehovah witness organization.
while i am sympathetic to the very difficult choices that they have to make, their unwillingness to confront the jw enables the organization.. some of you may remember my story.
OneEyedJoe-Well said. Thank you for your perspective. Kate xx
please don't attack me if this is the wrong place!
i know that i definitely shouldn't be on this website, but i am to embarassed to ask anyone at my hall!
everyone would be so nice, but i just feel like i should know the answers already.
moSIS,
Thank you for replying my question. That was kind of you. You said....................
I'd like to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses.. but I'm just so underqualified to serve Jehovah. Honestly, I don't see that happening, there are just such better people that Jehovah can use.-moSIS
This is how the magazines are designed to make us feel. WT want us to continually try harder and do more to be worthy. I am not surprised to learn that you enjoyed the meeting due to the fact that the CO's wife was nice to you and the CO had a charasmatic personality and his talk was funny and easy to listen to. As Punky has mentioned this is called "love bombing". JWs pay a lot of attention to you and draw you in with their love.
I noticed though you didn't mention much as regards to doctrines or policies, this is the dangerous part that many on this site want to warn you about. I reiterate what Punky suggested. To learn the full facts about the JWs please check out jwfacts.com and learn why some leave the WT.
Take care
Love Kate xx
just found out that my little sister is getting df'd next week.
her husband left her about a year ago got df'd and recently got a girl pregnant.
my sister has had a hard time with the whole situation as you can imagine.
I am with Steve on this. Your sister will have to jump through hoops now. She confessed so she was repentant, she shouldn't have been Df'd in the first place. She will have to go to all the meetings and prepare her WT and Draw Close to Jehovah book to prove she is repentant and still there are no guarentees the elders will see her as repentant. She will have to go to another JC and talk explicitly.
I was Df'd unjustly. I tried to get RI'd five times until I quit. I recoreded my last JC and realised they would never RI me. Thankfully I realised, with the help of sites like this, that holy spirit was not guiding my JC or the WT org.
Perhaps she would like to listen to my JC recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_uWFKDFMdQ
Kate xx
just filed a complaint with the AZ Attorney General's office.- NE
Well done Kim. This is a step in the right direction. I wonder if he would get Df'd for stealing and lying. I bet his BOE peers will say he is repentant and is forgiven. This will be an eye opener for many in the cong I hope.
Kate xx
some of my musings.
the last time the do was at our hall he talked about the borians.
the ones who checked the scriptures carefuly to see if these things were so.
Yes, showing a rebelious spirit towards the elders is tantamount to being disloyal. Now disloyalty is viewed as apostacy too. Kate xx
we credit religious believers with far too much interest in and/or ability to engage in reasoning.
we overlook two hugely compelling factors that drive and revive "faith": emotional need for religious meaning, including to be consoled over awful events, and being born into the religion.
raised from day one to recite stupidity, it is then hard to assess stupidity for what it is.. that is why there is no shortage of stupid religions who turn date-speculation into a near-art form.
Good OP Steve,
I think WT longevity is due to the fact it is a machine. There are too many in positions of power that will keep the machine going. They like the power and the money. Even many R&F JWs who learn TTATT stay stuck in, and keep the WT going. These JWs are trapped by very clever, greedy men in power. The shunning policy keeps them going.
The July 15th 2014 WT has an article about being loyal and not an apostate. Very clever loaded language. They are associating disloyalty with apostacy. DISLOYAL= APOSTATE. JWs are scared of the word apostate because it has been misused and wrongly defined and now WT are using it in a more controlling way.
Steve, I don't think stupidity has anything to do with WT longevity, I believe intellect has a lot to do with it. They govern with fear, but in an icidiously clever way.
Kate xx
i am inactive for about 10 years now..
So what is that called?- Heaven
It's called very clever.
I am Df'd.
Was Df'd in 2012 but very much in. Learned TTATT in Feb 2013. Had a grand exit in Nov 2013, recorded my last JC, and it's gone viral over the net.
Kate xx
a NON-PROFIT CHARITY corporation [Verde Valley congregation] the Trustees CANNOT sell property to themselves-NE
Kim,
Have the authorities been informed? He needs to be made an example of. I don't suppose he will get a custodial sentence if he's convicted just a hefty fine. Please contact the police and land registration authority for the area.
Kate xx
