there are approximately six billion human beings in the world who are not, and never will be, jehovah's witnesses.
per watchtower doctrine, jehovah's 'day of judgement ' is coming soon.
so what to do about all those non-jws who are 'enemies' of jehovah???
If you ask them rhetorical questions like that they will just go on the defence and not really think for themselves. You might also get them thinking things like "ahh well here is another bitter apostate". Lots of decent JWs make excuses that Jehovah is a just God and will save all righteous people, they don't agree wholeheartedly with the fact that all will be destroyed who aren't JWs.
Kate xx
ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?
the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:.
1. at the top of the social order of things within the congregation is of course, the presiding overseer and his family.
Without a shadow of a doubt I was always an 8. Even during my study before I got baptised, and I never changed. some of the elders appreciated my free thinking and I had a few honest ones as close friends.
Kate xx
i stayed home sick from work the other day and noticed a car group pull up to my neighbor's house.
she's a stay-at-home mom.
i decided it was time to retrieve something from my truck to see if i could recognize the visiting sisters.
Thanks for the update. So we see there was nothing to worry about, she just wanted rid of them. It just goes to show that converts are few and far between. Kate xx
I can't see any stories on yahoo that are about JW child abuse. Have you got a link?
Kate xx
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Going after pleasure needs to be balanced. There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing. Food gives us pleasure, but becoming gluttons changes the way we view food. So the desire to do something pleasing should be balanced. The video was more about sexual pleasure though, having multiple sexual partners is lonely, many find manogomy pleasing, sexual pleasure is a small part of a manogomous relationship.
Kate xx
yep...that was the topic discussed in a recent public talk!.
the speaker went on about how a "god of love, along with his organisation, would never threaten people with punishment and hell!".
talk about hypocrisy!
so true!...I need to get out of here!-Stuck
We can help you come up with an exit plan. There are loads of different ways to make the next step, but you have to have it right in your head what you're going to do. Skip a few meetings and wind down, cold turkey and stop going all together, just miss the services meetings, etc.
Once you decide how you will stop going to meetings you need to decide how to deal with elders phonecalls, meetings and "encouragement". There are plenty of good one liners to keep them at bay and then they may just forget about you. Alternatetively you may want a JC and record it to tell them all about the things you have learned, that can be cathartic for many, but ends in D'fing or D'aing.
Kate xx
o m g...(yes that is a very childish reaction...but i couldn't think of a more appropriate expression!).
if you haven't yet read it...please do so..... it is so ridiculous!
so leading, so distorted, and full of "bait and switch" techniques.. "prove you have the truth"..by seeing how neutral witnesses were in war times?
Stuck,
You are awake and you are getting to the point that the more you read to more frustrated you are with the cultish techniques used. I suggest you make a plan of how to stay in without getting so annoyed. You need to read less and miss a few meetings.
Kate xx
feeling low today.
i haven't posted for a long time (forgotten log in details = new username) i'm in a good place with my family now and have built a life outside the religion.. today i found out a good friend has gone back and got himself reinstated to be able to have contact with his elderly mother.
that is the only reason apparently.
It's sad so see someone get RI'd, but it's for a good reason to be with his mum. I am glad to see you will support him and be there for him, if he knows TTATT he will really hate the meetings.
Kate xx
famous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!
it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.
britain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.
2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.
those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.
Soldiers in Britain tend to come from the most derprived parts of the country and towns where finding work is almost imopossible even with qualifications. Yes war costs a lot in many ways, it costs lives and causes poverty.
Kate xx
