The fact that resigning causes this much fear showed me that this isn't the truth. It's all about show. spirituality in jw land is all about appearances, responsibilities and hours. Caring for your family, for the sick, for the depressed and showing loved is not promoted. If you use your resignation as an opportunity to focus on these vital facets of Christian living, no one will treat you bad unless they are truly pharisiac. In fact they may actually like you more, now that they can feel more comfortable around you.
kneehighmiah
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Your Experience with Resigning as an Elder
by committeechairman ini'm considering resigning as an elder.
i'm not planning to fade or stop as one of jehovah's witnesses, just stop serving as an elder.. i have responsibility in the congregation and in circuit, district, rbc, etc.
and i'm completely exhausted.
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From a Non JW Critic Post Memorial: Your Religion is Changing
by kneehighmiah ina non jw relative who is a staunch critic of the wt attends the memorial with us every year, but just because she enjoys worshiping with her relatives.
she fought against my parents becoming witnesses before i was born.
she owns the book 30 years a wt slave and suggested i read it.
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kneehighmiah
A non Jw relative who is a staunch critic of the WT attends the memorial with us every year, but just because she enjoys worshiping with her relatives. She fought against my parents becoming witnesses before I was born. She owns the book 30 years a WT slave and suggested I read it. Anyways after attending the memorial this year we finally talked last night. She's older so she doesn't use the internet much, so these ideas are her own. She said she took note that we didnt mention how many partook last year. She said during our don't partake portion of the speech, we usually compare the number of attendees to the number of par takers to reinforce the point to not partake. i hadn't even noticed that. She then says "you guys must have reached past 144,000 and are afraid to admit it because that all you guys used to talk about. The number of this and the number of that. Always a bunch of numbers." Then she went on a rant about 1914. I told her that this teaching is being fully exposed as a lie. "your parents have to know by know that something isn't right," she says. I told her that I'm sure they notice. But they're not gonna leave their social network behind. She the let me know that she can see our religion changing teachings again and that she doesn't see how they can keep doing this and saying its truth. We also discussed how the speaker used a WT that misrepresented her born again beliefs based on John 3. She was upset how badly the belief was misrepresented to make the JWs appear correct. Finally she added that any religion that puts down or attacks other religions to make themselves look good is usually insecure or hiding something. Interesting thoughts.
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Miami Has New Young Partakers
by James Jackson insnapper creek (miami, fl) congregation, had 2 pioneers (female), partake at the memorial for the first time.
one is 20 years old, the other 23.. the gt delayed again!!
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kneehighmiah
I believe that the rebellion of the "strong" witnesses is what will get people to think. Most people in the congregation are conditioned to ignore the opinions any "weak" members. Actually they are taught to act like weak ones don't exist or are mentally diseased. However, when Organizational heavies rebel, people will ask them why. People will ask these young women why they are partaking. the elders will be hesitant to d'f them out of fear, just as the Pharisees were afraid to arrest Jesus. It will make them look bad.
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Miami Has New Young Partakers
by James Jackson insnapper creek (miami, fl) congregation, had 2 pioneers (female), partake at the memorial for the first time.
one is 20 years old, the other 23.. the gt delayed again!!
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kneehighmiah
I think there is a new movement inside the organization to get the GB to allow everyone to partake. such ones don't believe that they are anointed or that being anointed is some mystical experience. They are just probably awake to the failure of the 144,000 teaching and have discussed it together. They may have come to the conclusion that Jesus instructed all his followers to participate in the evening meal. this is good to see. The more people rebel the easier it will become for our loved ones to wake up and leave.
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What is the difference between an active JW and a successful FORMER JW?
by Terry inpassionate enthusiasm (where is yours?).
active jw's are pushing the end times boulder up the mountain day after day with an imaginary goal of paradise for their efforts.
the prophetic dates roll over them and crush them again and again.
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kneehighmiah
One thing I did was create a checklist of all the new things I hope to accomplish since being awakened. This has helped me set realist positive goals and move forward.
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Anyone Here Used to Fear Persecution?
by kneehighmiah ini was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.
i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.
seeing my family tortured.
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kneehighmiah
I was thinking today about how I no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the JWs. I used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs. Seeing my family tortured. I realized it feels great no longer having this fear. did anyone else use to have the same fears?
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This guy predicted JW forced donations/tithing
by kneehighmiah indoug shields wrote this.
apparently he was a jwn member back in 2001. .
http://thewatchtowerfiles.com/crisis/.
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kneehighmiah
I wonder if he's still on JWN.
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This guy predicted JW forced donations/tithing
by kneehighmiah indoug shields wrote this.
apparently he was a jwn member back in 2001. .
http://thewatchtowerfiles.com/crisis/.
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kneehighmiah
Doug Shields wrote this. Apparently he was a JWN member back in 2001.
http://thewatchtowerfiles.com/crisis/
good article overall. Key quote is the following:
Alternative Plans of Action:
I’ve listed some ideas as to how the Watchtower might steer its ship in the current and coming storm. These are shown below.
- They could attempt to legitimize themselves by relinquishing their tax free status and selling their books online to their members. However that will require that they report their income to the public and they have so far been unwilling to do so. This seems a viable but highly unlikely option.
- Perhaps, since they have seven million adherents they will plead poverty to them and introduce some sort of “new light” with regard to tithing or making regular contributions. They could tie the rank and file’s level of contribution directly to their individual progress in the organization much like the Scientologists and the Mormons.
This second option seems much more likely.
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Gerritt Loesch life story .... Total hypocrisy
by Skinnedsheep inas written in the july 15 2014 wt.
what gerrit used to believe and teach.... the roman catholic teaching of apostolic succession claims that there is an unbroken succession of popes in a line extending all the way back to the apostle peter.
(the church misinterprets jesus words that are quoted at matthew 16:18, 19.
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kneehighmiah
I swear they are trolling us. I'm fully convinced they are. So he goes from admiring the pope, to being the pope. He worked his way up through the ranks and now speaks for God.