Pride or Humility - I guess it depends how you look at it..

by bradford 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  bradford

  One of the constant themes of the literature and of the well meaning witnesses who regurgitate it to those that have left or are in the process of leaving is this:

  You are filled with pride. You think you know better than Jehovah's organization. You need to wait on Jehovah. Jehovah hates pride. Therefore he hates you. You need to humble yourself.

  I came to a realization recently. What is more prideful? To believe that you have the one single truth, the one single religion that god approves, and that everyone else is wrong (and going to die!) -or- to admit that something you believed in, advocated, preached to others about, gave talks on, shared experiences with other witnesses about: WAS WRONG. You were duped.

  A close friend tried this line on me how I was being prideful and I asked him if he realized how humbling it was to accept that I wasted 10 years of my life believing something that wasn't true and to walk away. I guess it is all about perception. He actually seemed like he understood what I was saying.
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  Iown Mylife

  If you live in the South it's common to hear politicians tell how they are proud and humble to be here, lol!

  Marina
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  Finkelstein

  JWS are brainwashed to regurgitate the propaganda the WTS sets out.

  Talk to a JWS and you might as well read a piece of WTS literature.
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  stuckinarut2

  Great point indeed!

  Yes, it requires genuine HUMILITY to accept that we were wrong, and were blindly following UNTRUTHS for our whole lives!

  It takes HUMILITY to accept and admit that we DID NOT HAVE the facts and truth.....

  That is something the GB and org in general have never admitted...that they have ever been wrong! (instead, they blame individual members)
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  stuckinarut2

  So I admit the following:

  I, Stuckinarut2, have realised, half way through my life that I blindly accepted the "truth" forced on me as a child. I did not question anything. I became the perfect witness.

  Then I woke up and realised that true humility required me to recognise that I could not arrogantly believe that I had exclusive hold on truth.

  I now see clearly for the fist time in my life!

  Now, I hope to begin to learn what true humility is: Recognising that I am NOT always correct!
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  OUTLAW

  You are filled with pride. You think you know better than Jehovah's organization.

  

  You need to wait on Jehovah.
  

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  Jehovah hates pride. Therefore he hates you. You need to humble yourself.

  ...........................................................................................................What An ASSHOLE!!..
  

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  steve2

  Outlaw, you nailed it...again. I humbly disclose that, when it comes to pussies, I'm a pushover.
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  Finkelstein

  The WTS. hates people who take pride in critical thinking and intellectual honesty.

  These people are deemed useless and are usually tossed out .
  
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  stuckinarut2

  As the old song said: (funny, cos I can actually picture ToMo3 singing this!!!)

  "oh lord its so hard to be humble,

  when Im so perfect in every way..."
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  Bigdummy

  Bradford's quote:
  

  " the one single religion that god approves, and that everyone else is wrong (and going to die!"

  There is a sister at the hall who would always finish her comment with this quote " if they
  

  don't listen to us at the door they are going to be destroyed." I was amazed that she could put

  that ending line in almost all her comments regardless of the topic or subject of the meeting .
  

  It was like she relished the thought that untold billions were going to die if people didn't listen to her.

  She would almost be grinning when she said it like she had some kind of power to mete out God's

  wrath. It was sickening for me to hear her. If she and a bunch more people at the hall would be my

  immediate neighbors in the new system I would rather go ahead and die now. There are a bunch of

  JW friends I could live by but I'm just saying.