I walked out in the middle of the Watchtower Study yesterday............ (page 4)

This is truly sickening, to blame the victim. Similar to child abuse. The WT is good at this perverted psychology. Who said anyone didn't want the end of this wickedness? What sane person likes disease, death, and suffering? We just don't set dates for the end of these things like the WT does. That makes us wrong? Looking at their record, I'd say THEY were wrong.

"Ignored the signs?" What signs?? If the signs were truly "signs", then the end would have come in 1975, right? And to infer that they went back to the worldly things they loved is unfair and slander. They went back to making a living, repairing broken educations, finding jobs with pensions, and other things. They also left the WT because the WT dared them to test them out to see if they were the truth, and when they did and found them to be liars, the WT got all pouty and called names like it always does. What a bunch of cry babies! Whenever things don't go their way in court, they sit on the steps and howl about their rights. When they are caught in a lie, they deny it or call it "new light".

Sydlyk is an asshole. You will never get a fair comment from him. In fact, most of the GB are pompous twits. I liked the funeral comments. If the WT doesn't know what the truth is, how can they ask the rank and file to go door to door explaining what it is?

orangefatcat

I wonder if there was a poll as to how many JWs are happy campers in the congregations. I would dare say that more than half if not more are not content with being in the organization and if they say otherwise I wouldn't believe them as i know for a fact many doctor have told me as well as other specialist stated that they(JWs) wish the had the guts or courage I had to get up and leave. But because of fear and family they stay but their hearts are far removed. You all know how difficult it was to leave but the pain of it all was well worth it in the long run as now we are all free of the lies and deception of the WTS's organization. Members of the Organizaiton that preached and teached from platforms all around the world about 1975 being the end they are now denying it. They are hypocrites because they darn well know they preached that to be factual. To say otherwise makes them out to be children of the Devil's organization.

I find that the GB are all liars. With exception to those who had the courage to leave the org. They are such scantimonious men that they believe their own lies and drivel they preach to millions of witnesses.

Gee how come so many of them can't see the truth for what the truth is not. Is it only fear that keeps them subservient to the organization, worrying about being disfellowshipped. What really kills me is if a witness talks about these dates and other misconceptions they set themselves up for disfellowshiping not realizing that they are now bait for the elders and organization. Do they fear us that much??? I sure as hell hope so . Please if you haven't left the organiztion now is the time to get out or you'll end up being extremely dissapointed.

Gumby I appreciated your good comments in fact everyone made some great points. It is an excellent post. Mary and Danny thanks for your good points to. I tip my hat to all of you who are striving to survive leaving the organization.

love

Orangefatcat.

Abaddon

blondie

Yes, Winston Smith works in MiniTru (the Minstry of Truth) re-writing history as party faithfuls lose their position and political allegancies are changed. I love that book, really hit me when I read it afterward, can't think what I was thinking of when I read it first at school, not to get it.

JWdaughter

Soon after an elder (my favorite) revealed the reality of 1975 for himself and his family to a group of teenagers at a youth WT study(he told the truth about expectations and what he did in anticipation of it), he moved abruptly to another community-after having had deep ties to ours for a couple of decades. No explanation, he was just gone. It happened after I left, so I missed the gossip. I wish he got out of it, but I doubt it. He was an elder and had seen 1975 up close and personal (this was around 1980). Our youth WT study didn't have any more 'meetings', and were effectively shut down immediately after that revelation. Then I left, then he did. I wonder what ELSE happened in that congregation? I am thinking there was some drama that I was clueless about.

finallyatpeace

Good for you!!! You are on the road to independent thinking - the road where the Watchtower Society has posted a "no trespassing" sign.

I started my own journey up that road on January 1, 1976. That was the day my youngest child was born, and taken away from me by court order in order for him to have a lifesaving exchange blood transfusion.

I remember praying on the way to surgery, "Jehovah, please let my baby live!"

Then I woke up in recovery, was told I had a son. Then was told he was recieving an exchange blood transfusion because he would die without it. (RH- blood factor and RHO-gam was not allowed).

Then I realized that 1975 had come and gone, and all the reassurances from the elder's that the "blood issue" would never happen because we would be living in the New System by the time my baby was born - it didn't happen that way.

My son was the first baby born in 1976 in Riverside County, California. January 1, 1976 - HELLO???!!!! How much more blatant could Jehovah be in answering my prayer and letting me know that the WTBTS was WRONG? It was my awakening. It was the beginning of a long journey for me, of searching and discovering and a road I had never dared to trespass on - independent thinking.

There is a better life beyond Jehovah's Witnesses - journey up that road and be amazed at the wonders you will discover!

sandy

I remember (In the 80s) my father and uncle would argue, quite often, over who was at fault for the 1975 ordeal. My father to this day defends the WT and my uncle, still a witness, always blamed the org. I wonder why my uncle never left.

Frannie Banannie

Walked out in the MIDDLE of the Watchtower Study?

You're my hero! It's something I wanted to do long before I finally made the exit. I just couldn't find enough grits in my chaps at the time.

Frannie

I walked out in the middle of the Watchtower Study yesterday............

xjwms

mcsemike