Carla's right.
JWs aren't allowed to meet for non KH meetings anymore so I wonder about the validity of this story.
by XPeterX 49 Replies latest jw friends
Carla's right.
JWs aren't allowed to meet for non KH meetings anymore so I wonder about the validity of this story.
Got everyone worked up though.
Plenty of witnesses still study the WT at gatherings and picnics.
5thgeneration this story is true.Many Jws prepare for the WT study,underline the answers etc.
Balsam/Ruth said......
Yah I remember those scary Circuit Overseers talks when they came around telling us most of us would not make it that only the most loyal and faithful would survive. I often thought so what is the point of putting forth the effort, I'll just go home and wait for the end and relax. LOL
I recall as a child seeing a relative at family gatherings crying, after a few drinks, "I'll never make it, I'll never make it through Armageddon". I remember thinking at the time, "Then why do you even bother, silly woman?"
She's still a JW "in good standing" today. (And she judges me, as they do. Even though I'm not DF'ed.) Now I realize that it's evidence of possible untreated mental illness and perhaps spousal emotional abuse by her elder husband. Yet isn't that what membership in this cult is, a type of mental illness combined with abuse by so-called loved ones?
Wish this family experience had given me the foresight to avoid being "baptized" into the religion.
Such a good quote, Gayle......
The JWs are a "destroy, destroy, destroy" religion.
Most people on earth are like "Death, disasters, tragedy..."
Jehovah's Witnesses preach "Destruction, yay!!"
slimboyfat,
I always hated that expression 'half of us are here to test the other half'. I wonder who coined this wonderful expression? JWs are so full of cliches and anecdotal stories, aren' they?
Anyway, the reason I hate this expression is because it implied that I was supposedly there to allow myself be 'tested' by somebody. How dare anybody presume they should 'test' somebody else!
I suppose I stopped caring at some point whether I was going to be 'saved' or not. After a while you just get numb and realize how hopeless the whole thing is.
So I guess this elder doing the predicting is running ahead of the organization then.
This reminds of when I was working the sound at the KH one night and the announcement was made that "brother Cigar Smoker is no longer a JW". An elder standing just a few feet from me whispered to another elder: "One down, two more to go" as if this was cause for celebration. This made me sick to my stomach... I don't know why, but that made me extremely angry for weeks.
That being said, I rarely noticed any genuine love in any of the 4 congos I've been in. Any so-called "christian love" was really just birds of a feather (pio-sneers, ass-kissers, etc.) flocking together while practically ignoring the "weak" ones or considering them "bad association" or "dangerous" to the spiritual well-being of the congo...