Imagine getting booted out for taking a stand against pedophiles within the organization.
Did You Make Excuses For The Jehovah's Witness Religion?
by minimus 26 Replies latest jw friends
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integ
I used to defend the Society because I believed it. I now have a couple of concerns about what the Society is teaching.
Integ.
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minimus
only a couple, Integ???
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Skeptic
In high school, my Spanish teacher was a recent Born-Again Christian, who made a point of telling me the JWs were a cult. She announced to the class when it was my birthday, and sarcastically wished me a happy birthday tho I had asked her not to. I didn't protest as much after that. It's embarrassing to even think about it now.
That teacher was a jerk.
I defended not celebrating birthdays and holidays though I knew the arguments were weak at best. The same with not toasting and a number of silly rules. Eventually, I figured out that Jah had a ego problem.
Now, though I still think Jah has an ego problem, I don't think as badly of him as I did when I was a Witness. I now know that the silly rules are a mind control mechanism.
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integ
Min:
I meant a couple "hundred".
Integ.
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Blueblades
You people don't.....The list of don'ts was very long.So,I would focus on the list of what we do,and that list at the time was also very long.For every negative I gave a positive.What a struggle it was at the time,I'm glad that its over for me,no more defending the Society.
Blueblades
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minimus
It's nice not to have to lie anymore. My barber asked me how the Witnesses are doing. I told him that I didn't know since I'm no longer active. He asked me if that meant that no one could talk to me. (He had other customers that were df'd). I said, "JW's can talk to me as long as I don't outrightly say that I disagree with something taught by the Witnesses. And if I disagreed with just one thing taught, every Witness would be obligated to shun me and never talk to me again"........See! NO MORE EXCUSES!