Another Story about Someone Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses

jschwehm

Hi Gang:

Here is another powerful demonstration of God's grace. Read the Conversion Story of Serena Conn at the link below:

http://www.catholicxjw.com/marymagdalen.html

Jeff Schwehm
www.catholicxjw.com

Crumpet

Sad story. Poor woman. Still chasing fairy stories instead of getting on with living the life she has got.

If removing one shaky crutch and inserting another under a vulnerable person's fragile body is demonstraive of God's grace he can shove it up his ass.

mtbatoon

Well said Crumpet. I hope there's room for all this my faiths better than your faith crap up that most holy of orifices too.

Well said indeed. Think I have long thought, most dub's that are the R & F have addictive personalities in one form or another. When they leave the dub's, sadly they have a need fill that void quickly. They just don't realize that the power to make you feel happy or complete is within you.

Crumpet

It just is too sanctimonious for words. I'd like to say I respect people of all faiths but I'm afraid I don;t. Faith/religion - to me equals Hazard warning.

You don't need a God to tell you whats right and wrong. We are actually intelligent enough to work this out for ourselves. The principles are simple. And I do feel kind of queasy when I hear of someone leaving the dark side only to join another part of the dark side. It frightens me when I think I used to have a limp mind like that - I am confronted with my utter guillibility and stupidity in believing everything I was taught all my life. The one thing I can be proud of is that I am retraining myself to think coherently. Who knows I might have it sussed in another 20 years time!

(Thanks mtbatoon - are you coming to the apostabbq?)

mtbatoon

(Thanks mtbatoon - are you coming to the apostabbq?)

Not this year I'm afraid

candidlynuts

I had a very difficult time,
looking at my life. I had done what I had been told I should do all my life and I was miserable. I
made the decision to go ahead and do everything I had been told not to do. I figured I could not
be any worse off. So what if I died at Armageddon? I reasoned that Jehovah could read hearts
and knew I was not sincere, so I was going to die anyway. Besides, dying and ceasing to exist
did not seem so bad to me. At least then I would not be suffering anymore.

i gotta say, i totally understand her feelings at this point.. i dont know if catholicism is going to really fill her needs over time. she really seems to have some serious psychological issues, but i hope it does.. after a life like she's had she needs some years of peace! thanks for the link jeff.. i wish her well and she's in my prayers.

jaffacake

This poor woman will be a million times better off as a catholic, or a protestant, than a JW or similar cult-like religions. It will do her no harm, despite my own dislike of much about catholicism. The worst thing is their belief, like JWs that they are the true church.

I too have been indoctrinated to be anti-catholic in the past, following a catholic upbringing. I would hope that those hostile to catholicims can recognise this is JW conditioning. Perhaps we should only describe it so negatively if we have had first hand experience, rather than allowing the permanent conditioning we experienced to produce knee-jerk reactions.

jula71

I agree with Jeff, she would be better off a Catholic or whatever. But it's still a case of picking the better of 2 evils. And really, aren't all religions "cults" if you think about it?

Main Entry: cult
Pronunciation: 'k&lt
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate -- more at WHEEL
1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Scully

If a person's "spiritual need" leads them to Catholicism or Hinduism or Judaism or any other -ism (including JW-ism) it's not my place to judge what feels right to them. By the same token, I would hope those people would not feel compelled to judge my choice to have nothing whatsoever to do with an organized religion and respect my wishes to not be preached at.

My "spiritual need" is nicely fulfilled just the way it is, thank you very much. If I decide I need a change, I will do the searching. I am totally suspicious now of any belief system that gets shoved in my face.

Another Story about Someone Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses

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