leaving the religion can be likened to a game of poker.
many possible scenarios can be played out during the game and the potential loss or gains are many:.
you have put too many chips in, every round it just seems you will win it all in the end.
As much as want, daydream about leaving the WTBTS, I just cannot.
All of my immediate relatives and life long close friends are hardcore JWs. My life is completely ruled by JW stuff. In the Autumn of my life, I just cannot muster the strength to start over.... alone.😔
So, as much as I am awake to TTATT, I choose what's familiar.
DY
if you were to read the watchtower literature and you believed it to be the exclusive divinely inspired interpretation of the bible, i suggest that you would not be learning anything useful, instead you would simply be absorbing the indoctrination of the jw org..
what is the difference between indoctrination and education?.
take any passage from the watchtower this sentence for example which assumes significance in the end of six thousand years of human history in 1975: “how then does this fit in with god’s timetable?”.
Education teaches critical thinking. All of a sudden, much of the dogma doesn't make sense.
DY
yes that's me, i am victorious!
i had enough after about 4 years knowing ttatt.
sent my da letter and it has been anounced at the meeting.
Congrats on leaving and still having your loved ones.
Be well.
DY
The people are nice, but the work sure sucks!
DY
it is strange to read the last week watchtower that encouraging child/teenagers' baptism.
even jesus was baptised as his 30. jws encouraging marriages at an older age.
but why they are encouraging children to get baptised.
All they care about is the numbers!
This is my biggest JW complaint!!
DY
howdy guys!
this is our latest video on the jw broadcast in short form.
we talk about jw marriage challenges.
They are both young, dumb and full of cum.
Have going for them the wonderful notion that they escaped while their whole life is still ahead of them. SO..... Live!!!
Stop looking in the rear view mirror the WTBTS already.
DY
today spiegel online & bento have an article about the anti-gay video.. spiegel is one of the biggest and most serious news media in germany.. they also report and show that youtubers cut the video and changed it in a funny way.
sofia tells her mother that the teacher said it's fine if they live each other.
then sofia's mother says: "thats wonderful.".
My final words to all non and ex-JWs regarding this and any other doctrines is....
Move forward with your life and let others live theirs. Much happiness and peace comes from minding one's business only.
DY🌺
today spiegel online & bento have an article about the anti-gay video.. spiegel is one of the biggest and most serious news media in germany.. they also report and show that youtubers cut the video and changed it in a funny way.
sofia tells her mother that the teacher said it's fine if they live each other.
then sofia's mother says: "thats wonderful.".
Oh yeah!
The English congs in the area are so dry, the members so distant from each other; I compare them to hard dry toast. I could easily understand the bitterness of some ex-JWs in this forum if they grew up in an English cong
I could never be part of an English cong;no real fun there. They do their weddings at 10 a.m. while we do them in the evening so that we can eat, dance up a storm and... drink!
Our take of this doomsday cult is quite different from the rest. We shall have fun while waiting on...... Jehovah?!😋
DY
today spiegel online & bento have an article about the anti-gay video.. spiegel is one of the biggest and most serious news media in germany.. they also report and show that youtubers cut the video and changed it in a funny way.
sofia tells her mother that the teacher said it's fine if they live each other.
then sofia's mother says: "thats wonderful.".
Granted that there are a lot of JW nuts that take what the GB publishes to the extreme, but the smart moderate JW, which is what most Spanish JW congs have, knows better and lets the info in one ear and out the other.
Is quite a balancing act sort of a game this JW world.
DY
oh dear.
i have a customer - dave - who gives me frequent and profitable work sometimes.
i'm retired but am happy to do a little bit part-time.. this morning i called to rectify some work he'd had done by a not-so expert "tradesman".
Terry,
The WTBTS has changed almost 100% from the time you were in. If you attend a meeting lately, you would swear is some other religion.
Their lit is artsy, and they are into video/cinema production big time these days.
Their huge no blood doctrine has changed to the point that is almost non-existent with this blood fraction use and use of a machine that re-uses one's own blood, etc.
A totally different bird these days!!!
DY
