Posts by Honesty

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Your body is your PRIMARY TEACHER (a God-appointed channel is nowhere in the picture)

by Pinku in

balance is the natural state of your body and is maintained by moderation in your habits such as sleep, work, eating, entertainment and thinking.

(mathew7:12; 5:13-16; proverbs 25:16, 27; 1 cor 6:12; 8:9; philippians 4:5) your body sends signs of distress when you cross the limit.. this is true even in subtler areas too.

contrary to the popular notion that happiness or peace come from accumulating things, body teaches it comes from renunciation.

Should some people actually be Witnesses?

by Apognophos in

it seems to me like certain people actually benefit from joining the religion.

primarily i'm thinking of ones with drug problems who are only able to quit because they are working towards baptism.

another example would be those who are always getting in fights or who have a big ego, and who learn to be pacifistic and humble as a witness.

Honesty

My ex deserves to be a Jehovah's Witness.

Her attitude towards others fits right in with pioneers, elders and other mature ones.

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Ripple Effect

by Yondaime in

on tuesday i was dragged out on service with my mom since shes a permanent pioneer, and once we arrived at the hall i realized there were no brothers, but an abundance of sisters.

i conducted the service meeting with ease, since my dad gave me a formation on how to do it.. then on thursday at my meeting nearly half of the congregation surrounded me and gave me hugs and kisses.

i know about love bombing, its happened to me before, but this was the most insane amount of it ever since i had a demonstration at the district convention.

Honesty

All of the above and then some.

You will feel liike crap unless you find some new friends who aren't of the conditional type.

Get out and make new friends BEFORE you make your exit and things will go a lot smoother.

Within a year of making new friendships with 'worldy people' you will wonder why Jehovah's Witnesses say, "The friends" when they actually have none.

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Give me a reason not to go back

by chukky 594 in

jw
friends

been out now for 10 yrs but life is a mess.

starting to think its because i have no spiritual compass.

why shouldn't i consider going back?.

Honesty

My life was a mess while I was in and I was a servant.

After I got out things didn't get much better for lmost a year.

Then, one night while I was reading a bible (Not the NWT) I opened it up to Romans chapter 8 and read it.

That is when Jesus rescued me from my sins.

My sins had kept me alientated from Him because I had been taught almost all my life that it was wrong to pray to Jesus.

After I prayed to Him something immediately happened that is indescribable.

Since then I have enjoyed personal contact with Jesus and He is there for me 24/7 365.

The problem people have is being humble enough to tell Jesus that they are sinners and can't fix that no matter how hard they try.

Another problem is that most people believe they have to be part of the herd and all that does is give them somewhat of a social life but it still doesn't fix their sin problem.

You say your life is a mess.

It will stay a mess even if you go back to the kingdom hall because you will be trying to please God by adhering to a huge list of rules and regulations which no one can live up to.

If you can't resist the temptation go back to the kingdom hall but let God's grace wash over you through a relationship with Jesus and you will know peace like you've never known before.

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2014 Distict Convention. Symposium: Anticipate Future Kingdom Blessings! (part 6 "New Scrolls")

by Splash in

transcript of the talk from the 2014 uk district convention (aug 2014).. sunday morning.. symposium: anticipate future kingdom blessings!

(part 6 "new scrolls").

(speaker not known).

ELDER LIES AND GET'S PRAISED FOR IT! FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ME!

by BucketShopBill in

want to know how a lie can turn into a compliment?

only in the jw mindset!!!.

we got called into the dreaded back room after meeting to find two elders wanting to discuss a 'serious' matter with us.

Honesty

And JW's wonder why people think they are off their rockers.

LOL

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Not invited to my nephews wedding

by outforever in

jw
friends

knew that this would be the case - so not surprised.

quite happy to not go - as i would not like to see my mother / or my big sister at all.

this nephew is my small sisters son - my small sister and myself are very close - she does not go to the meetings anymore for quite a while now, her eyes have been opened.

Honesty

It's just a little taste of what the 'new system' and paradise will be with all that JW love hanging in the air.

Only then it will be invites only to those who have achieved much closer perfection.

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Brother in law thinks I am a pagan Worshipper

by Yondaime in

last month i decided to attend the international convention at metlife since my sister's cong was invited so she took me along with my older brother.

my sister drove and my older brother sat in the front seat of her suv.

i was in the back seat with the greatest watchtower apologist/loser/eldermole in the universe my bil.. they were all chatting away about how this assembly filed with regurgitated spiritual stool was a sign of the last days since so many people would be in attendance.

Honesty

Come on, doesn't everyone know that everything is satanic and demonized except for the Watchtower magazine.

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inactive ones going back...

by monis1 in

jw
friends

i have quite a big group of friends who were all in the cong together when we were teens.

about 75% of them stopped going or were df'd right after high school.

it is a varied group; a couple are staunch apostates, some dont care one way or another, and another handfull are fully "worldly", but still believe it is the truth.

Honesty

Officially out for almost 10 years.

Never will go back to that trash.

However, the draw of famly ties are too much for some and if they go back to the Watchtower's trash they get their family ties again.

It's not worth it to me, though because I accept my family the way they are even if they call me nasty names because I don't believe anything those 7 old bastards up in NYC dream up on the 6th floor of bethell anymore.

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Top Ten Scriptures Not Highlighted at the Meetings

by Perry in

but we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;... is.

64:6. in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins ... eph.

1:7. him god raised up on the third day, and showed him openly, ... he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained by god to be judge of the living and the dead.

Honesty

Those scriptures are too much of a theological nightmare for the 'faithless and disturbed slave' to highlight or even barely mention in their religious comic books.