after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
The feeling of nagging doubts that occur when you're sitting through the meetings was utterly soul destroying to me.
As much as I believed some of the teachings, the ideas about the way to treat disfellowshipped people, god destroying human beings & the blood issue just ate away at me.
Don't know how anyone could return.
- 23 day to go .. annual meeting unofficial rumors.
- new bible.
- new nwt (revision).
Can I ask what on earth they can change about their bible? Is this a piss take or for real?
I was once told by an up and coming JW (previous waster) that if the entire GB was found to be paedophiles it still wouldn't stumble him against the truth.
Not that they're brain washed or that.
compare a typical conversation with a jw to one with a random non-jw:.
run into jw in the shops.. .
jw:[surprised] julia!
One of the things that finally got me leaving the religion was that it dawned on me that I couldn't conscientiously offer people a 'better way of life' by becoming a Jehovah's Witness.
The utter misery of life at the hall/field service/gatherings. The gossiping & suspicion & paranoia.
All I could see was that my worldly friends (despite having their own private struggles) were ultimately happier people.
Why would anyone want to become a JW and expose themselves to the utter arseholes that were running/running our congregation?
I realised that my own thinking had become so negative and paranoid that it was actually unnatural for a healthy 20odd year old to be feeling do dissatisfied with what was essentially a very nice life that I'd built for myself (outside jw stuff).
should a female publisher wear a headcovering if she is accompanied by a male publisher at a door step bible study?
when a female publisher conducts a regular ,scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.(1cor.
11:3-10)the july 15, 2002 issue of the watchtower, page 27, explains: this is a pre arranged session of teaching where the one conducting the study actually presides.
Silly rules for props who have to be told how to think.
Its as if the society are trying to make them look even more odd and ridiculous than they already are.
last weekend.
so unbelievably sad.
rip.
For my own reasons and incidentally that of the lads family I'd rather not go into detail.
He was definitely a witness who apparently walked out the morning session to take his life on the train track.
The lad was 19. Suffered from depression.
Absolutely horrible news and my thoughts are with his family.
Without trying to sound presumptions in the case of the lad but its about time those in responsible positions in the org seen the link between their extreme teachings and views of the world and clinical depression.
Its undeniable.
the word out of bethel is of a mass purge the likes of the 1980's.. there's also possible public reproofs handed out for irregular ones.. .
the scriptures they are using to support this:.
the very ones keeping away from you will perish.
Good.
Bring it.
last weekend.
so unbelievably sad.
rip.
Last weekend.
So unbelievably sad.
RIP.
we all remember this passage vividly: from there elisha went up to bethel.
while he was on his way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him.
"go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up baldhead!
One of the most bizarre & ****ed up passages in the bible in my opinion.
Is it a fact that the JW's believe that this was 'god's punishment'?
greetings.. allow me to set the questions up.. after 30 years in the truth (i'm now late 40's) and having established the truth about the truth i consider myself agnostic going on atheist.. i struggle to believe there is a god when i observe life yet i try to convince myself there must be something out there.. here's the basis of my question: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23583116 .
in summary, 2 young boys have been killed by a snake that escaped from a pet store in canada.
it made it's way up through the ventilation into the apartment they were staying in.
The presence of suffering (particularly that inflicted by 'perfect creation') is one of the majors that had me leaving the religion.
I've never, ever been able to reconcile these things & I doubt I ever will.
It all simply doesn't make sense to me.
I couldn't do what god has done.
