Posts by jambon1

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How I miss the 'Truth' of my youth....

by gingerbread in

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my family moved from the city to the country.. part of the reason for the relocation was to move 'to where the need was greater'.

i loved our new home - i was free to roam the woods and fields, enjoy the wildlife, work in our garden and feed the chickens.

i had new friends in our new congregation.

jambon1

I've went through a strange time in the last year, sort of looking back all glassy eyed at my JW past.

I recall the feeling of being in a unique group of people seperate from other religions. Doing ministry for the love of it, really believing I had something special.

No, I wasn't brought up in 1950's WT. This was the 90's/00's.

Those emotions were a result of a late teen coming to accurate knowledge.

But the truth is, as the years past, I saw so much that was wrong & so much hypocrisy. I saw corrupt elders, bitchy old cows that were elders wives & a political system that people 'played'. This wasn't the accurate knowledge that I learned.

The halcion days of loving the ministry turned around full circle & the day I opted to 'work on my own' so that I could pretend to knock people's doors was the tipping point. I had to leave. I despised my life.

The organisation is just like any other religion & then some. Nice people & bad people all mixed together. And a very, very untrustworthy & checkered leadership.

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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

by slimboyfat in

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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.

jambon1

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.

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AGM 5 OCTOBER 2013 (UNOFFICIAL RUMORS)

by WatchTower87 in

- 23 day to go .. annual meeting unofficial rumors.

- new bible.

- new nwt (revision).

jambon1

Can I ask what on earth they can change about their bible? Is this a piss take or for real?

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What kind of scandal would cause most JW to leave the "truth"?

by Iamallcool in

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jambon1

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.

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Are JWs more negative than normal people?

by Julia Orwell in

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compare a typical conversation with a jw to one with a random non-jw:.

run into jw in the shops.. .

jw:[surprised] julia!

jambon1

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).

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Nov 2013 KM Question Box. Head coverings on Doorstep bible studies

by BroMac in

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.

jambon1

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.

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Young man walks out of Glasgow convention and commits suicide

by jambon1 in

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last weekend.

so unbelievably sad.

rip.

jambon1

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.

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