probably not a popular opinion on here....and haven't been actively attending meetings since 1988....(i know i know a submarine attender) however thoroughly enjoyed attending this evening...was good to see lots of people i remember whilst growing up in this faith, they were genuine and the whole atmosphere was one of love.
sure if i suddenly wanted to become active again and didn't change my lifestyle they would drop me like a bomb.....however i haven't and won't and they didn't and don't.
this works for me.. i cannot demonize the witnesses on what i have seen tonight.
I am glad you enjoyed your love-bombing. It is genuine in a way. They really do wish you would abandon all else and come back to their self-imposed prison. I am confident I would get the same treatment if I went.
I also don't hold anything against them when they cannot attempt to "love" me by inviting me out to coffee or lunch if they miss me so much. They are in a cult. It's in their reprogramming.
Glad you enjoyed seeing some old friends.
why is it that all of the friends show happiness and excitement when a meeting is cancelled?.
no meetings week of memorial "what a blessing from jah!".
bad weather - oh it's so nice to have a night off.
It's a cult.
The Governing Body arranges so much for you- "What a blessing from Jah!"
The local elders cancel the meeting for a snowy evening- "What a blessing from Jah!"
Lower the recruiting hours requirement so more can pioneer- "What a blessing from Jah!"
Building new KH's, selling KH's, combining congregations- "What a blessing from Jah!"
Bad news about the Watchtower- "Its persecution from Satan's World."
I could go on and on with either one. The blessings and the persecution.
Bottom line- It's a cult.
i am so crushed right now.
i have been dating a witness for over a year now.
we love each other so much.
So sorry to read of your loss, but you say "Now we have no choice but to stop..."
So not true. He has plenty of other choices. But now you know that the religion is firmly in first place in his mind right now.
the family are very excited because there’s a special interruption happening this friday which has supposedly only happened once before when rutherford announced jesus’ ruling in heaven.
requires tuning into jw.org.
meant to be this coming friday before the memorial.
I have no idea, but a total guess is that it has something to do with money or with counting the anointed partakers.
I would bet it's something to highly discourage partakers.
pimo here.. i must have missed an announcement or something because there is no workbook online for this week.
are they cancelling the mid week meetings between april 15 - 21 because of the friday memorial?.
i don't want to text anyone that i know so i'll ask you guys.
Yes, there is NO MIDWEEK MEETING this week. My wife's Wednesday meeting is cancelled for that reason.
I know, in the past they didn't cancel meetings on other nights, but apparently this is a thing now, maybe for a couple/few years.
...to drop by and say, 'ayup, mates', to you all, my old friends.. i am so totally over the jobo thing i have surprised myself.. if anyone asks, 'what do you think of the jobos?
' my reply would be, 'i don't think of them.'.
all my rage, anger and sadness have dissipated over time.
Unky Punky, I can often go days or even weeks sometimes without posting here. I will always have more of a connection to ex-JW's because I have so many JW's still in my life- my wife, her family, my mother.
But otherwise, all things JW have started to dilute themselves in my life. I am really forgetting all the doctrine and scriptures- good riddance. The more I forget them, the more I realize it's all the same old story anyway. I am going to visit Flipper's Lake Tahoe Fest again this year. That's like 8 or 9 in a row, I lost count.
i’m fairly new so i don’t know everyone’s backstory.
how did you realize the organization was false?.
It's a long story, available for free:
http://watchtowerdocuments.org/alan-miller-shares-his-story/
i remember reading somewhere (perhaps on here?
) than an entire congregation disassociated and started their own congregation after decided that the gb were apostate.. was this an urban myth or is there any evidence of this?.
Bonham, Texas:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/197640/real-story-on-why-watchtower-society-lost-kingdom-hall-bonham-texas
Personally, I would skip Kool-Aid Man's links to Six Screens.
i’ve always wondered about this one.
if the bible says there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous, does that mean all mankind that have died will come back to life?
if so, what’s the incentive for jws to have an urgency to preach and save people?
The "resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous" is for those that died before the judgement at Armageddon.....or some similar thought to that- in Watchtower teachings.
As a JW, you can be faithful so that you can see dead loved ones who died already, even if they were not JW's. You must be faithful so that you can live through the Great Tribulation that is just around the next corner and has been for way more than 100 years. But if you live to see God's judgement, and you are killed at it, there is no resurrection for you.
Someone can smooth out the details, but I thought generally all JW's would know this at least in a basic understanding.
So really, they would be better off just mass killing people so they can get a resurrection.
all i have to say about that is that i agree with the following quote attributed to marcus aurelius:.
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As for Lee Strobel, if you wanna sell more Christian books, you need a new angle that people haven't tried.
An atheist investigative reporter out to prove Christianity wrong winds up a Christian.
Kinda sorta the new angle people will buy.
I tried looking at one of his "The Case For..." books. It was full of strawman arguments and seemed to accept what the Bible said without question. As far as a man joining a belief after investigating it because his wife joined the belief, we are all aware of that happening all the time in JW's, so it must be common in other Christian religions.
I get that some here will circle the wagons around welcoming or rejecting someone because of their atheism or lack of it. That is sad. We can have our belief arguments but they should not change our support for each other.
