please don't attack me if this is the wrong place!
i know that i definitely shouldn't be on this website, but i am to embarassed to ask anyone at my hall!
everyone would be so nice, but i just feel like i should know the answers already.
Welcome moSIS.
It is quite easy to ignore the small handful of unfriendly posts and posters, and have a blast on JWN, if you put your mind to it.
Please keep coming back and sharing whatever you are conmfortable to.
Another website you definitely should (not) visit is JWfacts.com
Best wishes on your life journey
Fernando
interview with joel the unwitness:.
http://youtu.be/bpwylueul44.
an outstanding experience of unwitnessing occurs when a former jw happens to find himself at a mcdonalds around 11am on a saturday.... does pandemonium ensue?
the watchtower (and old-timers in the org) love to quote old testament passages that were directed toward israel.
however, the new testament is "a better covenant based upon better promises".. in the following verses, salvation is not described as a possibility, but as a certainty, as a present possession for the original christians:.
justification is a present possession (rom.
Hey designs.
If we could put Paul aside for a minute, I'm wondering how you would respond if asked if the Good News or gospel according to Moses, Isaiah and Psalms was in your heart and on your lips? (Isa 61:1; Ps 68:11)
the watchtower (and old-timers in the org) love to quote old testament passages that were directed toward israel.
however, the new testament is "a better covenant based upon better promises".. in the following verses, salvation is not described as a possibility, but as a certainty, as a present possession for the original christians:.
justification is a present possession (rom.
Thank you for sharing and highlighting the "present possession" observation and supporting scriptures Perry.
I love it.
The Watchtower being physical/religious/carnal is not able to discern the spiritual.
So their truncated version of the Good News consists only of "future physical".
They miss and hide the "present spiritual".
And that is how they keep millions captive, addicted and blind.
It is no accident that their followers know nothing of the "Good News" according to Paul.
And yet more than half the Bible's roughly 152 references to "Good News" are by Paul.
i have been following the oscar pistorius trial, and as some of you would know, the way he grew up is said to have affected his psychy.
he's said to traumatised and disturbed by his past.
do we know if there are any ex-jws who were also diagnosed with the same or similar kind of mental illness/disorder?
I suppose every Watchtower exiting person experiences some level of "Generalized Anxiety Disorder" (GAD) as they abandon the supposed security of their sometimes lifelong "cult identity" and try to discover their suppressed "authentic identity".
When you did not think the ground under your feet could move it is a great big shock when it does.
For current members, one imagines Cognitive Dissonance (CD) can create GAD.
Hopefully it might encourage a few more to come forward and tell their "human interest" stories.
i've seen more threads and comments in the last week about the "demise of the wt" than in some time.
several were on threads about the donation arrangement and how its going to backfire in some way on the wt.
oh and the lone elder who was pissed in some sort of passive-aggresive manner about it when he presented the resolution.
The scam ™ fully and accurately deconstructed in under 3 minutes.
Too bad that so many of those being scammed are being badly blindsided.
They are addicted to, following and worshipping a VISIBLE corrupt manmade organisation exposed by its many toxic fruits.
Still I am hopeful of her unexpectedly sudden demise.
My personal experience has also helped confirm for me that she is one of Babylon's many harlots.
(Revelation 18:21) . . .“Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again.
on one hand, he's enlightnened many to the internal circle jerk that is the governing body (circa the 70s).. but if there's one reason that can be pointed to for the jws becoming full on cult, it's ray franz.
without him leaving in the manner he did, and stirring the pot, they might not have change the rule (retroatively i might add) on shunning of disassociated ones.
they specifically changed that so they could remove him and eliminate his influence.. his actions single handedly have created the situation where we have to fade, evade, leave marriages, say goodbye to family, just because we don't buy the jw bullsh!t anymore.
At the end of the day he found, accepted, pursued and promoted the "gospel of grace" and exposed its opposite namely legalism (and moralism) as apostasy.
This is something anyone can do, and many exJWs have.
How many?
Possibly millions.
The difference?
In the end not too much really.
He was human and likely went through many of the same process and phases millions of exJWs do: questions, research, doubt, uncertainty, shock, fear, horror, loss of identity, consolidation, peace and so on.
True, Ray rose much higher and had more to lose than most of us by way of credibility, status, authority and power.
He was also very good at explaining, and writing, at length and in great detail.
even in the anniversary year were they claim jesus being enthroned for a hundred years they talk and say jehovah is king, its still all about jehovah, i don't get it?.
Because Jesus hates religion/ists and its/their oppressive message (proselytising). Matt 23:15.
