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  How to respond when JW's invite you to the memorial

  by krismalone in

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  the yearly rejection of the blood of christ aka jw memorial is coming soon.. jw's will be engaging in an invitation campaign.

  elders are instructed to personally visit inactive ones or faders.

  some sarcastic ideas of how to respond to the memorial invitation that will scare or piss off the cult members:.

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  ambersun

  Just say "No, thanks" while eating crackers and washing it down with wine

  
  

  Ha ha, love it!
  
  
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  Making life and death/life altering decisions based on commands from someone you're not sure exists

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  straight from the off, i will say that i'm 100% atheist.

  i have no faith.

  however, it occurred to me while thinking back over my involvement with the jw religion and especially when i take into account personal and family situations where people have made life altering choices due to being jw's, just how crazy it really is.

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  ambersun

  ...but the governing body of JW's DOES exist!!!
  

  I think this says it all really.

  Jehovah / Governing Body........Governing Body / Jehovah.......reality / make believe........make believe / reality.......
  

  When you are brain washed, how can you possibly know what reality is?
  
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  I would like to rant about how I get really upset when I get some weak invitation back to the cult.

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother wanted me to know that the co gave a talk that kinda-sorta reprimanded an elder in her hall.

  he is not the reason i left at all, and this does not address anything to do with me or our family.. my mother-in-law sent me texts which i ignored and now she has sent a picture to my wife on facebook just for me, and it's a prodigal son meme that says, "you see the signs, come back it's not too late".. yeah, it's not too late to accept a global flood in 2370 bce, or that man was created in 4026 bce from a golem spell, or that an us-and-them cult mentality is at all healthy or loving, or that religion is going to be banned by the un, or that i should expect anyone else at the door to accept these stupid ideas in the information age.. what am i supposed to say?

  i usually just ignore them, but before i do that, i see that shit and i storm into this weird internalized rage where i start writing a response and deleting it.

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  ambersun

  The thing that is so frustrating is that most JWs seem incapable of acknowledging the fact that you are leaving the religion because you no longer believe it to be The Truth.

  In their eyes the only possible reason for leaving is that you have become weak by not attending all the meetings, or allowed yourself to be "stumbled" by some brother or sister.

  When I was an active JW I lost count how many times I used to hear JWs saying that they were sure ex brother or sister so and so "knows it is the Truth" and that they will soon come to their senses, or just need guiding back with love and encouragement. Ahhhhhh!!
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  Today's Text - Sacrifice To God!

  by Divergent in

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  sunday, august 14. if she cannot afford a sheep, she must then take two turtledoves or two young pigeons.—lev.

  12:8.. according to the mosaic law, the israelites were to offer specific sacrifices.

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  ambersun

  Totally agree Divergent, especially point 8. For a *loving* God to decide it is a good idea to force people to destroy their most precious possessions for no good reason other than to cause immense suffering and loss, and possibly starvation for that person and their family just to prove how powerful he is, should raise questions in anyone's mind if only they allowed themselves to think about it.
  
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  Door To Door: Meet The Father Daughter Team Of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Bangalore in

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  door to door: meet the father daughter team of jehovah's witnesses.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ismt6inuklg.

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  ambersun

  Haha yes tiki, you are right. I remember one very embarrassing occasion when an elderette stopped me in the aisle on the way to my seat and checked my hemline for how far it was above my knees. This was back in the 1960s when all 'worldly' girls were walking around in skirts barely covering their underwear and to wear a skirt with a hemline even an inch a

  bove the knee was positively frumpy! Strangely enough it seemed to be the sisters who were not blessed with good legs themselves who made the most fuss lol
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  Door To Door: Meet The Father Daughter Team Of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  door to door: meet the father daughter team of jehovah's witnesses.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ismt6inuklg.

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  ambersun

  One thing's for sure, If I had ever turned up at a meeting, let alone gone out in field service wearing a skirt that tight and revealing at her age I would have been severely disciplined by the elders and slaughtered by their wives!!
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  FYI all... Mike and Kim You Tube

  by ducatijoe in

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  2. friends

  well if any did not know, mike and kim were shut down on you tube.. they are back on under kim mikey.. .

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  I for one love watching Mike and Kim's videos and I think they are a lovely couple. Keep up the good work guys, there are a lot of us who appreciate what you are doing!
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  Billions of money saved, ALL poor elderly jw's to get free care and housing

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  over the years the surplus from donations have been put into risky investments and each of them blessed with growth and profit beyond comprehension.

  all aging and elderly jw's who had sacrificed their retirement planning and financial future for the kingdom work, who had not been expecting to live to this age, shall have full care including room and board for the rest of their lives or until 'the end'.

  - if god was directing that organization, then that's something that i'd expect to see.

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  This is a very sore subject for me. My parents were really devoted witnesses and had always provided their home for the use of the brothers, for group studies, meeting for field service, refreshment breaks during service etc etc etc. The carpets and furniture got worn out due to wear and tear and we didn't have much money to replace them but my parents never grumbled as it was all for Jehovah.

  A few years ago my elderly mother, now a widow, desperately needed a stair lift as her health had deteriorated. The cost would be thousands of pounds due to the arrangement of her stairs which none of us could afford. We had never been allowed to have careers. My husband told her about several elderly people he had met in the course of his work who had had stairlifts installed for them by their churches on the understanding that the money would be repaid from their estate after they passed away which seemed fair enough. We told her that after all the years of providing an open home for worship, it was the least the congregation could do, to arrange a stair lift for her. Obviously, the very suggestion was met with horror by my mother. Oh no, she couldn't take from the society, although it had never shown any remorse for all the years it had taken from her! Her pradicament was obvious to the elders who chose to ignore it and not see what the congregation could do to help her after all she had done for them.

  There are absolutely no provisions for the elderly JWs as there are in other churches.

  In the end, a 'worldly' relative helped towards the cost so that mom could have her stair lift.
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  The long weekend of B.S begins - UK.

  by quellycatface in

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  isn't going to be wonderful??.

  not being there..

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  ambersun

  Some sisters on instagram have been gushing about how much they enjoyed Samuel Herd's talk and how wonderful he is with such a great sense of humour. I can't say I was laughing much when I listened to his Stepford Wives style talk about women on you tube. Maybe they think that being told that their brains are inferior and that their purpose in life is to get up at the crack of dawn to cook breakfast and bake biscuits for their men is hilariously funny?!!
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  Did not Attend Mid-Week Meeting but Felt Good - Strange Feeling?

  by ProfCNJ in

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  2. friends

  hi folks.

  the usual feeling for me - when i missed mid-week meetings - is to feel guilty, sad or depressed.

  it normally involved negative feelings.

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  ambersun

  Oh yes, I can totally relate with how you feel ProfCNJ. I remember turning up at the end of a Thursday night meeting to collect my mother very early on in my fade and as I heard the final song and prayer, instead of feeling guilty as I had previously felt when missing meetings, I had a wonderful warm feeling of peace and relief wash over me that I had made a stand and not put myself through two hours of WT indoctrination. I think I used the excuse of feeling sick which was quite true as I was sick to death of that religion.

  Edited to say, I don't think my initial guilt was because of missing the meetings, but more to do with worrying my family.