Posts by clarity

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My Wife Now Questions God

by Jon Preston in

well my wife and i have been through a roller coaster of life since i convinced her the dibs werent the truth.

the hardest tests have been lived but we are closer than ever now.

now recently shes read "the shack" nd watched some movies about god and just cant seem to inderstand why god would allow all of this suffering just to prove to satan that hes "the man" (or woman).

clarity

This is a hot issue with many people.....wt says

god has to prove (by our worship etc) that he is

the true/supreme god...... or else what would all

those angels think of him, if he just obliterated A&E

or that bright angel in the garden.

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Well, ...after setting man kind right back to just 8

people, by flooding the earth & killing everything he

could........he has sat back & watched generations

(millions & millions) of people & babies & animals

suffer in agony, beaten, raped, sickend with

horrendous diseases, blinded, deaf & speachless

a n d t h a t is O K????????????????? with him!!

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What......pray tell, do all the myriads of angels

think of him now! After they look at the legacy

of death he has instituted on mankind????

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Or ....does god not exist, and it is up to each and

everyone of us to make this earth a wonderful

place to live.

clarity

38

my brother (non-jw but became a christian 6 months ago) and i nursed my aged jw mother back to a semblance of strength over the last three weeks.. the elders were happy to pass the buck on to me, her da'd daughter and my bro.. he has been living with her for 3 months and has transformed her ill-kept home and garden and literally nursed her like a professional alone.

before i stepped in to help him care for her.

he repeatedly told her how much he loved her and was so caring, it brought a lump to my throat.. he has been going to church sunday mornings, telling her he 'was meeting up with friends' so as not to cause friction.but she knew where he had been.. we noticed a shift in her demeanour towards us (she knows i'm a church-goer) over the week-end and she started to.

clarity

Dear Abba & your Dear Brother, so sorry this

has happened to you both. Take very good care

of one another.

This farcical religion has ruined the wholesome

atmosphere that should exist in families.

They have stolen loyalties that would have

naturally existed between family & friends...

and sucked it all up ......for themselves!

Watchtower leaders should all be arrested

and thrown in jail ... for keeps this time!

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My heart goes out to you both and to all

those suffering under this rule of buffoons

and all their made-up "laws"!

clarity

381

Were you or someone you know sexually molested by a Jehovah's Witness ?

by flipper in

due to the fact there are about 27,000 members of this religion that are known pedophiles, and the information about it is kept in a secret database file, i wonder how many lurking jw's as well as others are aware of the severity of this problem?

remember, it's 27,000 pedophiles that they know about.

what about the thousands that don't get caught?

clarity

No I didn't flipper. The only reason I even

found out about this was a "momentary

spilling of the beans" Actually told all their

names ...but darn they were reeled off so fast

my brain couldn't grasp them! I did try to find

out info on the one who went to jail ..newspaper,

google etc, but no luck. This went back about

15 yrs ago I'm guessing!

The one telling this was reassured tho (ya rite!)

that because he was sent to jail, that was that..

and every one was good again after that!!!!!!!!!

Lesson learned ......huh? So deluded!

clarity

11

Two more quitters!

by apocalypse in

in my city, there's been a husband and wife who quit this week.

hurray!.

the first thing that came to mind when i heard it was 'they didn't need my help'.. you see, many in my city who quit in the past were previously on my mailing list.

clarity

Many are sending these out, they

are sent anonomously because they

are re sent from another town or city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPMECoSyyc&list=UUG2tODD7ys5CYEu6qYvj1SA

clarity

381

Were you or someone you know sexually molested by a Jehovah's Witness ?

by flipper in

due to the fact there are about 27,000 members of this religion that are known pedophiles, and the information about it is kept in a secret database file, i wonder how many lurking jw's as well as others are aware of the severity of this problem?

remember, it's 27,000 pedophiles that they know about.

what about the thousands that don't get caught?

clarity

Long after leaving, I found out that there

were 7 (one sent to prison) 7 elders who

were molesting children in my old

congregation ....... wow it made my blood

run cold!!!!

When questioning about brother xxxxx,

the answer was " oh no he only abused

his own kids"! ......ONLY!!!!

Omg, parents are taking an awful chance by

joining the jw cult!

clarity

29

It's my birthday today

by Bruja-del-Sol in

jw
friends

... but most of my new (post jw) friends either don't know my birth date (if people don't specifically ask i won't tell them), or they are 2500 kilometers away in the netherlands... so all that's left to celebrate with me are my hubby, the two doggies, cat and my two rabbits... mixed feelings, i miss my friends and family around and haven't found friends in spain yet.

luckily our daughter will visit us the end of the month... and yesterday we've found a new rental house and we're moving into it next month already!

i'm thrilled and really looking forward to it, then we will finally be able to let all the rest of our belongings come to spain (2/3 of our stuff is stored in the netherlands).. so with this in mind, i'll just say 'happy birthday to me' and will enjoy my third birthday in espana .

clarity

Bruja .... the best birthday ever!

How does a Sunny Witch celebrate a birthday?

With a whole lot of laughter and magic!

clarity

21

How Have You Changed Much In Attitude & Actions Since Leaving The Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

it takes time to stop thinking or reacting like a jehovah's witness.. are you still judgmental?

a know it all?

a person that listens more with their heart instead of their head---like jehovah's witnesses ???.

clarity

Guess I have changed in a lot of ways, sure

don't look at others as 'bird food' at all anymore.

Buuutttt.......still kinda maaaddd about all that crap

we were taught, that was always wrong.....but never

ever ever an apology or admitting they were running

ahead & disobeying the 'scriptures'! Or recognizing

that they ruined so many lives!

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The frustration of talking to a person with a closed mind

by TheStumbler in

okay, this is going to be a bit of a general rant.

i had a long conversation with a jw elder recently about shunning and evolution.

i became qunite frustrated with the conversation and admitted this at the time.

clarity

"Yeah, I know its pointless. I always fool myself into think if I craft the perfect argument they will see the light. That's what I suppose is so frustrating."

Know exactly how you feel, I have been really

frustrated by this very thing.... their whole watchtowerese

is sooooooooooooocrazy making!

clarity

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The TRUE story of a Pedophile

by Tech49 in

this is a true experience that i thought i would share, one that occurred just a few years ago in my area.

it is a real experience, nothing made up here.. a younger couple moved into our kh, into the joining congregation (so not ours, but the other one that shared our kh).

they seemed nice enough, they had one boy that was about 8, and a baby on the way.

clarity

AlwaysBusy so sorry this happened to your

family! Their incompetance is disgusting!

clarity

15

PALE BLUE DOT

by Brainfloss in

clarity

Carl Sagan's Remarks About Jehovah's Witnesses False Prophecies

Alan Feuerbacher

A few years after the complete collapse of everything C. T. Russell had predicted, J. F. Rutherford began a process of replacing Russell's unfulfilled predictions with a series of invisible and spiritual events associated with the years 1914 and 1918. By the early 1930s the process was complete.

An interesting comment on this transformation was made by Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain(New York: Ballantine Books, 1979, pp. 332-333):

Doctrines that make no predictions are less compelling than those which make correct predictions; they are in turn more successful than doctrines that make false predictions.

But not always. One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and -- while the events of that year were certainly of some importance -- the world does not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, "Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014.' A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way." But they did not. They could have said, "Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth." But they did not. Instead, they did something much more ingenious.

They announced that the world hadin fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration were needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry