Posts by NVR2L8

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At over 60 years in the Cult, Is Lois Lane the Longest serving JW wake up here?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

i was in 42 years and thought that was a long time.

do you know anyone else who woke up after being in 60 or 70 years?

it gives me hope that maybe my mum will wake up..................................

NVR2L8

No regrets,

The talk was You can be secure in an unsafe world...and it highlighted some of the elements that threatens our lives such as natural disasters. I started looking for the latest stats on earthquakes and quickly realized the WT claims of a drastic increase since 1914 were bogus. What else could the WT lie about was my next question...Alarm bells were already ringing when I had given a service meeting part on how we should only use the WT publications to do research or when we started having a special issue of the Wt for study only. Then the book study was fitted in the midweek meeting transforming it into a form of speed-meeting that lost all meanings...flood gates were now fully open...

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At over 60 years in the Cult, Is Lois Lane the Longest serving JW wake up here?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

i was in 42 years and thought that was a long time.

do you know anyone else who woke up after being in 60 or 70 years?

it gives me hope that maybe my mum will wake up..................................

NVR2L8

Cantleave,

My mom will turn 80 this year and she is still pioneering...Since my dad died almost 10 years ago she has become obsessed with service and meetings. She has no other hobbies or passtimes than cult-related activities and she has no time for a normal live. My younger brother who has never been in the truth recently became a grand father and he wanted to come and visit mom with his grand son...well although she always complains that he never visits her, she gave him a specific time to come since all other days she is out in service or at the meetings...so my brother said that he wasn't going to go out in service just to be with her.

So trying to help mom to free herself from the cult would be taking away her sole reason to live. I live 600 km from mom and I haven't told her how I feel about the JWs...I think she knows I am inactive...and if I was to DA or be DF she would be very hurt...

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I What Ways Are Jehovah's Witnesses A CULT

by BlindersOff1 in

http://jwfacts.com/.

NVR2L8

If your "brothers and sisters" in the congregation are more important than your "unbelieving" family and relatives, it's a cult.

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At over 60 years in the Cult, Is Lois Lane the Longest serving JW wake up here?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

i was in 42 years and thought that was a long time.

do you know anyone else who woke up after being in 60 or 70 years?

it gives me hope that maybe my mum will wake up..................................

NVR2L8

I was 3 when my parents were baptized, always regular in service from age 6, enrolled in the ministry school at 8, baptized at 14, was a MS on and off from age 20, then as I was reaching out to be an elder I found the truth about the truth while doing research for a public talk...at age 54. I continued for a year then I stopped going to the meetings after the DC in 2010. What I heard and saw made me realize that I was in a cult...

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At what age do most or many JWs kids count as "publisher?"

by Gayle in

what is considered as a requirement for them now-a-days to turn in their time as a "publisher?

" among born-in, how young were you?

my parents became jws when i was 9 yrs old.

NVR2L8

I was 6...many mornings my mom would walk me to school and one block away there was a busy bus stop where we would do street corner work...standing with the large Watchtower and Awake mags of the early sixties...Many of my school mates and teachers would pass by and see me standing there...and after half an hour I would then go to school. That was the routine every morning when mom was a "vacation" pioneer in April.

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Can't they EVER answer a "normal" question?

by mac n cheese in

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friends

ok, so, some jws stopped by my apartment today.

i knew two of the three that came to the door.

they were all very friendly, no mention was made of our long absence from the kingdom hall, even though hubby is sporting a full beard.. here's what i don't get, i asked after several of their family members and the responses were, "oh, my sister and her husband are now regular pioneers" and "he's a ministerial servant now.

NVR2L8

I agree Mac n cheese...every year my now 79 year old pioneer mom sends us a wedding aniversary card...which usually include the latest news about her. It reads exactly like the annoucements at the service meeting...we are having our special assembly day blablablabla, going to pioneer school for the 3rd time blablablabla, your brother the elder, his wife and daughter are pioneering, blablablablabla, may Jehovah bless your marriage, blablablabla, I am so busy in service, the end is near. I asked my brother the elder why is it that we just can't express "normal" feelings for each other without feeling obligated to include the organization or our accomplishments in the ministry? Is it that we have no natural love for each other and that we love the organization more? This year the wedding aniversary card arrived and for the first time in years there were no mention of "theocratic" activities, of Jehovah's blessing...just how much she loves us and our children and grand children and how she wished us the best aniversary ever! I guess my brother the elder talked to her...and that not all is lost.

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New May Awake! Am I being unreasonable or does this sound crazy!?

by toweragent in

my friends usually walked me home after dark.

but one evening i was so tired that i decided to call a taxi.

the driver didnt take me home.

NVR2L8

Marked

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What will kids say when commenting at meetings

by darthfader in

i was just mailed this today -- thought it was funny.

(please forgive me if this is a dupe - i tried to search for similar jokes on this site).. .

oops too much tv time watching those commercials!.

NVR2L8

Watching my 4 year old grand daughter comment at the meeting made me realize that the only difference between our comments was that she repeated words someone else whispered in her ear while I read mine...

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Ok I need some advice on how to decline an elder's appointment....

by suavojr in

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in the last 4 months my eyes have been opened to ttatt, my biggest issue is that the elders have been grooming me to appoint me as an elder.

NVR2L8

Grow a beard...

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1973 versus 2013 (40 years later)... How much confidence have J-Dubs lost in the Slave's "End-Time" estimations?

by Calebs Airplane in

back in 1973, when i was just a pre-teen, i remember that meetings in general were chock full of persecution talks, great tribulation talks and armageddon talks.

so much so, that there was a hightened sense of anticipation that the end was really just a few years away.

most j-dubs really believed, without any doubt, that freddy's estimation about armageddon in 1975 was a certainty (give or take a few months... not years).

NVR2L8

Calebs A

I was a teenager in the mid 60's and JWs were convinced that specific events wouldn't happen such as the 1976 Olympic Games or that we would not see year 2000. My parents allowed me to leave High School at 16 years old because a good education was valueless since we would be in the new system in a few years. Some were absolutely conviced that their children wouldn't have time to start school...Today we no longer hear them speak with the same certainty...Now they are not serving for a date...at least that what they claim.