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  Since You Have Left The Religion Are You Happier?

  by minimus in

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  i realize that some activist exjws really don’t seem to be happy in life.

  they finally got away from the organization and yet seem still negatively connected to it.

  some exjws are always upset because of what the “truth “ did to their lives, which is understandable.

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  "there is no way to happiness, because happiness is the way."

  These words are true.

  The same goes for peace. There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

  
  
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  Just checking in

  by Hylandyr in

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  some of you may remember me as spannerintheworks.

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  I hope you are well.
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  Genesis 18:27

  by JPG123 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in genesis 18:27 it says:.

  but abraham again responded: “please, here i have presumed to speak to jehovah, whereas i am dust and ashes.. but when referencing the interlinear translation of the old testament, it clearly uses the hebrew word “adonai” instead of “yahweh” in this verse.

  was abraham referring to god as “lord” in this verse?.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5Aj8HYPnU

  Yahweh aka Jehovah is not the most high god of Israel. Yahweh/Jehovah is not Jesus father.
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  Since You Have Left The Religion Are You Happier?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i realize that some activist exjws really don’t seem to be happy in life.

  they finally got away from the organization and yet seem still negatively connected to it.

  some exjws are always upset because of what the “truth “ did to their lives, which is understandable.

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  guess I am now very cynical and joyless.
  But, hey ho. what's the answer? Not a lot!

  I feel you, PunkofNice. I was right there with you for years. It is easy to become nihilistic after leaving the Witness religion.

  I suffered for about 20 years or so. I made a lot of choices that caused a lot of suffering to myself and others. I made a deep investigation into myself and why I did what I did. I figured it out. You can too.
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  Since You Have Left The Religion Are You Happier?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i realize that some activist exjws really don’t seem to be happy in life.

  they finally got away from the organization and yet seem still negatively connected to it.

  some exjws are always upset because of what the “truth “ did to their lives, which is understandable.

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  truth_b_known

  Happiness is an interesting topic. I educated myself on it as I believe I was dealing with an existential vacuum in my life after leaving the Witnesses. Here are some hard lessons I learned -

  • Happiness comes from within. No person, no place, no item, no experience can give happiness to you. Jehovah himself cannot make me happy.
  • Happiness is a state on content, which requires a strong sense of gratitude.
  • Happiness requires freedom. Freedom from fear, anxiety, sorrow, and regret.

  I cannot see how it would be possible to experience happiness while being active as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Jehovah's Witnesses teach that happiness is not possible in this "old system of things" and the only placeholder is complete immersion into the activities of the organization under the guise of "serving Jehovah."

  Jehovah's Witnesses teach that you are imperfect and deserving of death. Witnesses teach that when you break a command or law of Jehovah you are guilty of sin. Every time you sin you are re-crucifying Jesus. This instills in a believer's heart an enormous amount of guilt. Sometimes this guilt is so great it pushes a person to suicide.

  Jehovah's Witnesses teach that a day will come when Jehovah will destroy the majority of humans. Only a select chosen few, the remnant of the 144,000 on Earth, are spared. Witnesses teach that if you join their organization and blindly obey it's leadership you might be spared, but it is no guarantee. However, if you are somehow spared, you will live forever in perfect health for eternity. This instills fear and anxiety of an enormous magnitude.

  Jehovah's Witnesses teach that if your family or friends do not join you in being a Witness they are not to be associated with now. In addition, those family and friends will be destroyed, forever, at Armageddon. The only comfort you receive from Witnesses is that you will make new friends, which is not what you experience, and you will eventually forget your dead loved ones. This creates a deep sense of sorrow.

  Fear, anxiety, sorrow, and regret - these are the pillars that support the Watchtower religion. Inside the building those pillars support is no happiness to be found.

  Can you feel joy by loyally serving Jehovah? Yes and no. Joy is not happiness. It is a momentary euphoric feeling obtained from an experience. If you truly believe in the Watchtower teachings you might find some joy when you go out in field service or give a part on a meeting program. However, the Watchtower doesn't like that. So they crush that joy by saying, "While spending 90 hours in the ministry last month is fine, brother, we have to ask you - can you do more?"
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  Gee-hovah does this and Geehovah does that for me!

  by Overrated in

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  did you ever had a over zealous brother/sister with tales that where even told from the platform on how gee-hovah did things for this person at nausea.

  just made you sick.

  an insult to one's intelligence.

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  All the dang time! It is quite insulting to the intelligence. Especially the stories of people who quit their job because their employer would not give them time off to attend a District Convention only to obtain a higher paying line of work after the Convention. How about the brothers and sisters who did the same only to find themselves homeless? Where are those stories?
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  CO said; “Friends (plural) who’ve been raised in the truth are beginning to have doubts regarding their faith”

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is what a co said at the elders and ms meeting.

  it goes to show that no matter how hard the governing body tries to instill fear of apostates, it's just not working on the young crowd of jws.. it's a new generations of born in jws--------and they don't buy this shit anymore.

  it's really over for the watchtower.

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  The only way for Jehovah's Witnesses to survive is the same way any living organization survives - evolve!

  The problem is that Jehovah's Witnesses, whether they like it or not, are just one of thousands of Protestant religions resulting from Martin Luther's Reformation Movement. The Reformation Movement was, is, and will always be wrong.

  Martin Luther preached that the Bible, and the Bible alone, was all you need to read. The Bible is to be taken literal, word for word. Not the whole Bible! No! Some of those Bible books had to be removed. Some Luther wanted removed, such as James and Hebrews (because they contain scriptures that directly oppose Luther's teachings), were not removed.

  The Catholic Church teaches that the story of Adam & Eve are an allegorical story to teach. The Catholic Church accepts evolution. The Catholic Church evolves and therefor it survives.
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  How Do you Count How Long You Were In "The Truth?"

  by IWant2Leave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you were born in, do you count from the year of your birth, when you gave your first presentation at the door, (i was five),.

  when you became an unbaptized publisher, (i was about 12), or when you dedicated your life to god,(org) and took the plunge?

  what could you have done with all of this time?

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  truth_b_known

  As a born-in I count from when I was born until the time I stopped believing it is "the Truth". I was inactive for several years prior to coming to the realization the religion is a scam. During that time it was like being in purgatory - neither active as a Witness, but still captive to the teachings.
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  Has anything from a meeting/ Platform caused you to laugh at the bull present?

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was at a sunday meeting an the speak was going on and on how the org does good for people in public.

  example is how at new york the brothers handed out bottles of water.

  i know firsthand that they didn't but locked their doors.

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  I remember a Sunday Public Talk. The theme had to do with creation. The speaker was trying to refute the age of the planet Earth and that glaciers carved mountain ranges and canyons.

  Speaker: "I can pour ice cubes on a mountain all day long and it won't change them!"

  Me: <Facepalm>
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  Article: HOLY SMOKE: LONDON SITE OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESS HQ TO BE MOVIE STUDIOS

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-site-jehovahs-witness-hq-movie-studios-netflix-b947841.html.

  evening standard, july 26, 2021. london.

  holy smoke: london site of jehovah’s witness hq to be movie studios.by .

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  Charles Taze Russell gave the world his photodrama of creation. New monkey. Same old circus.