Posts by Pureheart

Some of the things that you shared with us I can relate to. Even though I was raised as a JW, I picked up the habit of smoking when I was a teen, had premarital sex, would shoplift from time to time, experienced cocaine and marijuana once, would lie to get out of a jam, and I never got caught. I never really liked the witnesses, because I did not think they were nice people. I seemed to see right through them.
But then I got tired of the wild life after I turned 20 and I began to feel like a true sinner. I felt so bad for being so bad. I was like you in asking Jehovah to help me to be good. I never felt in my heart the joy of being involved with the witnesses like so many others claimed. I really, really, did not like them. But they had instilled in me that the witnesses were the only ones with the truth and so I felt that if I was going to have Gods approval it had to be among them.
I stopped smoking cigarettes, which was the hardest thing to do. I had given up all of the rest earlier. Then I got baptized. But do you know that I was angry on that day. I did not want to do it. It seemed that I did not have anywhere else to go. God, if I had only been exposed to more of the world outside of the borg. I had developed low self-esteem because I was not a clean little virgin anymore and had tasted the badness of the world. I was a bad little puppy that I allowed all of the witnesses to either pat on my head for being good or kick for being bad. When I did things that would bring harm to me it was because I didn’t think that I was important.
Oh do I have stories to tell. I will tell it all one day.
I learned after years of being kicked to start kicking back. Through much research and exposing myself through my occupation with people in the know, I have gained self-esteem. I began to love myself first so I can love others.
My advice to you dear Dinky is; find out ways to began loving yourself.

Pureheart

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The sick mind of the JW

by JT in

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you got to love these folks.

james.

>>interesting remarks at morning worship from tom & esther chin:.

Pureheart

JT,
I'm sorry. I feel "tupid". I should have known that it was Malcolm X. I knew he looked familiar. DAH

Thanks LDH. Now stop laughing. lol

Pureheart

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How many Watchtower Lawyers are there?

by VM44 in

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in amazing's exit series, he mentions one lawyer who works.

exclusively for the watchtower society.

i posted a link to.

Pureheart

They are too involved with the "world".

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Increasing Flashes of "Light"

by Pureheart in

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this information was taken fron the 1995 wt.

increasing flashes of light.

particularly since 1919 have jehovahs servants been blessed with increasing flashes of light.

Pureheart

This information was taken fron the 1995 WT
Increasing Flashes of Light

Particularly since 1919 have Jehovah’s servants been blessed with increasing flashes of light. What a bright flash of light shone at the 1922 Cedar Point convention as J. F. Rutherford, the Watch Tower Society’s second president, drove home the point that the prime obligation of Jehovah’s servants is to “advertise, advertise, advertise, the King and his kingdom”! The very next year, bright light shone on the parable of the sheep and the goats. It was seen that this prophecy was to be fulfilled in the present Lord’s day, not in the future during the Millennium as previously thought. During the Millennium, Christ’s brothers would not be sick, nor would they be imprisoned. Besides, at the end of the Millennium, Jehovah God, not Jesus Christ, will do the judging.—Matthew 25:31-46.

One fact that stands out prominently in connection with those Jehovah used to bring this gradual increase of spiritual light is that they took no credit to themselves. The attitude of C. T. Russell, first president of the Watch Tower Society, was that the Lord was pleased to use their humble talents.

Judging by the results, there can be no doubt that Jehovah’s holy spirit was directing the endeavors of Brother Russell and those associated with him. They gave evidence of being identified with the faithful and discreet slave.

It is remarkable to see how greatly Jehovah, by means of holy spirit, favored these early Bible Students with flashes of light

Particularly since 1919 have Jehovah’s servants been blessed with increasing flashes of light. What a bright flash of light shone at the 1922 Cedar Point convention as J. F. Rutherford, the Watch Tower Society’s second president, drove home the point that the prime obligation of Jehovah’s servants is to “advertise, advertise, advertise, the King and his kingdom”! The very next year, bright light shone on the parable of the sheep and the goats. It was seen that this prophecy was to be fulfilled in the present Lord’s day, not in the future during the Millennium as previously thought. During the Millennium, Christ’s brothers would not be sick, nor would they be imprisoned. Besides, at the end of the Millennium, Jehovah God, not Jesus Christ, will do the judging.—Matthew 25:31-46.
In 1926 another brilliant flash of light revealed that the war of Armageddon was not to be a social revolution, as Bible Students once thought. Rather, it would be a war in which Jehovah will demonstrate his power so clearly that all people will be convinced that he is God.—Revelation 16:14-16; 19:17-21.

Christmas—A Pagan Holiday
Shortly thereafter, a flash of light caused the Bible Students to stop celebrating Christmas. Before that time Christmas had always been celebrated by the Bible Students worldwide, and its celebration at Brooklyn headquarters was a very festive occasion. But then it was discerned that the observance of December 25 was actually pagan and was chosen by apostate Christendom to make it easier to convert pagans. Moreover, it was found that Jesus could not have been born in the winter, since at the time of his birth, shepherds were grazing their flocks in the fields—something they would not have been doing at night in late December. (Luke 2:8) Rather, the Scriptures indicate that Jesus was born about October 1. The Bible Students also realized that the so-called wise men who visited Jesus about two years after his birth were pagan magi.
A New Name
In 1931 a bright flash of truth revealed to those Bible Students a fitting Scriptural name. Jehovah’s people had understood that they could not accept any of the nicknames that others had given them, such as Russellites, Millennial Dawnists, and “no hellers.” But they also began to appreciate that the name that they themselves had taken—International Bible Students—did not do them justice. They were far more than just Bible students. Besides, there were ever so many others who were students of the Bible but who had nothing in common with the Bible Students.
How did the Bible Students come to have a new name? For years The Watch Tower had been making the name of Jehovah prominent. Therefore, it was most appropriate that the Bible Students should adopt the name found at Isaiah 43:10: “‘You are my witnesses,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and have faith in me, and that you may understand that I am the same One. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none.’”

Where in the devil is this “light” coming from? Can’t you see why the average JW can’t direct their way in the Bible? The light that the Bible offers is constantly changed by crazies. If you listen and follow a crazy person long enough you will become just like them.

Pureheart

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WT Time Keeping

by Defender in

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the society boasts about the billions of hours spent in the ministry worldwide.

but, when one asks how many of those hours were spent visiting one sick or needy sister?

the answer is zero.

Pureheart

Well I learned something new just now. I did not know that time was counted on an invitee to the meetings, and the time spent traveling to give a talk in another congregation was also counted. The rest of the time counted I knew of.
Can't you see why unbaptized people feel that they are "loved?" And in actuality they are just being used to boost a JWs hourly ministry. It seems that everything that JWs does is for selfish reasons.
Bottom line selfish reason.......Gain everlasting life in Paradise on earth. Make you wonder how much work they would do if they didn't have that prize dangling in front of them?

Pureheart

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Hypocrites.....grrrrrrr

by Tatiana in

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well, a couple of nights ago i was kind of ashamed of myself.

let me explain.. i have a new job.

as a model scout.

Pureheart

Hey Tatiana,
I keep telling you guys that there are congregations of JWs out there that should be labeled, "Free will JWs. This guy was probably from one of those.

Pureheart

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The sick mind of the JW

by JT in

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you got to love these folks.

james.

>>interesting remarks at morning worship from tom & esther chin:.

Pureheart

Hey JT,
I hope you don"t take this the wrong way, and think that I am being fresh. But you are so handsome!
OK. This reasoning that the brodder gave to excuse himself from making a good living to provide for his family is commendable to many JWs.
You know that they feel the ones that were trapped in the towers who were JWs, were being materialistic. The faithful ones escaped.

Pureheart

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WT Business is in the Streets!

by Pureheart in

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luke 12: 1-3 says, watch out for the leaven of the pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

but there is nothing carefully concealed that will not become known.

wherefore what things you say in the light, and what you whisper in private rooms will be preached from the housetops.. does that sound familiar?

Pureheart

Luke 12: 1-3 says, “ Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing carefully concealed that will not become known. Wherefore what things you say in the light, and what you whisper in private rooms will be preached from the housetops.”

Does that sound familiar? All of the secrets of the Elders and their dealings with the congregation as directed by the mighty WT are on the Internet, to be accessed by everyone in the world. Awesome!

Pureheart