One older sister that I had been taking to the meetings just before I left, hated, hated the new songs. She was in poor health and kept saying the new world had better come soon. Well she died a few years after I left never seeing the new world...
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30 years after leaving utterly unrecognisable
by Number 6 inthis is the first time i have posted on here in many years..... i seldom visit now although this forum was instrumental to me in gaining my sanity in the early 2000's and recovering from the watchtower religion.. by chance tonight i was on youtube and caught a jw.org video which out of curiosity prompted me to look at the official website and amongst other things i looked up the music section.. why that i hear you ask?
music is my passion and nothing reminds me more or evokes more memories than the kingdom songs i grew up listening to.. i am 49 years old and my mother was baptised in 1974. i grew up in the era of pink songbooks and green bibles.
of the theology of fred franz and types and anti-types.
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30 years after leaving utterly unrecognisable
by Number 6 inthis is the first time i have posted on here in many years..... i seldom visit now although this forum was instrumental to me in gaining my sanity in the early 2000's and recovering from the watchtower religion.. by chance tonight i was on youtube and caught a jw.org video which out of curiosity prompted me to look at the official website and amongst other things i looked up the music section.. why that i hear you ask?
music is my passion and nothing reminds me more or evokes more memories than the kingdom songs i grew up listening to.. i am 49 years old and my mother was baptised in 1974. i grew up in the era of pink songbooks and green bibles.
of the theology of fred franz and types and anti-types.
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I'm older than you #6 and the WT's dragged on long before you. You think your salvation is at hand when you look back at the clock and it's 5 to 12. 5 minutes that somehow dragged on for another 10. Then the long prayer.
I remember assemblies that proved the Trinity wrong. Who Babylon the Great was. The types and anitypes. Declarations against false religion that brought thunderous clapping around the stadium. Loud joyful singing. Remember the song that had as the ending chorus "What shall we bring, Jehovah's kingdom?" sung by the brothers and then the answer by the sisters - "Triumph and truth and righteousness" Then all would sing the end. That was back in the day before 1975 and people had a firm belief that soon, yes soon Armageddon would bring relief and the end of death.
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Jehovah will lovingly Erase the Memories of Your Dead love Ones From Your Mind!foyarse e
by The Bethelite ini know i would be miserable if i could remember all my dead relatives.
all my dead children, parents all my worldly family members and friends, yes and the billions of other people too.
all the people jehovah will be killing off in the years to come.
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My mom already acts like she has a lobotomy. My sister came close to death and I told our mother that. Even sent a picture of her in the hospital.
Never called. Never inquired. Guess since I didn't tell her that she died (which she didn't) she just assumed that she lived.
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Magic
by Rattigan350 inthe april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.
it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.
it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.
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t says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural. It can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells. It does not refer to tricks using quick hand movements, which some people perform merely for entertainment."
This must mean that the GB got caught watching America's Got Talent and had to print something up. Just so the regulars don't gossip about it.
Wait for the "Is it wrong to buy liquor in Great Quantities?" article.
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Assembly Question
by Marphiny ini just recently attended a circuit assembly and they asked that you did not share any video with anyone and i’m just wondering why this is .
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They used to say don't record the talks unless it's for a family member - I guess if they were sick and didn't make it.
In reality, it made it easier to deny that any specific thing had been said from the podium. It allows them to wiggle free of responsibility. But there are a few talks that made it to the internet that reveal what was really said.
I wish that I had a recording of the assembly probably 10 years ago, that mocked the very people that had followed the WT encouragement, that 1975 was going to see Armageddon. That was coupled with Harold Camping predicting a specific day for the end of the world. The speaker even gave this slow Ha Ha Ha over it. It made me so mad because sincere people had given up homes and businesses to pioneer or do more. Just two years ago, they had a video that called those followers, weak spiritually for "following a date" Yes, it was a date that the WT promoted.
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Do you remember the music in the 80's ?
by Finkelstein inrecently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
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Do you remember the music in the 80's ?
by Finkelstein inrecently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
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Do you remember the music in the 80's ?
by Finkelstein inrecently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
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Do you remember the music in the 80's ?
by Finkelstein inrecently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
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Do any of you born into the cult feel like your mental growth was stunted?
by rockemsockem inbeing born in to me was devastating.
when you are a child born in and raised with the they vs us and they are evil and worldly and going to die.
not allowed to form relationships with anyone not one of you.
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Well, my parents were the first impediment I would have to say. Then my mother's religion. I think how you rise above it, depends a lot on your basic personality and if there is intervention from others that come into your life. Or circumstances.
Unfortunately, my personality is pretty docile and trusting. I've been in a box most of my life and still struggle against being influenced. No support from parents in art and the religion X'd it out. I only did art in a commercial sense when i left for a short period. Too bad the fear of Armageddon drug me back in.
So many ingrained pathways at this point, that progress is slow. Oh Well.