Posts by days of future passed

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They are increasingly appealing to emotion

by cookiemaster in

they always have but lately, they've taken it to a whole new level.

the new convention video about the end, the many videos at conventions and meetings, the new songs, all highly emotionally manipulative.

and they're working.

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I remember when assemblies had subjects about the trinity, what prophesies meant then and now, Christendom and how it will fall, wrong teachings of the world etc. Plenty of scriptures to be read along with new publications full of the same mind twisting explanations. Most of the emotional manipulations came at the end on Sunday. A drama and the end talk.

Now it's like a drama all the time.

I wonder tho, what affect it's having on JW's. About 3 or 4 years ago, the JW's at work, came back off their 3 day assembly and I heard them excitedly whispering about "how close it was" Now, I don't even know if they went to one. They certainly don't seem enthusiastic. I just hear how bad the world is all the time.

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How Blood Saved Evelyn's Life

by Lee Elder in

at the 1988 divine justice district convention of jw’s.

i had stopped going to the meetings for six months.

before that i was fading, but it wasn’t deliberate.

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Thank you for sharing your story. You never know how similar our fears are, growing up in this religion, unless someone expresses them.

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Suicide note from pedophile elder's victim..

by QuestioningEverything in

years ago at the kh my aunt attended, there was an elder from a prominent jw family who was accused of sexual conduct with several young men in the hall.

he was an unmarried guy in his 30's who wore a terrible hair piece/toupee.

his sister once told me he was waiting for the new system to marry so he could have a perfect wife--isn't that funny?.

days of future passed

Sad.

But at the same time confusing. Of the people that saw the letter, why didn't they report it to the police? Maybe the elders wife was in her own way trying to get people to notice the injustice. But since I don't know what she told others when she was showing this letter around, your perspective may be right.

The other thing is, why did the elder have it and not the family?

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I just watched the final video from this years convention. OMG!!!

by NikL in

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i am shaking all over right now.

i think it's worse that the bunker video.. i used to think there was no way that these people would actually "drink the cool aid" if you get my drift, but seeing this video i am now not sure it could never happen.. having a wife who i love dearly trapped in this cult is really freaking me out right now...

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Maybe the elders are projecting their own personal Armageddon. They may have fears of child sexual abuse victims coming after them for hiding pedophiles.

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Struggling to Live a Lie

by Addison0998 in

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it’s been very difficult, much more than i first anticipated to live a lie, (be pimo and a regular active member) i still live with my parents but i plan on moving out at the end of the year, so i really need to keep it together.

but i think people are starting to get suspicious that something is up.

i’ve stopped commenting, going on service all the time, talking at the door, and occasionally voicing something, such as a question that no one has a good answer for, that makes people think, but ahah, thinking is dangerous and wrong so that is suspicious of course.

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Try to find a way to give yourself a break during the meetings. Listening will drive you crazy. Sometimes it will make you mad or want to roll your eyes.

So if you can, write down things you want to do later or write a story - anything that will take your mind off of the lies from the podium. Read something else on your tablet if you have one.

If people want to question you about the meeting - hey wasn't that part on giving the WT your inheritance great?- just nod and ask the same question back at them. Nobody really gets too deep after the meetings anyway. Then just excuse yourself because you've made "plans". Let them think it's service orientated.

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Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

it disturbs me because it was so well done.

(i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.

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You know who else will be affected? All the studies that have been told about a nice paradise earth, so they've been coming to the meetings on Sunday.

Here is their first assembly and on Sunday, they see the writing on the video. Either you are with us or against us. It may scare some because they aren't on the golden ark yet and cause them to panic. Some might be uncomfortable seeing all the JW's beaming with joy over the death of the millions of people represented by the soldiers. Others will sneak off to the bathrooms and make a hasty exit out the doors, never to welcome another witness at their door.

I saw something similar happen about 8 or 9 years ago at the KH. One study was so scared after the sunday meeting because the special talk by the CO was about how close the big A was and everyone not baptized wouldn't make it. The over eager brothers in the hall were saying Come Lord Jesus Come! The poor guy was crying in fear. I never saw him again.

Hope most of the invited studies wise up.

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Sometimes it's the little things....

by dubstepped in

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i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

the elder called it hyper-bowl.

soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

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I'm afraid my english has been skewed since 1st grade. I thought the teacher was reading a different story one time, because I could not find the word kernel in the story. After much deliberation, I figured out the word was colonel. So I pronounced as I saw it. Col -o-nel. Where she got the "r" in it - I didn't find out till years later that it was "that" English.

Words are very strange - everyone is pronouncing thermometer wrong. It's really a thermo meter. See, now it makes sense. My sister is the whiz at knowing every rule of saying a word, but I missed that along with the lecture on how to read a clock and the knowing the months of the year.

You say bayou, I say biyou, but the next time I might say it your way.

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Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

it disturbs me because it was so well done.

(i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.

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Not many in the audience will think of regular people being killed by Jesus. See, it's just the satan driven military types that will die.

But the children. They will think of the nice friend at school, seeing Jesus coming to kill them. And the JW child, will feel fearful for wishing that their friend wouldn't die as well as thinking of some small thing they did that might turn Jesus's arrow at them.

Didn't really study for the meeting like they said they did.
Didn't want to come to the assembly.
Doodled with their pencil or daydreamed while there.

Remember the video with Noah and his family dying because they didn't listen?

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"World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"

by Sour Grapes in

i went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.

of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.

he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".

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The last time the JW at work said it, I just said, well go back and in the Roman times. End of conversation.

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Hospitality - How not to.....March 2018 study article.

by punkofnice in

what do you make of this part of the march 2018 watchtower study edition?.

2 among other things, peter urged his brothers: “be hospitable to one another.” (1 pet.

4:9) the word “hospitality” in greek literally means “fondness for, or kindness to, strangers.” note, however, that peter urged his christian brothers and sisters to be hospitable “to one another,” to those whom they already knew and associated with.

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The WT likes to point out how the "worldly" people are nice to them. Because of course, they recognize God is with them or that they are extra special people.

When Paul was shipwrecked, "the people of Malta showed them extraordinary kindness" Imagine today if a disaster hit Malta. Would the natives say that the JW's showed them kindness by rebuilding houses for them? No because it would be good enough for them to watch the loving kindness of the JW's towards one another, or a dog.

Matthew 5:46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?

I think the Tax Collectors are their Besties.