Posts by days of future passed

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Did being raised a Jehovah's Witnesses result in psychological damage? An interesting read in the New York Times.

by Balaamsass2 in

interesting read in the new york times book review.

food for thought on a subject 3rd gen and i have discussed between ourselves and with our daughter.

in our case, the answer is yes.

days of future passed

For me, as a child I did not want to go to meetings but to stay home with my dad. So I highly resented being dragged off there. I didn't like God because my dad didn't like him. So I daydreamed my way thru meetings at the age of five.

When I finally listened, I heard about the paradise and I liked that because of the animals. But just as soon as I felt like I wanted to be with God, there was a talk about how those who hated God would be destroyed! That was me! From that time on, I was doomed. My whole life became one of avoidance of reality to escape that thought. This religion also destroys self esteem by telling saying you are nothing but a speck of dust, untrustworthy, full of sin and if you are a female, less than a male.

God is also a parent that only will love you sometime in the future if you manage to be perfect.

This religion hinders you from understanding the variances of human nature. People are good or bad. In reality, they have many faults as well as positive ones.

The biggest hits for me are: the habit of avoiding reality, low self esteem and the crushing of dreams/aspirations that have nothing to do with serving the WT. Some careers take a long time to get experience and training in and that is all taken away by the WT.

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WT / JW Doctrine ,Satan cast out of Heaven in 1914 ? He has always had access to the earth ? Since Eve .

by smiddy3 in

this doctrine / belief that jehovah`s witnesses have , surely raises a few questions that they do not address.. 1.this spirit being challenged god by questioning his authority and offering eve an alternative making himself satan.. and this took place on earth ,the garden of eden.

so he who became satan had access to the earth.. 2. all throughout the old testament , the hebrew scriptures do we find examples of satan interfering with gods plan of things either by himself or his followers .. 3.their are just too many examples to list individually ,however a few key ones would be , the nephilim , job when god in heaven asks him where he has been , and his reply , from roving about on the earth .

, etc.etc.. 4.and of course in the new testament , where jesus is taken up into a mountain to be tempted by satan for fourty days ?.

days of future passed

Mostly the WT has made it a punishment for Satan to be confined to the earth in 1914. This also ties in with the belief that the world is getting worse because he's mad about it and so has increased his evil ways upon the earth. If you were to ask most witnesses, I believe this is the explanation they will give you of why the earth is the way it is now.

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Job an example? His opinion of women below

by blondie in

jw
friends

“‘you talk as any wicked fool of a woman might talk.

" new english bible.

note that the wts departs from the nwt because they feel this is the better rendering.

days of future passed

The WT is full of misogynists. So were the Israelites. So has been for a lot of mankind. All about who you can have power over and how many you can get on your side to keep it.

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If You Could Invite Any 3 people

by new boy in

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friends

to dinner living or dead..... who would the be?.

days of future passed

My grandma who's dead, my old lost friend Scott who's dead and brian who I don't know if he's alive or dead.

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Job an example? His opinion of women below

by blondie in

jw
friends

“‘you talk as any wicked fool of a woman might talk.

" new english bible.

note that the wts departs from the nwt because they feel this is the better rendering.

days of future passed

If Job didn't utter a sinful word, then obliviously God gives out evil as well as good.

“I say to you that everyone who continues wrathful with his brother will be accountable to the court of justice; but whoever addresses his brother with an unspeakable word of contempt will be accountable to the Supreme Court; whereas whoever says, ‘You despicable fool!’ will be liable to the fiery Gehenna.”—Matthew 5:22.

Guess Job only said Wicked fool. And his wife had to have 10 more children with him.

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Sacramento Senate Bill & Town Hall Meeting with EX-JW Child Abuse Survivors- March 8th , 2019

by flipper in

https://www.facebook.com/sarita.piti/posts/2613606355321841.

https://www.facebook.com/roger.bentley.986/posts/526951087814763.

https://www.facebook.com/sarita.piti/posts/2618755001473643.

days of future passed

Smiddy 3 - The Wt has used that as part of it's defense as well as other religions.

We must keep these things private! blah blah blah so says WT...

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Sacramento Senate Bill & Town Hall Meeting with EX-JW Child Abuse Survivors- March 8th , 2019

by flipper in

https://www.facebook.com/sarita.piti/posts/2613606355321841.

https://www.facebook.com/roger.bentley.986/posts/526951087814763.

https://www.facebook.com/sarita.piti/posts/2618755001473643.

days of future passed

Yes the Catholic church painted the bill in a very unfavorable light and got their followers to write and email a protest. It worked pretty good and I'm sure the WT is happy.

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Disfellowshipped

by lriddle80 in

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friends

my judicial committee was set for monday.

the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.

so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.

days of future passed

So your dad was contacted by the elders when they couldn't get you to pick up the phone. And he pitched in and helped. Sad and somewhat predictable. Probably made him feel a little more righteous.

Even if you expect it, it still can sting. Hope your life goes better from now on.

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Angels are Neuter Gender According to JW`s

by smiddy3 in

what about the bible ,does that agree with the jw theology ?.

therefore angels are sexless ,yet we find in the bible on a few occasions where they have lusted after women ,taken a mans form and had sex with women.. .on one occasion producing hybrids half human half angel.. on other occasions they just wanted to satisfy their sexual desires.?

their sexless aren`t they ?

days of future passed

There's been quite a few barrel chested muscle sprouting angels that are decidedly male in the pages of the WT. If I remember right, the WT of course has explained it, as simply the bible using the male gender to represent authority. Because God is male right? He's the big authority figure. For that matter, why did Jesus have to be born a male?

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The problem with movies this last decade or so

by LoveUniHateExams in

actually, i think i've discovered two issues.. the first is that there are too many soft reboots, remakes and re-imaginings.

don't get me wrong, hollywood has always done remakes and some remakes work very well.

the fly (1986) and the thing (1982) are actually remakes/re-imaginings of the original 50s films.

days of future passed

I gave up on the Star Wars saga on the third movie (don't ask me what "episode" it is) because of Lucas dissing his own movie with Tarzan yells by Chewbacca, ewoks and storm troopers that couldn't hit the ground if they aimed for it.

I did like the remake of "The Thing" - totally twisted my brain with the effects but I also like the cast. I hate remakes that rely on effects, gore, sex and empty talk. That being said, I used to watch a lot of movies but for the most part, I like watching mindless monsters and big illogical peopleusingrobots movies now that I don't expect much out of, but I love the visuals and hopefully some funny lines.