personally, i respect that everyone has choices to believe whatever they want to believe.
i have no interest in joining another religion....what about you?.
Nope not in the least bit interested in religion, this one damaged me far too much to seek out another human run organization for answers they don't have. I had always seen the WT as my truth and salvation-a guiding light almost- but once that balloon popped, so did my religious desires.
Hasta la vista religion.
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last friday i got a message on my classmates account from alice, a jw girl i hadn't seen in over 40 years.
i checked her profile and in her current photo she is wearing a native american necklace and earrings with tribal or religious symbols.
"Have a nice life and contact me if and when you return to the Truth."
I realized that most JW's would be very well accomplished in cinema, they're some of the best actors ever. This hasn't happened to me yet but I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed, it will happen for sure. The more wrong the person is and the more they lead that double life, the more they have to look at other people for assurance that Jehovah is with them.
I mean God can't be behind honest individuals with logical doubts but he's definitely supporting Mary J. Pioneer who hates people, lies, cheats, and steals- all seems well in the universe. Sorry you had to go through that Athanasius and thanks for sharing...
i was sent a link to a homemade video from our summer district convention, not the one i attended, but the next weekend.
it was a video of a local brother, relating his "experience" of "trusting in jehovah", and how he was blessed.. it was just about 1 short minute long.
ms harper showed it to me first, she wanted to get my comment on it before she said a word.. background: we both know this brother, he is about our age, so we know the "real" story.. anyways, his story goes like this: this experience goes back about 10 years (jeez, we must be really searching for the experiences now!).
I remember always feeling so pumped after some experiences and it's scary to look back and to think how many of those were fabricated stories?
Makes me think a lot about this:
BAM, BAM, BAM, BA-ULLSHIT!
hello ,i am a jw,been in the "truth " for about 6 years.i have to be very careful because i know the witnesses monitors sites and report to the elders ,i know cause that is what my blood sister does,she spends hours trying to find apostates in the closet.i know stuped.. so this is my situation.i have known about jw almost all my life and heard that only them have the truth,lots of my family are in it.i was the one taking too long to baptize ,i knew it was expected from me.and i always had a need to make ppl like me .so i took the dip.i started to notice that there are lots of jws that belong to little groups.i wanted friendship so bad and at the time had a need o tell ppl about my horrible childhood traumas i guess i was not over it yet,and needed some to lisent since i had drove my spouse nuts already .what happend this ppl pretend to want to be close to me so they can know all my business and then tell everyone at the hall.then you realize uhhh,they never confided their personal stuff to me.is like a game " you can tell me your stuff,but do not expect me to keep it to myself and do not think i will tell you my dirty laundry.a lot of mind games.. so i was alone ,invisible ,i still can't believe i put up with so much !
i can't wright not even half of what i when through.i feel paranoic now.so i came across a youtube video by jwstruggle and blow my mind ,now i can't stop researching,my spouse is not a jw,and is very shock too.so i decided that i want to fade,i guess it won't be so hard since the sis and brothers did not had a close relationship with me.i have kids and i suffer from pts ,anxiety attacks,panick attacks and severe depression.i moved to the next town of my hall,so i have change hall too.i have not been to my new hall,and wanted to know,will the elders in my old hall contact the elders in my new hall just to see if i am attending?..
my spouse told me " i will tell them i am not letting you go" "and "i found out that your liars!
Freethinking76 welcome and thank you for sharing your story. As far as what course to take I cannot recommend as only you truly understand the scope of the those you're now dealing with. In your shoes I would not even worry, if the info you've come across has convinced you that this is not God's people then sleep easy. Remember how they have treated you and your family despite preaching love and peace to their neighbors. It's the blind leading the blind and you will live better without the constant guilt trips and "loving" advice. Wishing you the best..
i know their answer.
i think it is all bs.
lets discuss!.
Thanks JakeM2012, only trying to keep it real.
i'm been out of the org for about 4 years now, and have lived in phoenix for a couple years.
i was surprised at how many witnesses i see out in field service on a regular basis here, and even more surprised at their casual dress.
i've had sisters approach me in at bus stops in slacks and sleeveless shirts...when i was in the organization a woman would have never worns pants in service.
Yeppers, the 602's been home for the past 15 yrs.
i know their answer.
i think it is all bs.
lets discuss!.
Text book answer:
Well you're supposed to be there to worship Jehovah and encourage your brothers and sisters.
My answer: Business talk = loving God less.
And what person in their right mind would want to do that? So instead let's focus on encouraging others and by encourage I mean create cliques and groups and talk shit about one another until someone has the balls to bring the mighty elders in to make everything better with their pixie dust.
recently, we were challenged when we told someone that the wt itself says that it is not inspired, and we then were asked is that something you recently started to believe?.
how many people just forget what the wt has said?
well, read it and weep.. .
Cha ching, you really hit it right on the gnat's ass with this one (with their own literature)- thanks for sharing. It makes me kind of sad to think how much of our time was wasted and how much of other peoples time will be wasted as no real research is ever done.
Blind obedience leads nowhere fast and being duped into believing something and placing your life's eggs in one basket sucks.
i'm so happy to have been able to sleep in yesterday and this morning!
no fs and sunday meeting!
every weekend i feel a huge relief and both hubby and i always look at each other and say "it's great not having to go to meeting huh?".
Ha ha, awesome Gojira 101!
if you could pick anyone from jwn to meet in real life to meet and have dinner with, who would that be?
let's exclude all those who you are already friends with, who you know and love from jwn in real life.
so or me, that excludes my friend ann and also curious butterfly.
I haven't been on here too long but just from the few weeks I spent lurking and the info he's shared with the forum I'd have to say: Billy-the-ex bethelite.
