i can ,the people i had influence over in joining the religion.,but have now left the religion.granted it`s family,except for one.. those that were active jw`s and have now left :.
my wife .
my two sons ,and a wife of one .
No more living in a delusional world of half believing that I'll live forever and half believing that it's never going to happen!
No more field service which I always hated!
No more having to be on high alert during the CO visit!
No more 'elders meetings' after the regular boring meetings!
Really too much to list!
just saying!
here is a man named jerry.
on a public sidewalk, he asks attendees leaving a jehovah's witness convention in san diego a simple question, ''do jehovah's witnesses have the truth.
not one person acknowledges him.
Very misleading to call it "Cart Witnessing"! Unless the passersby witness that they saw a cart!
Better name is "Cart Sitting". 2 highly trained jw's sitting by a cart!
just saying!
i can`t believe the tidbits i`m finding out about the changes ,dumbing down of the meetings i used to attend and participate in up until the late 1980`s ...
Same old bullsh*t only in digital form!
just saying!
so back when the borganization took over the congregations and their money when "forgiving" the loans for the mortgages, i seem to remember there was a congregation that stood up to them.
it didn't work, of course, but they caused quite a stir.
does anyone remember what congregation it was or any details where i could search and find more about it on here?
Bohnam Texas!
not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.
you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.
i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.
Not training speakers/teachers any more?
The Ministry School and other meetings were always about training sales persons to sell wt sh*t!
just saying!
myth:.
speculation... .
expectation... .
Myth= the bible and ALL other religious holy books!
Truth=I'm still looking but content that it's attainable.
just saying!
the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .
ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.
i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.
I was basically a born-in. I'm not sure that I ever really believed all the sh*t from the wt even though I made "great" progress as a jw, MS, pioneer, elder, and all that stuff! Started serious doubting after 1975, really slacked off after my beautiful, wonderful jw wife had an affair or 2, and fell off the cliff in 1995 when 'generation' became whatever the wt said it was. "overlapping" was just another bullet and today I'm happily a non jw. Not df'ed, not da'ed, just a non jw!
just saying!
at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.
however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.
i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.
Modern jw experiences that are related at assemblies and conventions are just like the bible! Embellished bullsh*t!
just saying!
had to look.
first paragraph mentions that most of were probably born after 1914. most?
i bet the dubs 105 and older can be counted on your fingers..
"Deep into the last days" "The last of the last day" bullsh*t slogans!
Long live the last days! yea god's king dumb!
just saying!
i`m wondering just when and why the g.b.of jw`s made the change as they did to their official magazine.?.
at first they were advertising his presence long before they claim he actually arrived .. 1879 was the first wt wasn`t it ?
and their advertising his presence ,when according to their beliefs he din`t actually arrive with his presence until 1914.?.
I agree with JeffT
In my morning musings I sometimes think about the odd name of the jw religion, “Jehovah’s witnesses”. It’s an odd name for a religion. To me, it certainly seems that the man that wanted to be called “judge”, Joe Rutherford, conjured up the name ‘Jehovah’s witnesses’, by himself, in order to make the wtbts HIS religion and to purposely set it apart from what he called ‘Christendom’ for no other reason than just to be ‘different’. Rutherford knew that controversy is what grabs the public’s attention, and unpredictability is what holds the public’s attention. He used a rather obscure Bible verse, Isaiah 43:10, found in the Hebrew Scriptures no less, on which to base the ‘name’ of (his) a Christian religion.
So by substituting jehovah for jesus "the judge" created controversy.
just saying!
