a hunch has just struck me.we get frequent accounts in the literature and videos of people whose dysfunctional lived have been turned around by studying with the jw's and coming to belief in the org (sorry, jehovah).
evangelical type christian groups also use similar testimony stories.here's the hunch:the purpose of these is quite different among jw's compared to other religions.other groups use these testimonies primarily to persuade non-believers.the jw's use them to reinforce the beliefs of those already in the "truth.
"any thoughts?.
The testimonies and stories are always entertaining but rarely factual. I always got a kick out of the "experiences" from some unnamed person is some middle eastern country that escaped all sorts of dangerous situations and persecutions and is now an elder with a full time pioneer wife and 5 kids! lol lol lol!
just saying!
what a crazy dream, it was so cool....she came to me and told me she da'd from the cult.
i was so happy in my dream.
when i woke, it took me a few seconds to realize it was only a dream and that she is still brainwashed.
gttm
Hold on to that dream because I know that dreams sometimes do come true.
When I was a teenager, I often dreamed of someday being free of the wt organization. Being able to live my life on my own terms. Imagine!
It took nearly 50 years but my dream is now my reality!
just saying!
i’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks and i’m sort of surprised that no one else has introduced this topic!.
what better time than now for a fader to fade?
no meetings, no field service, no elder visits, no assemblies, no convention, and no other bullshit busy work going on.
I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks and I’m sort of surprised that no one else has introduced this topic!
What better time than now for a fader to fade? No meetings, no field service, no elder visits, no assemblies, no convention, and no other bullshit busy work going on. Even some family member will not notice. It’s the golden time for the borderline fader to get the hell out! So, if you have been thinking about it, now is the time to go for it!
just saying!
this night i could not sleep and my thoughts went on and on.
the result:.
i observe that many jw family members follow the instructions of the elders at zoom meetings like they come directly from god.
New light from jehober!!!! JW's are no longer to preach a message of Gloom and Doom!!! They are now the official religion of Zoom and Doom!
just saying!
there was a letter read sunday at our meeting that mentioned some parts of us are starting to open back up.
however, regardless of things opening up that no kingdom halls should be used for any meetings of any kind.
also, no door-to-door ministry or any form of in-person ministry is allowed.
The announcement is real. Heard it on the zoomed meeting yesterday! And it's a fu*king blessing! Give my pimi wife tome to get her head around living real life! At least 2-3 more months of Zoom and Doom!
just saying!
there was a letter read sunday at our meeting that mentioned some parts of us are starting to open back up.
however, regardless of things opening up that no kingdom halls should be used for any meetings of any kind.
also, no door-to-door ministry or any form of in-person ministry is allowed.
Yipeee!
just saying!
It will be very interesting to see how creative the wt gets in the upcoming 'lean donation' months ahead. I expect some 'new light to be forthcoming, maybe "overlapping donations"!
just saying!
i rode my bicycle to the corner gas station / convenience store.i couldn't find my regular mask - so - i improvised.as i walked up to the young lady clerk, her eyes grewwide wide wider and she said:"that's a um very unique face mask you have there, sir.
"i grinned invisibly.
"yep, i actually made it from an old pair of purple boxer shorts.
McTerry
You never cease to amaze us with your Mc-wisdom and Mc-creativity!
just saying!
an poignant question which might make a few jws a bit uncomfortable.. the words of jesus said that no one knows of the time of his return not the ancient israelites or the first era christians and jesus admonished those who would set a time upon god's own sacred time.. words spoken by jesus that certain men failed to adhere to who self proclaimed preachers of the gospel.. the executive leaders of the watchtower corporation (gb) have said that they were the faith slave to jesus fulfilling his instructions to spread the word of the new system of things.
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yet over the past 140 years the wts and the men who have been running that organization have been endeavoring false prophets, selling a tainted corrupt version of the gospel through the literature these men published.
Jehovah, The Organization, and The GB are all the same to jw's. Just different ways of saying the same thing! They are the jw version of the Holy Trinity!
just saying!
this link had to do with the experience that was given by a young witness pioneer in the phillipines convention and her take was on return to jehovah .. an old time friend from the past sent me this link a couple of weeks ago trying to encourage me to come back to the religion and asked me what i thought of it ?.
i said i would if she could reply to my 2 questions first fair enough ?
so far i haven`t heard back from her and i will let you know if and when i do.. the 2 questions i asked her was to do with jehovah`s name and the christian greek scriptures ,especially the ki publication the wt brought out ,the word for word greek to english that didn`t have an equivalent greek word for jehovah .. and the other one was to do with the charge that was given to christians ,followers of jc to witness about jesus with over 20 such scriptures and not one saying anything about being a witness for jehovah anywhere in the nt.. over the years she has always still kept in touch, a little bit eccentric and we had a lot to do with her family and mine back in the day when we were all believers .. .and she is not backward in coming forward about having a go at the elders who she doesn`t agree with .. at the time i looked at the link and have posted somewhere else about it on this forum and mentioned i didn`t see anything about "returning to jehovah" in it .. anyway this was a few weeks ago and i was still waiting to hear from her..today we got mail from her ,,slow mail ,even though we have each others e-mail address .and in the envelope was only the wt "return to jehovah " and inside a $50 note.?.
The $50 was her symbolic way of giving you the '30 pieces of silver' that Judas got for betraying Jesus!
How could you leave jehober? And why would you not want to be one of jehober's witnesses even though the bible clearly says that christians should be jesus witnesses? Shame on you! Get thee behind me satan! lol lol lol
just saying!
