Posts by kaik

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every meeting there's a new plea for money?!

by purrpurr in

wow!

i haven't been here for a while and everything's changed!.

anyway i've been really noticing how at every meeting it seems there's yet another new thing that needs funding or another reminder to donate.

kaik

In my KH in Czech Republic as far I remember when JWs were legalized, the box was always at the door and was visible to everyone. Since my mom donates 100 Czech crown (only green bill) which is the lowest paper denomination, everyone could see what she donates. ($1 USD is 20 or so crowns, so she put about 5 dollars every week). 20 years ago she used (and I did as well) to donate 50 crowns every week. Last year and this years she repeatedly told me that elders and elderettes whined why she does not donate more, since she does not have any significant expenses (I paid her house off, thus she does not pay mortgage nor rent)...

She does not want to donate more, because the district overseer drives expensive car, ask local congregation to take him and his b.tch wife to dinner, and ask for other field expenses. She thinks that he is lazy and takes advantage of congregation. She worked for 50 years, and does not feel to subsidize anyone living standard.

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every meeting there's a new plea for money?!

by purrpurr in

wow!

i haven't been here for a while and everything's changed!.

anyway i've been really noticing how at every meeting it seems there's yet another new thing that needs funding or another reminder to donate.

kaik

I heard this complain from all my JWs relatives, which is one of the reason why they are dissatisfied with WT and doubt the organization, FDS, and JW society. My mom donates about $5 equivalent every week, and she was told that she is not spiritually very strong because she does not donate enough. This is in country where average pensions are $600 per month. She is very pissed and she told me several times that the demand for money is turning into extortion because she does not want to donate more. The same complains were from my sibling and my niece. My mom friend donated several thousands of her widow's inheritance and cashed her life savings to KH in distress.

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I Let Go Of Faith Ten years Ago Today

by cofty in

after more than 30 years as a jw and 9 as a born-again christian i finally let go of faith 10 years ago today.... it was on boxing day 2004 that news of the asian tsunami put the final nail in the coffin of my relationship with god.

since that time i have listened attentively to every possible argument in defense of faith; there has never been a single moment that i have felt any discomfort with my decision.. life without god has been liberating.

no longer do i have to defend the indefensible.

kaik

In April it will be 21 years for me what I walked away from JW faith. I stopped believing in Xtian BS couple years later. Although I do still believe in the existence of Deity, I still consider liberating from religious indoctrination and nonsense of bible.

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I have had to create a new account

by cantleavehasleft in

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friends

at least my user name is more accurate now.

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kaik

It took me several attempts to log in, but I was able to do so.

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What products have you bought that exceed your expectations?

by skeeter1 in

well?.

kaik

My PS2 and Toshiba laptop. I have still original playstation from 12 years ago that plays. I had Toshiba for years until my step dad drop it accidentally from the coffee table. All other laptops I have and had were not so good.

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If Your JW Parent Died Would YOU Go To The Kingdom Hall For The Talk?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i would like your thoughts, please..

kaik

Nooooo! I will not have hers funeral at KH. When my father died my JWs relatives tried to disrupt funeral, and the same happened when my grandmother died, because they decided to take first two rows in the church and refused to have my cousins refused to carry the coffin because "JWs do not do that". When my JW aunt and uncle died, I did not got to their funeral. Last thing I want to do on my mom's funeral to make a donkey from myself.

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2nd and 3rd Genners -- Did the passing of the 1st/2nd Gen. cause doubts for you?

by Apognophos in

i can't discuss my family history here in detail while i'm still fading, but suffice to say that i'm a third-generation witness.

my grandparents' generation of witnesses expected the end to come in the middle of the 20th century.

they led spartan lives and largely went without having kids, as they awaited the imminent new system.

kaik

My mom and stepdad are mid seventees to eighty and the end did not come as they hoped 40 years ago. My JW aunt who introduced into family already died. She has from ther line three generations already where her sons are mid 50's or more. My non JW grandmother was born when Victoria was still a queen and Franz Joseph ruled Austrian Empire. I remember clearly how my elderly pointed out that she is the generation of 1914 and will see the end. She saw only her end, but at least, she lived almost entire century. Everyone I knew who were the 1914 generation is gone. The generation that came after them like my parents are getting there. WT does not care when the generation will die out. They will point out that generation(s) is actually biogenesis of multiple generations where people witnessed transformation. This was explained to us in the 1994 in the study, but I was on my way out. My sibling than tried to bring me in by explaining from the elder that multiple generations could span for several centuries and compared to people who lived at Renaissance. All generation that lived from 1400 to 1600 were part of one Renaissance generation, one biogenesis. So we can be living industrial generation all these people from Russell to 2100 could be a part of the same generation.

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From 1 to 10, how do you rate the value of the Internet in your awakening?

by Hidden-Window in

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friends

as we all know, the internet is a real game-changer in allowing us to know the truth about the watch tower and its history.

i always had doubts and it was the internet that presented me with the ever-growing number of individuals who were going through a similar struggle.. i give the internet a 9 in my awakening.

what about you?.

kaik

I left around 1994 when Internet was still in infancy and had zero influence on my awakening.

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Unbaptized Publisher

by naazira in

jw
friends

what would you recommend for an unbaptized publisher that has learned ttatt and is inactive?

do you think it is best for someone to just continue to be inactive and live & let live?

or take time and write a letter wishing to no longer be an unbaptized publisher?.

kaik

Pretty much the dip into the pool counts, and without the baptism, you are not worth of JWs effort. Move on with your life and pretend that never happened.

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Does Anyone Watch Ascension?

by jw07 in

this new series' pilot episode is the perfect allegory for the blind faith of the average person in the jw movement, those who deny that anything 'immoral' or sinister happens within the ranks, the double lives, doubters, and towards the end of the episode, an example of how the governing body controls persons' lives.

check it out and tell me if you saw all the parallels.

i think it's my new favourite show.. http://tv-series.me/2014/12/15/ascension-s1e1-season-1-episode-1/.

kaik

I was watching it, but I could not get into it.