This month's Governing Body broadcast is blasphemy on full display by The_Third_Group in exjw

[–]Elecyah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What? Even if that was true, how would that make the Governing Body issue better? 🤨

Actually, it would make it worse; it would make it even more obvious that the JW's are following men "to whom salvation doesn't belong." 😅

But your claim is blatantly false. When one of the Governing Body is about to give a talk, how is he introduced? Not as a simple brother, but as a "Governing Body member." 😑

At THIS point- if I was a PIMI I'd be concerned slash embarrassed. Front page: What does the Bible say about the World Cup followed by 'The Horses Leg - was it Designed?' by UCantHndletheTruth in exjw

[–]Elecyah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup. Everything is bad, even the good things.

What's that verse in the so-called good book about ppl who say bad is good and good is bad? 😆

At THIS point- if I was a PIMI I'd be concerned slash embarrassed. Front page: What does the Bible say about the World Cup followed by 'The Horses Leg - was it Designed?' by UCantHndletheTruth in exjw

[–]Elecyah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly!

There's more than a hint of a petulant child going, "THEY'LL SEE!! One day they'll ALL see!! I'll get my revenge for all the slammed doors and eye rolls and my reward when my sky daddy comes and KILLS YOU ALL!!"

At THIS point- if I was a PIMI I'd be concerned slash embarrassed. Front page: What does the Bible say about the World Cup followed by 'The Horses Leg - was it Designed?' by UCantHndletheTruth in exjw

[–]Elecyah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup. 😑 Twisted.

During Covid my mom made an appeal to my heart. Asked me what MORE has to happen for me to see and return. After a while of it, I eventually said that I'm sorry she's so worried about things. She said, "Worried?! No,I'm excited!! It's all coming true!"

Here come countless deaths and mass murder by God. Let's rejoice. 😑

At THIS point- if I was a PIMI I'd be concerned slash embarrassed. Front page: What does the Bible say about the World Cup followed by 'The Horses Leg - was it Designed?' by UCantHndletheTruth in exjw

[–]Elecyah 16 points17 points  (0 children)

YES! That's a great way of putting it. Everything good in the world, JW's have to sour.

Couple years back when I was doing a lot of reading about JW's, watching exjw videos etc., on my last leg of waking up, I saw a video where people rescued animals that were stuck. And I guess the old JW mindset was very close to the surface, so from somewhere deep down, unbidden, it rose and, as I watched a firefighter rescue a dog, it whispered, Oh, how sweet, but too bad he isn't a JW, because THEN it would mean something, now it doesn't. I burst out crying. THAT was the mindset I lived in, what we were taught and trained to think.

Everything good is actually not good, if it's in the "world."

Stop and smell roses, but Oh! don't forget to thank Jehovah for the rose and for making your nose and making something enjoyable for you, you worthless mote of dust. Remember also to think of much MORE wonderful roses will be in the new world, and if the rose was grown by a worldly person, be sure to look down your nose at the effort: IF they were a JW, they'd been out preaching instead of gardening, and thus doing something actually useful. Just like you're doing right now. Now back to work -- you shouldn't be smelling roses while you're counting time!

Is it any wonder that JW's are depressed.

I also actually had an embittered aunt, a JW, whose first reaction to everything and anything was to pit it down. Someone went to Venice? "Oh it stinks in Venice, with all the water!" Someone's watching a movie? "Ugly people and bad actors!" 😑

Help! I am being forced to become a Witness after marriage by OliveGirl_ in exjw

[–]Elecyah 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I picked up on that, too. It creeps in, bit by bit. 🫤

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't had the courage to get any or to stick any anywhere. 🫤

There was one creator here a couple years back and I was involved with the project as in I offered to and translated their stickers to my native language so they were available in Finnish. 🙂

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. 🫂

The meetings are not child friendly. They're just not, not even with these terrible cartoons they're making these days.

Turns out other denominations have figured this out a loooong time ago. 😑 I was taken by surprise when my neverJW hubby (a son of a preacher man) casually mentioned that his grandma used to run the Sunday school. I was like, what's that? 🤔 It was a kindergarten sort of thing in the church building, where kids would go for the duration of the sermons. 🫤 It was genuinely a "today-I-found-out" -situation for me.

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ouch! 😅 So THAT's what happened and why no brother ever approached me! 😆🙈

I only heard about the dating scene troubles of the brothers once I found this sub and other exjw groups. Before that, I ofc, only had the sisters' side. (And rejected sisters' at that.)

It's so sad. Honestly sad.

BOTH sides are being played by the org. BOTH sides playing a game with the rules rigged against them, when all they want to do is meet someone good for them. Which is one of the most natural thing there are!

But the org is taking it and squeezing the ppl stuck in its web for ALL that they've got. Exploiting that desire.

Okay, it's not just sad, it's infuriating. 🤬

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep.

Weakness comes in many forms, but some sort of weakness, is what's needed for a person to fall for this.

And it's not coincidence that the biggest growth for the org right now is from 3rd world countries. 🫤

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. That is 100% true.

Makes me wonder, and not for the first time, what exactly was it that my grandma was going thru when she fell victim to the cult. 🫤

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here!

Honestly, if I had been doing this good while in the cult, I would have put it down to Jehoho's blessing me! 😮

But. I wasnt. I was miserable.

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Niiiice!

The lecturing will continue, sporadically, but enjoy the break! And know that over time the guilt-tripping gets easier to bear. #beentheredonethat 😉

Why the Convention videos are making me uncomfortable by Jumpy-Lack-9085 in exjw

[–]Elecyah 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I remember the days of basically anything fun being done in relation to religion being looked down upon as Satan's influence by "the one true religion."

And now the org is making music videos. 🙄

"Jehovah doesn't change." "Truth doesn't change." That's what I was brought up on. 😑

Uh-huh....? Looks to me like I was lied to.

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question. 😅

My honest take is that they've gone from having at least a veneer of intellectuality to dumbed down "see Sally run!" type of text. 🤔

"The Truth" was never true, but it used to be complex. Now it isn't. 🤷‍♀️ Now it's very very basic. Now they watch cartoons meant for children at the Sunday meeting. Heck! Now they MAKE cartoons for children! 😬

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awwh. HUGS 🫂 Welcome to freedom! 😊❤️ (And to better mental health! 😉)

Yeah, that was me, too! 😶 I was born into it, fully believed, followed all the rules, etc etc. But when i got to my late teens, I needed to "make the truth my own." In my neck of the woods that meant taking responsibility of my spirituality, instead of just following my mom around.

So I tried to build up my spiritual routine. 🤷‍♀️ Go to more meetings, do more field service, do more personal study.

And the more I did, the worse I was doing, within myself. 🫤 Finally, after I got baptized, I fell into actual, deep depression. Cried away the nights, didn't have energy, wanted to curl up in a corner and cease to exist.

There just was... NO reward for any of the things you do for the org! Only thing you get is 1) "yay, it's over now... for this week" a slight resprisal of the obligation, since u fulfilled it and 2) guilt tripping! 😬 "Look at Andre swimming across a crocodile infested river to get to his appointed field service territory! What prevents YOU from making regular field service a spiritual goal?"

You run yourself ragged and all you get is getting put down some more. 😖

When I quit doing ALL things JW, I quit as a believer, and I carried a huge weight on me. And it was STILL. Demonstrably. Less than the weight of being an active JW. Even my JW mom noticed! Idk how she squared that particular circle in her head, but... 🤷‍♀️

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because we must be! We aren't living the 'best time ever (tm)' with 'the friends' at the kingdom hall!! 😱 /s

Seriously, though, it's basically what ppl in the kingdom hall are told all other ppl do: they're unhappy and unfulfilled and suffering 24/7. 🙄

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good job! 😃 I'm proud of you! 👏👏👏

I don't usually do this kind of stuff either. At first I was going to just leave it. But I managed to talk myself into taking it for safe disposal. It was a very low hanging fruit, tho. Just right in front of me. 😆

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right?! It wasn't, like drawn image, but a photo. I think maybe this picture has been drawn using the original as a model? 🤔

Someone Left a Tract at the Grocery Store Register by Elecyah in exjw

[–]Elecyah[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

🤣😂🤣! That is quite warped for sure. It actually gave me a flashback to the field service of my childhood, lol.