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Posted by DEBS [Guest] on October 30, 1999 at 16:32:21 {G0PnT/qYmkRTD9uQRXHkni6QXcPL8M}:

In Reply to: Post #5 posted by ros4GB on October 26, 1999 at 07:27:17:

I don't know who you are or if you are what you say your are, but I am going to tell you have I
feel about the organization to which I devoted
13 years or more of my life, almost 8 of which as
a regular pioneer.
First I want to say I am grateful to J.W.s for
turning me to Jehovah and the bible, I had rejected Christianity because of the things I saw
being done in it (and the teaching of hell) by the
time I was 14. I turned to other religions but was never satisfied. At first J.W.s satisfied that need because they taught me who the true God
is. Also, I learned to be a better person and a
good wife from the bible and J.W. publications,
I have an outstanding relationship with my husband
because of what he read in the bible and the Watch
tower and Awake, not by the example set by the elders in our congregation who were narrow minded,
obviously dislike women and dominated them at all
possible occasions. I will tell anyone today that
if they read and apply what is in the Family Life
book or the new family book, they will have a happy marriage.
Now, why did I leave? From the first I say the
do as we say don't do as we do way things were done. There are more mentally ill people among
J.W.s than any other group I know. Some of the
elders, not all, were not only thieves and manipulators and liars, but probably even worse.
I tried for years to believe what I was told, that
Jehovah had appointed these men and that we were
not to question what he was doing, that he would
take care of such things in his own time. This
made me very mentally ill. I, being a regular
pioneer, knew many things, heard talk, etc. The
congregation I attended used gossip as the way of
shutting people up, if wrongs were going on, you
can't talk about it, is is gossip and for sure you
are not to speak of an elder, even though you would get people at the door who knew just exactly
what was going on . . .What could you say to such
people? Finally a good man, a elder who wanted
to do what is right moved in. This man was lied
to and cheated by this fellow elders, not all,
and finally he asked if I would speak up about things I had heard and knew, which I did because
I believed it was what Jehovah wanted me to do,
even though I knew what would happen. I died at
that time when I saw how it all worked out, because I thought that inspite of all the bad I
had experienced, It was God's true organization and he would see justice was done . . . . As I
said, I died, but it took 3 years for the corspe
to rot. During those 3 years there was not a
day that went by that I did not want to kill my-
self because the J.W. organization had succeeded
in making God evil to me. Then one day, I looked
at the sky and the earth and I remembered what
I had known long before I ever became a J.W., what
I had known from infancy, why I knew God could
never burn people or destroy them for that matter,
just because they don't listen to J.W. at their
door, and I came back to life, and I left.
But then where was I to go? Not back to any organized religion. And Lo, I found the Bible
Students, I found Brother Russell. He never taught God to be a killer of millions of people,
he taught that all men would have the opportunity
under ideal conditions to know God and Christ
during the 1000 year reign. Jehovah is exactly as
I had always know him to be, good. No one can
or will take that away from me again, and the
Bible Students, wonderful people who love and
whom I love, Genine love, not always having to
look over your shoulder and be careful what you
say and no policing because true Christians don't
need policing, they police themselves because
they love Christ and Jehovah and want to do what
is right. I have received more love, greetings,
letters, even gifts in the few months I have
be a Bible Student than in all the years I was
a J.W. So I am telling you, dear brother, if you
who you say you are and these things are bothering
you as they bothered me and so many others, then
you need to come out of her as Jehovah commanded,
not that you will be destroyed but you will have
to endure what will come upon her as it will do
all religion that has misrepresented Jehovah, who
has made him a killer of babies and because of traditions that the gov. body has sat up, has caused the deaths of countless people. The skirts
of the J.W. organization is just as full of the
blood marks as any other, the sad part is, it is
guilty of killing it's own people and blaming
Jehovah for it. Also it has sat itself up in place of Christ. One Watchtower article asked
the following question, to what four things do
we owe loyality. The answer given, Jehovah, the
organization, the brothers, and your marriage mate. Where does Christ fit in here? Jehovah
says there is no name under heaven through which
we can be saved except Christ's and he appears
no where in this answer. I suggest you secretly
read Brother Russell's 6 Volumes if you never
have, it will be very enlightening for you. I
feel sorry for J.W.s, because they are sincere,
but I am glad for them in that they will get what
they are working for, everlasting life on earth,
but how mortified they will be when they look to
right and there are all those Baptist, to left
Catholics, heatherns, all having to learn the
way of holiness. And You all thought you were
the only ones . . . . .DEBs

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