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Originally Posted by Boise_Chief
Yeah I figured you knew about it...... have you thought of the number of lives lost and just think in two or three years blood will be fine. Btw those disfellowshiped for blood will still be DF'd
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As an ex- witness myself, I chose to harbor no ill feelings towards them. I, after almost 25 years just felt that it was not right for me.
That and the fact my congregation overseer was about the biggest hypocrite on the face of the earth.
But still I didn’t let the actions of one man or body of elders decide my choice for leaving them, I did it after carefully weighing all options, and thoughts I had developed as a child then on through my adult life.
My biggest obstacle was the fact they keep you very close-minded to ANYTHING BUT THEIR TEACHINGS.
-DO NOT suggest post secondary education (they figure the bible will teach you everything you need to know, so you can go “pioneering”)
-and basically want you to live “within” today’s society but be completely separate from it.
Sure I went “out in service”..(the knock on the door you get when one of them offers you a Watchtower and Awake), did bible readings, heck at one time I was even a “Ministerial Servant”…(liken it to a Deacon in the Catholic faith, 1 step away from being a priest)
But then reality set in, and I just found I could not maintain “their” expectations, so I left.
I was never DF’d mind you, but something tells me if they knew I converted to Catholicism last year I’d be ear marked as an apostate.
I left about 10 years ago, so I felt no need to bother letting them know, I figure if they ain’t got the hint by now, why bother.
The blood issue is based on a passage from (you’ll have to excuse me here it’s been a long time years) Ezekiel (if I remember correctly) where it says in part
…”And if you should keep the command of abstaining from blood, good health to you”
Like any religion they have faith based on interoperation of the Holy Scriptures this being one of them.
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The JW’s started in Up state NY when Charles Taze Russell after listening outside a basement window joined a “study groupie of the bible”, found he could “interrupt it” and thus the whole JW structure was built.
(This BTW can be backed up in the “History of the Jehovah’s Witness” a publication that came out about 10-12 years ago during their 100 anniversary)
But I think more than anything what got to me about them was the fact that they honestly believe EVERY OTHER RELIGION out there is WRONG, and they ain’t to slow in tell you either.