Comments on: Jehovah’s Witnesses: ‘End is near’

By: isra

isra — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:06:17 +0000

I was brought up being a jw ever since i was 5. I left the truth met a man from from another country. So i decided to move there with him, later i found out that dad got his position as a ministeral servant taken away from him because he ” helped support my lifestle” ( gave me some money)
a year later i decided to start studying againe, it was fine at first. But they began getting more and more pushy telling me to leave my fiance as i can not serve god when i am still having sex with my fiance. I kept telling them to not push me, but they kept doing that every week. In the end it made me so unhappy, i had to tell them i didnt want to study anymore, but they didint let up on me. for 8 months i have been avoiding their calls and there emails. its very sad i think i dont have a problem with jehovah, only with the organisation that hurt me and certain members of my family.

By: Damo

Damo — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:02:27 +0000

It has been about 9 months since my wife (who was a JW since birth) & my self (bapbtized at 16) left the WT. After much research & self examination & discussions we saw that the WT is not what they claim to be. That is the Faithful & Discreet Salve. Its a liberating feeling as your eyes are opened to their nature & in the way they suck you in at the start only to be treated in a horible way by the so called spritual giants, who should be the ones practicing & living the christ but like the clergy of christendeom, whom they condem but actually act just like them.

By: kika

kika — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:47:09 +0000

By: Daithi

Daithi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:06:46 +0000

The JW’s are not the only ones harping on about the state of the world and pointing to an increase in all things calamitous. Even agnostics and atheists look at the world and think, ‘This place is going down the toilet!’
When most people find themselves in a conversation about this they point out that there seems to be more war and warmongering, more crime, more natural disasters, more man made disasters, more hunger and misery. There’s less respect for life, less concern for others, less tolerance and patience, less hope, less decency.
I’m afraid the sad fact is there really isn’t more or less of anything. Not relatively, at least. History doesn’t hide this fact, no matter who wrote it.
The Dark Ages weren’t so called because of a lack of light, but because there was so much carnage in the world that very little information survived to illuminate our knowledge of what was happening. Whatever it was was not pleasant. But we survived.
The bubonic plaque, or black death killed HALF the population of Europe. But we survived.
Does anyone know how many years have gone by without war? Of any kind, anywhere? I believe the number is very small and only occurred once. In the 20th century, no less.
‘Iraq is going on so long.’, ‘it’s the new Vietnam.’ Well, the world came out of longer wars (the 100 years war, anyone) and survived.
Crime? it’s more sophisticated for sure, but nothing is new. Murder, rape, robbery, extortion. Nothing new there.
Disasters? We survived the ice age. Krakatoa, Tunguska.

And so on. Two factors ARE new. There’s more than three times as many of us on the planet than at any time in history up to the beginning of the last century. I’m no mathematician, but I think we can expect three times as much of everything as a result.
Another thing that’s new is our exposure to all of this. In the western world the prevalence of television is not more than 50 years old. The internet, in terms of popular use is less than 20 years old.

If you accept these facts rationally they are self evident, and our responses to events can be informed. Viewed through a religious lens it’s easy to see the same facts moulded to fit your chosen ideology. And with so many people doing so many things you can cherry pick to your hearts content. What baffles me is the desire to place us continually on the brink of apocalypse. ‘The End is Nigh’ said the man with the sandwich-board. It seems that many religions are most keen to spotlight the darker side of human nature. But let’s face it, we don’t tune in to the news to hear about someone having a great day and a fine nights sleep.

We love to think the worst of ourselves, don’t we?

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:05:36 +0000

This is not the first time Jehovah’s Witnesses have said the end is right around the corner. In 1973 when I first started studying with them I was told that the end would come within a year or two, that my oldest son, four at the time, would not go to school because there would be no schools in a couple of years. My son has children in middle school now. At an assembly in Fayetteville, NC a speaker had the crowd worked up into a frenzy. Can you hear the four horsemen of Revelation? The auditorium was filled beyond capacity. My family were sitting behind the stage listening. If the speaker had told the crowd we were meeting in Mexico the next day everyone would have packed into their cars and headed out without going home. It broke my heart in 1975 when nothing happened. I felt like I had been lied to. Even so I could not brake away for twenty-five years. I am still very sad. Not because of the time I wasted but because it was not true.

By: JEM

JEM — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:04:15 +0000

Well here we are in the year 2010.

Only 4 years to 2014.

The witnesses have lost all credability.Millions living in the last century and the one prior to that are now basically dead.(Millions now living….will never die…so they said in the 1930’s).Millions then are now dead & buried.

Wake up everyone.Enjoy life to the full without all this lying and falsehood by the Watchtower Society.Won’t be long before they make some more doctrinal change to accomodate their previous falsehoods and make it look like truth….to set us free!!!

Maybe the end of this system of things will begin in 2014????
I’ll let you know in 2020.

By: Geowyn

Geowyn — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:53:30 +0000

My dear Mother joyfully accepted the “truth” when I was 7, so until the age of 17 I was raised as a witness child.
Our situation was rather odd as my Mother was devout and zealous and my Father a non-believer, so Mum, my sister and I were never fully accepted into the congregation, yet the witnesses knew and liked Dad and always greeted him warmly.
We had pioneers and COs and elders for meals, ours was always Open House for any witness and Mum was known and loved for her hospitality and love and generosity.
I left when I was 17 and did my own thing, then in 1995 I made the decision to dip my toe back in for the Memorial. I was baptised in 96, became a regular auxilliary pioneer and then a full-time pioneer. By this time Mum was coming up to 70 and was ill and infirm, she was no longer able to go out in service and had difficulty attending meetings.
I broke my ankle and had to come off pioneering. From then on Mum and I might just as well not have existed. There have been no shepherding calls, no telephone calls, no visits from brothers or sisters. Nothing.
The sites I have found on the internet, including this one, have been very useful and a great comfort to me, though Mum grieves for all the time she has wasted. We both still believe and love Jehovah and Jesus, but the WT has made it very difficult for us to make any progress.
Thanks for reading.

By: Patience

Patience — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:28:17 +0000

well i am from South Africa and i am one of the JW’S there. I have read all the negativity you have towards Jw’s and it is understandable. Jehvah states in his word that he looks beyond a persons feeling or heart to see if that person suits him and yes there will be those people in the last day who oppose his words and thosw who will leave him but he says that he who remains in the truth till the end will gain everlasting life. I have been a Jw for 21 years and my father was always fighting with us for attending the meetings neverthe less injuring my mother. When i sat down with him and told him that doesnt he see the diff between us and all the other kids that are none belivers he said that he could. I am 24 years of age and still a virgin because living in the bible principles taught me that. My parents are none belivers but i managed to stay in the truth and applied those principles too. Maybe you should all skip the whole story of the end of the system of things and your main foucus should be on doing what is right but nevertheless i just wish jehovah would bring back the light that satan took away from you and you could all make him happy either than cursing him like that. I feel sorry for those who left him coz clearly you dont want to be called his friends and belive me i befirended jehovah for 21 years and all the trauma i have been through in my life just went away.

By: Ontothelogical

Ontothelogical — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:54:00 +0000

Do you remember your Logic or Critical Thinking 101 classes? You were taught to make sure the article or argument you promote was cogent! I have been reading some EXJW sites that say “Things A JW Will Never Tell You!” “How I Was Duped for 50 Years By The Watchtower! ‘Former JW Turns To Atheism!” Using your primal thinking skills alert you to a sensationalism or Alarmist style of communication. Your basic common sense makes you ask “Why am I listening to an Atheist or man who say’s the Bible is a fraud? One site that claims to promote help to EX JWs hooks you up with a fellow Stalin! This same site had an ExJW who is waiting to take your donations via PayPal for his start up Church. The agendas of these men and women is not vague at all.. Read how “Evil JWs excommunicate a woman who left her husband and six kids to live like a Hippie!” Please be balanced with your thinking and writtings! So many liars abound and as Mark Twain said “A lie can travel half way around the world before the truth can put it’s overalls on to chase it down.”

By: Sam Lee

Sam Lee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:41 +0000

People,

Read up, wise up and don’t let this hooligans bother your consciousness.
Believe in what you want to believe, live well and pray to GOD. He/She is real, but not in JC expression. Google , “Jesus and the naked boy”, you will find scriptures that were not included in the bible. But events were recorded.

Mohammed screwed a 6 year old and his is a religion called “Islam” that the US is still fighting with. Jesus may or may not have had sex with a little boy, I will let you decide on this. My presumption is he did. Now imagine if that was your son, daughter, nephew or niece or even a friends child. Will you put up with this shit.

So what we have here is a religion that promotes child abuse. This to me sounds more like “pain”. There is no true religion in this world and as I mentioned, god is in you, you don’t have to seek him through books and religious organization. Meditate,pray and believe. When JW’s go knocking on doors to me it is like they are promoting “child abuse” unconsciously. Save your children. JW’s as well have a high number of child abusers in their religion. Even convicted sex offenders ae allowed to go door to door.

I do not like JW’s period. One can be good genuinely wothout being religious.