Ridiculous!

I'm a Jehovah's Witness as well and I'm interested in seeing this documentary.

APOSTATE and PROUD of it.

You don't have ONE earthly leader, you have about 12, in Brooklyn, NY.

I know what I speak, I lived with abuse and torture at the hands of your stupid suit wearing pedophiles and child beaters for the better part of 14 years before escaping.

People, don't believe the hype. This IS a CULT. Plain and simple.

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I don't think God is out to WIN anyone over, but desires that you would chose life and do things HIS way. Making HIM your number ONE, not your mate, like Adam chose.

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mankind is over 6000 years old
the earth and animal life: we don't know how old...eons of time!
We all have personal opinion but they are shaped by what the Bible truthfully reveals and says.
That's my opinion.

I am a 25 year old Witness, I've been Diss’ed and reinstated so my view point is a little conflicting. I feel like I have to state that first....

But as for facts.....
If you have older literature, for instant the 'Aid to Bible Understanding' which was the first version of the 'Insight' books it says the earth will be 6,000 years old in 1975.
That is where that belief of stay alive for 75 came from. It was believed to be the beginning of the 1,000 year reign.

It also says the 607 date that begins and connects to the 1914 date has no historical proof. It’s under 'Chronology'. That spot that admits questions to the date has been removed from the Insight Book.

The thing with the witness {my faith, some stuff I'm unsure of} is that there have been mistakes, mistakes you don't hear about. For instance 'Beth-Sarim' BIG MISTAKE!! Along with plenty others.

There is a lot of good things, and its the only way I know, but what I have learned is not to just except everything that the Society hands me. My main beliefs follow the organization but mainly come from my bible research.

So mush to say but I don't want to rant......ANY ORGANIZATION THAT CONTROLS YOU CAN BE CONSIDERED A CAULT, the problem for some people{most} is they let there life become governed by the Governing Body {whether its 1914 or oral copulation}, of course if you don't you get diss’ed, but I guess that is the catch 22.

As far as child abuse........I'm sure it happens, "the world is lying in the power of the wicked one."

For any Witness I highly suggest {my opinion means nothing} reading 'CRISES in CONSCIENCE' written by Raymond Franz .....He was a member of the Governing Body {check him on wikipedia}. its very informative, and if you have old magazines or books {or if you want to get stuff off ebay} you can research his statements.

GREAT BOOK.

As for 'Knocking' the directors a genius, he made a move that will have a 6 million plus fane base. I'd like to see it.

I was raised a Witness, and I'm 20 now, and I'm kind of on the fence about it. I'm not disfellowshipped or dissassociated, but I'm not attend meetings right now. The reasons for me feeling the way I do is just because my personal experience as a Witness was adding too much stress to my life, but this is due to a lot of factors, mainly being that I live with my parents, who aren't the smartest people in the world and tend to get kind of nuts when it comes to their beliefs.

But regardless, I am very interested in this movie. Anything that gives an honest view of Witnesses is great. The problem with people who criticize Witnesses is that they expect every single Witness to be exactly the same, to follow what they should be following to the letter. The fact is that people are people, this is true in ever religion. People will slip up, make mistakes, it happens.

One thing I do feel a lot of Witnesses need to do is get a wider viewpoint than they have. I feel strongly that a lot of people I know personally who are Witnesses only remain such because they don't want to break up families and such. I have a huge family, big on both sides, and 90% of them are Witnesses. If I left, I would be completely cut off from not just the family, but most of the friends I grew up with. The knowledge that your life will be changed so drastically can be a powerful thing.

If you look at the history of Witnesses, with both the viewpoint of a Witness and a non-Witness in mind, it is a little rocky, and anyone who disagrees isn't thinking for themselves. The Society has made a lot of mistakes in their past, made prophesies that didn't happen, stuff like that. It's easy to say that Jehovah reveals the truth in his own time and his own way, but it's just as easy to say the Witnesses aren't really as close to God as they think. The New World Translation is blasted by a number of Bible scholars. It was written under the Witnesses, and a lot of people have accused the Organization of translating it in a such a way to agree with Witness doctrine. I don't agree with these claims necessarily, but if you think about it, it makes everything the Witnesses do seem awfully interesting. Sure, they do everything they do because it says so in the Bible, but if that Bible is catered to what they believe, then it kind of works out nicely, doesn't it? Realize that a lot of what Witnesses, or anyone, believe isn't written plain out in the Bible. "There is no real Hell." "Disfellowship members who sin and don't repent." "No tattoos or piercings." These things are based on small passages, certain translations or interpretations.

I think that too many Witnesses do follow the Society blindly because maybe they don't know any better. Or to them, the Society saying "What we say is true because the Bible says so." Is enough reason. And if that works for people, then more power to them. Ignorance is bliss, right? Not that ignorance means they are wrong, not at all. But the biggest mistake anyone can make, Witness or not, is thinking they know everything, the whole picture. No one really does, except God himself, and just as Witnesses disagree with a lot of things other religions do, a lot of other religions disagree with what Witnesses do.

I am surprised though, pretty much all of the Witnesses posting on here have a pretty neutral viewpoint and seem like great people. Too often do I see a Witness discussion somewhere online that features some idiot Witness kid who thinks they know everything and gives them all a bad name by being completely ignorant of anyone who thinks differently than them.

And again, I was raised a Witness and know very well what they teach and believe, and I am definitely not an apostate, I respect Jehovah's Witnesses very much and wish you all the very best in life.

P.S. Everyone on here should give the Wiki on J-Dubs a read. True, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone with the Internet, but it is run by a team of editors and pages must be verified with reliable sources and such, and if they aren't verified the page will tell you so right on the top. The Wiki on J-Dubs is verified, so none of it is apostate or false or anything. It's just an interesting read that gives a good history on the Organization and a lot of things that the Society doesn't really talk about (I don't mean to say they hide things from people, just saying that only reading what the Society says makes it hard to have a balanced viewpoint, something everybody should have)

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