The Quiet Activist

The Quiet Activist

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Choose Life Over Law

I am sure you have heard this many times, but do you do it? Do you practice it and teach your loved ones about it? What? Do you hold life precious above all other things on this earth? If it is within your power to do so, you most likely will save all life whether it's plant, animal or human. Some people go as far as becoming vegan since they believe that animals should not die for our dinner while others believe that plants suffer too when cut and chopped. So obviously, some discretion is needed as to how far a person goes to preserve all life.

However, I think I can safely assume that most people try and preserve human life when and if they are able. Hold on. What if you see a "no trespassing" sign but just beyond that, you see a small child screaming for help who appears to be drowning in a lake. If this scenario happens to a devout Jehovah's Witness (JW), they will most likely keep walking and ignore that child since they don't want to violate any laws, and you know, they will rationalize that a parent is probably nearby that will handle the situation, and well, the child was probably just playing around anyway and was never in any real danger. Oh, you think I am joking here? No, I am not. If you are not familiar with JWs then please be aware that they take everything extremely literal and obey everything strictly to the letter of the law. I was raised by indoctrinated JW parents and surrounded by myriads of JWs throughout the majority of my life and believe me, they are quite literal in how they think, live, and act in their daily lives. It's quite disturbing. So when they read a scripture that says to stay away from blood, they stay away from blood, using no rationale, reasoning or common sense and do not look at the context of the scripture or admonition.

Well, okay, here we go, what about JWs and their made-up self-imposed blood doctrine? They condone genocide of its membership. It's in the news again where people have lost their lives due to the denial of potentially life-saving blood transfusions, going blatantly and willfully against the advice of trained, professionally licensed physicians. Yet, the JWs are proud of their newspaper headlines when a devout JW dies because of their doctrines on refusing various medical procedures involving blood and blood products. Yes, they are proud that their membership holds dear the life of the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society above their own lives. Please take note of what is going on in the press about persons dying over refusing whole blood transfusions, persons who are either JWs or family members of devout JWs who love to block the administration of life-saving blood transfusions in an effort to save human lives. The JWs have a long, documented history of preferring death over life since they think their God requires it. They believe that they need to put their personal views aside, to push aside any sort of ambition to live life now, but sit around and wait for a new system of things where everyone will supposedly live in a paradise on earth, even though paradise in the Bible refers to heaven. All of their views on living for a future time while remaining stagnant and ignorant in this life, is not Bible based.

As I have said before in this blog, I am not really sure I identify myself as a Christian since leaving the Watchtower corporation, yet I believe all persons want to live, and want to live now, in spite of the fortune or misfortune of where they were born with some countries and belief systems placing little value on human life. The JWs are one of those groups, not a country, since their ignorance and hatred for human life knows no borders. Oh, they loudly proclaim how abhorrent abortions are, yet they profoundly support killing a fetus if the mother requires a potentially life-saving whole blood transfusion and she is a devout JW. Yes, she will kill herself and/or her baby because she thinks God wants her blood, life and soul or she will be damned to nothingness forever. So, the JWs only allow certain blood fractions in any doctor-prescribed medical procedures which will not save a life in an emergency situation requiring whole blood transfusions. 

However, none of the JWs' doctrine regarding denying the use of blood to save human lives, is found in any Christian Bible. But their membership would fall on a sword before disobeying the almighty Watchtower corporation with their headquarters in America and in the United Kingdom and they worship their blue and white flag which is the "JW.org" logo. This flag you will see everywhere now, on their cars, as lapel pins, you name it and they've got that flag waving in your face.



Unless I am mistaken [which I rarely am], nowhere in the Bible has God mandated that any person die because of any prohibition on the use of blood in certain medical treatments in Western medicine. There are scriptural examples of the use of blood, which is dietary, but blood meant life, and preserving life. An animal that is killed for food must be properly bled and prepared before it can be eaten, which is customary to this day, mainly with Kosher foods. However, in cases of emergency, such as starvation, the animal meat can be eaten immediately with penance to God at a later time since we are human, we need food to stay alive and the spirit creature in the heavens knows that and allows for what? For you to choose life over law. 


Here are a few examples taken from JWFacts.com



For further study regarding the Watchtower corporation's views on the use of blood, reference: 

http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/blood-transfusions.php


Why do the JWs require their membership to complete a "no blood medical directive" and give it to their doctors or at least have it on file with their medical insurance provider. Why? They have no scriptural basis for such a requirement. It's called ritualistic murder and JWs will say prayers and chant the name Jehovah when a person is dying needlessly for their faith. In ancient times and in the dark ages, Christians were killed for their beliefs but they didn't kill themselves or a loved one in a bizarre act of sacrifice to God. God never requires a human sacrifice. He offered his son Jesus as a sacrificial lamb for all humans to be saved and have a heavenly hope of a resurrection; no further human sacrifice is needed or required by God.

Also, be careful with signing any living wills, trusts, or powers of attorney. Make sure you do not let the Watchtower Corporation or any of its membership have power of attorney; that belongs with a trusted family member who is not a member of the JW religion. Their intent is to push you into an early grave and has little to do with your best interests and quality of life.


It is a difficult choice to make if you are trapped inside the JW culture. But rest assured, you will feel a huge weight lifted off your shoulders. Do not support human sacrifice. If you fear being kicked out of the JW organization and you are a Christian, take it as a sign from God and the angels that they want you out of that destructive and dangerous religion. If you are waking up from this JW haze of delusion, then take this opportunity to tear up any JW medical directive card and view it as your get out of jail card and break free from those chains holding you inside those prison camps called Kingdom Halls. Take heart, you are worth it, and so are your loved ones.




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Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Key is Not in Your Past

What you need to handle your current situation, whatever that may be, lies ahead of you and not in your past. Keep looking forward and think about your next move, where you want to go, nothing long term is needed at the moment, but think about what it is you need to do now to feel better about your situation. 

Many ex-Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) struggle with living in the past, me included. I still keep thinking about what could have been, where I went wrong as I was growing into adulthood and still adhering to the austere and lonely lifestyle that I had been taught as far back as I can remember. My strict JW parents had done their job, I was fully indoctrinated and even though I fought for basic rights of going out of the house for pre-determined time periods and activities with worldly friends when I was taking horseback riding lessons, I never fought for my right to my own life, to my own freedom to pick and choose my life course. Even when I started working, I still lived at home with my parents because with a High School education I could not afford a place of my own in addition to the added burden of having to give my parents a third of my monthly paycheck. All this and heaven too? No, all this and hell in the form of that endless treadmill of going in the weekly door-to-door recruiting work, attending three meetings per week, one meeting was in a private home until that was eliminated several years ago, so now there are two meetings per week filled with endless boredom and mind numbing nonsense. I grew up very isolated, even from other JWs which I never fully understood until much later in my life, which is a story for another time. 

My parents had me fully trained to be a pal to mom while dad was busy with his responsibilities in the congregation as an Elder. He held a few positions through the years as the congregation Secretary, Watchtower magazine study article conductor on Sundays and sometimes he led the ministry school, which is where anyone of any age in the congregation could learn to speak in public on Bible topics, which would help in the door to door ministry to recruit members into the organization. The ministry school conductor would grade each student on specific points as laid out in a study course book called the Theocratic Ministry School Guidebook. 

Throughout my life I ignored the signs and signals that marked the path out of that door of the Kingdom Hall and never having to return when I felt I was still young enough to have a career, a family, a life. So, I stuck it out believing it was a true religion until I slowly started to research the origins of the church and slowly got up the courage to permanently walk away. I left officially in June 2006 and have never returned to any Kingdom Hall and have no plans on doing so.

I came across a website that pretty much describes my upbringing being raised by parents with low emotional intelligence:

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/childhood-neglect/2015/04/raised-by-parents-with-low-emotional-intelligence/#at_pco=tst-1.0&at_si=57f88fd715de3ba0&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=1&at_tot=2 


I can identify with the story presented on that website of a girl sequestered behind the doors of her bedroom hoping that she would be told that she was sent home with the wrong birth parents and would be returned to her real parents. Nope, it was a reality, but add to that in my situation where the parents were strict JWs and believed that the world was coming to an end any day, month or year. Parents stuck in a doomsday religion and raising their child to believe the same thing. A piece of my parents' personality was missing and the JW organization emphasized and encouraged it. 

It's being raised by parents having no natural affection and not being able to express emotion in a normal, healthy way. In my house, I was either screaming, crying or shut away in my bedroom for hours on end wondering when that knock on the door would come with a White Knight to free me from my dark hellhole wanting out but not knowing how to get myself out of my predicament, first, because I was a kid and secondly, when I became an adult, I did not have the emotional skills to deal with the real world and stayed with my captors, my abusers, my parents. Yes, as stated before on this blog, I was abused emotionally, physically and mentally but I can now give myself a pat on the back when I think about how I freed myself from the JW culture and from my abusive parents, yes, me alone. Oh, but they have low emotional intelligence and simply write off my exit from the JWs snickering behind my back saying that I had sinned, making up stories and gossiping with each other that I had wanted a worldly lifestyle filled with orgies, drugs and alcohol, when I can assure you dear reader, none of that is or was true. I fled a ghastly man-made false religion, a book publishing company started by a wealthy man who used his connections with the Freemasons to gain even more wealth that formed the foundation of the modern day JW religion which is reportedly worth about one billion dollars.

I have more stories to share, but mainly wanted you to know the key to whatever is locked up inside of you, any hopes, dreams and schemes to better your life, lies ahead of you, not in your past. Of course we need to figure out what has happened to us in the damaging JW religion, of course we need to admit we had an abnormal upbringing, but at some point, we need to turn around and begin looking forward. 

Yes, that is where your future is, looking forward. Take small steps day by day and think about what you want to accomplish and forget what your JW judgmental parents say, forget the crazy JW church, your indoctrinated JW relatives, this is your life and you are dealing with people with low emotional intelligence which may help you cope better with your abusive past. It's the lot of them, all JWs have that condition, even ones who were not born and raised in the organization. They have a quirk about their personality that draws them to this doomsday religion where they hide from reality, hide from participating in their children's lives, hide from their relatives by shunning them and not celebrating birthdays or holidays, all for fake and made up reasons since the point is, they are teaching you to be separate from the world because they can't cope in the real world. They function on almost zero emotions, zero natural affection and feelings and the JW leadership prey upon that. It's a group of people you do not want to be infected by, stay away at all costs, they are a terminal illness and the only cure is to not become infected in the first place.

Keep moving forward and pick up gems along the way to help you unravel your past and make your path sparkle, leading to a better and brighter future outside of the JW prison walls.





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#key #emotion #freedom
#jehovahswitnesses


Monday, October 3, 2016

The Lure of Living Forever on a Paradise on Earth

The "Truth" book was
first published in 1968 and was
used to lure people into the
JW religion.
I can't tell you that I am really a Christian after walking away from the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) religion officially ten years ago, with the long process prior to that of many years waking up to the fact it is a man-made false religion and simply a book publishing company that has branched out into a lucrative real estate corporation, buying and selling properties for huge profits while paying no taxes and using a volunteer labor force.

Since walking out of that Kingdom Hall door in June of 2006, I have not looked back with fear or longing. I now enjoy my freedom from their ban on reading material that is not published by their corporation and continue to read about various subjects that interest me. I do not look back with any fear, grief or remorse over the JW religion that teaches genocide of its membership and teaches shunning and abandonment of their family and friends simply because they choose to not be a member of the JWs anymore. You don't need any money making religious corporation to have access to the Bible and its teachings; it is free and available to all who want it sans any leadership committee dictating how, when, and where you will read it.

I have found that many deities from various religions and belief systems predate the creation of the man Jesus Christ on earth, who was born of a virgin. Any person or entity claiming to be a god or godlike was born of a virgin, yes, that's the rule if you want followers. There are many documentaries, online sources, etc., that will take you down a very long and compelling path to what this world is really all about including the origin of Christianity. There are a few programs on You Tube about this, such as, the "History of Christianity - How Christianity was Invented" and the "Origin of Christianity - The Piso Falvian Dynasty". 

As I talked about briefly earlier in this blog, the Egyptian God Horus predates Jesus yet has the same storyline as Jesus, having 12 disciples, healed the sick, was crucified and buried in a tomb and was raised from the dead, and more. Buddha predates Jesus and also healed the sick, walked on water, fed 500 men from one basket of cakes, spent three days in jail and was resurrected after he died. There are more examples that the invention of Jesus simply mimicked these gods and personas before him and can easily be found if you have curiosity about the origins of Christianity and now have permission to choose your own reading material and what types of programs you will watch, and not continually listen to a bunch of men at the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society that simply promote their own publications and videos to further their manufactured religion and coerce you into giving them a monthly donation to their cause of printing more literature to capture more people into their nets with the promise they cannot keep, that the earth will be turned into a paradise.

There are many belief systems and there is no right or wrong, except the "wrong" ones are those that purposefully teach warfare and murder, much like the JWs who teach genocide of their membership by refusing potentially life-saving whole blood transfusions either for themselves or their spouses or face being ostracized and shunned by their congregation and family members, even facing outright disfellowshipping or forced disassociation from the group.

I had heard many stories in a few of the congregations our family was assigned to since my father was an Elder for many years, and sometimes we would be assigned to go to a congregation outside of the territory where we lived. I heard many sad stories about people dying simply for refusing blood transfusions when doctors felt they could have been saved and some of these stories made it into our local newspapers making the JWs very proud to get press. Yes, they relish in their death-dealing religion. One such story was about a JW woman dying in childbirth due to loss of blood and the baby was saved but not the mother, all because she filled out a medical directive refusing blood [this was before the now changed policy of allowing certain blood fractions, yet still banning the use of whole blood] and the husband enforced it. They view life very cheaply, thinking that it's okay to purposefully die since you will be resurrected to a paradise on earth and live forever [remembering the JWs teach that only 144,000 are slated for heaven with the rest of them slated for an earthly paradise].

The only attraction the JWs have on the masses of people searching for a way out of a predicament, where we live in a world of much sadness and destruction with some feeling there is no end to the spiraling downward of this mad, mad world, is this fictional paradise on earth. They look for help and may fall for the fantasy world the JWs offer, all based on nothing; there is no foundation for their teaching of a physical paradise on earth where humans would live forever. They made it up to sell their religion and get you hooked on a savior instead of looking inside of themselves for an answer. It might be corny, but you have to look at the person in the mirror first. There is a lot of good in this world and hopefully the good will outweigh the bad if we start with ourselves.

So what does the Bible say about a paradise? Didn't Jesus promise that he is making a way for us where righteousness is to dwell? Jesus resides in heaven, so any paradise would be heavenly not earthly. The word paradise in the JW's New World Translation Bible refers to a heavenly realm. Additionally, the Bible never promises that those who have died would be resurrected to a paradise on earth. The JWs cannot explain the scriptures that reference that God is forming a new heavens and a new earth, with this physical earth coming to an end and will be replaced with a new earth with no reference to any resurrection of humans to take place on earth. 


This book is a publication of the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society and is used to lure innocent people into their religion. However, the references to a paradise in the Bible meant heaven not earth, a Bible truth that the JWs ignore.
For further reading, reference:
 http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/earth-forever.php



We could all use a Mame Dennis
in our lives.

So what can you do? You can choose to live in a fantasy world and sit back and do nothing to improve your environment or help those around you to improve their living situation or offer help and encouragement. I have wasted my entire young life on waiting and hoping for an end to this system of things, sitting stagnate waiting on God to fix everything and usher me into an earthly paradise. Yes, I was one of those blind people who looked forward to the destruction of millions of innocent people on this earth who are not JWs that God would destroy so I could sit in a paradise on earth. I have had to face facts, that this is the life we were given, for whatever reason. 

I now enjoy reading about many different belief systems, exploring various types of spirituality, nothing is beyond my reach if I want to research and study about anything I want. A fact of life is that no one has the "truth". If there was any truth, we would all be following it since it would be common knowledge and not a secret. Like the existence of gravity. We all follow that rule since it is a truth, we don't need to be convinced that it exists.

Believe what makes you happy. You don't need a group of wealthy religious leaders to provide you with endless fake reading material thinking it can replace the Bible. If you enjoy the teachings in the Bible, why not collect many different Bibles from many different time periods? If you want to pursue other belief systems, what is stopping you? I am sorry but no one "knows" the beginning or the end of anything, do what makes you happy without harming anyone along the way and dictating how they should or should not live their lives. Stop living on fear and destruction, waiting for a day when the JWs teach of a mass murder of innocent humans. No sane person wants that, and that is what is in question here, the sanity of the devout JWs caught up in the lure of a paradise on earth.

I will leave you with this bit of wisdom that I have found comforting when I think about what I lost after leaving the JWs. What was that? That I had lost nothing, but found an expansion of knowledge, hope, joy and a belief that everything in the end will work out okay.

Please don't make your heart sick being caught up in an endless waiting game because of the lure of living forever on a paradise on earth. I am suffering financially and emotionally from waiting on this fantasy land of a paradise on earth that I was raised to believe, but I am no longer trapped in that fantasy. I now learn new things everyday as life is an adventure and not a waiting game, as everyone has the permission to let life take them by the hand and see where it leads. You have to accept the good with the bad and that acceptance can be a good thing [and channeling a bit of Martha Stewart here and there]. 



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#paradiseonearth