hello questions about JW

by bananna 24 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Dismembered

  Greetings Bananna

  I've been invited to a meeting and well, I'm Covenental and keep the feasts and the seventh Day sabbath. It would not interfere with my schedule, but is it a waste of my time to try speaking at such a meeting?

  You'd never be allowed to speak at a public JW meeting. Inasmuch as you strike me as someone who's well versed in his beliefs, to attempt to educate a JW audience would not be tolerated. It would be their intention of readjusting your religious thinking. At the risk of sounding flippant, speaking at the KH is reserved for the high and mighty and privileged. Not outsiders.

  Dismembered
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  bananna

  jgnat,

  [quote]I do not see from the scriptures that the Almighty God wishes us to hurry us along to eternity, but rather, treasure the gift of life here on earth, as long as we are given.[/quote]

  I do treasure life. I like, Job also accept my lot in life and praise God for it.

  [quote= BLB KJV]2Ch 16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. [/quote]

  Shall we accept good from God and not evil also?

  After studying scripture on health issues I found that a biblical Physician is one that binds up and makes straight.

  Luke is never recorded as having healed.

  For diseases one is to go to the Priests or the elders to be annointed.

  In short, to me physicians are only useful for broken bones, gunshot wounds, severed limbs. For diseases, they really aren't that great anyway. If they had ever been any help I would have perhaps never bothered to search out the scriptures on the issue. I'm blessed by the fact that the JW have helped to promote many life saving blood free alternatives.

  Thanks for the though anyway.

  bananna
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  bananna

  Dismembered,

  That is very interesting. I specifically asked if women were allowed to speak and If I would be allowed to speak. Maybe they meant just ask questions speak. I can also handle that form of restriction. In fact questions often send people searching for an answer or having it nag them to death till they do.

  I always ask questions. Thanks for the heads up. I just have been praying for the gentlemen that came to visit last time. They are often on my mind. I pray God will set them free indeed.(of course that would be free to follow Torah from my perspective...hee hee)

  I really think that most organized religion does the same sort of mind control thing.

  Doctors, Lawyers, Preachers, News Media, politicians and The WatchTower seem to have a lot in common. Using fear to direct the paths of the masses.

  Blessings

  bananna

  (Anna Bananna)
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  AuldSoul

  bananna,

  If you go to the Public Talk and Watchtower Study, you might get to ask one question. After that one question you will likely not be called on again. There is no opportunity for interchange of any kind during the service except for a question and answer portion of the Watchtower study. Not where the audience gets to ask questions (the cutomary format of Q&A) but where the audience gets to answer question to reaffirm the statements in the Watchtower.

  Before and after you can ask all the questions you like, if you can find someone who will listen to them.

  Respectfully,
  AuldSoul

  P.S. You have something in your Inbox...upper-left corner of the screen.
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  bananna

  Thanks for the heads up. I had several somethings and did not even know it was there.

  Shabbath Shalom

  bananna