by Zero 21 Replies latest jw friends
"Inactive Publishers are to be viewed as still totally under Gods laws."
Suck! What if you have been inactive for 10+ years, live in a different state, celebrate all holidays, and fly an American flag out front of your house??? Am I in trouble????
closer
My favorite quote from the elder school:
Some women work outside of the home to elevate their standard of living. This way they develop their own sense of independence, and this can be very dangerous.
"This can be dangerous," true, sisters might find out that they are actually valuable, skilled and productive members of society and equal to if not better than the "brothers". I think this will go down well when elders start giving talks on women staying home to care for the family, going out in mid-week FS etc.
Thirdson
my dad just came back from the elders meeting yesterday also. i have a question though. how does a jw who happens to come here looking for answers know that this is factual and came from an actual elder in attendance and was not just made up? there is nothing in the article to autenticate it and i've found that true of a lot of the material i have been reading. they are just statements on a page which people can either believe or not. just like the wts wants people to just believe statements in the literature and take them as facts without any proof. arent we doing the same thing here if we believe every thing like this elder post?
Avengers,
: Why do you start out like that Freddy Hall?
: Can't you get it off with words and logical reasoning anymore?
What do you mean "anymore?" HAHAHAHAHA! Freddie can't even spell "logical," let alone be logical!
flower,
: i have a question though. how does a jw who happens to come here looking for answers know that this is factual and came from an actual elder in attendance and was not just made up?
What would it take to convince you?
Farkel
"I didn't mean what I meant."
just something besides someone that i dont know saying its a fact.
flower - it's not possible to find concrete proof for everything that gets said here. We just have to weigh the logic and evidence (such as it is) for ourselves and decide what to accept at face value and what to doubt.
This post appears to have been made by an elder who is still active but not blinded to the problems in the organization, who attended the elders' meeting. Ask yourself, "Who is his audience? What is his purpose in writing?"
Likely his target audience is others who are not blindly supportive of the organization, given the nature of the board where he posted the information. Now, what reason could he have to want to deceive them about what was said in the elders' meeting?
On the other hand, if his audience was supposed to be faithful witnesses, it takes only one elder who attended the elders' meeting, to shoot down any misrepresenations or lies. What reason would this poster have for lying in the face of such odds of being exposed as a liar?
Of course, it's always possible to print out the report and show it to a local elder, asking him to corroborate the story.
COMF
Flower:
my dad just came back from the elders meeting yesterdayWhy don't you make a print of the post and ask your Dad. He should be able to tell you.
avenger,
actually we dont speak but even if we had a good relationship he would never discuss anything that went on in an elders meeting. i did some snooping when he went to the meeting today to see if i could find his notes from the meeting but couldnt find anything except a piece of paper with the names and birthdates of all his children. i guess if anyone asks he has to at least know our full names and when we where born
My favorite quote:
Jehovah takes very seriously someone who withholds the truth from a person who has the right to know it.Like, for example, when an organization withholds the truth about its corrupt practices in order to manipulate people to distribute magazines full of intentional lies?
Who said irony was dead?
Dedalus
Ha! So this is where Greggy has been hangin':
Update on Stafford's New Book - Posted by ros on Wed - Dec 5 - 11:06am
Re: Update on Stafford's New Book - Posted by Alex on Tue - Dec 18 - 12:22am
Re: Update on Stafford's New Book - Posted by GregStafford on Fri - Dec 21 - 11:56am
Re: Update on Stafford's New Book - Posted by Alex on Fri - Dec 21 - 12:27am
What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Mon - Dec 3 - 05:06am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Tue - Dec 11 - 06:19am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by HillaryStep on Tue - Dec 11 - 09:59am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by GregStafford on Sat - Dec 8 - 09:42am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by MShilmer on Sun - Dec 9 - 7:38pm
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Sat - Dec 8 - 10:24pm
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by GregStafford on Sun - Dec 9 - 10:28am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Sun - Dec 9 - 2:47pm
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by GregStafford on Mon - Dec 10 - 07:52am
Re: Update on Stafford's New Book - Posted by Alex on Fri - Dec 21 - 12:27am
What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Mon - Dec 3 - 05:06am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Tue - Dec 11 - 06:19am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by HillaryStep on Tue - Dec 11 - 09:59am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by GregStafford on Sat - Dec 8 - 09:42am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by MShilmer on Sun - Dec 9 - 7:38pm
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Sat - Dec 8 - 10:24pm
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by GregStafford on Sun - Dec 9 - 10:28am
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by Libby on Sun - Dec 9 - 2:47pm
Re: What if They were perfect? - Posted by GregStafford on Mon - Dec 10 - 07:52am
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bwahhhhhhhhhhhhh...february you say?
sKally
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