okay, so yes, i'm a born-in, but this point has always baffled me (and i guess i never bothered to research or ask).
what is the purpose of counting time in service?
when was it started and why?
Partly for control, but there would be other reasons. Mandatory reporting of fs time adds to the illusion that they have authority.
If people are obligated and entangled it makes it much harder to leave. And judging by the amount of people under WT control it's very effective. Even people who are fully awake continue to report to avoid the consequences of not reporting. So yeah reporting serves a useful purpose - for them.
we are madly in love with each other and she is in the process of being divorced.
let me make one thing clear i'm not the reason for the divorce.
she attempted to reconcile with him but to no avail.
Yes, disfellowshipping and shunning more than likely for her.
Do you know anything about JWs?
If not, you need to. JWs are a cult, and you would be marrying into a cult if she decided to stay with the religion.
Buyer beware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bhhs5lhr00.
words.....just cant find the words......
I really hope more dubs get inspired to make videos. The world really needs to see how special they are......
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect cult harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
and keep it imprisoned in my cult of hate...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt9xi0r9kvy
Hat's off to those of you out there who are fighting the fight for the little guy.
i remember a good friend when i was in and active who was d'fd.
when he started coming back, for me at that time is was gut-wrenching not to say 'hello' or at the very least encourage him to continue.
i thought even at this time, does this act of shunning really effective?
there doing this right under my nose but i just found out.
not sure what to do but would like your help on getting me wt information on my headship role and how they shouldn't be doing this with out my permission.
also would like some help on showing my son the ramifications on what happens to someone when they get baptized and how they'll expect him to treat me.
"From what you gather the event has been cancelled....."
You do have a right to ask exactly when this will be happening you know.
You need to inform yourself of your own parental rights, you do have them. Ask a lawyer for advice if you need to.
Your son may hate you for stopping him at the moment and could send him running into the loving bosom of the borg. So it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
So you need to decide what you would prefer to be damned for - trying to get him to postpone or letting it go ahead and hoping and waiting for him to wake up himself.
being raised a catholic we had lots of crosses around the house.
when my family converted to this cult they were all removed and destroyed in case they had demons in them lol but at this juncture in my life i do not even know if jesus as the way he is portrayed in the bible was real.
yes a man named jesus did live and die 2000 years ago and probably on a cross but he was definitely not the son of god.
I can't believe I ever went around knocking on doors talking about this cross/stake shit with people, actually believing I knew more about it than them.
Mentally face palming myself right now, if I could go back in time I would be bitch-slapping myself.
i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".
of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.
i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".
The salvation Army band played
And the children drank lemonade
And the morning lasted all day....all day
Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town was more "spiritual" than a kingdom melody.
i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".
of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.
i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".
Always loved Amazing Grace, and although not hymns (lol) loved some of the songs from Jesus Christ Superstar and strangely the theme song and music from Vicar of Dibley I found myself humming along to. The kingdom melodies were like dry, stale bread in comparison.
How ironic, I thought, this so-called worldly/babs the great music was more stirring emotionally than their crappy songs of praise to the "only true God."
first off, i certainly agree the jw's are a cult.
but i'm sensitive to black-and-white thinking now.. so, where do they rank on the scale?
think of a cultish religion scale from 0-10.. consider the likes of unitarian universalism vs baptist vs amish vs charles manson.. where do you think jw's fall on the scale?.
