i was never a jw , so have millions of questions .
please, how does an elder become an elder and how much trust does or should a jw put in an elder .?
simon.
How does an elder become an elder?
As others have pointed out be perpetually "available" for any...any assignment that comes your way particularly ones the other elders don't want to do like volunteering to take the FS group on public holidays. Appear eager to help but not ambitious. And the most important is to put your lips together and suck like your life depends upon it. It also helps to marry a theocratic "it" girl like the COBEs daughter or local pioneer.
at disfellowshipped people the awake gave me permission poopie so happy.
Whaaaaat....r u saying there is an awake article that says smiling at DFed people is allowed in the backroom?
Or, r u saying there is an awake article about smiling and you decided to smile at the DFed people as a kind of silent smiling protest of DFing?
Or, is there some othe reason you are smiling like a crazy person at the meetings?
witnesses always claim to have a "bible trained conscience" yet they are really just watchtower robots who cant piss without checking with an elder or watchtower.
an elder who cuts hair was scared when i asked for a bald buzz cut since my hair was receding and grey.
he actually rang a bethel elder to see if this was okay watchtower wise!
Bible trained conscience = WT programmed mind.
And you know the old saying...garbage in garbage out
i proably shouldnt be on here but i feel like saying this.
i have been for the last couple weeks been studying religion.
i've learned the only ones who today do what the bible says to is jw.
My, my I agree with MR OUTLAW in saying all this insight after a couple of weeks of "studying religion" hey?
So who, where and what are you getting your info from? What are your sources other than jw dot?
Just curious because to arrive at this stunningly sudden conversion to JWism after only a few weeks is remarkable.
a thought struck me that throughout history people have often claimed that "i was simply following orders and directions" when it comes to their actions or beliefs.. instead of using logical thinking skills to determine if the course of action is correct, they just assume that it is based on a superior telling them so.. think of someone handling finances for a corrupt boss.
if asked to hide sums of money illegally, can they just say to the authorities "i was just following directions"?.
or as we know, war crimes have occurred in history and the same excuses have been used.. similarly, it seems that witnesses "outsource" their thinking abilities to the society and gb and think and act exactly as directed...even if such changes dramatically as have many, many teachings and beliefs.. think of all the far out and strange things in the society's history.
JW's will say to people that "nobody is forcing me" to refuse blood, go D2D/meetings, shun etc. They will say their lifestyle is their own personal decision and WT doesn't tell anyone what to do. This of course is backed up by WT who says "we don't force anyone to do anything, each one carries his own load...blah blah..."
It got me thinking that WT actually operates like a form of "leaderless resistance" group made up of "lone wolfs."
Individual JWs that if questioned over their decisions will claim they are acting on their own conscience, independently of WT.
This means there is effectively no clear line of blame or reponsibilty or culpability leading to WT.
Of course not blaming WT gets harder to do when you are an elder or bethelite but as we saw by the ARC they tried their best to not bring "Mother" into it.
Diabloical when you think about it and very frustrating for victims and lawyers alike.
so there was this particular elder in my hall who when giving a prayer would say "jehovah" waaaay to much it was ridiculous, we ended up having a count every time he gave prayer, most of the time it was 15-18 but once he topped 20, if u say it out loud 20 times you'll see how weird it is, like when do you ever in a conversation say someone's name that many times in 2 or so minutes,!
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Maybe when someone reaches the magical number of public "Jehovahs" the giant slot machine in the sky will ding and some poor dumb bastard will be killed by a massive pouring out "blessing" in the form of gold coins .....or beer or a car or something.
instead of making a new thread for every little thing related to memorial 2017, i'm going to try to post here.
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and to start us off.... cart artwork for 2017 memorial invitations.
I think they're heading towards the jungles of Guyana to build a compound.
and if the name jehovah is that important why is it that jesus christ never use that name in a record of scriptures?.
Ah yes the mysterious case of the missing vowels and why Col Mustard... sorry ...I mean Jesus... didn't identify them.
Maybe because......
YHWH does not =Jehovah.
The pronunciation of YHWH is irrelevant.
WT lies.
has anyone noticed the wt's most recent shell-game revisionism in the november study tractazine, relating to the shifting of its "babylonish captivity" doctrine, from a 3 1/2-year period around the ww 1 years, to a period now spanning about 16 centuries, or from the 4th century (constantine's legal recognition of christianity) to 1919?.
Wow, that's a hell of a long time to spend in the slammer wonder what they got up to to keep themselves amused.....
Cue harmonica....Nobody knows the trouble I've seen....nobody knows my sorrow......
instead of making a new thread for every little thing related to memorial 2017, i'm going to try to post here.
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and to start us off.... cart artwork for 2017 memorial invitations.
WT carts peddling "Everyone's dream" ???
To paraphrase a quote by George Carlin ".... it's called a dream because you have be asleep to believe it."
