I avoid it wherever and whenever I can. They are my cryptonite.
The longer the gaps between contact, the more foolish, stupid, closed-minded, unkind, rude, obnoxious, self-sbsorbed, they appear.
If I suffer the misfortune of having to deal with one I am gracious, polite, smile and nod and then patiently, calmly wait til they're out of visual range
then............RRRUUUNN as fast as my little legs can carry me.
this is how a do explained the family business policy re relatives of df/da members.. he said that the expression, "necessary family business," is really not a scriptural term.
it is nowhere found in the bible.
but, out of the kindness of the gb's hearts, they have gone beyond what is written and allowed association among families for necessary business.
Would LOVE be classed as necessary family business?
What about affection.........family business?
What about open communication........family business?
1) god makes no distinction between his own people and pagans.
(leviticus 19:33, 34; mathew 5:44-48; acts 17:26, 29; galatians 3:28).
2) people who know the will of god will be judged, on the basis of that knowledge;.
"Mother" is a bitch.
No, "Mother" is a stupid bitch.
BTW, pardon my potty mouth.
this article appeared on friday may 9, 2014 in the herald sun newspaper in victoria australia.. matt johnston is a state politics reporter.. quote :" all religous ministers will need working with children checks and a new system will be created for organisations to report alleged child abuse,under a $ 10 million state government reform.".
premier denis napthine revealed the new measures,a further response to the state parliments`s child abuse inquiry report,betrayal of trust .. "many ordinary parish based ministers may not have required a wwc check.under this rule , every minister for religion who has any contact with children will require such a check ," he said.. opposition community services spokeswoman jenny mikakos called for the government to move quicker to "address the issues identified".
my concern is, will the watchtower org./jehovahs witnesses /jw.org.
Around the time this inquiry into child abuse began in Aus, our kingdom hall along with
others in the area, removed the words Theocratic Ministry School from the KH signage.
The new sign just uses the word meeting.
At the time I felt like it was'nt a coincidence as there was a very public, ongoing issue
with children being enrolled in a "school" and the definition of a "school".
Since any "school"where children are enrolled has to follow strict guidelines re child safety etc,
with background checks of anyone in charge of kids.
I saw changing the signage as a way of avoiding the legal implications of calling something a "school". Sneaky bastards.
before i stopped attending i noticed that several members left our hall.
i also noticed that when family members gave talks there was an infux of visitors too support their relative.
still i noticed, that our meeting attendance would go way down then all of a sudden our hall would be full of people we'd never seen before.. is this the new thing...the elders sending their families and ms servants to other halls to make it appear there is a lot of new members when the co comes to visit or when certain talks are given?.
Yes, I have noticed this kind of thing aswell.
In my area there are certain elders and families that go everywhere with an entourage (fan club).
They all "go with" when he gives talks etc. They take up a couple of rows, clap loudly for his talk then monoplolize the answers in th WT.
There are a few CO groupies aswell, they follow him around on all his visits, gatecrashing other cong CO visits. (usually older single sisters ).
Billy- I always suspected the attendance figures were "inflated". So that's what happened to "otto" from the Flying High Movie, he became a witness.
one elder in my cong told me that this is a df offense?
is this true?
can yoga be practised?.
Why don't you research the subject for yourself, there has been articles about it over the years.
or atleast tweaking it again... apparently there has been rumors of this coming out of bethel.
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Ask any JW "how do you boil a frog?" and they will answer "slowly".
Well......... they should know, they have been boiling frogs for a century now.
The GB know better than anyone that small, incremental changes over time is how you pull-off the ole switcharoo without anyone noticing.
If the angel apocolypse does'nt happen in the next few years- no biggie, Kermit is already on simmer.
They actually plan ahead for future lies and cover-ups.
im in a bit of a bind and im not quite sure what (if anything) i can do about it.
i was recently hired as a business consultant for a rather large company.
the company that hired me mentioned that they are concerned about a certain department and the way its being run, as this department affects every other department in the company.
It seems there is a conflict between this guys JW persona and his reponsibilities as an employee.
Most JWs are confused about how to conduct themselves out in the real world, so it does'nt surprise me he is having a conflict of interest.
This guy has a responsibility to his employers to explain anything that may be percieved by others as laziness, weakness or a general lack of committment to the job.
Maybe tease him out with questions about his performance and how he sees himself, you may not have to bring religion into it at all if you word it carefully.
are their any former atheist/agnostic on here who reverted to christianity or a belief in god.
i became an atheist back in july and it was the most unfulfilling depressive period of my life.
i'm now starting to rebuild my relationship with god and i'm already starting to feel a lot better.
I had a strong faith in God before becoming a JW, but I also believed that he left humans to handle their own affairs. And I was fine with that.
I enjoyed reading the freaky shit in Revelation, the poetry of the Psalms, the wisdom of Proverbs, Jesus words brought me comfort and hope.
I knew I didn't understand it, but I also did'nt have to. The bible was a curiosity I had no need to "know " what everything meant.
It just felt good, that's all.
Then the witnesses came along and told me all the things I did'nt know might actually kill me one day, as God does'nt accept ignorance as an excuse.
They took my simple faith in God, and acceptance of the unknown, and made me believe the way I worshipped was all wrong.
They demolished my little ramshackle house of faith and put it back together again like a WT McMansion.
Now my WT house has caved in and I am starting again from scratch.
(sigh) Oh well, you live and you learn.
i know quite a few from both of these schools who basically crashed and burned once they got into their assignments.
graduates of these schools would be thrown into foreign territorities or remote areas without a good visible means of support and would get emotionally, mentally, financially burned out.
post your experiences or of those you know that went to these pitiful excuses for educational institutions..
These schools are a failure in the sense that they fail to produce any kind of improvement in the character of the individuals that attend.
They are ego feeding sessions, nothing more. They produce assignment snobs.
They fail to equip the students for real life in their assignments.
For every Gilead success story I would say there are ten horror stories.
The graduates are sent forth with a sense of entitlement and illusions of grandeur, in which family/ friends are happy and proud to play along with.
Both schools are used by many as just another weapon to beat their fellow slaves with.
Theocratic snobbery at it's worst.
