so, a female relative of mine who is 60 but inactive in the truth had their mate dying in the hospital.
the older sister + husband and old brother (of dying man) (active witnesses) come to visit and stay at their home.
the old sister is staying at the hospital around the clock for the duration of the visit but tells her sister-in-law that she must have a chaperon at the house if she is going to be there with her husband and her dying husbands older brother?
Clyde and I had two Mormon men (boys) visit us. It was summertime, and we sat out on the porch and chatted. One of the boys asked to use the bathroom. I went to the door to usher him inside and show him the way. He stopped and explained that it should be my husband as it was inappropriate for him to be alone with me in the house.
Hey guys! I was at least three times his age. Did he really think that I would molest him?
JW's aren't the only one with funny rules.
i am doing a personal research project and looking for examples of how the watchtower usurps jesus postion.
scriptural or wt references would be great.
thanks!.
Jesus: This generation will not pass away until all these things occur.
Watchtower: Jesus should have said "overlapping generation."
for those who want to keep up with the "pure language", i found out this week that at the most recent elder's school, they were told that the announcements should no longer include the following:.
1. name of public talk and speaker for sunday.
2. synopsis of all the parts that are coming up on the rest of the service meeting.
Do they ever make announcements any more about who is in the hospital or who is sick in the congregation?
Just one time during the years that my mother was sick the PO announced that it would be appreciated if someone could help out. It never happened again. Maybe he got counselled for that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntezntyv60.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnttwkadag&feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2db9jmvzri.
I forgot - where do I go to download the 2-15-12 article?
it was truly great!
it was work related so a lot of people from work were there but i had a great time!
almost everybody brought some kind of food and we ate at my friends a coworker's house!
We had Thanksgiving at our house for several years with no problems--even inviting my father (elder) and mother. We just didn't call it Thanksgiving even though my father was usually asked to say say the blessing. Our excuse was: turkeys and cranberries are on sale, we have the day off from work, and come over for dinner. I will admit, the last time my father said a prayer at Thanksgiving (before his death) made a comment in the prayer that we don't celebrate worldly holidays.
The other holidays are another matter.
i tried selling pre paid legal for about two yers.
hardly made a sale.
none of my friends gave a crap about it.
I have owned Pre-paid Legal for several years and have used it a couple of times. Glad I have it. I've been solicited to sell it a number of times because I'm also in the insurance business, but I don't want to mix the two. With my company we also have a lot of people who start and don't make it, but that's not the fault of the company. I know a lot of people who make a great deal of money, and I'm not doing too bad either. We also have a lot of meetings, but they are structured to help us become better agents. BTW I recently got an email that they have changed their name to "Legal Shield."
do you remember the magazine and the author of this magazine, any old timers know who the backers were?
i was five years old, when the old man was the editor or author of this religious magazine.
did you ever talk to any of the followers of this movement?
I had a RV who was getting the "Plain Truth." I remember writing to Armstrong asking if he had ever been a Jehovah's Witness--because he sounded so much like the witnesses. He wrote back and said that he never had been but that he did occasionally read the Watchtower and Awake! magazines.
so i argue with the boyfriend a lot about the fact that i think charitable work is every bit as important as preaching when it comes to serving god.
every church i've ever gone to has some sort of community outreach, if not several outreaches, that have little or nothing to do with preaching.
and i made the point that if these people know you're affiliated with a church, they'll think a little more kindly about christians, too, which would help in the whole witnessing arena.
I would like to see the government start taxing churches that do little or nothing charitable.
so i argue with the boyfriend a lot about the fact that i think charitable work is every bit as important as preaching when it comes to serving god.
every church i've ever gone to has some sort of community outreach, if not several outreaches, that have little or nothing to do with preaching.
and i made the point that if these people know you're affiliated with a church, they'll think a little more kindly about christians, too, which would help in the whole witnessing arena.
I would like to see the government start taxing churches like JW's who do little or nothing charitable.
have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?
its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .
if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?
Back in 1965 my JW brother hit his wife. She left the house and a few hours later came back with her mother. My brother decked his mother-in-law in the eye. She fell backwards onto the concrete driveway, and he slammed the door shut. She ended up in the hospital. The elders quickly got involved and counselled them not to report it to the police. So the police came to the hospital and questioned them, but they refused to answer. My sister-in-law went to live with her mother after that for about a year, but the elders told her she had no grounds for divorce and the best thing to do was to reconcile. She did this even though she had a miserable marriage, and it took 30 years before she finally divorced him anyway. I don't know if he ever hit her again, but I know he hit his kids a lot. He also hit me a lot when I was growing up, but at the time I thought it was normal.
My JW father's attitude toward this was that the woman had it coming because she was yelling at my brother as she was entering the house, and my sister-in-law needed to be more submissive. He told me that she just got a black eye! I found out years later that she actually lost the vision in one eye. I'm embarrassed that I am related to this pervert. And my father actually sided with my brother!
Bonnie
