Has being or associating with Jehovahs Witnesses made you more or less Judgemental of people?
Has It been wiser to be Judgemental or less Judgemental?
Paradise Found
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Are We Still Judgemental?
by Paradise Found in.
has being or associating with jehovahs witnesses made you more or less judgemental of people?.
has it been wiser to be judgemental or less judgemental?
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Those true life stories in the mags
by trumangirl inthose life stories of bros and sis's in the awakes and wts were always very inspirational and encouraging to me when i was in the borg.
everyone enjoyed reading them.
now i realise that these experiences would have been censored and edited for maximum affect on the readers.
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There was a life-story of a diabled spanish brother.
I read a far more comprehensive Auto-biography of his, that he wrote after he left the organisation. He mentiond every few months they use life-stories of those who cope with adversity in there lifes and are exemplary in the service as a sort of way to make the reader feal they should and could be doing more.
Nothing to do with the above but I missed many great football matches because of my dedication to the service.Now that my 1 year old T:V broke on thusday I have missed the English game The Swedish game and am listning to tonights match on the net.
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Annoying JW Buzzwords...
by Confucious inhey guys, .
was just wondering what is your worst jw buzzword.
probably all of us hate the "just leave it in jehovah's hands.
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worldly people
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A meaning to my life?
by Paradise Found ineverybody needs to have a meaning to there life.
to feal there life is of value.. to illustate nobody likes to make a post and be told there ideas or thinking is stupid.
so asking somebody to question there belife system and for you personally there belife system is bull.
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Everybody needs to have a meaning to there life. To feal there life Is of value.
To illustate nobody likes to make a post and be told there Ideas or thinking is stupid. So asking somebody to question there belife system and for you personally there belife system is bull. This is always going to cause problems.
Now the difficulty with witnessing to a witness Is there meaning to life Is the organisation. So that for example England losing to Portugal In the football yesterday or the the enjoyable & passionate pleasures of life such as a bottle of wine and a candle-lit dinner become meaningless to a witness as theocratic activities are held in such a superficial light.
Iam so glad the meaning to my life is now less intence. Just sitting here eating a beer sausage and drinking a beer that is meaning enough to me.
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No Review This Sunday 6-27-04 Elderly Ones--Valuable Members...
by blondie ini will be combining the few points in this article with next week's due to time constraints.
if you want to share an observations, please do.
i learn so much from all of you.. just a few points.
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Hi Blondie,
To your question?
"Think How The Elderly Were Treated In your Congregation "
When I moved to my Swedish congregation most of the elderly were the elders and there wifes. But looking back I do remember asking at the memorial "Who the elderly lady in the wheel chair was?" And I thought It was nice Brother such and such bought his elderly study to the memorial!!. I remember being surprised and a little dissapointed when told they were Brother & Sisters.? It struck me that they were only "Brothers & Sisters" one day a year.
Although this Is sad Iam guilty of the same attitude with my non-witness relatives (Not because I was A witness but because I was selfish) Iam glad that I have learnt a lesson from this and am able to rectify It.
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2 Very Nice & Sincere People
by Paradise Found inwhilst shopping today i met a young newly married witness couple.
whilst i havnt been in a kingdom hall in over 2 years.
they were very friendly and it was nice we could talk on things other than safe-subjects.
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As Its my understanding the Blood Cards are not being used this year I concluded the conversation with "When you get your new blood-card be sure to bring 1 to me" Am I correct that they are not using blood-cards this year?
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2 Very Nice & Sincere People
by Paradise Found inwhilst shopping today i met a young newly married witness couple.
whilst i havnt been in a kingdom hall in over 2 years.
they were very friendly and it was nice we could talk on things other than safe-subjects.
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Hi IIZ2cool
I started this post
, And to answer your question they justified there association with the U:N. There reply was .
"It was a outside advertising agency that was involved"
My problem was these 2 people were sincere and belived the explanation so much I could not defend my point of view without documentation.
So with other seriouse Issues I raised with them such as " Child Molesting , False doctrination´, disfellowshipping "ect how could these 2 sincere people defend the organisation so well? When I was a witness I new nothing of the above issues...How are they (Yes they are ) good people and yet so blinded?
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2 Very Nice & Sincere People
by Paradise Found inwhilst shopping today i met a young newly married witness couple.
whilst i havnt been in a kingdom hall in over 2 years.
they were very friendly and it was nice we could talk on things other than safe-subjects.
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Whilst shopping today I met a young newly married witness couple. Whilst I havnt been In a Kingdom Hall In over 2 years. They were very friendly and It was nice we could talk on things other than safe-subjects. I was most impressed how they defended the U:N issue, The Child Molesting Issues,. Docrinal Shifts and Dissfellowshipping.
As we met In the shopping mall neither they nor I had any concrete documentation to support our view-points. . But to take the U.N issue they defended It almost to the point of plausibility. I was impressed with there sincerity even If they were sincerly wrong.
I rememberd when I first met this Sister 3 years ago and she gave me her testiomony of how she became a witness "Her eyes were opend and she say the light" Okay I dont agree with her light. There road isnt my path. But I wish them both only good things for the future.
Anyway my point with the story Is my surprise that knowledge of the U:N and Doctrinal Shifts were common knowledge in the congregation and Issues as to the Right or Wrong of disfellowshipping could be so well defended.
How much Apostate Knowledge do Witnesses Have ? Where does there ability to defend such Issues as the UN , doctrinal Issues ect come from. I mean there isnt a Watchtower Study that acknowledges the U:N involvement or says "This he how we defend the undefendable" So how did this sincere people aquire there knowldge? and the indoctrination to defend it?
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The Sadest Thing Of Leaving.
by Paradise Found inwhat i write is true.. there was a elder that lied in court on a child molesting case.
i belive an other brother committed suicide because of fear of a judical committe.. when the elders came to shepperd me for not being at meetings (circuit visit) i said "come in sit down" mentiond the above and said "now iam calling the police" they were out the door mentiond "we dont use the police they are ...the world".
anyway i smoke.
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Thankyou for your replys "Shera " and "notperfectyet"
Iam not so good at starting threads . And I guess I wrote to much on me ?
What was your saddest thing of leaving?
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Who did you contact first?
by Lehaa injust interested!.
when you were disfellowshipped, who was the first person you contacted?.
i'm just about to write a letter to my cousin who was disfellowshipped 15 years ago.. .
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Well Iam not disfellowshipped .But Iam out so I guess it was God and I said
"THANKYOU FOR GETTING ME OUT OF THIS MESS"!!!