ok, this is from 2006. but someone on reddit mentioned it and posted a link.
my word, the micro-management and unnecessary lengths they go to to control:.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0b2fynzabupqfsnvqtxjmyxjvmgm/view.
I can recall and MS and Elders meeting with the CO (around 2011 or so?) where the CO said that "viewing pornography - even if it was of just two women, would call qualifications into question"
I thought quietly at the time, "why the specific reference to 2 women?"
now they are really scraping the barrel.
check out this discussion on exjw reddit .... https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6v85y9/pioneer_school_today/?st=j6nwx7ny&sh=136a59c9.
It certainly sounds in line with the ramped up and extreme rhetoric the society has been promoting of late.
Last year's convention clearly showed the "proper behaviour" witnesses should adopt toward DF or DA ones: Ignore their phone calls....
this is a fascinating study of how our modern apples evolved.
the study involved examining the genomes of the array of apple varieties, including related types of fruit.. from it we can learn that the fruit types we know today, may not have existed in ancient times.
from its origins in what we now call kazakhstan, it seems the original fruit changed as trees grew in many places along the great ancient network of trade routes we call the silk road, and as different varieties evolved in various ways.. a readable version of the story can be found in popular archaeology:.
I thought this was the evolutionary history of the apple?
https://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/01/24/visual-history-mac/#.tnw_jC14OILv
some of our newer forum members may not have had the chance to see the great videos from theramintrees.
enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewehb4qm1hg.
Some of our newer forum members may not have had the chance to see the great videos from TheraminTrees
Enjoy
i hope this is the right place to put this.
so, i joined this site a while ago because i was looking for conversation and to help people.
i think at the time i actually needed to be around the kinds of people that i had grown up with as well.
Welcome.
This is a safe place full of supportive people who understand what we have all been through.
Stay, participate and enjoy.
Best wishes to you!
it seems that every 2nd witness often posts pictures of themselves at conventions, or out in 'service'.
but i have noticed that they never seem to post anything about the actual "spiritual content" of their activity!
instead, it is pictures of them with their witness "friends", along with some contrite comment like #bestlifeever (arrghhh).
Yes, my only social media is Instagram.
That seems to be the main Witness platform too...
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forced to choose between beliefs and family.
“no one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds objectionable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.” that statement appeared in an article entitled “is it wrong to change your religion?” in the july 2009 awake magazine, published and distributed widely by jehovah’s witnesses.. nearly everyone reading that statement would consider it to be mere common sense.
Great thread.
Thank you
Love your work mate!!
Awesome.
some things i just didnt notice at the time which now seem so obvious:.
the bible tells us that the end will come like a thief in the night, when we least expect it.
(matthew 24:44).
Great thread!
BUT, You know, you are all just not reading it in CONTEXT! (sarcasm alert)
after todays watchtower, i realised that there was a detail which i'd never noticed before.
sometimes job's children are mentioned, but how many have noticed that job's servants were also killed.
they didn't even have a quantity assigned to them - just treated like property.
