so in my part of the world, they are currently holding the week long elders schools.
my father is attending one.
does anyone (hello wifi bandit?
So in my part of the world, they are currently holding the week long elders schools. My father is attending one.
Does anyone (hello wifi bandit?!😉) have the program, talk outlines or content?
I would love to be familiar enough with it so I can open a discussion with him...
thanks!
our kingdom hall was in a boring town of 30,000 people so to spice things up me and some special pioneers living with us decided to have a fancy dress up party!
what could go wrong?
nice clean fun, and no booze (oh crap!).
Fancy Dress was banned in all forms, as I was told by an elder once "we do not believe in Fairy Tales or stories about Superhuman beings!"
Hmmm...
what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.
now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.
little kids in suits.
Fake friends.
Thinking that everyone who happened to share your faith, was a "true friend". But they would rat you out to the elders THE MOMENT you said or did anything that was not "approved".
Conditional associates handed to us on a plate, so we never learned the skills on how to make REAL friends.
yesterday’s watchtower talked about how by becoming a jw it enabled “worldly” people to ‘strip off the old personality’ and make really significantly good changes in their life.. paragraph named 4 individuals (anonymous names of course and probably embellished tales)) sakura, ribeiro, stephen, and hans.
their lives changed for the good because they found god or because they became jw’s---right?.
so on the way home from this wt meeting, my wife commented to me how wonderful our brotherhood is and how it helps people who would otherwise be ‘lost’ n this world.
Yes everyone, I too must say that thanks to a new direction in my life, I no longer act like a judgemental, bigoted, arrogant, proud, self righteous, know-it-all, pompous ass.
Yes, since I STOPPED BEING A JW, my life and attitude has improved.
I guess I have "seen the light!"
My life has been turned around! I have "stripped off the old personality"
haha...yes, it applies equally well the other way around too....
Indeed! Martyrs gotta hate (themselves)
yup, you read right.
despite other personal turmoil that needs to be addressed, my family has decided to go nuts over halloween decorations being "too close" to our yard.
a new family just moved in next door; their kids are super young.
So on the subject of Halloween, do you know why JWs don't like the trick or treaters coming by during the celebration ?
They hate it when people they dont know, come and knock on their door unannounced trying to push a message they don't agree with.....
yup, you read right.
despite other personal turmoil that needs to be addressed, my family has decided to go nuts over halloween decorations being "too close" to our yard.
a new family just moved in next door; their kids are super young.
That's what I thought too nowwhat!!
Yay Billy! Welcome back!
hi.
only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.
Well, based on the now famous comment ToMo3 said at the Annual meeting last week, "we DO NOT preach to save lives, we preach to PRAISE God"
So, it seems the GB have now changed the bibles message and rewritten its main teaching.....
@wake! Wow...that sounds like true self imposed martyrdom.....
the songs in the old brown song book were way better than these new ones.
had they not changed the songs, i may never have left (halfway joking).
they gave no feeling, no soul (but of course there's no such thing as soul or whatever)!
Like everything else, it has all been "dumbed down".....
