i have always asked myself that question.
why new people visiting kingdom halls give comments at meetings while a reproved brother can't?.
who is more worldly?
I have always asked myself that question. Why new people visiting kingdom halls give comments at meetings while a reproved brother can't?
Who is more worldly?
Is there something in the Bible that says that a reproved brother can't give a comment or prayer at meetings?
I know you fellow apostate brothers would give me an answer for that one, specially elders.
thoghts
this picture is in the new publication from this year's convention, titled "return to jehovah".
part 1the lost one i will search for.
personally, the animal looks scared of the shepherd.
When the shepherd takes the lost sheep back to the flock, will he have that sheep separated (disfellowshipped) from the rest for a year or two as a punishment?
As someone said: "Let's review it, It's a cult"
when the rnwt was released, we were invited to go to the local assembly hall.. there was a sister right next to me and she started bragging that it was her 8th year in an annual meeting.
(typical thing, all spiritual).
when was time to sing, i listened to her beautiful voice.
When the RNWT was released, we were invited to go to the local assembly hall.
There was a sister right next to me and she started bragging that it was her 8th year in an annual meeting. (Typical thing, all spiritual)
When was time to sing, I listened to her beautiful voice. But then I heard her say to her husband: "this man sings too ugly". As a matter of fact I do. As soon as I heard her say that, I turned around to her and I started singing louder.... LOL She was all pissed off, she couldn't go anywhere cause we were sitting in the middle of a row... LOL
I still remember that and I laugh imagining her face... LOL
What have you done on purpose to piss off someone?
i am sort of new here, used a different username for a while but things got 'difficult' at home so i've since been lurking.... what i would be really interested to know, if you don't mind sharing, is what it was that triggered your doubts and initial research which led to awakening, was it a bad experience, injustice, changed doctrine?
for me, it was seeing mistreatment of young ones in the congregation, they're under so much pressure and as soon as they go even slightly astray they are shunned, either informally (as bad associations which pushes them further into the 'world') or formally - with elders dying to throw the book at them so they even lose their family.... ...then reading about child abuse issues in the press.... ...which led me to silentlambs.
...then jw facts, this forum and coc, wham!
144,000 doctrine, blood doctrine, 1914,1919,1925, beth sarim, the trumpets of revelation, 1975, 1995, Work was gonna be done by the end of the 20th century, overlapping generation, pedophile cover ups, lies, lies, lies...
I read some forbidden books: Ray Franz, Don Cameron, etc..
I'm still in only for family....
in the past i have read on this forum that the wt have a say in the "bedroom" of couples.
i thought that was a bit overkill at first, but recently i have come to conclusion that this is true.. the control administered by the wt cooperation on ones sex life is not on only intrusive, its damaging.
they control every aspect of ones thought and action, thus leading most down a path that said corporation wants them to tread.. this path is to get married young, and then eternal loyalty the the organisation.. so how can an organisation force you to get married young?.
i was just curious if anyone has had their "special" convention.
is it uber-watchtarded or just the normal propaganda, followed by the solicitation of funds??.
dd.
the july 15, 2015 study watchtower article entitled "your deliverance is getting near", along with the jw broadcasting video entitled "gerrit losch: fortified by "the prophetic word," and chapter 21 of the god's kingdom rules!
book presented a large amount of new light or clarified understanding of the events of the great tribulation.. here i am presenting it in chronological order -- this is the governing body's updated chronological order of events for the time right before the great tribulation through armageddon:.
the final sealing of the anointed occurs just prior to the outbreak of the tribulation.
I just don't get it. Why when Jesus was on earth preached love. He preached to love one another and to even love our enemies. Supposedly the anointed are trained this way of love, to have compassion, etc....
And all of a sudden when they are in heaven things change. They will killed billions of people (including innocent children) cause they are not JWs. Are Jesus and the 144,000 really gonna do this? What in the word the GB thinks? Why do they consider themselves more righteous than even their own fellows JWs?
ok. let me first start by saying i am not a flat earther.
i like most on here will have the same view most will have here about our planet.
in saying that however, i am incredibly gob smacked by the book written by eric dubay called 'the flat earth conspiracy'.
I have been thinking on this. I don't believe the earth is flat as Eric Dubay says.
I recently have taken a class in college about astronomy. It is well proven without a doubt that earth is round.
You can prove it to yourself. Just look at the moon. Is it round? It it looks round to you, it doesn't matter what other people think, do you think that it is a round flat disk orbiting our planet? How does it goes into different phases? Now, think about this, is earth a flat disk floating into space? When the moon goes into different phases, except on full moon, what covers the moon? A flat earth disk?
I have been to Griffith Observatory many times, I live near there. I have seen different planets with telescopes that they have. None of the planets seems to be a flat planet orbiting the sun to me. Why would earth be different from those other planets?
Now, it's okay to me if those books make you think different. I'm not gonna shun you for that. The Watchtower society manages people to think different from the rest of Christianity using the Holy Book (even going beyond what it is crystal clear in there). Could it be the case that Mr. Dubay is trying also to cause controversy on well establish scientific evidence?
Just my two cents.
after leaving the organisation 10 years ago i fought with everything i had to stay in my marriage and with my three children.
after a tumultuous number of years trying to maintain a happy family life while living in a divided home, it's finally over.
the religion is single handedly responsible for destroying my marriage and my family.
Your wife will be interview in a regional convention as an example for other wives. Loyalty to the Org=Putting God's kingdom first.
Many more families will be destroyed. Probably including mine... Very tragic consequences for waking up...
