first of all, this post i made on another thread sums up why i want to change congregations so bad.. "theres the other teenagers at the kingdom hall but it's not like i can tell them anything about how i really feel because they're all brainwashed and they'll tell the elders if i tell them something questionable.
there's a girl i like that goes to my hall but i know i'll never be able to be with her because by the time i'm old enough to date by the watchtower's standards, i'll have moved away.. the worst thing is i can't even fake everything well enough to fit in with the other teens at the hall.
i'm always the outcast and if i talk sometimes the so called 'friends' will straight ignore me, even the ones that say they're my best friends.
Great name UFCFan......go thru the motions....this too will pass. once you get old enough break away. if you get shunned for leaving my family or friends...then they never were family or friends.
like someone said....,make friends out of the hall.
I refuse to have friends in the hall....i barely talk to anyone. you know why??????because they are fake people.
this too will pass.
GTTM
km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.
"the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.
for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".
marked....JW's are so lost
so today's study is all about being kindly, and not judgemental to those in the congregation....we don't know their circumstances etc.... i can't believe the hypocrisy being spewed out...both in the article and by means of the answers from the audience!.
we know the reality is so different!
unless a witness does everything exactly as the gb directs...in every aspects of life, they are effectively no longer a good person, but are viewed as spiritually lacking or weak..... they are going directly beyond the biblical directives, and being ones who condemn, rather than ones who commend!.
Touche' oneeyedjoe! touche'....
I am also glad to see that my wife is not the only wife that is asleep or affraid to have there own opionion in this whole mess.
funny thing happened an jui jitsu class "lol" yep i still do martial arts...never stopped and never will. the instructor was talking about getting in
a bad hold... and he made a comparison to have a bad relationship with a girl.
he said you have two options:
1. Tapout if you see no way out!
2. if you see a way to get out of the hold that you got yourself stuck in and need to get better position. your going to have to work your ass off, it's going to hurt like hell. but in the end your position may put you in place where you could win the match.
jui jitsu is just like chess and us who are in relationships with JW significant others is the same. play a chess game and always think before you move to get position.
as in jui jitsu we say position before submission...this applies to our situation.
God Bless all and stay close to Jesus!
GTTM
so today's study is all about being kindly, and not judgemental to those in the congregation....we don't know their circumstances etc.... i can't believe the hypocrisy being spewed out...both in the article and by means of the answers from the audience!.
we know the reality is so different!
unless a witness does everything exactly as the gb directs...in every aspects of life, they are effectively no longer a good person, but are viewed as spiritually lacking or weak..... they are going directly beyond the biblical directives, and being ones who condemn, rather than ones who commend!.
Good topic stuck.... I was thinking the same as you throught the meeting. What a joke and fake people.
What about Romans 14;1-4
14 Welcome the [man] having weaknesses+ in [his] faith, but not to make decisions on inward+ questionings. 2 One [man] has faith to eat everything,+ but the [man] who is weak eats vegetables. 3 Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating,+ and let the one not eating not judge the one eating, for God has welcomed that one. 4 Who are you to judge the house servant of another?+ To his own master he stands or falls.+ Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Jehovah* can make him stand.+
Not to judge.......fake ass people. They will abondon you at the cliff
Gttm
- it's amazing to track the confusion and stupidity contained in wt articles.
- in only one watchtower you can find multiple contradictory statements, and representations of truth that are simply lies made up on the fly.
- as an example the nov,15 2014 wt has the following quotes : -.
Marked
in the 80's it became a trend to put the wt logo on the front of the speakers podium where others put a cross.
i always hated that and spoke against it to the body of elders.
i shut up and it was put there anyway untill a km came down that said not to do it.
blondie, you amaze me with your knowledge. My hats off to you!!!
on the other note.....i walked into the hall last week and saw some sheeple wearing the jw.org pin. and i thought. "how is this different than wearing a cross? at least a cross has christ on it!"
GTTM
aguest, jehovah-jirah, lars58, rick fearon, finkle, or another scholars on jwn.
what reason does the governing body have for telling.
seven million jehovah's witnesses, "jesus is not your man dude!
marked
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthals-lived-alongside-humans-for-centuries-latest-study-shows-9681740.html.
marked
so i was looking at the boards not too long ago and saw a list of questions that were related to whether or not a religion was a cult that looked like it came from the watchtower.
i've been trying to find those questions again so i could find the watchtower and hopefully one day show this to my wife who is still asleep to the troof of the gb.. .
the help would be greatly appreciated.. .
Captain Obvious Thanks for the advice
Phizzy: you are correct about winning the war and loosing the battle.
When i break down the facts about where we are in this mess.....they are has follows:
1. i have not mentioned anything to her about this being a cult..i am hesitent on this.
2. i have no family on my side that are witnesses...and 99.9% of my friends are non witnesses (note: we have only been in this shite 6 years and i never changed the person i was before)
3. her side of the family have alot of witnesses and non witnesses...of whom we don't have any contact with them.
4. her sister and her sisters boyfriend are both disfellowshiped and we have a good relationship with them. no shunning
5. we are always late to the meetings and miss often.
6. we are private people and don't like anyone to nosy in our lives.
7. a year ago i stepped down has an MS.
8. I don't answer at meeting and neither does she. ( note: i have told her i would not stop her in doing anything related to the BORG..so it is all up to her)
9. We have family study from the bible and only the bible. i have told her i will not study the WT or awake!
Problem is this....i believe she has been cultified by some of her thinking about the GB and Organization has a whole by some of her actions and defense of the BORG.
I just wish she would see this. but like Phizzy says she needs to find TTATT on her own.
Shalom
GTTM
probably nothing of major note but there is an adjustment to the service meeting of w/c 1st september to allow for a 15 min local needs the society have asked the elders to deliver.
this is in uk and i've no idea if it affects other regions.. if it's uk only then i suspect it's either specifically about donations or more likely the status of the new branch facility, asking for volunteers/money.
given that the elder delivering it in our hall is prominent on the local rbc then i suspect the latter.. .
OMG.....that so freaking funny stuckinarut2......LOL
