Posts by sowhatnow

during my final few years being active with the jws i noticed that the vast majority of people who were studying or joining the group in general where those that the rest of society would consider disabled and/or severely mentally ill. now by disabled i dont mean i lost my leg in nam kind of disabled... in some cases these people were mentally retarded, had the minds of children, were severely abused as children or even as adults and as a result had personality disorders that put them on the edge of society.... and then we had the full on crazies... about 15 years ago one of the brothers who worked at the local welfare office somehow started a study with a person who was a paranoid schizophrenic.

he met her because she was a client of the welfare office.

she got handed off to a sister who studied with her, then started driving her to her doctors appointments, and to get grocerys, and took her to congregation events.

sowhatnow

what concerned me, when i saw how many mentally challenged people went to one congregation in florida that i visited,

was what results are there going t be having these people go out in service? they cannot teach, all they can do is hand out magazines and read a scripture. they are embaressing in returaunts, no fault of thier own, but why so we have to go to a resturaunt in meeting clothes with them? why cant it be in normal clothes. people already say retarded jws around here.

they should not be required nor placed with such a burden[or burdening everyone else more so] of doing teaching work when they theseves have problems. its stupid.

its not very appealing to have a handicapped person in the car that you have to go through 5 minuets of helping them out of the car while sitting in the middle of the driveway or street, with on lookers, so they can be helped up to a door to stand there and just knock.

its slows every one else down. its foolish. its all done so they can cunt hours to report to teh society and members to add to teh number,.

jws will study wit h anyone no matter how handycapped they are, and study with the elderly alzheimers people in nursng homes just to get hours. its a waste of time.

then there are the older ones who are past the ability to properly care for thier appearence , cant pull on panty hose anymore, comb or wash their hair, eeww veiny legs craked toes hanging off sandles, and dry skin, and really bad breath,

who are still going out door to do that look like bag ladies nad homeless people, its out right embaressing to these poor souls.

they also cannot hold down a study. so whats the point? [and some are still doing talks!! why???]

they are babblin on nonsense and making the home owner uncomfortable, ive been there. the home owners take the mags just to get rid of them. then guess what, a place ment and a return visit, add it up. make the numbers look grand , all for nothing.

we have a huge amount of people in our area who will study with wittnesses just to have a social life. and a ride somplace.

they are poor often have no transportation, and have no money. they depend on the people at the hall to get them proper meeting clothes and often even more, plus pick them up. they have no cars.

so its not at all that they are doing good works, they cant.

they do not have to do anything, as God knows thier situation and will not expect them to do the works of men.

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why am i still single?

by redpilllizard81 in

i have the hardest time meeting singles in the "world".

currently inactive.

but my dating situation is sort of in limbo and its driving me mad..

sowhatnow

lol, scripture reference please!

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how many non born ins ever attended a church?

by sowhatnow in

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im curious, how many people on here had belonged to another church, or have enough knowlege of one.

to have thought the kingdom hall was a better option?

the wt articles often in the past, critisized other churches as being full of false christains, i have one from 1955 that rips on the roman catholic church.. not that they are free of guilt, but, i thought, gee, how many of these critisizers ever went to a small church to make that judgment?.

sowhatnow

im curious, how many people on here had belonged to another church, or have enough knowlege of one

to have thought the kingdom hall was a better option?

the wt articles often in the past, critisized other churches as being full of false christains, I have one from 1955 that rips on the roman catholic church.

not that they are free of guilt, but, I thought, gee, how many of these critisizers ever went to a small church to make that judgment?

why would i believe that not having any experiences myself?

i had a jw freind who made a comment once as we were driving past a church, I commented on how pretty all thier flowers were, and she said

'oh thats an apostate church'. i laughed and said to her "well i bet those people who go there dont think so,

and I bet they believe in Jesus just as much as we do, and surely they have good qualities that God appreciates.

churches are not full of fake christains , there are good people in all faiths."

I thought wow, what an outlook to have on the very people she was supposed to preach to.

not sure what she took from that.

the wt org, particularly critisizes the catholic religion a

whole lot back in the early days. evidentally becasue it was the largest one at the time.

but really, who has been in one long enough to know if they are all as the wt society say's is ' wrong' ?

how many on here have had a positive exp with another organization?

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why am i still single?

by redpilllizard81 in

i have the hardest time meeting singles in the "world".

currently inactive.

but my dating situation is sort of in limbo and its driving me mad..

sowhatnow

hey i saw this old post, and wondering, its been a year, are you still single? did you get into the dating scene?

i hope so.

just wondered how those dating websites worked out for you.

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why didnt God just do this?

by sowhatnow in

for one thing, i cant get past genesis, but no matter.. when god told adam and eve if you eat from the tree youll die.

so why did he not simple let them die and not allow the offspring to?.

you see, if i was a god, and i told two people that, id let them die , .

sowhatnow

ah, so eating of the tree of life kept them alive. hmm wheres that tree now!!

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why we do not have to read the bible daily,

by sowhatnow in

or for that matter at all, from my perspective ,.

the only place in the bible that there is a mentioning of reading something [in an undertone day and night] [that i can find].

is in the hebrew scritures.

sowhatnow

duly noted

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I need help

by tiredroadie in

im new here, and dont know much about jw, other than what im reading.

i have my best friend who is having bible study in her home with 2 witnesses, and she is soaking it in.

she is very defensive and is getting more and more closed off.

sowhatnow

watchtowerexamination on you tube has some very thought provoking vids check them out

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Jehovah's Witnesses Ban upheld by Supreme Court.-TASS reports. Are Russian JWs suffering as a result of Watchtower Governing Body Hate Rants?

by Balaamsass2 in

tass news:.

russias supreme court rules jehovah's witnesses from samara extremist organizationrussia.

november 13, 20:58 utc+3 .

sowhatnow

wow, and just think, the organization and all those jws could have easily prevented all of this is they simply used A BIBLE at thier meetings

and FREELY discussed it . and went home.