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  Are the younger generation taking on roles in the Cong?

  by purrpurr in

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  i notice that several of the congs i've been to seem to have a majority of the male roles performed by older men.

  very few young men are wanting to be ms or elders etc.

  it also seems like very few young people are being pioneers either.. would you agree with this?

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  purrpurr

  I know of several young jw men who actually resented how little they saw of their elder dad's when they were growing up. And they don't want the same for their kids, strangely enough the younger generation want to take an active part in their children's lives. Then there's the huge workload, of which they will have seen their own dad's struggling with. The late night calls from distressed jw's wanting support, the report writing, letter writing, extra meetings, extra training and that's all before the issue of jc's is considered.

  A recent co at an assembly actually said from the platform that the wt has lost a whole generation of ms, pioneers and elders. The young just don't want it and really who can blame them?
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  Are the younger generation taking on roles in the Cong?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i notice that several of the congs i've been to seem to have a majority of the male roles performed by older men.

  very few young men are wanting to be ms or elders etc.

  it also seems like very few young people are being pioneers either.. would you agree with this?

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  purrpurr

  I notice that several of the congs I've been to seem to have a majority of the male roles performed by older men. Very few young men are wanting to be ms or elders etc. It also seems like very few young people are being pioneers either.

  Would you agree with this? Are the younger generation not stepping up?
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  Df'd minor thrown out of home

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever heard of a jw minor getting disfellowshipped and their parents then throwing them out of home?

  i know of 1, 14yr old, df'd for smoking and the very same night it was annoced his mother kicked him out of the family home on to the streets!.

  unsurprisingly as an adult he's never returned to his mother or the wt .

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  purrpurr

  Have you ever heard of a jw minor getting disfellowshipped and their parents then throwing them out of home? I know of 1, 14yr old, df'd for smoking and the very same night it was annoced his mother kicked him out of the family home on to the streets!

  Unsurprisingly as an adult he's never returned to his mother or the wt
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  Humans only survive for 3-5 days without water...

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and yet today's watchtower and indeed the bible condemns the israelites for moaning about having no water!

  it's never occurred to me how unjust this is!

  and how could a so called loving god not provide a basic human need?!.

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  Perry. An important point you're forgetting is that pharoah multiple times agreed to let the israelites go but god changed his mind for him and hardened his heart. Effectively pharoah was being controlled like a puppet just so god could show off.

  The God of the ot is not morally acceptable by any standard that isn't uneducated superstitious bronze age
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  What immodest clothing have you got in trouble for wearing?

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i personally have a very distinct sense of style and fashion which many of the fellow jdubs frown upon.

  recently, i was told by a few specially self righteous ones that i looked like a prostitute in a pair of white boots!

  a pair of 3 inch heeled, just a little taller than the ankle boots, with skirt that came down to my knees and a black long sleeve shirt that came up to my collarbone.

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  Aged 15 I wore a black pencil skirt that came well below my knees and had a 1 inch slit in the back, the PO bellowed at me "purrpurr! Your skirt has a dirty great tear all the way up the back!" A$r3h@/€!

  I remember one friend of mine aged 16 telling me off for wearing ribbed tops that went all the way up to my collarbone she said it was "too booby"...
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  Humans only survive for 3-5 days without water...

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and yet today's watchtower and indeed the bible condemns the israelites for moaning about having no water!

  it's never occurred to me how unjust this is!

  and how could a so called loving god not provide a basic human need?!.

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  purrpurr

  And yet today's watchtower and indeed the bible condemns the Israelites for moaning about having no water! It's never occurred to me how unjust this is! And how could a so called loving god not provide a basic human need?!

  Oh and this stupid thing of Moses's word choice of "we" rather than say "god" seriously! ? One word slip in the heat of the moment was enough to ban him from the promised land? After he had done so much and been through so much for his god and his god d isowns him after one slip up!
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  wt on education..

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just watched the glass smashing on the wt video on education.. please consider these experiences from the opposite side of that "coin".. i have heard young ones say out-loud on the mike in the kh that "jehovah is my special friend.."these ones who were at the top of the wt 'tree' pioneering, putting in the hours etc but, it followed that soon saying that pivotal statement they dropped their pioneering, faded, picked up the girl/boyfriend and suffered being dfd.. so where did their wt "education" leave them?

  it left them as young adults naive to the world, unskilled, with no qualification to offer any employer and having to replace their former family/associates/friends with new ones.. ( dont get me going on shunning) in some cases with little success as we have read here where they moon about for months or longer unable to emotionally heal after the leaving or df'ing and also others with such a turn around they would never have believed it possible... there was a wt that related how a brother (!

  ) followed an interest in history and left the truth.

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  What is this glass smash video? Can someone tell me the gist? So i dont have to watch it or go to the borgs website
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  Strange first names among jw's

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  do you remember those families where all the sons and daughters had weird biblical names?.

  i recall a " machlon" , "eunice" , even a "jehosafath".

  can you believe it..

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  All kids in my cong are biblical names except one lil girl who has a modern non biblical name... It caused alot of comment in the cong and the parents found themselves having to justify it!
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  Warning Talk on Chat Rooms

  by JWTom in

  1. social
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  had a warning talk on chat rooms last night.

  not sure if they are really that big of a deal with jws.

  i have a been to a few and have talked with a few sisters actually.

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  Jw Tom, why are you messaging people asking them if they watch porn?
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  1 Timothy 2:11-15...Woman and silence in the congreagation

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1 timothy 2:11-15let a woman learn in silence with full submissiveness.

  i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.

  for adam was formed first, then eve.

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  purrpurr

  As the baby boomer generation dies out and the lack of men in the congregation gets worse I predict that the gb will STILL not allow women to teach, I bet they would rather centralize the meetings beaming them direct from the gb themselves than use women.

  The suppression of women in the Borg has always made me furious, especially since it seems to be getting worse with the whole head scarf thing, and the whole no trousers thing. Do they not realise that it makes the women look odd and out of place?