what would be your plan or ideal reason the walls came crashing down?
I wouldn't want to bring them down. It would just set up splinter units. I'd like them to change their policies re blood and disfellowshipping, though I do believe they now regret ever putting them into place.
Get rid of the blood thing, the disfellowshipping thing and the 2-witness rule and i wouldn't have any more reason to quarrel with them. Apart from denying education, spoiling Christmas and messing up relationships generally!
heard/saw this 30-second commercial last year - they just started it up again this growing season.. pink songbook memories, anyone?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocuojb1ripq.
I found a link for Song 119 - Keep Your Eyes on the Prize.
Try this one. When Keep your eyes on the pies was first introduced back in the mid 60's, everyone in our congregation started to grin and mutter: "Snow White's" song!
what percentage would you say of all jehovah's witnesses really 100 percent follow the shunning decree to the letter just answer with a percent thank you
What about winking? Or smiling then shaking head sorrowfully? Or just a can't-speak finger up to the shunner's lips?
so what have you got?.
i'll start.. 1958 aboard steamship arosa star, english and german jw's bound for new york for 8 day assembly at yankee stadium.. .
Here's another pic I found in my Mum's effects. It's outside the old UK bethel at Craven Terrace, London.
Bottom left is Stan Reynolds who I remember as becoming a kindly CO, top right Stanley Jones who was to be imprisoned along with Harold King as I recall.
so what have you got?.
i'll start.. 1958 aboard steamship arosa star, english and german jw's bound for new york for 8 day assembly at yankee stadium.. .
so what have you got?.
i'll start.. 1958 aboard steamship arosa star, english and german jw's bound for new york for 8 day assembly at yankee stadium.. .
So what have you got?
I'll start.
1958 aboard steamship Arosa Star, English and German JW's bound for New York for 8 day assembly at Yankee Stadium.
back in the day, when my family moved to a new congregation, i fell head over heels with a young sister who was an elder's daughter.
it wasn't long before we were talking about marriage and i was contemplating buying her an engagement ring.
my parents were not happy at all.
Looking back, I think if I had seen a perfect record card I would have been disappointed. I once met a pretty young sister who did everything by the book and was, quite frankly, a real pain in the bottom. Hours, return visits, bible studies - everything on target and more. Meetings thoroughly prepared, TV and films all vetted for content, Peter Pan collar on long below-knee frocks, pretty much like someone from The Little House on the Prairie, a real nightmare to be married to.
All I wanted was a good-looking woman who was loyal, fun to be with and who'd sit with me at a bar whilst I got slightly drunk. I got one in the end but it wasn't from witness -land!
back in the day, when my family moved to a new congregation, i fell head over heels with a young sister who was an elder's daughter.
it wasn't long before we were talking about marriage and i was contemplating buying her an engagement ring.
my parents were not happy at all.
Back in the day, when my family moved to a new congregation, I fell head over heels with a young sister who was an elder's daughter. It wasn't long before we were talking about marriage and I was contemplating buying her an engagement ring. My parents were not happy at all. They thought that she was way too pretty and my father commented that she could beckon a man over by just curling her eyelashes. When the CO's visit was due, he and his wife were booked in for lunch at our house and we duly all sat around to dine. My parents brought up the subject of my courtship with said lady, I think that they were hoping that I'd break off the relationship and become a pioneer or something equally tedious. The CO's wife immediately jumped in and demanded to know if I had requested to see her record card! According to her, anyone intending to marry a fellow JW was entitled to check up their field service record card to make sure they were doing sufficient hours in the ministry. Only in this way could one ever be sure that a prospective fiance / fiancee was up to scratch and worthy of a marriage proposal.
Isn't that the strangest thing?
heyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
When the book Life Everlasting came out. To those JW’s that understood, the WT was attempting to draw parallels to man’s existence, the 7 millennium. But just like everything else, those JW’s that were new or didn’t understand the premise took 1975 to mean the fulfillment of Christ presence and overstepped their expectations, by overshadowing what had been published earlier.
But if you consider the Watchtower of 1976, it was made clear about the disappointment which the WT never shied away from. I guess you would have to have been there to fully appreciate the meaning of 1975 rather than what you read in jwfacts.
born in cambridge, ma to a liberal couple that escaped the conservative south, my parents raised me better than to become a jehovahs witness.
funny thing was they got mixed up in it first.. while that is a story for another time, i myself had to go along as the third of five children in my family.
dads job transferred him to texas and my mom worked fulltime herself, but eventually we found ourselves drinking the kool-aid of ambiguity intolerance and full-fledge belief that the bible was literal fact and that salvation was found only by those who were smart enough to enter the confines of the watchtower.. its weird how many people claim they fear children raised by two gay parents will grow up to be gay.
FUKITOL - Why do gay people have to put so much emphasis on their gayness for their identity as a human being? Do heterosexual people use the word 'heterosexual' as the first and foremost descriptor of themselves to others?
I asked the self-same question of a long-time gay friend of mine. He explained it thus: He said that when a group of guys were together - especially if they'd had a few beers - the conversation would invariably turn to women, what sort of woman they fancied etc and the talk would soon turn into a dick-waving bravado contest. He said that if he didn't state his preferences right from the start he'd just feel like a social reject because he simply was unable to participate in the general sexual bonhomie. Now he's stated his position he feels much more comfortable amongst his hetero friends, and can even appreciate the general ribaldry that takes place amongst straight guys.
