so me and my wife have not been on speaking terms for about 5 weeks, and when we do .
talk…it is arguing about the jw cult and more of a barrage from me telling here all the stuff i have learned.
i know i shouldn't do this....but, i get so freaking p.o ed aobut what this cult has done to my family.
Give her space and time. Put everything JW on the back burner and look after the woman you fell in love with.
Remind her of THAT.
That's correct. Remember, your wife is programmed to respond in certain ways to certain ideas. She needs time for her subconscious mind to resolve a whole host of issues. If you confront her or try to push your own enlightenment, her mind will go into resist mode. Do your very best to avoid anything that might cause the fear reaction to kick in.
just found out that in the congregation we used to attend there are two young brothers, both are sons of elders and recently engaged to girls in neighboring congregations.
instructions are that they may not sit together at assemblies or meetings.
but get this….they can’t even ride in the same car even if their parents are also in the car.
Somewhere in one of the societies 60's publications it was suggested that a couple should sleep apart on their wedding night so as to show respect to Jehovah by withholding gratification.
bob dylan has been awarded the nobel prize in literature.
i wonder if they'll let him sing at the ceremony.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/bob-dylan-wins-2016-nobel-prize-in-literature/ar-aaitpmb?li=bbnb7kz?ocid=ansmsnnews11.
I'd never even heard of Woodie Guthrie until I attended a folk concert back in the 70's and a fella called John Fitzgerald was singing this:
my cousin, whom is not jw, but we have grown up together our whole lives has just gotten engaged to her same sex partner, i am very conflicted on wether i can/should attend the wedding or not.
i am very close with my cousin and her partner and they are very understanding to our beliefs and differences as she grew up with our whole family being jw.
some family members have already said they will definitely be attending and some definitely not attending so i just want some extra advice and guidance!
I'd certainly attend. You may not agree with same-sex marriage, but there again you don't have to agree with it in order for you to attend. It's not like when we were JW's and we had to "make a stand" over anything and everything.
i would love to know the stats of how many hours were spent, standing by a cart, or sitting at a local town fair with jw table tent set up, compared to the number of bible studies started that led to baptism since the inception of the carts.
anyone have any idea?
if i had to guess i would say thousands of hours pent standing by a cart, and maybe less then 5 that actually got baptized.
Maybe shorter skirts are the answer.
jehovah's witnesses have never come to my door but they have come to my girlfriends door.
i have coached her as to what to say or ask but it appears that they always seem to come when she's not there.
.....just curious would you get into it with a jehovah's witness at your door especially if it was someone you did not know?.
I tell the truth but with certain withholds about myself.
I tell them that I am appalled that my brother was shunned from age 17 onwards because of his one-time relationship with a girl. I tell them that now, at age 59. he is still shunned and that those who shun him have no idea just why they're shunning him, it's all so long ago and did they feel that Jesus would have joined in with that?
if he get pass this, america deserve him...... conversation 10 years ago..
UKIP's Nigel Farage reckons that Trump's comments about women were "no more than alpha-male boasting".
He's wrong. Alpha-males would never do such a thing. He must have been referring to *aspiring* alpha-males.
Like him and Trump.
hazel grove congregation in stockport, cheshire, u.k.. not only is the congregation saturated with elders, it is/was pretty well saturated with cash - according to its 2014 financial statement to the charities commission.
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/accounts/ends82/0001066282_ac_20140331_e_c.pdf.
its elders are listed as frank broadhurst, nick ashton, nigel bailey, noel crossley, peter davies.
The Widdecombe congregation in Devon has amalgamated with the Trumpton congregation of Camberwick Green. Their elders are,
Pugh, Pugh, Barney Mc Grew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb,
I think that Pugh and Pugh are identical twins..
so the wife was watching the latest installment of jw broadcasting and near the end there was a new segment on dating and courtship.
it starts at about the 39 minute mark:.
https://youtu.be/vuir-azsdm0?t=38m52s.
LOL.. love it when she says that she didn't think their goals were the same anymore...he was watching a soccer match at the time and I never saw 1 goal...
no, these are not new lyrics.
they are the original lyrics as to be found in the 1950 songbook: "songs to jehovah's praise".
the song is simply called "dedication".. the words may have been altered in recent years, but the "new" words are simply the old words being re-hashed.. we can't make a meal of this as some are doing.. just saying, that's all..
How many of us has silver and gold anyway. Surely adding ATM and paper money would have been better.
Thrown mine in the street...
Ezekiel 7:19 - "They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the LORD's wrath. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has made them stumble into sin."
