I have a relative who's elders told him he could count his drive from northern CA to southern Ca if he stopped and talked to gas station attendants when getting gas. An easy 9 hours one way. He was pioneering, working full time with a family. Yep...now he is a servant...
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A Taxi Driver Gave Me 4 Magazines This Morning
by Tempest in a Teacup inas we had reached my destination, i paid him and was getting down when he handed me something.
then i saw it was the wt and awake.
i just had the time to say: "oh, okay, thank you!
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Elders want to meet with us, help!
by All for show inmy husband is awake,yay!
we haven't been to meeting since february, although we attended the memorial.
when jws have called us we say we are amazing, everything is awesome much to their shock.
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@simonsays- in our university system you register online, show up twice a week for you 1.5 hour class and move to your next class .... If you're seeking sex, drugs,and craziness you will find it anywhere. But just out on display, people encouraging you to engage--- Yea right!! It's called campus police and expulsion....so quit with the JW myth culture of devaluing education because of these ridiculous claims.
A group of young ones was Df'd for drugs and alcohol, all while pioneering and flipping burgers. That stuff can happen anywhere, if you want it.
moving on.... I will discuss this all with my husband and give him the warning.it seems best to not even entertain it and if they push, say we will foot the family themselves.
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Elders want to meet with us, help!
by All for show inmy husband is awake,yay!
we haven't been to meeting since february, although we attended the memorial.
when jws have called us we say we are amazing, everything is awesome much to their shock.
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Eek....conflicting ideas. Thanks for the advice I will talk it over with my husband. He says shouldn't they apply Matthew and make the parents come talk to us?
Toesup... Apparently from the brief phone call ...it seems our advice was opposite of the GB and we insinuated, maybe explicitly, the Gb doesn't know what they are talking about. I think we did actually say, the horror stories of college are what you will find in any group of kids 18-22 ... ha ha... And that the GB have no real life concerns that we all face. So mainly, it's because we are negative to the GB. My husband definitely won't apologize when it's nothing to do with scripture or the bible.
The idea of making this a huge deal in our family and a fade may work out well.
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Elders want to meet with us, help!
by All for show inmy husband is awake,yay!
we haven't been to meeting since february, although we attended the memorial.
when jws have called us we say we are amazing, everything is awesome much to their shock.
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My husband is awake,yay! We haven't been to meeting since February, although we attended the memorial. When JWs have called us we say we are amazing, everything is awesome much to their shock. We have family in our hall...and have to navigate our fade with them in mind. Otherwise we would totally drop the facade today.
my husbands on and off elder friend said he wanted to talk to us with another brother. He briefly told my husband on the phone a couple parents complained... Basically alluding we are TALKING AGAINST the GB from the Feb broadcast against college...
A couple months back we went to a gathering, a group of teens/young adults asked us about college. My husband and I have many years in school-advanced degrees. We haven't been stellar jws, but we tried and we're sincere despite the doubts, this was in the past. Anyway.... We said we didn't encounter drugs, sex, or alcohol in school. We found it to be a lot of people of varying backgrounds working hard not for fame or wealth, but a decent job and future prospects. We had a lot of good friends, non witnesses we learned from. Also, we mentioned most going to school are not selfish and thinking (and realize school doesn't equal wealth)they will be rich, it's just a necessary piece of paper to move ahead in life easier than those without. We said it's a few years of your life and a few more working hard to move up. But when you start a family you can be more stable with a job and having a family and cost of living won't suck you dry. We told them if they felt pioneering was in their heart, than do it. But they all said college and a job was their goal and we said, well, it's do able while being a jw. Of course the kids mentioned the broadcast and we said we heard it. My husband said, " you are responsible for you, they won't pay your bills. How can you discredit college and it's beneifts when you haven't gone nor work for a living?"
We thought we were balanced and didn't blast the faith.... Apparently, some parents felt we were talking against the slaves broadcast since school is bad...and we are leading them away from the ministry. This is only per a short, almost heads up phone call from the elder "friend"
I read here and know,don't meet up! But my husband, not a born in,having zero experience with social Jw things, never being in a elders meeting or anything....he is like... What's the big deal. It's all BS...I will tell them exactly what we said.... Hello! It's a bad idea right. What do we do? We have to go to meetings in the future because of family. Or is this no big deal?
we aren't involved with any social circles and pretty much are separate from all jws...so this is kind of shocking. What we felt was a normal conversation ... Although we know it's not the jw stand to be pro-college publicly
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My wife is frightened about the end/ What to say without sounding Apostate?
by suavojr inmy wife called me at work saying she is scared after reading today's daily text.
i don't read it anymore, therefore i went online and found this.. tuesday, march 3 .
those days will be cut short.matt.
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Acts 1:6,7- read this.... Basically says it's none of our business to know when the end comes. Men need not concern themselves. We need to be aligned with Gods word from the bible, not men bolstering up fear within us. We can't go around God and still assume date calculations, Jesus told us, we were not to know Gods timetable! -
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The new doomsday mag
by Jonathan Drake inso i just took a look at this and here is the dilemma:.
where does the bible say that the world will be so literally destroyed like that?.
1. i believe one may think of the verse in zechariah or zephaniah about the dead to your right and left- however was regarding jerusalem.. 2. peter speaks of a new heavens and earth where the elements being intensely hot will melt.
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Did you notice in the second article... The bottom has a grey box entitled, " doomsday prophets" Seems they may have been taking a peek over here! -
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The last refuge of a cult
by undercover inthe wts struggles to survive in the 21st century, what with the internet, social media, instant communication, instant video, instant music, instant porn, er, not that i'd know anything about that last one... but anyhoo.... as they struggle to keep the young ones indoctrinated, they've finally realized that sitting in wt meetings four days a week, and knocking on doors at least once a week is not appealing to millennials, and with all the new technology at their fingertips, it doesn't take but a couple of clicks of a mouse to find enough disturbing info on the wts to encourage them to fade away.. so what to do?
well, if you can't beat em, join em.
after years of demonizing the internet, televangelists, showboating religious leaders, and discouraging anything that could lead a person to question their authority, they finally figured out they can't beat em.
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Don't forget, the 20/30 something's are the ones raising the young kids and next JW generation. This younger generation is really in for it, the parents, all well within my age group - all with young ones, think Caleb and Sophia are great because they don't have to parent! They ignore their kids so they can chat on their phone or post photos on Instagram. Even biblicious JW young parents will have a hard time with their kids, who can live up to a cartoon character? Those kids will end up hating it like most born ins. The cartoons are so short it's more annoying than it's worth to most young parents anyway. That's a common complaint, also, mentioning how no one at bethel is dealing with the daily struggles of parenting. Most young parents say it's ridiculous...even the new magazine on discipline has some hot. 'Please give me parenting advice person with no child, no one ever said'
WTS is a day late and a dollar short.
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Using the tv.jw.org as a wake up tool with my kids
by konceptual99 inso, i have been badgered recently to do some kind of family study by my wife.
thanks to tv.jw.org i now have a really easy tool to use that not only passes this time but actually makes them question the organisation.. our sessions skipping through the delights of the monthly broadcast have been very interesting.
derision at the wooden delivery of the gb.
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Good for you! I feel like I score a little victory every time something new and stupid is said on the broadcast. My husband is so irritated by the money and time spent making the trolley video....
can someone get screen shots of the rings? Herd and his helper had one and so does Morris and Lett. Herd had it on his right pinky, his helper had a similar one on his right ring finger. Is it like a brothers of Christ ring, haha?
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Ode to the trolleys in Feb's broadcast
by konceptual99 incheck out the song about the trolley at the end of this month's dubcast.. http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=mp4&output=html&pub=jwb&issue=201502.
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I showed this to my husband, within 15 seconds he was disgusted. He asked if he was supposed to show this to other intelligent humans. He also mentioned it's weird, as in, "f%*$ing weird witnesses are playing non JWs interested in the literature, to be viewed by only JWs"
also.... The new Caleb and Sophia, Pay Attention at Meeting, is ridiculous. Especially as a parent....the fear, guilt, shame techniques. He was mortified they produce this crap and feels bad for the future kids who don't live up to the fake cartoon characters.
Thanks JW broadcasting for helping to wake up my husband!
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21 Years as an Elder, 5 as an MS, I will never be that guy again.
by James Jack ini was deleted as the cobe after i let my adult child move back home and he admitted that he fornicated under my roof while my wife and i where away on a rbc project.
of course the elder mode in me kicked him out of the house.. the elders moved quickly to remove me because i was too involved in "theocractic activities", i had neglected my adult son.. i accepted this primarily because i didn't want to serve with a boe that did not want me.
i was devastated however because it was the only life i knew.
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I can't wait to hear more from you. Especially about your view and pressures of being a " regular publisher". That was what brought me here, always feeling like we were worthless scum on the bottom of the JW totem pole.
This place is overwhelming at first; all the information, research, and hilarious personalities make it a wild ride.