i have not posted in a bit.... life basically as a fader sucks!!
when my wife just does not get it & i don't know if she ever will.
marriage is great for the most part, but this religion is starting to drive a wedge between us & it really sucks!
Free to leave at any time...it doesn't sound like it to me!
Would she rather have you unhappy and a slave to a religion you no longer want or happy? I'd rather be married to a happy person, personally. Many couples can live happily together when one is in and the other out. She should know of examples of that.
considering the fact that the wt society refuses to release in courts any of it's written directions to elders through confidential letters to elder bodies- i thought i'd do the courts and wt society a "favor " by posting excerpts from this oct 1st.
2012 letter from the wt society to all bodies of elders.
these instructions are very exposing of the negligence of wt authorities in how they view the seriousness of felony child abuse.
It is not the reason I left but one of the reasons I would never go back and a very important one. A former child molester in the cong is bad enough, but to be in an appointed position is inexcusable, no ifs or buts about it. There is no holy spirit in an organisation that even considers a former child molester as suitable to be a part of the cong in any capacity. This topic alone, forget everything else on this forum and I mean everything, should wake up every elder who sees these letters.
Thank you Mr Flipper for bringing this to our attention once again. It can never be talked about too much. Things cannot be fixed in the org from the top down, so we must attempt to fix from the bottom up if that makes sense.
heard about it today just not sure if i should go
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one of the elders was missing his service bag and suspected that one of the publishers stole it.
he was determined to root out who did it so he decided to give a local needs part on the ten commandments focusing on you must not steal.. he enlisted the help of a trusted ministerial servant and got him to stand at the back of the kingdom hall during the part.
he told the ms that he would read off the ten commandments and when he got to the one "you must not steal" he would pause longer than usual and see if anyone acted nervous or suspicious.
by arnold namanja.
police in mangochi have arrested five members of a family for failing to donate blood to their 7-year old anaemic child due to religious beliefs, malawi news agency has established.. the five have been identified as 34 year old simon kamwendo (father of the child), his grandfather bernard kamwendo, 69, brothers solomon and divason mwabwino, both 21, and byson chidandala an uncle to the child.. failure to provide a child with necessities contravenes section 242 of the penal code, hence the arrest of the five who belong to the jehovah's witness faith.. a source, macdonald danger told mana that medical doctors at koche health centre diagnosed the boy of malaria with anaemia and recommended blood transfusion, but the five rejected the prescription.. "the child was suffering from malaria and was taken to koche health centre where it was discovered that he was anaemic and needed blood," he said.. "when asked to donate, all the five guardians who are family members refused to do so saying that their faith does not allow them to receive or to donate blood," danger added.. .
according to danger, the resistance prompted officials at the hospital to seek the intervention of makolola police unit, which led to the arrests.. mangochi police station public relations officer, inspector rodrick maida confirmed the arrests of the five jehova's witness members.. "we arrested the five following a report from koche clinic which asked for our intervention in the matter whereby these people were refusing to donate blood to a patient who needed to be saved from dying," he said.. he said the five will soon appear before the court to answer to a charge of failing to provide necessities to a child under their care.. all the five hail from mapata village in the area of traditional authority mponda in mangochi.. .
Yes I remember my dad had them turned into one bible. He had little cutouts of the bible books on the edge of the pages like some large dictionaries have the alphabet cutouts.
Wasanelder Once, you have been around too long too. It is fun to remember all this old stuff from back in the days when being in the truth was hard work but more fun and it actually seemed to be more like the truth than it is today.
I remember the green songbook too. DoC, you and I have been around the borg way too long.
i also remember my dad having the NWT bible released in stages. The first went from Genesis to Deuteronomy, I think then the second went from Joshua to 2 Chronicles or something like that. Anyway there were about five or six small volumes, all hard covered of the whole bible. You needed a trolley to go to the KH in those days.
just wow!.
some of the comments i read were hard to stomach.. https://www.facebook.com/myministryideaz?fref=photo.
my name is russ, i'm 40 years old, from the uk, and i left the jws nearly 5 years ago.
i've been a member of the yuku board throughout that time, so there are probably some on here who know me already.
there seems to be more activity over here at the moment, so i thought i'd pop in and say hi.i was raised as a jw, started questioning it when i was 16, but there was no internet back then (well, no www anyway) so i got sucked right in and got baptized when i was 18. auxiliary pioneered on and off for a couple of years, then became a ministerial servant.
"Baptism is one of the first steps to leaving the organisation," said steve2. So true, it happened to me too. I never felt the same afterwards.
Welcome maksutov and hope to hear more from you.
