guy pierce samuel herd gerrit losch david splane.
"no more additions!".
"no, no more additions!
Morris is from Italian descent and, unlike most of the predominantly childless GB, has raised two sons "in the Troof.
Were they his biological sons or like adopted or something, cuz I could have sworn the anointed are supposed to be "virgins"? Oh wait, maybe the virgin part is spirtual and the 144,000 part ONLY is the literal part. Oh wifey might have been artificially insemitated(sp?) or whatever the hell they call it...
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that is, if you are able to without the prospect of facing a three-man kangaroo court appointed by jerhover to keep the congregation clean from apostate influences.. i'll go first: .
Thank you IP_SEC and jeanniebeanz
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that is, if you are able to without the prospect of facing a three-man kangaroo court appointed by jerhover to keep the congregation clean from apostate influences.. i'll go first: .
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somewhere in my head i recall someone saying that since there was no proof or record of them being baptised that the so-called (the jws word) "christians" who died in the lion's pit were therefore not of the 144,000!!!
how do the jws justify there not being 144,000 true christians from 33ce to 1900??
That's another thing I never undersood. That the "christians" of old didn't have that heavenly hope but they were the ones closer to "perfection"....Like Job, Moses, Noah, etc. etc. But the heavenly bound 144,000 that they wish us to believe are going to heaven were chosen from ones that used to celebrate Christmas, smoke, and take blood transfusions in 1914-1975....
i know thats not the only timeframe (1914-1975) but alot of JW's during that time were supposedly of the anointed....
as depressing as this post is, revealing our pain helps others.
many of you have been on here for many years so new people do not understand the thinking, attitude or anger.. i am exhausted by my depression.
i was dfd, and it was reversed .
oh the pain...
With me to have my dad totally ignore because of this religion hurt me the most because I was and always will be daddy's girl. My mom never really did the shunning thing unless she was around certain people. But i cried so many nights because daddy wouldn't talk to me. Once when at my grandmother's house (non-dub) he came in the house and when I spoke he didn't utter a word...I wanted to hate him so bad but couldn't so all I could do was cry about it.
But as of late he's now df'd. I could be mean and remind him of how he treated me, but I'm not. He's getting enough from his so-called friends...but that was the hardest thing for me. Not talking to him.
My other aunts and uncles that are still in I could care less. Good riddance if you ask me.
spent all day friday in the emergency room.
feels like i've been stabbed in my back, right side, with a sword.
thank god for pain killers ;)
wow thanks forscher, I'm actually taking a diuretic right now..so I better drink the recommended 8 glasses of water like they say.
spent all day friday in the emergency room.
feels like i've been stabbed in my back, right side, with a sword.
thank god for pain killers ;)
I'm sorry, I've known a few people to have these, but never experienced it and by the looks of it never want to...but do ya'll know what causes it so I can kinda take precautions.
no, i don't have this article yet, it will appear in the sep 1, 2006 wt.
it may even be a wt study article.. in the august 15 watchtower, the box "in our next issue" has three forthcoming articles, and one of them is "when a loved one leaves jehovah".
of interest, it's not when a loved one leaves the society, it's jehovah.. will keep you posted.
This might have been mentioned already but all these references to being like Moses and seat of Moses...
Wasn't Moses like banned from going into the land flowing with milk and honey because he arrogantly forgot to say Jehovah brought water from the rock?
Wouldn't if be highly ironic if these Moses-like elders are banned from Paradise/heaven because of all these man-made rules they have made that are not of Jehovah?
just my $.02
i have been out for years now but i still tremble alittle when i run into an elder at the store or run into an elder on the street and my post question certainly applies to me as well but why do i still have fear of jw's elders?
i have been da'd for so many years but that fear still comes up.
and reading alot of the post here i still see ex-jw's and jw's faders living a pretended jw life or pretending to be happy when they are miserable in the wt.
I used to be like that..get a lil nervous feeling when I see any JW's but now I'm over it...But I did get that same feeling again recently when I subjected myself to attending the memorial I guess because I felt I was on "their turf"...but when I'm out and about and I see one, if they see me fine if not fine...I make no effort to hide or scutter away. Some (like my own auntie once) I looked right through her the same way she was looking through me as if I wasn't there. I had to come back to add...I went to the memorial to give my newly df'd dad a lil support...I know how it is being "out".
i've been a member of this fourm for quite sometime although i rarely post.
i do however, have my story posted on shauns' site http://jwfiles.com/jws-leaving/william.htm i also wrote and article for that site comparing the prophecies of 1925 and 1975. http://jwfiles.com/1925-1975.htm just a little background on me: i served as an elder in philadelphia.
i was the cong sec.
damn shame on it all!
