associate with ex-members .
fully accept the watchtower's authority and rules (no exceptions) .
dress according to their rules at the kingdom halls, service and conventions (no exceptions) .
Happyman,
I think we know the modern J W's only to well. Many of us have family who are still fooled by the crackpot teachings and follow the Borg
In reality there is of course some leeway on conscience matters but Larrys list is pretty darn accurate. Well done Larry!
i think it is not very likely that the world situation will develop to a state where the wt would give the command for jw's to kill apostates.
my goal is not to fan fear among xjw's, but to highlight the hate on which the wt's message is based.
the world is becoming a better place every day.. if god is love, yet hates, one could pose the question, is god pure?
SS,
Some of your quotes are over fifty year old, and are hardly representative of W T teaching. Although they do not always overflow with the milk of human kindness
There is no argument that Jesus and God both show anger at times in the Scriptures and as it says
Eccl. 3.8 "A time to love and a time to hate"
ok, well we had 7people total to support the silent lambs.
it was me,valis, my roommate, country girl, and 3others from oklahoma.. we had 2 reports show.
one was a talk radio station, and another was from a tv station---no camera though.. the reporter from channel 8 is wanting us to do a documentary type thing.
Fantastic Jesika !
Keep up the good work , Maybe even one person will be influenced to stop their study, or one kid will think again about getting baptised.. making it all worthwhile
when i was in the truth i thought that the most ludicrous and petty ruling they ever introduced and still practiced is that congregation book study conductors were and are responsible for collecting every group members report.
surely every member ought to be responsible for his/her own actions.
at the beginning of the following month and certainly before the 5th i would always receive the stupid telephone call from the secretary are you aware that 3 publishers havent reported?
Some of the "Rules" seem to be local practices, perhaps the whim of your congo overseer, since they are new to me.
The Assembly Rules are Universal though. I once wrote and told the Society just what I thought of them after having had to present the annual item of do's and dont's at the Service Meeting.
I could never see the point of re instating someone, with love,hugs and joy.. and then smiting them with "Restrictions" so they could not participate, just at a time when they needed encouragement .
Funny that! ........and dins. What is a Tootsie Roll?
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do those of you who were born into it feel that your parents did what they believed in their hearts was love for their children, or do you think they warrant a serious kick in the backside?.
paduan
Thinking back now, my Mother was a sitting target when afriendly witness knocked on her door in the 1950's .
She was God fearing but not regular at a church , she had no real friends and although she was no fool, was not well educated so as to evaluate the arguments . She always said "It made sense", and was totally sincere in her faith
Father never accepted it although he never gave me a reason to argue against it. I wish he had, now.
http://www.mrtibbsribs.com
this was reported on the news last night.. how a loving, friendly person like this could be dead and ted jaracz and his cronies can live into their nineties..... people of every race and religion were saddened to hear of his passing.
when the reporter interviewed people in the vicinity, they were shocked and many near tears.. well, let's just say: it's not the best argument to prove there is a god.. lisa
A sad account Lisa, I am sure that all who knew him will feel the same way that you do.
The old adage that "No one ever promised me that life is going to be fair" comes to mind. Missadventure can happen at random to us all - unless of course you spend your life sheltered in a room at Bethel and never go fishing - that may increase your chances of reaching a ripe old age. But at what cost to your soul?
Please do not blame God for the accidents that befall us .
driving up the m5 the other day.
i got caught in a traffic jam, so i pulled into the outside lane which seemed to be the one that was moving most rapidly.
in the middle lane, just ahead of me, was the most beautiful car i had seen in ages.
when leaving the borg, it takes time for our real identities to assert themselves or we try out new things to see what fits us and our life.
here are a couple of things that are new to me lately:.
1) after a frightening incident a week ago (but nothing happened) i purchased a can of pepper spray.
Oh my !
Living here in little old England seems a world away from all that.
The idea of going jogging "Tooled up" as if for a gang fight, or packing a pistol to go shopping is just something out of a movie. I hope to God it never comes here.
we all know how the wts loves to toot their own horn about how jws are the most law abidding citizens in the world.
so then, why does the wts tolerate (encourage by its own inaction) the continuous ignorance of immigration laws?.
i have personally observed a whole host of illegal former canadians, mexicans, and central/south americans in congregations scatttered throughout the u.s. is the withholding of "privileges" sufficient conduct by those god told to obey all laws not conflicting wih his own?
O K , I know that this is old information, but I distinctly remember being told at an elders school some years ago that illegal immigrants could be accepted for baptism
We started by asking, "Why?" - the phrase the instructor used was that "Elders are not spiritual policemen" Several of us felt uneasy with that , but since I then lived in an area where it was not a local issue, it was left at that.
it just seemed inconsistant with the otherwise tight adherence to the rule of Romans 13.
after the wt study yesterday, the conductor read a letter from the society about the subscriptions.
i knew that they had cancelled the subscriptions to the magazines, but now they have discontinued almost all forms of subscriptions, i.e.
watchtower/awake on tape, large print wt, etc.
"in the interests of simplification "
There goes that dreaded word again , that has plagued the WTS ever since the 80's