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  Do JW women expect LESS from their man than Non-jw women?

  by pistolpete in

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  non-jw women usually expect their man to have some type of social status.

  whether it's education, money, fame, etc.. these days, feminism also plays a role in a future, marriage.

  (the man is not the head, maybe the women is the head).

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  BluesBrother

  Cannot speak for women but being a JW husband makes you expect more of your wife than normal people do.

  A JW wife is expected to be submissive, have a " quiet and mild spirit " and yet be zealous in preaching and develop all the housewifely skills .... The ideal of Proverbs 31 is held to be a minimum requirement. Phew!

  I found that once I stopped following the JW thinking , our marriage improved because I was not expecting so much of my wife. I began to appreciate her as she was not what I thought she should be..
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  If not the WT/JW relgion where else are 'we' to go? Why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism?

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  sometimes jws wonder if the wt/jw is not the truth, 'then where else are we to go?

  ' i say 'why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism and why not a secular philosophy which teaches a way of life?

  ' what do you folks say?.

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  BluesBrother

  The "Where else can we go" attitude stems from the belief the JW ism is the truth, the only truth and that all other ideas are foolish or evil.

  In fact, once one has opened your mind to the idea that it may not be true, the whole world of alternative ideas become yours to examine. It is just a question of shattering that cloak of inviincibilty that surrounds the WTS in a dubby mind. It is scary at first, your certainties have gone, but it is so rewarding in the end.
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  Smile, It's Friday

  by MeanMrMustard in

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  BluesBrother

  It's Saturday already.... Reasons To Be Cheerful. ....Ian Dury

  https://youtu.be/CIMNXogXnvE
  
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  What Do You Want To Talk About Regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we do talk a lot about how this site doesn’t center on all things jw.

  so what would you like to discuss?.

  the floor is yours..

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  BluesBrother

  Anybody else catch the May broadcast where Kenneth Cook describes in some detail the prophecy of the King of the North and South and why they believe that is now Russia as the King of the North ?

  It is placing themselves at the centre of world events....
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  Jws failure to protect their vulnerable follower

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545969/amp/jehovahs-witnesses-criticised-failing-stop-devout-followers-plan-stab-wife-49-times.html .

  elder should face some kind of criminal prosecution..

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  BluesBrother

  Shocking story. Poor woman.... Her husband an obvious mental case. I wonder how that elder felt when he learned what had happened? I’d bet that he never believed that he would really do it.

  If he did know she was really in danger, the blood is on his head too.
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  Was your faith in Armagedddon connected to current events?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  2. beliefs

  remember when nixon resigned?

  the big a was here some said.

  remember 1986 and the "international year of peace and security?

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  BluesBrother

  My faith was formed growing up in the Organisation and in those days there was no internet and much fewer sources of news .

  I fully accepted that the world was bad, worse than it has ever been. In the sixties we were closer to WW2, the Cold War was in force. The threat of nuclear annihilation seemed real. If you couple that with scary crime statistics, famines being reported and the Watchtowers and Awakes trumpeting every problem the world had.....and yes I believed we “could not last much longer “

  The last 20 years have taught me a lot . I have gained more perspective and learned that the past was pretty difficult to live in with a lot of cruelty and hardship.

  Now, Armageddon is just something that others believe in
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  Police raid a Kingdom Hall in Norway and question elders

  by cachito in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  police raid a kingdom hall in norway of jehovah's witnesses and question elders.jehovah's witnesses want to cooperate with the police and explain why they have an arc of alleged crimes.

  they claim that their elders are priests and must maintain confidentiality ... however ... the watchtower headquarters does not ask elders to refer to themselves as priests, that would be a disfellowshipping offense.

  and they do not ask their elders to maintain confidentiality ... they must give the information to high ranking officials within the watchtower hierarchy.

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  BluesBrother

  Would somebody please put a copy of that letter translated into English ?

  I could not get to it on this device.
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  Will you be giving a 'Witness' when your name appears in the obituary?

  by was a new boy in

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  'he remained faithful to jehovah up to his death.'.

  i guess that means he never got in trouble with the elders.. .

  'he enjoyed spreading the good news about god's kingdom and helping others...'.

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  I don’t care what they say about me or what they do with my bones before I am cremated. I contend that funerals are for the benefit of the living who are bereaved, not the dead.

  Since I am still known at the Hall I dare say my nearest and dearest would ask for a J W service.. I don’t know what they could say about me though.
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  Do JWs now allow some gambling?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had seen a video evens did where he said that jws now say if you gambling for entertainment its ok. anyone have any link to the cult actually in print or video saying this?.

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  BluesBrother

  Well Well..... I missed that revision when I downloaded the Shepherding book. They have relaxed the rules.

  Back in the nineties, the last Judicial Committee I sat on dealt with a bro. Whom I was told had been found gambling with lottery scratch cards. During the process I learned that all he had done was to give some loose change to a local charity and received a “lucky number scratch card” ,

  Even then, I knew that in a more enlightened congregation an elder would simply have had a word in his ear and that would be the end of it. However I had to go along as we read him scriptures about “the god of good luck” and how serious the sin was. He was duly Judicially Reproved..

  Times change, don’t they?
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  Headship and WT's Changed Understanding

  by Bobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't think anyone has mentioned that the february 2021 study wt (p. 15, 16; par.

  8) changed wt's long standing view on headship within the congregation.

  wt used to view all baptized males as being the head of all baptized sisters.. this view led to such absurdities as a sister having to wear a head covering on a bible study because her baptized 10 year old son was sitting in on the study with her.

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  BluesBrother

  I did not see this as a changed understanding. The article says:-

  “To know if she should wear a head covering, a sister would need to answer these three questions:

  1. 1. Does the activity require that a sister pray publicly or teach from the Bible while a baptized brother is present?​—1 Cor. 11:4, 5.

  2. 2. Even if a baptized male is not present, would this assignment normally be done by a baptized brother?​—1 Tim. 2:11, 12; Heb. 13:17.

  3. 3. If the sister is married, is her husband present while she publicly prays for others or teaches them from the Bible?​—1 Cor. 11:3.

  If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then a sister should wear a head covering. If the answer to all those questions is no, then she does not need to wear a head covering”

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  so is a sister takes her baptised son on a Bible study and prays, she should cover her head.