We ran into a guy in the supermarket, who asked how we were and then said how are things in ********* congregation? He thought that we had moved across the border into another congo!!! We said we dont go there, we dont go. He was stunned. Couldn't figure it out and then left us.
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Big news!!! Our deliverance is at hand!!!
by Justice-One infrom time to time i humor the wife and go with her to the hall.
i was raised in "the truth" but quit believing more than ten years ago.
but this morning i was "shocked" to hear that "our deliverance is at hand!!!
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Kind of like Rutherford saying in the Harp of God....These are not man's dates but GODS!!!!! Yes the end came then too.....mustve missed it, been asleep, blinked or WHATEVER.
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no longer disfellowshipped for having a blood transfusion
by still wondering in.
can anyone help me in finding any statements made by the wtbs in any of their publications to confirm this change or even just the original news release which i understand was on their official website but i now can't find any reference to it.. is this a case of having one policy for public consumption to improve their public image but the another policy for internal consumption to give the impression that things hav'nt changed?.
it appears that the majority of jw do not know of the change in policy.
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Just like joining the army...........
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No more JW religious classes in schools!
by fair dinkim injust heard from a friend whose husband is an elder that a letter was read to the congregation from wbts stating that effective immediately "no religious instruction by jws in schools" or words to that effect.
here in australia they are called "scripture classes" and most schools conduct these as part of the school curriculum.
usually a member of the cong is assigned to conduct the lesson with jw kids in local school.
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It is a good thing that they have to stop it. I remember having to sit in the teachers staff room with my paradise book you know the nice orange one and read to ourselves while the rest of the class had their religious instruction. Who were the nerds? What did the class learn that was so shocking for us? May be how to think for themselves?
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Just returned from the 2006 (Armageddon's here) "Deliverance At Hand" DO
by apocalypse inhow much can one person gag?
it is interesting to note that clive thomas (canadian branch office) spoke during his part in such a way as to betray the fact that he was personally aware that what he was saying was false.. it's one thing when a local onion gets exuberant about parroting the gb's nonsense.
it's quite another when a bloodsucker like clive comes from the branch and does a "bait 'n switch" the way he did.
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These resolutions were and are always lame
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Just returned from the 2006 (Armageddon's here) "Deliverance At Hand" DO
by apocalypse inhow much can one person gag?
it is interesting to note that clive thomas (canadian branch office) spoke during his part in such a way as to betray the fact that he was personally aware that what he was saying was false.. it's one thing when a local onion gets exuberant about parroting the gb's nonsense.
it's quite another when a bloodsucker like clive comes from the branch and does a "bait 'n switch" the way he did.
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Stephanus....you are right on the money. Let everyone think that elders and ms's are getting hooked on porn and not what they are really hooked on to.....forums such as this and the are falling like flies. The WTS must be losing a few members and not just R&F but guys of influence and longevity. Surely the R&F must question where they are, what are they doing?
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How Jehovah's Witnesses are told to treat disfellowshipped Relatives.
by jwfacts inin another thread it was mentioned the witnesses do not shun disfellowshipped relatives, so i thought i would copy a few articles that show the watchtower says quite definitely that they are to almost totally shun relatives, along with some examples that i know personally.
i personally know many that have not been contacted by their parents for years;my cousin was my best friend, and for a year before my disfellowshipping week after week i spent hours with her and her child, who spent 4 months of his first year in hospital.
on the day of my disfellowshipping i was informed that i am no longer welcome there, and i have not seen my second cousin for 6 months now.
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Question Re: Jwfacts: In catching up with ex JWs I am learning that a number of young couples commit fornication prior to their wedding and never confess, including brothers in positions of authority. Some of these are never found out, and to this day some still have positions of authority.
Isn't there a loophole for position people? If their sin was unknown and a whaile ago, they could confess it and NOT lose status?
BTW: We had a couple here, raised their family, 2 sons and a daughter. The daughter grew up, married but later was DF'ed. The Father, our PO for many years had a certain amount of contact with her and her new husband. The contact was questioned a few times, but he always controlled the situation, and after a while, it was left alone. One of his daughter-in-laws was not happy about it and either was her father a top gun elder but no authority as he lived elsewhere. When there was an opportunity to take him down for it, she had "evidence" she got cold, and left a couple of elders out in the cold.
Jump forward a few years.
The wife/mother dies. The daughter-in-laws father had moved here and was appointed and elder, as well as we had a big shot elder who was on the local RBC and thought nothing of cutting the guts out of other elders move in as well as the CO visiting. The question arose about the funeral and the attendance of the df daughter and the cup of tea ofter the service. The big shots all said that this would be "eating with her"!!!!!
Dont worry that her mother has died....just any elder or ms that would be in attendance would NOT be attending the afternoon tea final!
Then they even moved around the crowd at the funeral and reminded the whole servant body to stay away from the daughter and not attend the afternoon tea.
Man it really sucked. Even though I was an elder at the time, you were absolutely caught by the balls. These guys patrolled all the time, it was absolutley sickening. Dont reach out to this poor woman, dont show her any concern.
I couldn't be like that, so I made a bee line, shook her hand, told her that I was sorry for her loss, but couldn't give her a hug, who would be watching? Everyone!! She held my hand and you could tell she didn't want to let go. My wife also extended her sympathy.
What did her husband think?
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Update! Attending Sunday Meeting and Loving it!
by drew sagan inyep that's right folks, yours truely has actually been attending the sunday meeting.
many will ask, why in the hell would you ever do that?
well, developments going on in my world have led me to this decision.
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Drew....you rock!!!
Having taken the Wt study, if I had someone who made the "way out" comments, I would see their hand up, look around, wait.......look some more then look at my page, then with my head down, I would then call on the reader to read the next paragraph, instead of asking Bro Wayoutthere his answer. I concur with a previous comment, about it being your last answer. Let's hope not.
I did give a talk about bible chronology from the SI book, but interspersed it with the information from Gentile Times Reconsidered....I loved it, and no one seemed to pick up on my opposing information.
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Internet fulfillment of Matthew 13:47 - WT 9/15/06
by Gregor in"again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net (interossos catchmo), that was cast into the sea (universalis webicus) and gathered of every kind (neticus surfas)" mt.
so today, as we all strive to be worthy of the blessings of jehoover gawd we must avail ourselves of the blessings of his internet.
truly "food in due season" for those who hunger for the truth and some occasional soft core porn.
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This passage is/was a big deal for me. After the "new light" of 1995, I was looking at the wt explanation, which I think is still the current light a wt from about 1992, which had a huge explanation of how this scripture was understood, but in line with the 95 light, nothing fitted.....check it out for your self. The sheep and the goats, the wheat and the weeds and the good fish and bad fish, none of it ties together at all.
I asked a few people about it, including our CO at the time, no one wanted to even look at it, or consider that the 95 light was crap!! they all thought I was a screw loose....an embryonic apostate!!! -
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I'm really ticked right now!!!
by sammielee24 insituation ugly.
long story short - adult children have refused contact with df'd father for a few years.
(except for the initial obligatory hate letter full of references to satan and some disgusting name calling).
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The advice is spot on. But, yes the question remains, What is "necessary family business"?? When I was "in" and an "elder" this term was bandied about, as in "only necessary family business" and nothing else. [You know, elders laying the law down because someone thinks that someone else has crossed the line and needs a sharp jab up the rear!!]
But the family with the df'ed member says, yes, the wt says necessary family business, so there are times when we can have contact.
NO ONE not even the mighty elders almanac spell out exactly what is and isn't necessary family business.
What have others been canned for? What have others been "allowed" to do?