Posts by bronzefist

here is a quick summary, in august i turned in an elder resignation letter stating that i could not teach doctrine from the governing body because i did not "know" them at all, and i had doubts.

when asked by the elders, i said the doubts spring from this generation and 1975. the elders took no action, waiting for mother to tell them what to do.

would want to talk to me on his visit.. this week, our c.o.

This is just my experiences with quite a few elders and a couple of CO's. There is NO amount of proof from any of the WTS publications that you can bring to their attention that will change their thinking on any given subject. They will NEVER admit their current thinking is flawed. One CO in his concluding talk said that you should NEVER look up scriptures or articles to disagree (support your view) with what you have been told by the BOE.

My thinking now is: "You can lead a mule to water, but you can't make him drink."

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-8-06 WT Study (PRAYER)

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 10-08-06 wt study (september 1, 2006, pages 22-26)(prayer).

review comments will be in red.

wt material from today's wt will be in black.

bronzefist

Thanks Blondie always an interesting read.

brzfst

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Which did you fear more as a JW, God or the Elders?

by JH in

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i felt that god understood if i missed meetings or didn't go out in the field service very much, but the elders wouldn't.. bottom line, i feared the elders more ...... that's pretty sad.

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bronzefist

Gary you break me up...We lived in the country and at night it was dark as the inside of a cow.

I was never in fear of God. The elders worried me more than made me afraid. Once I saw them for what they are the worry part disappeared.

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MY SON WAS ATTACKED!

by Dansk in

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yesterday afternoon my older son, karl, who is studying musical production at brighton university, came round to see his family.

he had just been to see his pregnant girlfriend, who is staying with her mum and dad for a week.. karl is a wonderful boy; the type of son any parent would be proud of.

he is loving, considerate, respectful and has never once caused any trouble or been in any.

bronzefist

Ian hope things work out for the best and the punks get caught. Kids in a pack like that are always brave....they will piss their pants when the time comes. Hopefully Karl will be over this soon. You're absolutely right about the value of possesions when compared to a loving child.

bzsfst

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The Dud's Came Calling Today!

by Legolas in

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hubbie, myself and our son were outside building our garage when i heard a car pulling in, although i am the only lucky one that saw them .

anywho as soon as they saw us they hightailed it away...now there was only always 4-5 people i went out with (arwen being one of them...hi arwen.

btw....this same person (the pioneer with her husband) met my son and his girlfriend about a month ago at the farmers market so my son said hi because he has been working at the same place with the husband for the last year....and she comes back and says...'i don't know you'... then turns and walks away.....wtf...what an idiot/retarded/stupid thing to say!.

bronzefist

Did she throw the latest tract on the ground for you to read? Oh, wait a minute that would be a swine throwing down a pearl.

brzfst

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Latest films you saw?

by greendawn in

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what's the latest film that you watched on dvd or cinema and would you recommend it or was it bad boring film?

i haven't watched any films for months now but i will when i restart my satellite tv subscription next month.

bronzefist

I watched Silent Hill last night and really liked it. The Decent was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

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Yes, What You Really Wear Does Matter !

by The wanderer in

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yes, your clothing really does matterbeing one of jehovah's witnesses always made.

the individual conscious of the clothes you were .

the men had to wear suits and the women.

bronzefist

I would walk 5 miles to the assembly hall with tennis shoes and then change into dress shoes.( Cuts down on the blisters.)

Carrying the dress shoes started to be a pain so I left the dress shoes at home. EVERYONE would look down at my tennis shoes and do the eye roll thing. An elder made a comment about it not looking right. I took off the shoes and walked around the assembly hall in my socks. When people asked what was up I would say, "I walked 5 miles to get here. Apparently wearing comfortable shoes to walk 5 miles to get here stumbles most of you. Perhaps, like Jesus said to the Pharisees, you should consider the more important things."

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Let's just get something straight about 1975.

by WTFBBQPWNT in

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nobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.

in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?

there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..

bronzefist

monkeyshine wrote:

He/she just started this forum to get everyone going. But it's not funny but insulting to those who experienced this time.

I wasn't in the organization during this crap, but my wife was. She was in tears for me to join up because she was convincined 1975 was the year she would lose me as her husband. Lots of people were victimized by the insinuation of 1975 being "the year". The callous "it was those jumping ahead" thinking of those trying to defend the "evil empire" just goes to show the lack of empathy butt kissing drones have. How about this money making machine "setting things straight" with those they led over the cliff by being honest about their MISTAKE. Even a little kid crapping in his pants has the brains to say, "Sorry."

brzfst