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'jehovah's witnesses do not waste time and money by building large church edifices to invite people to such to hear them preach .
let god be true p.1924.
for our circuit we have a huge purpose built hall. i could not find a picture on line but i thought that this was quite interesting:
| East Pennine Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses | ||||||||
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| Address: | 1 Irwin Drive Nottingham NG6 7BJ | |||||||
| CC registration: | 515577. | |||||||
| Constitution: | Trust. | |||||||
| Brief description of aims: | Advancement of the christian religion | |||||||
[i]i wasn't sure where to post my introduction, so i am going to put it here.
if any admins or mods feel it should be moved, please do so.
i found this forum linked from http://members.aol.com/beyondjw/bj.htm, a jehovah's witnesses recovery site.
hi sabrina
welcome sabrina from a fellow newbie( 4 days old).
i agree with you that when you are brought up as a jw that it is always in the back of your mind, sometimes in the front.
you can take the girl out of the kingdom hall but you can't take the kingdom hall out of the girl, i fear.
i still feel bad (4 1/2 years down the line) about even looking at these websites and would hate my family who are still dubs to know that i do.
but they seem nice people here on jwd.
welcome again
zaphod
a cousin of mine was married to a brother at seventeen for two years.
they both pioneered and were, evidently, a happy spiritual couple.. my cousin realised that she had made a huge mistake marrying this brother, as they both were hormonally charged teenagers who had followed paul's advice to get married if they could not go without sex.
she just did not love him any more and she felt trapped by the jw stance on divorce.. this was her escape plan:.
i never thought that i could be more disallusined by the jw's but this subject is such an eye-opener to me.
it just shows that the organisation as so superficial and worldly.
if brothers and sisters really believed that jehovah was judging them and not just the elders then i cannot think that they would resort to such machinations.
does anyone really believe or does it just make them feel special to be a member of an exclusive club.
zaphod
a cousin of mine was married to a brother at seventeen for two years.
they both pioneered and were, evidently, a happy spiritual couple.. my cousin realised that she had made a huge mistake marrying this brother, as they both were hormonally charged teenagers who had followed paul's advice to get married if they could not go without sex.
she just did not love him any more and she felt trapped by the jw stance on divorce.. this was her escape plan:.
that reminds me of a time when i was much younger and i got into a compromising situation with a brother.( although we stopped well short of full sex)
feeling guilty, i immediately informed the po by phone. he asked me in intimate detail what had occurred even asking me if the brother had ejaculated.
i was horrified.
when i was divorced i also had to beg my ex for a confession of adultery so that i could get a scriptural divorce even though i knew that he had been unfaithful and he had physically and emotionally abused me. i think that he really enjoyed the year and a half that he kept me dangling until he got bored and admitted to many more counts than i had realised.
zaphod
a cousin of mine was married to a brother at seventeen for two years.
they both pioneered and were, evidently, a happy spiritual couple.. my cousin realised that she had made a huge mistake marrying this brother, as they both were hormonally charged teenagers who had followed paul's advice to get married if they could not go without sex.
she just did not love him any more and she felt trapped by the jw stance on divorce.. this was her escape plan:.
do you think so? i was always led to believe that a sin was a sin was a sin.
deliberately lying would be just as bad as adultery (and if my cousin was totally honest about her motives, not half as much fun)
i thought that the only distinction as far as sin was concerned was that there were certain ones (i never knew what they actually were) that were unforgivable, sinning against the holy spirit.
zaphod
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for an oldie i'd pick audrey hepburn singing moon river ... mmnnnn, i never get tired of that.. currently i'm listening to norah jones an aweful lot.
she is very easy on the ears and is my "audible-heaven" right now.. so who's voice makes you 'melt' ?
i have to agree with my gran and say nat king cole
listening to him is like drowning in sweet, melted chocolate. (how you'd expect it to be, though, not actually how it would be, because it would actually be quite horrid)
zaphod
a cousin of mine was married to a brother at seventeen for two years.
they both pioneered and were, evidently, a happy spiritual couple.. my cousin realised that she had made a huge mistake marrying this brother, as they both were hormonally charged teenagers who had followed paul's advice to get married if they could not go without sex.
she just did not love him any more and she felt trapped by the jw stance on divorce.. this was her escape plan:.
a cousin of mine was married to a brother at seventeen for two years. they both pioneered and were, evidently, a happy spiritual couple.
my cousin realised that she had made a huge mistake marrying this brother, as they both were hormonally charged teenagers who had followed paul's advice to get married if they could not go without sex.
she just did not love him any more and she felt trapped by the jw stance on divorce.
this was her escape plan:
she felt that if she left and had an unscriptural divorce, that would take years to come through, she may be disfellowshipped and that brothers would not be free to marry her once she was reinstated.
so (by her own admission) she had no choice but to have an affair with a man in order to get a scriptural divorce from her husband so that when she had taken her medicine and come back to the meetings, she would be eligible to be someone else's wife and not be condemned to a life of celibacy (or secrecy).
then she moved back in with her family before she was d'fd so that she copuld still have contact when the inevitable happened.(smart girl, really)
and the elders would not know her motives only her actions.
but surely, if you truly believe, then the one that matters, who knows all things, knows. you surely cannot get away with anything, if you truly believe. and if you don't believe god is with you and watching - why subject yourself to the organisations rules? could it be because her family and friends would shun her if she was actually true to herself?
there's nowt so queer as folk, eh?
zaphod
letter read tonight.
said that the "watchtower bible and tract society of canada" will change its letterheads and signature to "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses".
jez
if jw are supposed to be a worldwide brotherhood, doesn't this variety of names kind of detract from that?
looks to me like different sects of one organisation.
zaphod
are there any celeb exdubs that have publicised their views?
zaphod
i remember going to sunday meetings...the public talks went by fast (sometimes).
but the watchtower study to me was so boring and not interesting at all.
it felt longer than the public talk.
i agree with mamochan about public talks.*yawn*
especially when it was a dull monotonous speaker who would drone on and on and on and on and on.
worst of all were the interminable talks at the district assemblies.
and the experiences of all the wonderfully spiritual brothers and sisters.
when it was people from your own congregation, did anyone ever seem to resemble the person that you knew from your hall.
i always used to think, she/he is not like that, why are they up on the platform lying. of course, one could never say this out loud.
zaphod
