blah, yep, back to meetings in full attire
Does this mean back to fs too? even with gas prices as they are? knocking on doors while people are still wary of covid? I have seen conflicting reports on fs, anybody know for sure?
a lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.
so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.
last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.
blah, yep, back to meetings in full attire
Does this mean back to fs too? even with gas prices as they are? knocking on doors while people are still wary of covid? I have seen conflicting reports on fs, anybody know for sure?
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https://youtu.be/guzbxzdpflo.
I'm with jhine on this one. Besides you still could put any vowels you wanted in there, the jw's would have no real reason to celebrate. You still have the problem of jehovah, jahuvoh, etc...
True story, years ago when my jw was first joining up one of the kids sees 2 guys walking down the sidewalk with ties and carrying book/bag, child says, "ugh, jw's!" I said, "no, not jw's" child, "how can you tell the difference?" I said, "the Mormons are smiling". Made perfect sense to child and child readily agreed as they had Mormon friends who were friendly and inclusive to all the kids in school. Also, the Mormons had name tags and no suit coats. We had never, ever seen jw's walking or coming to our doors with smiles on their faces and the jw's kids were 'odd' to be kind, ok, they were downright weird. Sorry, no offense but they were, at least the ones around our school.
memorial is upon us and looking for material to fi my next video.i wonder if you can help.i know there is a loose connection between black mass and the memorial because both desecrate and disrespect the host but does any one know when the arrangement of passing the bread and the wine started and by whom?.
I remember some video or something on the jw memorial being compared to a Satanic ritual where they too reject the body & blood of Christ. Don't remember where I saw it.
first off, i have made it real clear with jw's my thoughts on being a jw.
i'm out, there is no coming back.. second, i'm on their " do not call list" .. so why now all of a sudden my mailbox is getting bombed đź’Ł by their memorial invites and letters?.
don't they follow their do not call list?
You could write NY and ask them why the congregation isn't following the 'do not call list'. Isn't the 'do not call' a rule of sorts that comes down from the gb/org? if it is then those jw's are running a head of the org and not listening to mother! I wonder if you named names if those people would get marked or something?
I have written NY in years past and the letter(s) do actually make their way back to the local cong/ elders and actions was taken against a jw, that was my experience anyway.
Or write them back and bring up the pedophile problem, doctrinal issues, court cases, etc.... and that is why you are not coming back.
Or, just file it all in the recycle bin and feel bad for their sorry life in the jw's.
Hi Lady Lee! Sorry to hear of your struggles, wishing you good health.
mchenry county, woodstock, il .
northwest herald, shaw local news.
breaking news - read below full article - (article was blocked unless the reader has a subscription.
https://catholicexchange.com/can-priests-ever-reveal-what-is-said-in-confession/
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/catholic-faith/the-seal-of-the-confessional.html
It is my understanding that Catholics do not discuss with other priests confessions made. Not saying I agree with Catholics here, but they can claim 'clergy' because they do not discuss nor do they go to higher authorities within the church. jw's on the other hand usually have 3 men deciding what should or not done and they go on to discuss with wives and potentially keep their own loved ones away from a pedophile while allowing the pedophile free reign in the cong and in putting the general public at risk as well. The wives may talk amongst themselves and the rumor mill may start or perhaps a very few elite will know the truth.
Personally I think the Catholic church and the jw's have a hell of a lot to answer for in the case of child abuses. My point above is simply to distinguish the legal arguments of jw's cannot stand up and be compared to Catholics. They can't have their cake and eat it too. We have no clergy class except in when it suits us to protect or financial status and our 'reputation'.
from the second link- "Or if a priest needs guidance from a more experienced confessor to deal with a difficult case of conscience, he first must ask the permission of the penitent to discuss the matter. Even in this case, the priest must keep the identity of the person secret."
(I'm not a Catholic, only went to a Catholic church for weddings and funerals)
mchenry county, woodstock, il .
northwest herald, shaw local news.
breaking news - read below full article - (article was blocked unless the reader has a subscription.
I hope this makes national news. This is the only way for things to change in the org. Maybe men and their wives will think twice before even 'reaching' out for the great privilege of being elder to begin with. They should be held accountable for the subsequent rapes of a child when they let rapists/molesters go free in the cong and at the public at large. They are just as guilty as the pedo himself (or herself). They should be sued in civil court as well not just the organization.
As for it being 'persecution', I have asked my jw whenever he uses that one if it is persecution when authorities go after regular non jw people for the same crime? You can almost always find a non jw example of whatever their cry of 'persecution' is and it usually shuts them up pretty fast.
A six year old child and then it continued? !! makes me sick.
They face only one year in jail? meaning what? they serve maybe three months if that?
what “the abomination that causes desolation” mentioned in mathew 24:15 means could be understood only by close followers of jesus because it was part of his personal discussion with them.
by stopping to greet those whom they consider as “their enemies” jws are identifying themselves as “pagans,” according to jesus.
(mathew 5:43-48) thus they cannot correctly understand what the abomination that causes desolation” that would appear as part of signs of “last days.”.
Coming from mainstream Christianity, I can tell you (jw's) that nobody worships the cross. It represents the work of Christ upon the cross when He laid down His life for all.
Secondly, wearing a cross around jw's is like wearing garlic around vampires, it works.
watchtower 1954 p.511 "why do watchtower publications now show jesus with short hair and no beard?
because he is shown that way in older representations of him that are older then the traditional effeminate looking pictures.".
watchtower 1968 p.286 "bible evidence and a recent review shows that jesus did have a beard..." charles russell style of beard was popular at bethel...till rutherford took over.
I would agree with FFGhost, in the US at least in my area beards are still a no-no and my jw has disparaging remarks about beards at times.