my mum recently visited a friend who is still a jw (mum stopped going a few years ago).. the friend told my mum that there are now different magazines printed for jw's and for everyone else.
if this has already been discussed i apologise for the repeat.
as mum left the friend offered mum some magazines and mum said "ah but which ones are you going to give me?!
My mum recently visited a friend who is still a JW (mum stopped going a few years ago).
The friend told my mum that there are now different magazines printed for JW's and for everyone else.
If this has already been discussed I apologise for the repeat. Do we know why this is?
As mum left the friend offered mum some magazines and mum said "ah but which ones are you going to give me?!" Anyway I think she got the infidel version, not the kosher ones.
i received an email from a lawyer who has been studying with witnesses for some time.
he wanted to know my story, if i am disfellowshipped and if i have an axe to grind, in order to know if the information at jwfacts.com can be trusted.
i was raised a jw, my aunty and uncle, many cousins and grandparents are jws.
That is such an interesting story. And I find this particularly telling:
Witnesses have one of the highest turnover rates of any religion, with 100'000's adversely affected through being shunned. The Witnesses divorce rate is as high as the general population, they have the lowest level of education and lowest income levels of any established religion in developed countries.
Very very interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
i have received word that we are now 'very, very close'.
at the sunday meeting, according to my trusted source, the speaker actually said that 'it is no longer years, nor months - yet weeks and days'.
so they need you back, now!
1 gazillion days??
LMAO!
it's official; they read the letter tonight that puts forth the new procedure.
if you find an expelled person in the field or are studying with one, you are no longer permitted to give them lit.
presumably the elders make a decision if an expelled one is regularly attending meetings, but only they can give them lit.
It really is an odd twist.
Usually repressive regimes just burn literature. But these guys are kind of comitted to printing it, so instead of burning it (which admittedly would look kinda silly right after you had printed it!) they make up rules about who can read it! Its sort of trying to look liberal while secretly being repressive - a VERY hard balancing act I would say.
there are 3 current threads that say these very things.
(ok, the one about armageddon says it will come within days or weeks--not months--so that means june 2007.
seems to me this is whipping up into a paranoia bigger than the 1980s apostate scare, bigger than they've ever seen before.
the big A will indeed come in June. On the 12th of June, in fact
Oh no. Ive got a kid at school im putting in for a national maths challenge on June 12th. Does this mean he doesnt need to revise?
well me and megan are all married now.. we had an amazing day, the weather was perfect and of course the baby was there in a way (inside its ma').
mum unfortunately missed it because she was in hospital from thursday, so next year were renewing vows to give her the opportunity to see something similar to what we did yesterday.. thanks for your support here everyone, love karl (and megan).. .
Congrats!!!!!!!!
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one is taken from the liveforever book, the other from stern magazine, but which one come first?
I wonder why Stern stole the WT drawing?
And turned it into a photograph so no-one would notice!! Bwhahahahahahahaha This is hilarious. At least it explains why they need such a big legal department.
i don't even want to touch thisyet,but if it turns out that he's the perp this jw connection will be explored further this is the biggest news in europe the reward is up to $5 million as big a case as jonbenet ramsey was in the usa madeleine: is robert murat suspect or scapegoat?.
daily mail, uk -.
she's a jehovah's witness and she's still married.
I totally agree with Gill. I realise the parents will do anything they can. I think what irks me is that these nice middle class parents have had full support for their actions. The british press have printed articles saying "any parent would leave their children in a room while they went out for a meal".
But if they had been white trash on Costa Del Crappy I think they would have been vilified and not received one tenth of the help they have received.
And the really tragic thing was that the hotel they were in offered a creche facility AND a child minding service and nether option was taken up.
Now I know you dont expect your kid to be snatched but you SHOULD expect that they might wake up and call for you and be distressed when they realise you are not in the house at all. Or they might wake up and start playing with electrical things / matches / things that might be sharp. Or they might fall over and hurt themselves. Or they might decide they are going to see what happens when they put a bag over their brothers head. Or anything that requires a parent being nearby to stop it happening.
No hindsight was needed in this case. Its just a no brainer that you dont leave 3 children under the age of 3 in a hotel room in a foreign country and go out for a meal. Its just tragic for the little girl that the very worst thing imaginable happened.
for all of you new ones or lurkers who have not yet seen this corespondence with the society, you definately should take the time to see just how willing they are to avoid the questions at hand regarding 607 but quick to say you are spiritually sick..now that is sick!
anyhow, here is the link.
scroll to the bottom of the page and see all the different letters back and forth.. http://www.jwfiles.com/607v587/index.htm.
WOW, that was a long read, but well worth it.
He was so genuine and polite in his letters and they didnt answer ANY of his original questions except to say 'well its a difficult matter and we go with what the bible says when there is a conflict'. They just flipped him off.
This historical research is a different world. I had just swallowed wholesale everything the WTS wrote without ever thinking to research any of it myself. I had no idea there were so many old documents that could be dated so accurately due to the position of planets.
i pretended to be a student in a sociology of religion class at a university i made up... middlebury community college in dallas texas... :p .
i said i was doing a report on how different denominations deal with the litigation, mitigation and media coverage of abuse allegations... .
i said that i was wondering if the coverage i had seen all over the internet about the payout to the victims in california would be covered (and when) by the media page on the jw website.
Thats really funny!
Dont they realise that this level of tight lipped panic just makes them look twice as bad.
