after losing the wimbledon championship to her sister venus, serena williams was being interviewed on the court yesterday, and here is part of what she said: "i thank my god jehovah for being out here".. okay, so according to her words, jehovah blessed her by allowing her to be there to participate in a competitive sports championship match.
and not just any match.
wimbledon!
How many times over the years have we read in the pages of the wt or awake! magazine and other publications of the wt society words condemning jw children from joining sports teams in school because of its so-called dangers such as "bad association", "missing meetings and field service", bad influences,
She probably gives mucho $$$$ to the WTS. I often wondered why Michael Jackson never got nailed for his actions. Its all about the $$$$. Thats my best guess.
The Claw
you have to understand three things to comprehend the significance of 1975.. 1975 was the end of the watchtower society as we who lived in the 50's and 60's once knew it.
it would forever change because it was exposed for all the world to see as a group of liars and deceived dupes.. it all began with a baptist farmer named william miller who sat down with only his bible and a concordance and a crackpot idea that a .
a "day for a year" and the gentile times meant something profound which would effect his own day and time.
Such a great post Terry.
I remember getting pressured to get baptized before '75. So to please everybody I did in 1974. What a mistake. Like many other posters have already mentioned I too gave up 2 great jobs because of the WTS and the crap of '75.
The Claw.
in the appendix of the new "keep yourselves in god's love"-book i found the following statements regarding contact to ex-jw-family members:.
what if a relative is disfellowshipped?
in such a case, the close bond between family members can pose a real test of loyalty.
Rather, loyalty to Jehovah and his organization moves them to uphold the Scriptural arrangement of disfellowshipping
You notice they equate themselves with Jehovah. What Scriptural arrangement are they talking about??
I don't know of ANY scriptural arrangement that makes parents treat children this way.
Oh yeah I forgot we are talking about the WTS.
The Claw
atlantis has posted a download link for the 2008 book release, "keep yourselves in god's love".
i read a page or so from the book, and the first thing i notices is the simple language used that sounds like it is written to be read by a little child who is in elemenatary school.. the styel if very condescending and actually is insulting as if the reader is expected to have a very low level of intelligence or reading ability.. what is going on?
why is bethel printing such material?.
Maybe somebody like Blondie could prove me wrong on this, but after about 1975 there just did not seem to be much of any of the "deep" style of writing any longer.
Thats because 1975 was the end. Remember???
The Claw
it seems that within the last two weeks comments regarding the thought that elders and ms would be demoted if their.
children went to college was pretty popular.. i mentioned this to quite a few "on the edge" witnesses who are really pro-education and they were really interested in learning more about this, or hearing it from the .
platform, magazine, or co (who just left last week.).
This was a very interesting thread.
wt: "now the time to obey".
excerpts from watchtower 8/15/53 .
"the following was delivered by the president of the watch tower bible and tract society before the new world society assembly of jehovahs witnesses at yankee stadium, new york city, n.y., monday afternoon, july 20, 1953.
My mom got sucked in to this in 1969. She really thought the end would come soon. She always believed that she would never die and live right into the New System. "Millions now living will never die" she thought. Now she is 82 years old and in bad health. It is so sad to see her still clinging to this crap. The WTS has IMO stolen much of her adult life knocking on doors spreading this BS for years. I will never forgive the Cult for this disappointment of dreams.
i havn't been able to keep up with all the discussion in this forum as to why the gb has suddenly decided to implement these changes and perhaps someone has mentioned this already, but to me the most obvious reason has nothing to do with control, or money.
it has everything to do with the serious shortage of qualified brothers who can (or who are willing to) be used.
i have been involved in the organzation for 40 yrs and i have never seen the level of apathy and disillusionment among those serving in some capacity in this organization.
I was an elder until the early 1990s, and left the Witnesses all together when I couldn't stomach the 1914 Generation change.
How True this is Seeker4.
I Remember how my mom who is now 82 yrs old used to hope and pray that she would never have to die before the "New System". Its so sad to see so many loose their dreams of never dying. So many years of field service waiting on a dream. So sad. So sad.
The Claw
jehovah's witnesses currently teach that prior to 1914 no one could have predicted what happened in europe in 1914. they teach that the world was heading toward such idyllic stability that the events of 1914 caught everyone off-guard.
so surprised were the people of the time that they looked back with fondness at the calm preceding 1914 as a time that could never be gone back to.. what were the bible students teaching about 1914 prior to that year?
in what capacity did they claim to be teaching?.
Great post as always Auld. If I'm not mistaken I believe they originally taught that 1874 was the return of Christ (invisibly of course).
why rename the "congregation book study" the "congregation bible study" (a broad, generic term that could be applied to all meetings really) when surely it would have been more appropriate to rename the "watchtower study" that?.
after all, the watchtower study is touted as a "bible study" by the whole congregation, right?
jw's consider the watchtower study as the main weekly study of the bible that they do as a congregation, right?
It isn't a Bible study at all. It should be called what it really is "A Brainwashing Magazine Study".
just in case you slept in this morning and didn't get to the kh, here's an mp3 of the letter being read.... .
no more bookstudies (2007427_announcement.mp3): http://www.divshare.com/download/4361643-f65.
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"Cost of Fuel" If the cost of fuel is a big reason then they should stop the door to door work. That really burns fuel with all the starting and stopping that is done, not to mention the distance some have to travel just to get to the territory.
