Posts by insearchoftruth

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

insearchoftruth

Well the assembly saga continues......yesterday morning (I think) my wife met with the pesky sister hwo she had a 'bible' study with in the past, well it seems that due to some impending surgery, this sister has passed my wife off to another sister for her study. The first sister was a bit young for my wife's liking, she wanted someone with more 'life experience', so she has been passed to someone else.....hopefully a hardline jw. I think I had mentioned on another thread that my wife had talked to the former study sister about reading the 'bible', something my wife has not done in the past.....in the great witness way of studying the bible, she was handed our third copy of the bible teach book, the english version of reasoning from the scriptures (I have her first copy here) and she gave my wife her copy of Insight in the Scriptures. I asked my wife if she was going to just read the 'bible' on its own, the answer I recieved (not at all to my surprise) was 'we need help to understand the bible'. I tried to talk to her about the Bible being God's inspired word and the help materials being of man, but I think the sister may have prepared her a bit for this, cause I started getting the bit about the anointed blah, blah, blah.......(and by the way, isn't a lot of the writing now being done by the non-anointed?)

OK, now back to the assembly. After meeting with the pesky sister, she had called me and asked if I would take Friday off of work and attend the assembly with her....I could think of many better ways to spend my time, but did not instantly say no, or yes, but I would think about it. My wife has been a MK consultant for some time now, well as the evening went on she set an appointment for Friday afternoon at 2:00 pm (meaning she will need to leave around 12:00 or 12:30) and then another appointment for early Saturday afternoon about an hour from home, (going to attempt to make as early in the afternoon as I can) as well as hoping to set another appointment for Sunday afternoon.

I am not trying to be overly pleased with the developments, because I think a lot of the bs they discuss she may see through, since she has started to develop a bit of an ability to think on her own!!! Needless to say...quite confusing.

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

insearchoftruth

Thanks, good idea on attending the last day and some great thought provoking questions......

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Wife attending DC, what can I expect when she returns?

by insearchoftruth in

my wife has recently been contacted by a pesky meddling sister about restarting a bs that she stopped almost a year ago and she is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va in a couple of weeks.. i have no idea what these are like, and was wondering if you all could provide me some read ahead material so i know what areas they will hit on, as well as be able to prepare me for her attitude and mood on her return, not only each evening, but also after the event is over.

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insearchoftruth

bttt

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Insight In the Scriptures.....is there anything I can use in these volumes?

by insearchoftruth in

when i got home today i noticed another stack of stuff on the kitchen table, more wt garbage, including the english version of reasoning from the scriptures as well as a copy of insight in the scriptures that sister gave my wife.

my wife said she wanted to 'read the bible', i asked a simple question why she needed all the other books to accomplish that...she said just to provide her some assistance.

she was also stating today how it really does not matter how people interpret the scriptures, because there is only one correct interpretation....i wanted to get sick...... is there anything in these books, since they are from 1988, that i can use to my benefit....for example does it talk about the annointed and the generation where i could ask her to look it up as compared to the new light..... just wondering, may be reaching here, but anything would help!

insearchoftruth

Thanks Aude....another question, that is all I seem to do is ask questions. Since my wife has been pursuing her education and has done a pretty fair job of developing some critical thinking skills (but a long way to go) how do I appeal to her ability and gift of thinking to get her to look at information other than that published by the watchtower. It gets me ill to hear her talk about reading the 'bible', when she has to have a stack of other books next to her to accomplish...how did the men and women of old manage to understand the Bible without all these publications.

I thought there was some scripture about how one can understand the bible on its own...maybe I am very mistaken here?

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Insight In the Scriptures.....is there anything I can use in these volumes?

by insearchoftruth in

when i got home today i noticed another stack of stuff on the kitchen table, more wt garbage, including the english version of reasoning from the scriptures as well as a copy of insight in the scriptures that sister gave my wife.

my wife said she wanted to 'read the bible', i asked a simple question why she needed all the other books to accomplish that...she said just to provide her some assistance.

she was also stating today how it really does not matter how people interpret the scriptures, because there is only one correct interpretation....i wanted to get sick...... is there anything in these books, since they are from 1988, that i can use to my benefit....for example does it talk about the annointed and the generation where i could ask her to look it up as compared to the new light..... just wondering, may be reaching here, but anything would help!

insearchoftruth

When I got home today I noticed another stack of stuff on the kitchen table, more wt garbage, including the english version of Reasoning From the Scriptures as well as a copy of Insight in the Scriptures that sister gave my wife. My wife said she wanted to 'read the Bible', I asked a simple question why she needed all the other books to accomplish that...she said just to provide her some assistance.

She was also stating today how it really does not matter how people interpret the scriptures, because there is only one correct interpretation....I wanted to get sick.....

Is there anything in these books, since they are from 1988, that I can use to my benefit....for example does it talk about the annointed and the generation where I could ask her to look it up as compared to the new light....

Just wondering, may be reaching here, but anything would help!!

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

insearchoftruth

If I were to go with her on one day, what would be my best day to be able to start to 'drip' some knowledge on her........

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

insearchoftruth

My wife as well is very driven by education and this past weekend was talking about finishing her associates degree(s), finishing up with her bachelors by summer of 2010 with the intent to go to graduate school.

How can I make a comment with regards to her pursuit of education that will help her critically think and really process what the WTS is trying to drive forward with on education, to keep people from getting it so they don't think for themselves and just accept the workings of the society.

One of her interests also lies with history, I am Lutheran by upbringing. If I were to ask her about the history of the Jehovahs Witnesses, I know she would ask the pesky sister....what would the 'programmed' response be, or would I be able to get the proclaimers book which would help me somewhat with Captives of a Concept.

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

insearchoftruth

Good afternoon,

My wife is going to be attending the assembly in Hampton, VA this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that I could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?

It has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a DC, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but I think she has done a few BS with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.

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Voting - what is the current position?

by insearchoftruth in

my wife recently became a citizen and when she was registered to vote, she was very excited....now she is with the mindset that though earthly governments are important due to keeping some semblance of order, voting only brings one farther from jehovah because it makes one more of this world....what is the current view on voting, is it one of those things that is stated to be a matter of conscience, but one is strongly frowned upon if they actually make a decision to do it?

insearchoftruth

Yes that is a question, and when she took the oath, she did not take the modified oath that some may take due to religious objections, it was the full blown oath with miltary service etc. in it.

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Voting - what is the current position?

by insearchoftruth in

my wife recently became a citizen and when she was registered to vote, she was very excited....now she is with the mindset that though earthly governments are important due to keeping some semblance of order, voting only brings one farther from jehovah because it makes one more of this world....what is the current view on voting, is it one of those things that is stated to be a matter of conscience, but one is strongly frowned upon if they actually make a decision to do it?

insearchoftruth

There is no doubt that I shall vote....trying to get her to vote as well!!