we all know that jw's don't make friends out of their religion, but in the jw religion, can members have close friendship with the other sex?.
my experience in the org.
makes me say no.. i remember one cold winter, i was waiting for a brother in his driveway, and my car was warm, and his wife was waiting for someone to pick her up in front of her home, and since i waiting in the entrance waiting for her jw husband to come out of the house so that we could leave in my car, so i told the sister, his wife, who was waiting in the cold, to sit in my warm car while her lift arrives, so she finally sat in my car, but when her husband came out of the house and saw her in my car with me alone, although she was seated in the back, he told her, why are you alone with him.. gee, they both knew me since years, and we were good friends.
Can JW's have friends of the opposite sex? Not without unfounded rumors flying your way. This nice guy in my hall is close friends with a girl younger than him, and was subject to scrutiny and gossip for some time. The guy can't help it though; he never really had the chance to become close friends with too many people, so he took whatever friendship he could get.
Since then he does more things with male friends, so the scrutiny has lessened somewhat.
the insert is called "how do i view blood fractions and medical procedures involving my own blood?
" i will attempt to transcribe the more salient points for everyone here.. paragraph 1 (verbatim): the bible commands christians to "abstain ... from blood.
" (acts 15:20) thus, jehovah's witnesses do not accept transfusions of whole blood or the four primary components of blood-namely, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma.
Finally they are being clear about some things.
But the pizza illustration and the alphabet soup illustration are spot-on. What a mess they've got themselves in.
recieved this e-mail from a jw relative, thought i would share the lunacy.
not trying to foretell anything, just some interesting things that happened in october.
watchtower library has many more.
October is indeed a strange month. You lose an hour of TIME ITSELF!
Another insane fact about October: the month is owned by Reggie Jackson. After all, he is Mr. October!
okay, i have been harping on this issue for some time.
i think i have this thing refined enough that i can communicate it succinctly.
i want as much feedback as possible.
Let's see if I can play Devil's advocate here...
Your goal is to disprove that you need to have (some) knowledge, that you must associate with the congregation, and that you must preach, all before getting baptized, right?
Now, in the case of the 3,000 baptized, the Ethopian, and Lydia, they were either Jews or proselyte Jews. Therefore a dub could argue in their case that they had already had a basic knowledge of scripture, and that they associated with the Jews. But the need for this becomes undone by the cases of the jailer and the centurion. The dub in this case will probably argue that the congregation was young, and therefore there was a flexibility with the rules. I don't know how they would support this scripturally.
The cases of the jailer and the centurion destroy any uniform pattern of taking in knowledge (based on their faulty translation of John 17:3), association with the Christian congregation, and preaching before baptism. There is no proof that either person did these things.
I was reading a bit about qualifications...specifically, whom was qualified to teach. The overall theme was that the Holy Spirit would make itself manifest in those who were qualified to teach. The only scripture I can see to support having knowledge in order to be qualified to teach (unbaptised publisher) would be 2 Timothy 2:2, wherein Paul says that if Timothy related to faithful men what Timothy heard from him, these faithful men in turn would be qualified to teach. These faithful men were already baptised, but the person might use this scripture anyway.
However, all of 1 Corinthians 2 basically destoys any claim that you need to be examined before baptism.
The baptism is the gateway, not the goal. You get baptised, then you preach. Paul was writing to baptised persons when he exhorted them to get rid of their unclean practices (1 Corinthians 6:9,10, Galatians 5:19-21). But dubs will apply these words to unbaptised people anyway.
I'll look into the Organization book to see what support they give for the Questions for Baptismal Candidates.
and what did y ou do about it,,or could you do anything bout it?.
thanks,,,,orbi.
OR GOD forbid get an education and never have to deal with such things unlike your "CITY" where you can be killed for wearing the wrong colors....
That's more of an LA thing, holmes. Besides, you don't think there are Bloods and Crips outside of the big cities?
a few years ago, i was diagnosed with too much iron in my blood.
most people lack iron, but i have too much.
with time, this iron lodges in the body, and it's not good.. so, my doctor told me to give blood a few times a year and this problem would be solved.
I sent you a PM, Skyking.
if anyone is interested in meeting once a month (on a wednesday nite) for dinner or drinks, pm me.
i would like to get to know some of you guys face to face.
I am, but I have a bedtime now...
We'll be able to hang out someday...
i'm wondering if anyone here is from san diego, mostly east county -- ?.
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I am, but I'm just east of Mission Bay.
and what did y ou do about it,,or could you do anything bout it?.
thanks,,,,orbi.
Option B, move out and let them destroy themselves. Who needs it. There are plenty of rural and middle america communities that don't even have to concern themselves with such problems. You are dealing with a subculture bent on selfdestruction do you need your family any where near such a thing.
Running away doesn't solve a thing. Crackheads or methheads will be your next door neighbors no matter where you go. In fact, I'd rather be in the city than deal with this bored kids in middle America who have nothing better to do than get high on oxycontin or the drug du jour and cause trouble.
going out in field service monday thru friday 9 till noon, knocking on empty doors while most people are away at work.
knowing no one will be at home.
why is there not a massive effort for evening witnessing when you know most people will be home and able to be reached.
We do evening witnessing during the summer, and then switch to phone witnessing when there is insufficient daylight. Phone witnessing is run by mother-daughter combos; it is preferable to walking around in the heat of the day.
In my hood there are plenty of people who have nothing better to do during the day, so there are people to be found...it just depends on what part of the neighborhood. In the higher-rent areas, you will find nobody home during the day, because they are all at work.
