the first time i missed the memorial, i was sick and couldn't go, and felt guilty because that meeting was so important.. then another year, i missed again, this time i wasn't sick.
i still felt guilty, because i still believed in the religion to a certain extent.
i didn't go because i didn't want to go back to the meetings, and feel trapped once more.. maybe some feel guilty that they aren't doing anything for the memorial or easter, depending which religion you think is right, because after all jesus did say to remember him..
Nope no guitl from me. I am however doing the whole passove meal this year. Should be fun.
JW's always made easter sound like it was all about the easter eggs, but the church I have been going to does passover meal and a whole week of special activities. I get to drink the wine and eat the crackers. Means so much more to me than passing it around!!!
if you had to explain to a non jehovah's witness or even to a jehovah's witness (better called watchtower's witness) the reasons why the wt religion is not worth being with, and why it is worthy of disapproval, what would your high impact arguments be?
if someone asked why is that religion not good, why are you accusing it?
Do you want to approach it from a religious point of view or not?
ladies and or anyone else, i guess i'm just ignorant of much religious tradition, practice and policy.
can someone explain the issue regarding sisters needing a head covering while praying.
in the church it's taken to an entirely different level.
In bible time it was the norm for women to wear head covering in a place of worship. This was done as not to bring reproach on the early Christians. Most other churches have stopped doing this, but the JW's as we all know are still living in the past. This fits in very nicely with their sexist view on women. They forget to read that a few verses down the bible says that a women's hair is her covering.
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several individuals on this discussion board still carry the watchtower cross .
on their backs.. the time to move forward and the time to move on true, the watchtower experiences were earth-shattering events in most of our lives.
I have stopped trying to prove then wrong. I know they are wrong and I no longer feel the need to look up all the past mistakes and false prophecies the WTBS ever made. I do however wish I could get both my and my husband's family out as well as a number of friends that are still in the JW clutches.
my lovely girlfriend and i sat down over a homecooked meal, and discussed the pros and cons of attending the memorial.. i decided, with her support, that we would attend.. i spent years of my life pretending to be a witness to please my mother.
when i left the witnesses, my mother said some hurtful things.. and those things really hurt me... for a while.
but i established myself as my own person, developed my own relationships, and have gotten a good start on my own life.. i don't know that i want to hurt my mother back, but i do want to make it abundantly clear to her, my grandmother, and all the members of my former congregation, that richierich is alive and kicking.. and i think that walking into the kingdom hall, dressed respectfully in a suit, yet with full piercing jewelry intact, and with erika wearing something classy that steals the brother's eyes, and draws glares from the humble sisters, will be just the thing to send that message to my mother.. i don't plan on partaking or making a disturbance.
The last time I went to the memorial I had the "pleasure" of hearing a very loving sisters comenting on all the "sub-marine" JW's. She said they disapear only to reappear once a year at the memorial. She went on to say "Who do they think they are fooling, do they really think they will be saved at armageddon for attending once a year?" So I went home and thought about this and decided I would never again attend the memorial.
But you gotta do what you gotta do. Will be thinking of you and your GF on the 2nd April.
i've been trashed and bullied by one poster for posting info off the internet that i was offering to someone in need of hope.
i began a thread on the subject of whether it is right or wrong to offer hope to someone in desperate circumstances in order that the poster could see that theirs wasn't the only opinion of any value.
while most who responded were in agreement with the validity of being encouraging and offering hopeful info that can be looked into or not, it's the viewer's choice, that poster has continued his bullying, stating that i'm mentally, literally incompetent, basically stupid and irresponsible, though i'm so incompetent that i shouldn't be actually held accountable for my well-meant ignorance.
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where and when did the borg claim to be like ezekiel, with the ability to prophecy?
is there a scan available of the publictation?.
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Thanks everyone, I knew I could count on you.
where and when did the borg claim to be like ezekiel, with the ability to prophecy?
is there a scan available of the publictation?.
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Where and when did the Borg claim to be like Ezekiel, with the ability to prophecy? Is there a scan available of the publictation?
jw's will not take a blood transfusion but will have organ transplants.
don't they know that the organs are full of blood.
there was a jw kid in sa that needed a liver and the parents did everything in their power to get money together for him to go to uk for a bloodless op.
Spoke to my MIL about that last week. She told me about the new blood card. I asked her where in the bible does it say that a little bit of blood is ok but a lot is not???? She just answered that it was a LOVING provision from the GB.
jw's will not take a blood transfusion but will have organ transplants.
don't they know that the organs are full of blood.
there was a jw kid in sa that needed a liver and the parents did everything in their power to get money together for him to go to uk for a bloodless op.
http://www.carteblanche.co.za/Display/Display.asp?Id=1483
Here is the South African TV interview.
