hello, i'm new here...but i've been reading the forum for some time, but this is the first time i've posted.
i am stuck.
i am a non witness and have been seriously dating a witness for about a year now.
Hi city Girl,
Welcome to the board, I think that it's great that you found the man of your dreams. Be carefull that you are not blinded by that love. If you intend to have children together and that child, God forbid, gets hurt and needs blood, as a witness you could not let him have it or you would be disfellowshipped and shunned. So you see that to be a Witness or not can be a life or death decision.
Good luck,
RV
"as mentioned in last nights meeting, keep knocking, keep searching for it (the truth.. little-by-little, jehovah will reveal it to those with the right heart.
condition at the proper time.as mentioned in.
i have no need nor the desire tolook anywhere else for the truth or consider any other view points, be it letters from people that "claim" to be witnesses or from web sites and the.
I have said them, I have even chalenged people at the door that if they could prove the society wrong then I would become what they were. I sincerly thought I had the truth. That all changed when I found out that the org. was in bed with the UN. THEY made me question things. THEY started me wondering if it really was the truth. THEY made me think - if they are doing this behind my back, then what else. That's when I started having doubts. I found a letter on the UN website (not some "apostate" site) wrote a letter to the society to get answers and got none that's when I decided this is not God's organization so I started to look at things anew, without blinders. If something bothered me I researched outside the org. literature. I was a witness for 26 years, (I still am in fact, just trying to fade out so as not to loose my family). So I think there is hope it may take a while but we all have doubts even your husband, be patient.
RV
i have been on and off this forum for 4 1/2 years.
its a nice place to vist ---------------but i can't live here.. i think i have made peace with my 52 years as a "watchtower slave" and as chris said in the movie "platoon"--------"but it will always be with me in my heart and my mine"----------------and as he said also "we now have a duty to help others, so maybe they will not have to experience the waste years as we have".. so let us be patient with all who visit here.----------- because i think of myself, many years ago, at 21 years old, the self rightious nazis jw.
who if i met today, would have no problem pouring gas on me and setting me on fire!-----------most people need time to figure this all out------it took me 52 years -----------yes thats right "the dub"ist person on the board.----------everything happens at the right time.
ditto what new boy said.
RV
in reading coc i learned that prior to the 1980's it was ok to speak with disassociated witnesses and that this was changed in the 1980's.
while i can find the article in the 80's that addresses the issue, i can't find anything that shows that it is a change.
can anyone direct me to something published by the organization that reflects their teaching before the change?.
Thanks for all of your help, however the question still remains:
Can anyone direct me to something published by the organization that reflects their teaching before the change?
Particularly their teaching pertaining to disassociated people (not necessarily family).
RV
in reading coc i learned that prior to the 1980's it was ok to speak with disassociated witnesses and that this was changed in the 1980's.
while i can find the article in the 80's that addresses the issue, i can't find anything that shows that it is a change.
can anyone direct me to something published by the organization that reflects their teaching before the change?.
In reading COC I learned that prior to the 1980's it was ok to speak with disassociated witnesses and that this was changed in the 1980's. While I can find the article in the 80's that addresses the issue, I can't find anything that shows that it is a change. Can anyone direct me to something published by the organization that reflects their teaching before the change?
Thanks in advance for the help,
RV
if you haven't met lewis black, your life is not complete.
please visit youtube.com and enter "lewis black" in the search box!
it wouldn't hurt you to enter "jimmy carr" while you're there, but check out "lewis black" for sure!
I accidently typed in louis black... you should see where that takes you, I had to turn it off.
RV
yes folks, i'm headed to hawaii this sunday and while we're there, we plan to tie the knot, barefoot on the beach.
for those of you who don't know, my ex-wife left me when i couldn't support the wtb&ts anymore a few years back.
i hate living alone....lisa and i have been together for a year now and she's just like mary poppins..."practically perfect in every way"!
Congrats
RV
i was reading up on some posts today and saw a few that got me in the mood to write down what i've been thinking about lately.
i think about the things that i've done to other people and the bad decisions i have made, as well as the kind of person my choices made me into.
sometimes it's easy to lapse into thinking i'm still that person from only a few years ago that didn't care about anyone else and walked all over people just because i could.. then i go further back and remember why i was so vindictive and hateful, it was from my heart knowing everything my head beleived was wrong, the irreconcileable differences between what i was taught to be the truth, what i thought family was, and what i saw it to really be.
Do you suppose a person can ever really lose the guilt they feel for hurting so many others, or is it something that at best becomes like an old broken bone that never really heals right and always aches, especially on rainy days?
My father died about 25 years ago, when I think about him I am still saddened. But I don't think about him that often anymore. I think guilt is the same way, as long as you have a consience you will feel guilty when you think about what you did, but time will lessen it. Feeling guilty is a good thing though, at least you're not a sociopath!
RV
anyone seen this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/tv_and_radio/onelife_series7prog4.shtml
norm
Poor girl won't take blood because the WTS says not to, today. Tomorrow who knows, it may bo OK. How would you like to have been the Mother or Father of the last child to not take an organ transplant before the Borg said it was OK. They will certainly have to account - Jehovah is a just God!
RV
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do you hate jehovah's witnesses?
since becoming a member of this board, it has often come.
nope, I feel sorry for them.
RV
