Marry someone who shares your beliefs.
bczar
i am new to the jw world, not one, but do love one.
met a man who down to the tee is amazing.
he is a great man, the only thing i am not so sure about is his "religious" beliefs.
Marry someone who shares your beliefs.
bczar
!gag alert!!!.
subject: fwd: heartwarming experience from china.
an experience given by a brother in a congregation up north.
JW Legend stuff.
bczar
i just posted this on another thread and decided to post my own thread about it.. a few posters here that know me personally know about my amazing wife.
i had a very hard time accepting what i have learned about her.
she has a gift she has kept from the world until she was in her 30's.
Does you wife ever dream about things we could profit from? That would make lotsa believers!
bczar
the dark?
walking around knocking on peoples doors and telling them they are going to die if they do not follow our beliefs?.
i for one feel like this is the new world, and there is just no stopping this super highway we call the internet... it is like a whole new world, we can now talk and meet people around the world.
The internet has been priceless in my being able to exit......
IT'S SATAN. SATAN CREATED THE INTERNET!
bczar
there are the abuses of course, the diabloical 'two witness' rule applied to allegations of molestation, the reckless 'blood ban' in all it's tortuous complexities (which by watchtowers own admission has resulted in many fatalaties) and the cruel punishment of shunning which has caused so much suffering and pain to many of us here.. is it for these reasons that you want to see the watchtower fall or is it simply that you want to see them humiliated and broken for what they've done to you?
most of us aren't bitter or selfish enough to want personal revenge against the watchtower but i'd be lying if i said i didn't sometimes think like that.. the reason for my original question is that i sometimes feel a bit hypocritical.
i try to accord respect to jw's and individuals of all faiths, (yes, even when i go off on one of my atheistic diatriabes) but whereas i allow myself to be hostile to the watchtower i shrink from being so forthright against other 'christian' faiths whose corrosive nature may not be so easily apparent but is there nonetheless.. i guess my question is; why do we want the watchtower to fall but do not wish all religion to fall?.
HMMM!
bczar
i remember being a teenager and my hormones were on overdrive.
the young witnesses i knew, male and female, were all feeling the same thing.
we would bring up sex, in one form or another, all the time.
they've got quite a checklist of Borg Disapproved sexual practices.
Yeah, but they still need the 2 witness rule!
bczar
hi i am new at this.
i am so glad to have found this site.
didn't realise there were so many people who felt the same way i do !!!
Hello!
the society demands submission to them as equal to submission to christ.
nov 1, 2006 watchtower, page 22 of the first study article "do you share jehovah's view of sacred things?
" para 7:
The whole dub philosophy is that Christ is the head of the Cong. Therefore, submission to the cong. is submission to Christ.
bczar
i am not df'd and have not da'd, just faded the last six years - anyway i was remembering a time when i was about 18 or 19 and a very good friend that i had grown up with was df'd for fornication - well she was finally coming back to the hall to get reinstated and i hadn't seen or spoken to her for more than a year - so when she showed up at the hall one night i told my mom i was going to say hi!
remember, she was still df'd - my mom said i shouldn't and i told her i don't care - i had missed my friend and wanted to just say hi!
i said to my friend - "i just wanted to say that i missed you and happy to see you back!
Something brief and polite is never going to hurt.
bczar
the craziest statement (not lies not incorrect application of scripture) just total abuse of elder position and misuse of platform.
an elder when on the platform(or as some might say the stage after all the majority are actors made a statement to the congregation because his wife was a bit sickly asked the bro/sisters to arrange a rota to make his dinners.my thinking was if he can't feed himself how can he feed the flock.visiting brothers could not beleive what they heard they thought he was joking.. i can asure you this elder wasn't noted for his humour.. kt.
It's not wrong to ask for help.
Just the wrong 'platform.' (no pun intended)
bczar