what are the concequences of being marked?
what qualifies a person to be marked?
who determines whom shall be marked?
It means that you are about one expressed thought from being DF'd, one bad attitude from being unacceptable as an associate to socialize with the rest of the congregation, it is almost a preliminary to being DF, not enough established DFing evidence yet but either straighten out or get out.
It is kind of a test run of DFing policy.
abr
maybe this thread has already been started before.
please forgive me if it has, but i would like to know how many on board are active witnesses, inactive, da/df''d, or never been witnesses.. i am inactive since 2005, black female, separated, head of household, etc.. rsvp.
snowbird.
White male, married, DF'd 6 years ago, Former MS, Elder, AUX Pion for 4 years and regular pioneer for 3 years, ex worker on Behtel, Wallkill and the new place upstate NT, no desire to ever go back
abr
so, here's the scripture:.
2:2 in the last days, the mountain of the lord's temple will be established as chief among the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
many peoples will come and say, "come, let us go up to the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
Welcome NewTruth, I don't know but as far as bringing glory to God or praise, it doesnt' matter, I believe there are things that we just cannot understand right now but are not important
As Paul said, "make sure of the more important things"
Such as faith in Christ and his sacrifice, love of God and neighbor, be child like and realize we need humility, stay focused on what we do know, love builds up, knowledge puffs up
You are to be admired for deep thinking though.
abr
i always wondered how all the facts about the 144.000 written in revelation are discarded by jws.. i would like to know how the wts talks all these things away that doesnt fit their doctrine.. .
(revelation 7:4) .
.and i heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of israel:.... (revelation 14:1) .
Good points Marcel, but you stop thinking
I would comment but as you stated it doesn't fit in, better to say we dont know so at this time we will have to wait on Jah for the understanding
abr
saturday i photographed a witness wedding .
during the part about the woman's role the speaker made the comment to the new bride ,"don't try to manipulate your husband .....we know how you women can be ...!".
my jaw noticeably dropped and i uddered " what the heck " as i looked around to look for support from other women there,.
Sad but so glad that I don't have to be around any of it, just reading your thread brings up many old memories that I feel the same, we just sat there and took it.
abr
i am going to try to live without needing the board so much for awhile.
the only reason i am saying anything is that i am horrible at sending pm's, emails, etc.
and i dont want people to wonder in the back of their mind where i am, if all is ok.. i am tired all the time and i just want to see what my life can be like not in constant thought about the jw world running through my brain.. i will wonder how everyone is doing and would welcome emails.
Hello Purps,, I don't necessarily need the forum but like the interaction from ex witnesses because they know how it feels but feel the same way about not being on so much and especially with the nice weather cominhg. I wish you the best, take care and see you back when it is time.
abr
i have been married for awhile, and in my 14 years of marriage i have seen many other marriages of friends and relatives, come and go.
most, if not all, were caused by cheating.
at work i work with a lot of people of different faiths, to no faiths.
Any appointments made, physical contact and especially ORAL SEX, too me is all cheating.
I made a commitment to my wife and she to me, I cannot for the life of me think that if I did anything but never had intercourse, that this is still cheating.
APPROPO; Matt 7:12
If you wouldn't want it done to you, then don't do it to another and especially your spouse.
abr
there it was on the delivery manifest: kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, assembly hall etc.. at first i was like oh no i'll bet i know the people, and it'll be awkward, i did see a few i knew of coming out - they have both a kingdom hall and assembly hall on the same grounds - anyway this kind young well dressed dude came over to the van and directed me to where it was to go, the next thing i must have misunderstood him cause another even more friendly young chap came over to see where it was i should go, anyway another person who lives there came out of his appartment and took me to where i was supposed to go, and commented that ,my van had a no smoking sign, he mentioned that by law they had to put them up, even though they are jw's and dont smoke, for those not from the uk, there is a smoking ban in public places about to come into force.
i was left with a nice impression of the people there and started wondering if it was that bad?
apart from being mislead over doctrine, didnt it look like they had a nice life style?
Cyberdyne Systems, TERMINATE that thought of going back.
"I wont be back"
abr
out of loyalty to a friend that died i went to his memorial service today.
get this, in 30 minutes of service his name was said 3 times.
three times.
W.Once, sorry to hear about your loss and the frustration, I wonder why call it a Memorial if you are not going to do just that.
abr
i apologise for taking the liberty of using my alias to attract attention but a number of people have contacted me to ask what they could do to help by way of being a stem cell donor (without a stem cell donation soon i will likely die).
i cannot express enough just how appreciative i am for such wonderful thoughtful gestures.
it is possible that your stem cells are a perfect match for me and that you could literally save my life.. however, if you are not a match you could very well save someone else's life - so do please consider being a stem cell donor.
Ian, my thoughts and prayers are with you and thank you for sharing this, I too want to check into this locally, I am already a organ donor but want to do more if I can. Thanks Ian and wishing you the best.
abr
