Posts by lrkr

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Keep Yourselves In God's Love: Cover, Counsel and Discipline

by truthseeker in

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friends

for your viewing pleasure.... .

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lrkr

Sorry, I had to keep going-

"How to demonstrate that you truly love God." (Because likely you are lying and dont really love God and you have to demonstrate it, not just say it, not just feel it- Prove it to us that you love God)

"When to trust your conscience" (Dont trust your inner voice to say what is right and wrong- because you are a lousy good for nothing sinner. Let us tell you. Read this book over and over again and you will know what is right and wrong)

"What do your friends say about you" (See- we told you- you cant even be trusted to pick good friends- now just let us pick them for you)

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Keep Yourselves In God's Love: Cover, Counsel and Discipline

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

for your viewing pleasure.... .

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lrkr

From the snippets I've seen here, this book looks like a Talmud of all of the Rules and Regulations of the Society. The first book catches the person's interest and the second makes sure that they OBEY!!!!

And the questions on the back- YIKES!!! They are all laced with guilt, inadequacy and domination language.

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Graduation and elders meeting!

by why??? in

hi everyone, i'm not new here just haven't posted in a while.

for those who remember me i'm graduating from college on wednesday!!!!

i'm very happy but there's still a dark cloud (pardon the dramatic-ness) i am still with my non-jw boyfriend of almost three years and i've let my parents know that we want to get married (next month) and they went and told the elders(they did it kinda behind my back) who now want to meet and talk with me!

lrkr

Dont let the borg F**k up your wedding. Tell your parents that you love your boyfriend and want them to be a part of your wedding. Its not a sin. The worst the elders will do is try and mark you. (Oh- and they may threaten to take away "priviledges" of anyone involved.) Try and get your parents to see the need to leave the elders out of such a personal and important part of any family's life. (Don't give the elders any warning)

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Automatic reinstatement if teaching gets reversed?

by Fatfreek in

let's say your spouse admitted to having sex with animals, you went to the elders and they told you that you were not free to remarry -- but you went ahead, divorced the scumbag, and remarried someone else.

you, of course, got disfellowshipped.

since then, the society reverses its position.

lrkr

The closest thing I can remember to "automatic reinstatement" was when the teaching on "Approved Associates" was reversed. When I was a teenager there was a system whereby an unbaptized kid could be announced as a "disapproved associate." if they did something worthy of disfellowshipping. So there were a number of kids who were labeled from the platform as "disapproved associates" for stealing, vandlizing, having sex, even participating in Model UN in high school. They were treated like disfellowshipped witnesses. You couldn't say a greeting to them.

Then, one day, there was a WT article that changed all that and we could talk to those kids again. Instantly! No hearing, no nothing.

PS- This policy really jacked up some kids. Imagine not being able to talk to all of your buds at the hall- and really believing that you would probably die at Armageddon. Drug abuse, suicidal tendancies, etc often followed kids who had this policy applied to them.

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GB Anthony Morris 2007 DC Talk DESPERATE PLEADINGS

by doinmypart in

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friends

gb anthony morris gave the final talk on friday's 2007 follow the christ dc.

in the talk he gives reasons for the r&f to trust the fds specifically the gb.. the talk is nauseating, but shows how desperate the gb has become.

they're losing control of the r&f and they know it.. jwd member booby originally posted this speech on the "gb solidifies ownership" thread.

lrkr

I disagree with the poster who said he is "dumb". I think he is quite smart. Its the arrogance that bothers me.

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GB Anthony Morris 2007 DC Talk DESPERATE PLEADINGS

by doinmypart in

jw
friends

gb anthony morris gave the final talk on friday's 2007 follow the christ dc.

in the talk he gives reasons for the r&f to trust the fds specifically the gb.. the talk is nauseating, but shows how desperate the gb has become.

they're losing control of the r&f and they know it.. jwd member booby originally posted this speech on the "gb solidifies ownership" thread.

lrkr

Constant appeal to the desire to conform to the masses:

"Are you going to join us or not??" "Are you going to follow us?"

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GB Anthony Morris 2007 DC Talk DESPERATE PLEADINGS

by doinmypart in

jw
friends

gb anthony morris gave the final talk on friday's 2007 follow the christ dc.

in the talk he gives reasons for the r&f to trust the fds specifically the gb.. the talk is nauseating, but shows how desperate the gb has become.

they're losing control of the r&f and they know it.. jwd member booby originally posted this speech on the "gb solidifies ownership" thread.

lrkr

Best quotes:

'Armageddon is coming and there will be lots of blood'

What a nice, Christian thought!!!

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Respond ONLY if you are not an elder/ms...just for fun thread!

by restrangled in

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of course i am neither.....but as stated am related to too many heavy duty jw's its hard to fathom.. so.....who are you?.

lrkr

No- now, like most normal people I am not interested in being called an old man or a servant.

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Is the GB crooked or just misguided?

by easyreader1970 in

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i ask myself this from time to time.

is the governing body operating seriously out of the belief that they are god's only channel to mankind?

or are they deliberately scamming people?

lrkr

"Crooked" implies that they know that what they are doing is wrong and they keep doing it- I dont think so. You have to be quite a sociopath to do that successfully (in any field of endeavor).

"Misguided" implies that they are entirely innocent- I don't think you get to that level and remain innocent.

I prefer the term "Deluded" or "Delusional"- they have created a reality in their minds which they reinforce with each other and which is reinforced by the millions of faithful around the globe.

By the way, I would also describe the pope, archbishops, cardinals, etc, etc as similarly deluded. I heard the Dalai Lama speak and he seemed to have a sense that he was not all that people believed him to be- but he does allow millions of followers to believe that he is the reincarnated Bhudda- so maybe he's deluded too.

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Found this today - My Book of Bible Stories

by kurtbethel in

i was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .

quick!

hide it from your children!.

lrkr

The Bible Story book is a classic. Ever wonder why the first 3/4 is dedicated to people dying by various means for failing to worship God.

So let's see, you can be

swallowed by a shark,
burned by fire from the sky,
thrown out of the garden and left to die,
killed in a flood,
killed by a giant,
killed by drinking milk and then having a stake driven through your head,
God will keep the sun up so you can kill more Cannanites,
killed for having sex with the neighbor boy (oh- I forgot- the neighbor boy and all of his village got killed actually),
the king can throw a spear at you,
the Babylonians can march you off to captivity,
you can kill someone (almost) who doesn't bring you food- then God will kill him for you so you can marry his cute wife,
And the grand finale- Millions of angels on horses coming to kill everyone who doesn't do things right
etc, etc, etc, etc.

The bottom line- Worship God or be killed!!! Maybe even if you do worship God but not good enough- you'll get killed.

Such a nice book for children.