...just unbelievable.
even the lefties are having trouble to find nice words for them...hahaha!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nhzwdjhw-ae#!.
Let's not forget the LOVING Xtians that are lynching, burning crosses, and persecuting Gays and Blacks.
No one is forgetting that. I am every bit as vocal about the atrocities committed by Christians. But that doesn't give Muslims a free pass for theirs. Evil is evil, regardless of who is perpetuating it.
...just unbelievable.
even the lefties are having trouble to find nice words for them...hahaha!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nhzwdjhw-ae#!.
Varian, this is racist prejduce.
I do not think it should be here on this board.
How is it differen't than a lot of the things said about JWs on this board? I'm not complaining about that. If the shoe fits...
now is a good time to start making preparations for the memorial night demonstration at your kingdom hall thursday, april 5, 2012, after sundown.. close to 20 million people will attend this annual global witness event including active witnesses, relatives and friends of witnesses, bible studies,return visits and still attached former witnesses.
the evils of the watchtower org.have to be exposed and this is an ideal time to do it.. many around the world have been adversely affected by their association with jehovah's witnesses and you can be an instrumental force by standing tall and courageously exposing the watchtower organization.. there is no better way to let the watchtower know your revulsion than to broadcast and present your view by standing fearlessly, demonstrating in front of a kingdom hall.. i am fully aware that a handful of the internet therapists who post on this forum will not agree with this method of unmasking the watchtower.. those intolerant, contemptuous critics who will comment on this thread making harsh judgements and finding fault with those who protest are perhaps deep-down wishing they had the backbone to stop hiding in cyber-space, step away from their computer and "get out of the bleachers and into the game" .
lets make this a global event!......
There are much better things to do with one's life than fight the Watchtower.
Precisely. Not only do these protests reinforce the negative image JWs have regarding apostates, and help feed their persecution complex, it validates their over-inflated sense of their own importance.
A little too pretentious for my taste.
''well there's one thing you got ta ask yourself punk....you felling lucky...well do ya punk".....clint eastwood dirty harry.. "it's life jim but not as we know it" capt kirk star treck..
Favorite line from Unforgiven: "Deserving's got nothing to do with it"
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite"- Reservoir Dogs
"I like all you Navy boys. Every time we have to go somewhere to fight, you fellas always give us a ride"- A Few Good Men
forthcoming attraction at the next circuit assembly.
for those that are interested in attending.
if you encourage your child to pursue higher education, you are sacrificing him or her to molech (cf.
Molech U.
Known as the party college.
Great football program, too- The Fighting He-Goats
the scriptures says you will never grow old but what.
about reverseing the process.
if the big one comes.
You obviously haven't seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or you wouldn't have asked such a silly question.
No and no.
I think there should be more abortions. I won't be happy until it's a multibillion dollar industry, like fast food. Maybe they could even have drive-thru windows, so women could abort their fetuses without getting out of their cars.
one thing that i have always noticed even when i was a jw is that the jw org has lots and lots and lots of rules for allsorts of stupid petty rules which make no difference.
when you read the bible you see how they are clearly in the wrong here and are acting like the pharisees themselves, who imposed so much pressure on others to conform to the law.
am i missing something here!?!?
If you know that Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth, why not let yourself be wronged and keep on serving Jehovah?
I don't know where you got this idea from. I don't know that they have the truth. In fact, I know the opposite to be true.
Visit a Kingdom Hall outside of yours, maybe one that is outside of your own circuit. Take the temperature there. Get a reading.
I was a JW for many years- from birth, until my early thirties. I visited many Kingdom Halls, in differen't circuits, in differen't places in the US. While I noticed a few subtle differences, mostly cultural, they were all exactly the same with regards to how much control the elders had over the rest of the congregation.
Maybe you will discover that you have been wrong in painting every one of the elders with the same brush
I haven't painted anyone, with any brush. You obviously missed my point. I don't believe that all elders are corrupt. In fact, I will concede that the majority of the ones that I dealt with personally were good men, doing thankless jobs.
But whether an elder is good or bad, right or wrong, the congregation is at their mercy, subject to their whims. This is the power that has been granted them by the FDS. If an elder decides that something is a rule, such as the way disfellowshipped ones should be treated, then it is a rule.
And for the record, you are being rather disingenuous in implying that it is only a handful of elders who take such a hardline stance with regards to the disfellowshipped. It is far more than that. It is the majority. You know it as well as I do.
I think you should hold your ground and write a letter about the matter to the branch, but what do I know?
LOL. Yeah, I should do that.
You are delusional if you believe the branch would ever side with a rank-and-file JW over a body of elders, or even just one elder. Their concern is with organizational unity, nothing more. Certainly not the rights or feelings of an individual.
At best they would tell you to "wait on Jehovah". Putting the onus squarely on the wronged, and their seeming lack of faith, is far easier than acknowledging that many of the men they select to take the lead are incompetent, or power-hungry jackasses, who, despite what the WT itself says, are neither appointed, nor guided, by holy spirit.
one thing that i have always noticed even when i was a jw is that the jw org has lots and lots and lots of rules for allsorts of stupid petty rules which make no difference.
when you read the bible you see how they are clearly in the wrong here and are acting like the pharisees themselves, who imposed so much pressure on others to conform to the law.
am i missing something here!?!?
My father, a grown man, was once pulled aside by an elder for nodding hello at a disfellowshipped person. Not speaking, simply nodding.
And...?
My point was simply that JWs don't formulate the idea of shunning disfellowshipped ones on their own, but rather are influenced by other factors. They do it out fear and guilt. Fear of repercussions if they are caught associating with them, and the constant bombardment of guilt, that they are doing something wrong in doing so.
Why should they experience fear or guilt if there is no "rule"?
What you've experienced is a cult-mentality by certain elders that have their own interpretations of what Jehovah's Witnesses ought to believe.
You are splitting hairs here. You seem to be of the opinion that something only qualifies as a rule if it's written explicitly in WT publications in the form of "dos" and "donts". You are mistaken. Something is a rule if an elder decides it is. Whether they are acting on the Society's behalf, or wholly on their own, they have a certain amount of power and authority over other JWs. This power/authority has been given to them, unreservedly, by the WT. And there are consequences for defying them.
