my mil's circuit assembly was this past weekend.
she came over for dinner to our home after the assembly.
in conversation, it came up that a known pedophile was seen walking to the bathroom holding a young boy's hand-no relation to the boy at all, although that wouldn't make a difference!
My MIL said she just "prayed to jehovah to be able to pay attention to the brother's talk and not worry about seeing him walk with that little boy.
This is a perfect example of the blinders JW's are programmed to put on.
All of us wore those blinders to some degree or another.
curious about a co named brother antonio (his last name) anyone know him?
nice?
hardliner?
He was in the Pacific Northwest last time I heard of him. About 2007 don't know where he is now.
i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
I am so very sorry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/george-zimmerman-new-mugshot_n_1419402.html.
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he does look guilty to me.
I hope I never haved to be judged by the way I look or I will always be guilty as SIN. When I am really as inocent as a lamb.
1975 was approaching and for years the society demanded the belief that god instructed these men of bethel to declare 1975 as the date for the end.
they talked about it in conventions.
they supported it in many of their publications.
JW's our their friends may not answer the question but at least some may read it and it might make then THINK
he is one of my favorite posters, i look him up from time to time.
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WE WANT OUTLAW......WE WANT OUTLAW......WE WANT OUTLAW..........
Come on everybody, chant with me!
WE WANT OUTLAW......WE WANT OUTLAW.......WE WANT OUTLAW..........
i hope you find this entertaining.
anyone have the quote where rutherford was asked to leave bethel before he came back to take over?
here's the link to the video:.
Funny
for those of you with experience being asked this question.....or those of you that are/were elders........ what would happen if you responded to that question by saying "i don't know"?.
what would happen if you responded with "i choose not to answer that question."?
and then when they ask why, you say "because i wish to invoke my 5th amendment rights".
I would say, "Jehovah is definitley directing the Organization"
Then I would think to myself:
Jehovah is a concept that the organization excepts and they follow the Bible that Jehovah supposedly had written and they percieve these writings in their own way. They in fact allow themselves to be directed by their conceptual god jehovah.
personally, i never went to the elders with anything(not voluntarily, anyway).
but a friend of mine once asked a couple of elders whether it would be acceptable for him and his wife to make a sex tape, for their own personal viewing.
needless to say, the idea was frowned upon..
damn, I wish I would have thought of that.
personally, i never went to the elders with anything(not voluntarily, anyway).
but a friend of mine once asked a couple of elders whether it would be acceptable for him and his wife to make a sex tape, for their own personal viewing.
needless to say, the idea was frowned upon..
I was asked to counsel a young man who felt guilty because he was haveing nocturnal emissions. The wierd thing was that his father who was also an elder asked me to talk to his son. I explained to the son that it was quite natural occurance and that he should concern himself with it.
The boy was probably about 20 some years old and now he is a stuff shirted elder of about 40 years old
