This shows that one of they greatest lies perpetrated on the JW community is that only "unrependant" people are DF'd. That flock book almost makes it impossible to not be DF'd.
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"Dub"ble Standards!
by sabastious in3:8; it-2 pp.
whether the wrongdoer is weak or wicked.. weakness is not synonymous with repentance.. (w95 1/1, pp.
wrongdoing.
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Has there been a change on how JW's view those that have drifted away?
by lonestar63 ini wonder if an article in the wt came out telling them to reach out to those that have drifted away.
i suspect the defection has been great in the last few years, and they're trying to bring some back.
i've told my story here, how i was able to succesfully fade away along with my family, without being df'd.
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yourmomma
Quaterback, it might not be just the DO, a while ago someone in a spanish forum posted a rumored new policy that could go into effect in the future that basicly said that if a person who fell away or as we say faded declines repeated offers sheperading calls and misses meetings and service for an extended peroid of time, they are disassociated by their actions.
now, this is not official, but i would not be suprised if at some point they do this.
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10/15/11 WT Has The Crackdown On Football Started?
by yourmomma ini've always felt that its only a matter of time before the watchtower cracks down on football (american, although soccer seems like its also referenced).
its been one of the few things jw's can do, which means it has slipped under the radar since as we know, there are very few things that are not frowned upon or banned in watchtower world.
we know that almost 99% of movies are wrong according to the standards of the watchower, and this is again mentioned in this article, but it seems like also football is in the cross hairs.
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10/15/11 WT Has The Crackdown On Football Started?
by yourmomma ini've always felt that its only a matter of time before the watchtower cracks down on football (american, although soccer seems like its also referenced).
its been one of the few things jw's can do, which means it has slipped under the radar since as we know, there are very few things that are not frowned upon or banned in watchtower world.
we know that almost 99% of movies are wrong according to the standards of the watchower, and this is again mentioned in this article, but it seems like also football is in the cross hairs.
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yourmomma
I've always felt that its only a matter of time before the watchtower cracks down on football (american, although soccer seems like its also referenced). Its been one of the few things JW's can do, which means it has slipped under the radar since as we know, there are very few things that are not frowned upon or banned in watchtower world. We know that almost 99% of movies are wrong according to the standards of the watchower, and this is again mentioned in this article, but it seems like also football is in the cross hairs. It doesnt say football, but its pretty obvious what they are talking about. Here is the reference
10/15/11 Watchtower (Study) page 5 paragraph 8.
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were you made to feel guilty if you missed a meeting / service ?
by man in black ingoing along with the last thread ( great subject matter) .
i'm sort of hitching along here.. we had a bookstudy at our home for several years, every week we were prepared, and we handled service arraingements every saturday morning, even with two young children.. one saturday morning, ( in the middle of winter) one son had a bad cold, and our furnace konked out around 8:15 am.. i was running around trying to get ready for service, calling a repair man, and help my wife get ready for service.. the group comes in at 9:00, and i'm on the phone talking to the repair man who wants to come out between 10-2.. so i'm not going out this morning, and i'm staying home with my sick son, wife and son #2 are going out in service.. conductor comes downstairs and looks at the furnace ( he is a school teacher, no mechanical experience at all, check out my earlier thread video under friends, page 5827 titled "elder makes a video,,,, this is the same guy ) and gives me the classic guilt trip because i'm not going out in service for at least an hour this morning.. i remember thinking just who is this guy, trying to make me feel bad because my family is #1, service is not my focus today.. after all of these years, i cannot help but think of this comment now :.
"nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent", e. roosevelt.
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yourmomma
Seemed like the last 5-7 years (post 2000) I was a JW there was an almost fanactical importance placed on meetings. In the mid 90's at me previous hall, if you missed a meeting once in a while no one really said anything. But at the last hall I was at not only did they make a big deal out of it, but there were many times I was told I was "missed" when I was AT the friggin meeting!! Not only that, when I would point that out, they would make an issue of my commenting or "reaching out" and act like if I was not SEEN it didnt count. So my wife and I were really struggling to make meetings with our work schedules, and once it got to the point that even making the meetings wasent enough, and they still counted absence when we were there, we were just like "fu*k this, this is crazy".
the other crazy thing is it go to the point where there was NO REASON to miss. My wife was on the phone with her boss like 40 mins before the meeting and she noticed she was acting really odd, her speach was slurred and she wasent making any sense. Turns out she was having a minor stroke and passes out. So my wife and I drive over there and find this woman passed out, with her 3 year old just standing there. No one else is in the house. So we call 911 and stay with the child, etc.
Anyway this caused us to miss the meeting, so when we were at the next meeting, explaining this to an elder, he acted as if what we did was wrong and we still should have made the meeting, and this woman was worldly and the police could have handled the situation.
It was at this point where I just commented to my wife on the way home "sometimes the people in this religion are like cult members". Of course little did I know at the time, I was right smack in the middle of a friggin cult. LOL!
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News article with a hilarious statement
by yourmomma inhttp://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_f2b5f5a6-a6b9-11e0-afd2-001cc4c002e0.html.
is this writer a jw trying to lie to make his religion sound better, or did someone outright lie to this man.. .
the statement is as follows:.
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yourmomma
http://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_f2b5f5a6-a6b9-11e0-afd2-001cc4c002e0.html
Is this writer a JW trying to lie to make his religion sound better, or did someone outright lie to this man.
The statement is as follows:
"There is no clergy for Jehovah's Witnesses, which allows for different viewpoints at meetings."
LOL! Yeah right!!
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More on Saturday's drama: Endo-symbiotic theory mentioned not once but twice
by sir82 ini don't want to give a full synopsis of saturday's drama, for fear of inducing stupor among this thread's readers, but.... .
the drama deals with a jw family with 3 kids, 2 of whom are in various stages of rebellion against all things jw.. the older brother is one of the "rebels", while the younger brother is a thoroughly annoying piece of brown-nosing crapola, completely buying into the jw mindset.. anyways, the younger brother is asking the older brother about why he doesn't want to attend the family study any more.. the older kid's rambling answer touches on something along the lines of "i'm learning things in school about how life really came here.
it's not as simple as you think!".
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yourmomma
i have nothing to add other than outlaws janitor post made me laugh for a full minute. bravo sir.
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Lakers Kobe Bryant -- blood procedure puts him at DF risk?
by FatFreek 2005 init may be a month old news but we're just hearing it.
citing four unidentified sources familiar with the situation, the los angeles times on friday reported that the lakers superstar had a procedure about a month ago that is a derivation of platelet-rich plasma therapy.
prp procedures are less invasive than many surgeries involving the knee.
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yourmomma
You cannot win back to back world championships and not pass the ball to your teamates. Whoever makes those comments is living in 2006 when that was true of him, but since 2007-2008 Kobe doesnt play like Iverson anymore. I mean I know people hate Kobe, but come on, you cant be serious with that one.
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The Watchtower Mindset: Murder Will Solve Everything
by Eiben Scrood ini was on facebook snooping on a former "friend" still stuck in the cult and he recently posted the following:.
"yeah i was looking at them [kids lighting firecrackers] out my window last night.
i was thinking, these people are so ignorant.
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yourmomma
during my last few years i would hear more and more comments like this. this elders wife at the book study was saying that she hates when unruly children come into her store and she CANNOT WAIT until Jehovah kills them at armegeddon. My mouth dropped, and what was even more shocking was everyone's reaction was agreement. its madness.
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I like this guy
by yourmomma ini find him entertaining, but also there is alot to relate to.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg1sa9elbmk.
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yourmomma
I find him entertaining, but also there is alot to relate to