my uncle passed away two years ago at the age of 83. he served as an elder from 1965 to the last day of his life.
even till the end of his life he was still reading the bible.. he was an elder for 48 years.
never missed a meeting,pioneered during the summer months ( took vacation weeks),pioneered after retiring at 65 years old, never went on real vacation, went to all summer conventions and assemblies ( traveling to new york,wisconsin, canada and california ).. he also conducted book studies, watchtower meetings, gave sunday public talks, assembly parts, elder meetings, had a weekly book study with his family,cleaned the kingdom hall, and donated money when the congregation was short money for the month.. everyone is zealous in the beginning but tire out sooner or later.
she went on about the upcoming CO's visit and the one day assembly and how she's busy in service.
By being completely engrossed in their slavery to WT, they are left with no time or intelligence to examine their situation. They're like hamsters that spend all their waking hours running in their wheel, but getting absolutely nowhere.
"I'm running so fast, I MUST be getting somewhere!"
to all those who frequent this discussion board:.
we just wanted you to know that an investigative public radio program named reveal, produced by cir (center for investigative reporting) and prx, will present today, saturday, february 14th, the results of new investigations uncovering hidden stories.
in this weeks story, there will be three different topics covered.
That's a very good report, accurate and factual, yet also hits the heart. I hope this continues to get the media exposure it deserves.
It sickens me to think of how I used to blindly follow such an unjust cult. And the WT policy is still wrong, wrong, wrong.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31447905.
even those in "the world" (tm) recognise the indecent nature of this type of apparel.
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Poor old Anthony got a little tingly in his his lower regions and felt a proportionate amount of guilt and shame for getting tingly.
He must have gotten that same tingly feeling before he started condemning men who wore tight pants. He sure seemed to know who to point the finger at for promoting tight pants--not the ladies, it's gays that are to blame for snug trousers!
Next up, Tony condemns ballet!
Tingle, tingle Tony!
uneducated in politics or any other higher ed for that matter. In fact I have about a 6th grade ed due to 56 years of abiding by Watchtower rules. Just announced this year my dis-association. I have no sides with anything at this point
Sorry to hear that!
If the GB had its way, every JW would leave school around grade 6 to slave for the WT cult.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31447905.
even those in "the world" (tm) recognise the indecent nature of this type of apparel.
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Wait, Yogi never wore pants!
"Smarter than the average bear," and still no pants!
on page 13 of the december 15, 2014 watchtower (study edition), the first 2 sentences of paragraph 10 say:.
"the symbolic separating of fish does not refer to the final judgment during the great tribulation.
rather, it highlights what would happen during the last days of this wicked system.".
Trifling over words.
Since WT has already stated (I think in the Revalation's Bland Climax book) that Bible "prophecies" can't be clearly understood until after their fulfillment, how are they even prophecies? It's easy now for all kinds of nuts to point out prophecies about 9/11, but where were those "prophets" on 9/10? Taking these rather obscure illustrations and turning them into ever-changing prophecies is such a waste of time and paper.
And who wants to be compared to a fish in this illustration? The unsuitable fish are throw in the fire and the fine fish are thrown in the frying pan. No promise of these JWfish getting set free to swim forever with their pandafish, eh?
jws go on about how wonderful the website is...blah blah..... check out the mormons version!.
now this is only one of their many official sites.. http://www.mormonchannel.org/.
http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/bible-videos/laborers-in-the-vineyard-1 .
Now this is only ONE of their many official sites.
It has a much more appealing look than the JW website. I wonder how many official sites they have?
I googled "mormon" and found that they have plenty of anti-mormon sites that come up on the first page, just like the JWs.
check it out.
literally the message is if you don't pay attention at the meetings you could die.
how insane, i feel like this must wake some people up..
i am a life long jw, but this issue i'm going through has taken the cake.. i am in a job situation that is not good.
and we were promised to us in our old hall that we would have a roof over our head for us an our animals.
so i gave notice on thursday then went to call by so-called jw friends and they backed out and claimed he now couldn't let us move in and broke the deal.
WT promised that my grandparents would never grow old or die, but they did. While there are many good people who are JWs, they live in a culture that is huge on promises, but very short of delivery.
There are a lot of good "worldly" people. I hope you can surround yourself with some as you move on with your life.
an ex-bethelite (now an elder in a jersey congo usa) called me the other day and opened up to me about wanting to step down, mainly because he thought he was being a bit overwhelmed.
he mentioned that he spoke to the co about it and some of the socalled friends in the congo .
they put him on this guilt trip.
I myself was a elder for 13yrs before I stepped off. never been happier.
Sounds like a good answer to me. I feel the same way.
The fact that he's overwhelmed and is thinking about stepping down is very strong indication that he needs a break. The fact that others start a guilt-trip is totally lame and selfish. If someone is sick or tired, who would start insulting them as "motivation"?
Jehovah supposedly promised that there would be plenty of people and resources to step up as needed. Is Jehovah so resource-poor and unappreciative that he has to continue making big demands from one person?
And Jesus' ministry only lasted 3.5 years. That's all. If he set the perfect example, no elder or pioneer should need to serve for longer than Jesus, right?
