it seems that many jehovah's witnesses are not so sure about "the truth".
from this and other website/discussion groups and from my own experience a lot of witnesses are having major doubts, but seem to be hanging in the organization, probably because of the disfellowshipping thing.
i hope the bethelite that came up with that got a big bonus.. .
I am hearing a lot of that stuff.
Of course the Witness reply is "in the kast days the love of many will cool off". I don't knwo how that fits with the "great ingathering" or "look how much the organizations hs grown" mantras.
Ya' can't have it both ways!
many of you who have or had been jehovahs witnesses for sometime will remember that back before say 1980 or so, the congregation could disassociate an unbaptized person and that person was treated as disfellowshipped.
that happened a lot, pre 1980.. .
for example, as a teenager in the 60s, several of the teenagers in my cong were disassociated and treated as disfellowshipped .
Many of you who have or had been Jehovah’s Witnesses for sometime will remember that back before say 1980 or so, the Congregation could “disassociate” an unbaptized person and that person was treated as disfellowshipped. That happened a lot, pre 1980.
For example, as a teenager in the 60’s, several of the teenagers in my cong were “disassociated” and treated as disfellowshipped
All of a sudden, with no explanation, that all changed to where if a person was unbaptized, he could not be disciplined by the congregation and they could not publically disassociate him.
I heard this was connected to a lawsuit where the Cong disassociated an unbaptized guy, whose wife was baptized, but he rarely attended. He had an affair and they were divorcing and the cong disassociated him. He sued and won because he contended he was not officially a member, so how could he be kicked out.
Anyone know anything about this, the lawsuit etc?
i asked the three elders who disfelowshipped me this question.. basically,they replied, "the society would never tell them to do that".
thats not my question.
if they told you to, would you?.
The questions is not about other "Christians" WWJW's do?
Read my profile. I despise all religion.
i asked the three elders who disfelowshipped me this question.. basically,they replied, "the society would never tell them to do that".
thats not my question.
if they told you to, would you?.
Good post.
Thats exactly what would happen. I should have clarfied that I don't think you could get all or even most of the membership to do it, but 100,000 or so radical dedicated fanatics (we all know a few) coudl do a lot of damage.
i asked the three elders who disfelowshipped me this question.. basically,they replied, "the society would never tell them to do that".
thats not my question.
if they told you to, would you?.
I was thinking that refusing a blood transfusion for yourself or your child would be the same principal
i asked the three elders who disfelowshipped me this question.. basically,they replied, "the society would never tell them to do that".
thats not my question.
if they told you to, would you?.
I asked the three elders who disfelowshipped me this question.
Basically,they replied, "the Society would never tell them to do that". Thats not my question. IF they told you to, would you?
Never got an answer. What do you guys think?
yesterday i spent ages looking for a pair of glasses that i seldom wear.
i looked at work, then at home, then in the car.. i checked a bag in the car 3 times !
i couldn't find them.. this morning i awoke determined to find them.
hi guys, i'm new to the forum :) i'm a worldly girl and got a friend who is a jw so im quite interested to hear from all of you :) also how did you're worldly friends compare to your jw friends.
thanx in advance x.
I was a JW for 50 years. I left because of all the inconsistancies, flip flops and contradcitions in the lit.
The Society would change something and the sheeple would blindly follow. The final thing for me was the editing of the literature in an effort to hide changes from new Witnesses.
For example I have an extensive library that I got from my Witness grandmother and have all the lit from the Mid thirties on and a lot from earlier times. I have the Beth Sarim 1925 stuff in print in authentic literature, Rutherfords Drunken ravings. I can't believe they do not mention that any more.
Also, I have the original Truth biik I got in 1968. It has been changed in several places where it originally pointed to 1975. Also, I have a 1989 Watchtower that says the preaching work would end in "this century". The CD of the same WT says it would end "in our day"
Way toooo much to mention here, I am not influenced by "worldly friends" now or then. The Watchtower hangs themselves.
ever want to speak to them , i was only a study but i thought it very odd and judgemental to not even look at them and i used to think what are they so scared of if they have the truth , i did not buy the satan stuff about them at all , cult , was what sprung to mind and started my doubts
Was that a Dodger Stadium? I lived in So Cal for a while in the late 70's and they were always at the assemblys. i went to the assembly hall in Norco and they were there too.
Also, in South Florida in the early 70's.
I seem to remember the blimp, but I had small kids and it was so blistering hot that we kept them in the cooler hallway. I tried not to go outside.
i was at work in my office as my boss jokingly calls it.a lady walk in to get 2 tires she had ordered put on.i have her sit down to wait because all of my bays were full.i noticed she was reading a small paper bound book.she was underlining it as she read.i got the feeling she may be a jw.i wanted to ask her but i didn't.my number one job at work is to make customers feel comfertable and i thought telling her i'm a raging apostate might make her feel uncomfertable being in the same room with me.. when she opened her walet to give me her visa card i saw the blood card.it confirmed my suspitions of her.. you will be happy to know i got my apostate cooties all over her service car and visa card..
My standard apostate curse is "May Catholic weasels, in little Pope hats, gnaw your flesh"
