Topics Started by easyreader1970

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What's The Biggest Difference In Today's JWs And The Witnesses From Decades Ago?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i believe today's witnesses lack zeal, resolve, "love" of the "truth"......just to name a few things.. years ago, witnesses were excited to knock on doors and tell people they were gonna die if they didn't accept paradise.. now, when you see jws in service, they all look zombied out.. it's a slowly dying religion that will last probably forever like an ancient rotted out tree..
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"Feeling sorry for yourself" about being hit by your husband is not Christian 2/15/12 WT Page 25 P 12
by yourmomma in
1. watchtower
2. bible
have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?

its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .

if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?
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Love-bombing - the best deterrent of all time.
by easyreader1970 in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife was recently in a car accident.

she's okay, but was incapacitated for a few days because of the injuries.

she missed a couple of meetings.
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Is flirting just harmless fun ?
by caliber in
1. social
2. relationships
on some base level, flirting is not destructive.

in fact, it may be a perfectly natural and healthy way for two people to interact.

yet, as the level of involvement in flirting increases, the emotional stakes rise for the two involved parties and the uninvolved member of the relationship.
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CO's putting the screws on elder bodies, and ministerial servants to auxilliary pioneer this April.
by miseryloveselders in
1. jw
2. friends
i have such a love/hate, 50/50 relationship with this organization any more, but a letter was read to the elders and ministerial servants that has pushed me to the 30/70 range in favor of hate, if even momentarily.

most of you if not all are aware of the auxilliary pioneering initiative for this upcoming april.

it's no secret that i'm not real fond of pioneering as its unscriptural for one thing.
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"Field Service Groups" are more important now than ever before?
by easyreader1970 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the scare bells are ringing again in the congregations.

this past week, the field service group leader/commander/overlord/whatever made a pretty lengthy announcement that, going forward, the field service groups are going to be of the utmost importance as we wind down towards the end here.

while no indication on when this end might actually be, it was hinted that we might not always have access to the congregation proper and that the few families that are part of the fsg would have to become close knit that they might depend on one another when things get ugly.. i haven't read everything that has passed through the wbts' sphincter lately, but did i miss something?
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If The Watchtower discourages Greek language study, why did they publish the KIT?
by VM44 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if the watchtower discourages the study of biblical languages, then why did they publish twice, in 1969 and 1985. the kingdom interlinear translation of the greek scriptures?.

would this not actually encourage the study of the greek language?.
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What makes J.Ws worse than any other organisation?
by acolytes in
1. jw
2. friends
many outsiders see good in the w.t.

and many insiders see good in the w.t.. so is not the w:t like any other organisation based on idealisam and growth.

acolytes.
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Unbelievable WT Oct 15/2010 2nd study article
by bobld in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
"our viewpoint may be distorted or limited" par 16 "mosaic law-he(god) did not enforce his own law"wtf.. so the gb/fds will tell us their distorted viewpoint.they say law given to imperfect judges who could not read hearts.yet the gb/fds says they can by their pharisaic laws and rules ie child abuse/shunning/etc.. why did god give the mosaic law if they could not read hearts.oh it was ok for the israelites to kill some people for adultery/murder but not david because they could not read his heart.wtf does it matter if he was sorry and repentent were not the others just as sorry and repentent.. b.
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I feel like a coward weakling. Not like a man. It doesn't feel good.
by easyreader1970 in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm trying to figure out a way to deal with these feelings of cowardice, worthlessness, unmanliness, etc.. i'm not afraid of anyone or even what would happen to me (nothing), but i do not want to witness the utter destruction of my family.

so i shut up and go along.

i am often reminded of the scene in ben hur when charleton heston's bravery is threatened with the loss of his family.