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  Do the JWs believe that there will be no accidents or mistakes in the new system?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  if you cut yourself, will it heal instantly or will it heal at a normal rate?

  will it hurt?

  what if you cut yourself too deeply and you begin to lose too much blood?.

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  Seems to me that accidents are just that: accidents. They're bound to happen. I don't think they're 100% preventable.

  Yes, so I am kind of confused by the "new system" and how these sort of unfortunate things will not happen anymore, based upon current JW teachings. If accidents are not 100% preventable then deaths cannot be 100% preventable. Or they shouldn't be.

  I think my problem is that most of the references to a "new earth" of any kind are in Psalms, which is a book of lyrics - not to be taken literally.
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  Do the JWs believe that there will be no accidents or mistakes in the new system?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  if you cut yourself, will it heal instantly or will it heal at a normal rate?

  will it hurt?

  what if you cut yourself too deeply and you begin to lose too much blood?.

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  If you cut yourself, will it heal instantly or will it heal at a normal rate? Will it hurt? What if you cut yourself too deeply and you begin to lose too much blood?

  If you fall down the stairs will you break your leg? Your neck? If you do break your neck, will it heal instantly? Will you not die?

  What if you are repairing a roof and slip off of the side? Will angels rescue you before you hit the ground?

  What if you jump into a lake and cannot swim?
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  Need help with the whole road rage/anger thing. Is this a sign of a deeper problem?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i have a problem.

  i don't like being deliberately cut off in traffic as though the person has a right to impede my progress because of his or her whim.

  further, when someone forces me over or out of the way, i feel as though i am having my manhood stripped away and that i am wimping out.

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  I have a problem. I always have. I don't like being deliberately cut off in traffic as though the person has a right to impede my progress because of his or her whim. Further, when someone forces me over or out of the way, I feel as though I am having my manhood stripped away and that I am wimping out. It bothers me. Like I was stared into backing down.

  This morning, someone tried to force their way over on me and I wouldn't let him. I blew my horn at him, he tried again, and I refused entry. He had to go behind me.

  Apparently he was ticked that I didn't let him when he tried to force his way in so he found the next opportunity and did it again. To avoid an accident, I allowed him entry. This infuriated me because I felt as though he'd beaten me and succeeded into making me his bitch. I was more angry with myself for "giving way" than I was at him.

  That was earlier this morning and I am still somewhat irritated. I wanted to just do the same to him but I felt that an accident on the freeway where maybe other people got hurt for our chest-thumping rivalry might not have been good.

  But how do I keep from feeling girlified and man-handled? (No offense to females for my use of "girlified".)
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  Is The WTS Getting Desperate for Males? KM Aug 2009

  by Hopscotch in

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  just thought this article was interesting in view of what has been said in the last couple of years on the forum about the declining number of elders and servants and those reaching out.

  add to that the large percentage of young teenage boys who leave 'the truth'.

  i can't ever remember this much space in a km being devoted to converting men.. para 2 states: "when a family head accepts the truth, he often influences others in the family to join him in pure worship".

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  You can really see the evidence that there is a severe "brother" shortage.

  Many times, the microphone carriers are 50 or 60-year-old men. Twenty years ago, this was a position given to teenage boys. But there are no more teenage boys. And if there are some teenage boys in the congregation, they generally are not up to the standards that the JWs require to be seen.

  There are also very few elders and ministerial servants. Older brothers are not able to scale back their duties because there aren't enough people to give the responsibilities to.

  Where I live, congregations regularly have to import brothers from other congregations to fill the empty spots. Sometimes these brothers have to drive an almost unreasonable distance to support the needs of the congregation.

  Personally, I am hoping that this shortage will contribute to the slow erosion of the Organization.
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  JWs have caused this guy to seriously consider suicide

  by easyreader1970 in

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  http://www.reddit.com/r/askreddit/comments/8j2eg/is_there_any_reason_why_i_shouldnt_end_it_all_im/.

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  http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8j2eg/is_there_any_reason_why_i_shouldnt_end_it_all_im/
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  Your children are worthless. Get rid of them.

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. beliefs

  last night the co came to visit.

  he gave a talk that centered around a christian's ability to function well within the organization.

  there are many christians who are having problems in their personal lives and this can be traced to one thing.

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  It never ceases to amaze me, how contemptible and stupid the rank & file JWs are in the eyes of the GB. They view them as imbecilic children, with a faith so fragile that the merest glance at one piece of "apostate" literature, one furtive peek at computer porn, one hour's conversation with someone who doesn't worshipfully fawn over the GB, will cause it to irrevocably shatter into a million pieces.

  That may be largely true, because a JW's faith really isn't based on anything but random interpretations of scripture by some dudes in Brooklyn. Sure, Witnesses can do "personal study", but all the personal study in the world doesn't matter if you aren't allowed to come to your own conclusion. I can just read the Watchtower and accept the Watcthtower answer or I could spend four hours going over the Bible and then, just to make sure I don't think about things in a different way, I still accept the Watchtower answer. So my faith isn't really based on anything.

  When someone comes along with some faith or belief (which doesn't have to be religious, per se, it could be something scientific) that is based on something, it's not incredibly hard to sway me. So my only defense is to run away. Which is exactly what the Watchtower tells us to do.
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  Your children are worthless. Get rid of them.

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. beliefs

  last night the co came to visit.

  he gave a talk that centered around a christian's ability to function well within the organization.

  there are many christians who are having problems in their personal lives and this can be traced to one thing.

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  haven't we read story after heartbreaking story from the shunned?

  Well, the problem is apparently people don't like the hearbreaking stories and they're letting their disfellowshipped relatives--especially children--slide on the shunning rule. The big WBTS doesn't like that so they come back with "these children are destroying your life!"
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  Your children are worthless. Get rid of them.

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. beliefs

  last night the co came to visit.

  he gave a talk that centered around a christian's ability to function well within the organization.

  there are many christians who are having problems in their personal lives and this can be traced to one thing.

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  Last night the CO came to visit. He gave a talk that centered around a Christian's ability to function well within the Organization. There are many Christians who are having problems in their personal lives and this can be traced to one thing. THEIR CHILDREN.
  
  1. It's not your fault if your heathen children don't want to serve Jehovah. If you've even done the minimum by just bringing them to the meetings and showing them the Bible Story book every now and then, that's enough for them to have known something about Jehovah. If they still aren't serving Jehovah and they are near grown are grown, it's because they want to practice what is vile (yes, he used those words, borrowed from scripture).
  
  2. They are a drain on you spiritually. Even if they are your children, if they are unbaptized or disfellowshipped, you need to kick them to the curb if they are able to take care of themselves. Do not keep living with these people. (This explains why one of our elders was inexplicably removed from active duty--his daughter lives with him. As a side note, he is ultra-tight with his daughter so he'd probably never kick her out.)
  
  3. The Society is going to be coming out with even more information on living with people who are on the fringes of the Organization or who are outside of it altogether. He said that JWs are keeping relationships with their family members instead of SHUNNING THEM COMPLETELY as they have been instructed.
  
  This brother, the CO, also claims to be one of the "anointed" so his words supposedly carry additional weight. At the end of the talk he says that he knows that it's rough counsel but it must be done.
  
  My wife was shocked. Not by the fact solely that he's instructing people to kick their kids to the curb if they refuse to cooperate, but that they still support living with a marriage mate who is disfellowshipped or an unbeliever. It seemed a bit double-standard-ish to her, and she is a die-hard, the-Witnesses-can-never-be-wrong worshipper.
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  JW's least likely religion to accept evolution

  by easyreader1970 in

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  http://pewforum.org/docs/?docid=392.

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  http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=392
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  How do intelligent people get involved in organized religion?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  is it because of the fact that once you're involved in the religion, when it comes to god, the bible (or whatever religious text the religion is based on), thinking is no longer encouraged?

  that thinking is somehow wrong, immoral?.

  i know plenty of really smart people who could just have easily been astrophysicists.

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  MOST people are in the religion they're in because of their Zip Code, their Parents and their Culture.

  Well, that's fine. But even if they were born into it, I'm not talking about the ones that are just there because their parents brought them up that way or that is what is expected of them. I'm talking about the "true believers."