as an elder, i recall that the husband always had to be present on any judicial committee meeting involving his wife, but that the wife was not to be present on judicial committee meetings involving her husband.
has this changed?
if not, isn't that treating women as lesser persons than their husbands?.
The way my elder husband treated me for 20 years was very similar to how Afghan men treat their wives. I just wanted basic human rights like being able to have my witness parents visit or be able to visit them. I was his property and he was not going to share me with anyone.
It makes me ill that when I reached out for help (twice in 20 years) to an elder about my husbands headship being unbearable, I was squashed like a bug. It was the good ol boys club and I was a woman.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-z-bobzien-tommy&pid=157453859.
note: this just happened and some rumours are surfacing from bethel family there and are told "not to talk" about this.
1. young man called parents to say good bye night before being found dead.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 1 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 325 Lowen Hill Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15216
The Memorial Service was held at the KH
this post is not an advertisement to sell a book.
please read on and you'll see why i thought you might like to meet my husband, joe's sister, nancy.
back in the 1950s, much to her family's dismay, nancy was not interested in spending her life as a jw and left the group when she was 16. she married a fledgling banker at an early age (probably to escape the jws and her family), moved from dallas, texas, to apple valley, calif., and had three children.
to survive and thrive in midlife and beyond, get rid of distractions like obsolete possessions, over drinking, overeating, socializing too much, working too much, and spending time with people who drain your energy. With distractions out of the way (and this will take a while), rewrite your life story so that the outcome matches who you are and what you value at this stage of life.
Such sound advice.
in the congregations in my area there was an expression to the effect that 'there's counting time and then there's the way pioneers count their time'.
the watchtower's guidelines were pretty strict on when time could be counted.
some pioneers followed it and others didn't.. on particularly motivated young man comes to mind, he would work full-time or close to it and pioneer.
When I pioneered as a single sister I started my time at the first door and stopped my time at the last door. When I married another pioneer, he convinced me that we could start our time when we pulled out of the parking lot and stopped our time when we got home (even if we took multiple breaks, garage sales, shoe repair store, mall etc.)
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2012 july kingdom ministry*click the link below and when the next page appears scroll down and click the link in the long blue box that says: (click here to start download from sendspace).
ignore all the other buttons and symbols.
SBC..."And there you have it, folks... the Watchtower Society's favorite demographics: the illiterate and the naive."
This statement is so true, one wonders whether to laugh or cry.
subject: short illustration regarding the "cowbird"hello, we recently dedicated our remodeled kingdom hall here in los angeles , and our guest speaker was bro.
javier hernandez from brooklyn bethel.
bro.
Last I heard we were a whisper away from the end. Now we are seconds away??? Does that make the end closer than a whisper or farther?
digital publications.
books and brochures.
http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=qryqcsvrglbbx.
My heart skipped a couple of beats when I read through the program and realized I will be out enjoying life (i.e. riding my bike, swimming, fishing)instead of sitting on my ass for days listening to that mindless crap and eating bagged lunches and starchy dinners. Hmmm.....I wonder who will really have a healthier heart?
i thought i would start a thread on this in conjunction with the other one on the pronunciation and use of the "jehovah" name.. my premise is that the very early russellites, while being aware of the "jehovah" name, were not obsessed by it as are modern jws.. could some student of jw history again enlighten us (for the record) of how and when this "jehovah fixation" occurred in this religion?.
Not only did Rutherford want to distinguish himself from other Bible Study groups, but he wanted to distinguish himself from Russell.
I just finished 30 years a Watchtower Slave - Schnell spends some time on this very subject.
original article here.
more snark here.
young people ask - are we just friendsor more?
Crush any sign of adolescent happiness. It's better on the long run, they'll struggle less when we crush their happiness as adults
Corpusdei you nailed it again!!! This is hilarious
