cognac...... chapter 3 starting around point 12 "choosing our close associates".
wow, marking bad association in the congregation. It's not enough to already avoid wordly people and shun DA or DF'd person. Now you must also make distinctions in associating with the weak or strong. soooo Christ-like, isn't it?
Then they wonder why there is so much suspicion and lack of love in the congregation.... crazy nuts.....
for your viewing pleasure:.
2008 2009 keep conquering the evil with the good circuit assembly of jehovahs witnesses.
saturday .
3:25 Beware of Overconfidence That's my fav...
"Please friends, do not become overconfident and believe you can actually think for yourselves. Let the Society continue to tell you what to believe, what to think, how to make love to your wife, what color socks to wear, etc. etc...."
i was adopted into a jw family in southern california.
my birth mother gave me up after 6 months (the terms mom & dad refer to my adoptive/real parents).
she gave me up due to the fact that she already had a three year old boy, and back in the late sixties it was not as socially acceptable to be a single mother.
I'm a day late and a dollar short, but so glad I came across this link. You'll probably never read this but your story did help, thank you for being so kind in writing this.
part 1: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/163998/1.ashx.
part 2: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/164136/1.ashx.
part 3: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/164163/1.ashx.
Read your whole story, thank you so much for taking the time to write it!! One part your experience really resonates with me - not having any friends in "the world" or at the KH. That made for an incredibly lonely life. Even as an adult I feel socially inept - unsure of how to make friends and reach out to others. Now that I work with so many witnesses, this has made socializing with colleagues even more difficult for me.
But your experience really helps so many others to see they are not alone. Thanks and I wish you all the best.
a certain witness,kind of close to me,is insistent that this article confirms her conviction that the wt teaches that jehovah will judge hearts at the "end" and both j w's and non j w's may be saved ....i say that it teaches the opposite.
what do you think?
how do you read it?.
I find it interesting that Romans 10:9 - which seems to offer a clear cut definition of who wil be saved is omitted from the requirements -
9 For if you publicly declare that ‘word in your own mouth,’ that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved.
...that someone may choose a different course of action than you would under the same circumstances?.
what about someone who forms an opinion on an issue that's different from yours?
can you accept that?.
I agree with you and many members here have taken a very rigid stance against the JW's faith, yet paradoxically they are here because the WTS has been rigidly against them. As a JW, there is no room for differing opinions, or room to 'agree to disagree'. The WTS requires unwavering and unquestioning loyalty, so those who disagree with them and their tactics can't necessarily accept them as just having a difference of opinion.
i never believed a word of any of it !.
raised a j.w from birth, i'd sit in the meetings and at conventions wondering what the hell it was all about and that it was all one big joke and imagine that they''d all suddenly turn around laughing and pointing at me !!
saying something like "haha the joke's on you".
Not to take away from your original post/rant BJ, but laissezfaire's post really touched me. I'm sorry for all that you are enduring and hope that your family is united again one day. Peace....
our po...who is really full of himself....reckons that he is reading a special letter tonight, he says he isn't allowed to tell fellow elders before the public reading.
just a word of caution....our po...is one who loves all the mystery and secrets, so my inkling is that it will be a crock of crap.
however it may prove to be interesting...i will tell you after meeting tonight.
Even if I forget to come back and find out what was in the letter, this thread was hella funny!
Thanks for the laughs tonite folks, I really needed it.
there's a box on page 10:.
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what will be the "end afterward"?.
You are absolutely right to be annoyed by things like this. A college education is equated with drug abuse and smoking - sad. Backwards and sad. Could you imagine trying to convince a bible study about the horrors of higher learning?
I don't believe that college is the only means of success, yet for many, including myself, it made a big difference between being stuck in a back-breaking, labor intensive job, or being able to move ahead professionally and of course being able to provide for my family.
But everyone already knows what the WTS really fears - people who learn to think for themselves....
i get that kind of feedback when i talk to dubs that i know .
how about your experiences.
do the jws you talk to really keep up with the tidal wave of wt doctrine changes?
You should have asked them to show you where in the bible this "progressive" theory about God's "sole channel" is...
