i have also attended spanish congregations.
this has helped me to understand and respect totally different perspectives and narratives on race.
please be respectful during this discussion.
My family was the only white family in our congregation for many years. There was one mexican family and the rest of the hall was black and that congregation was my favorite ever. It was friendly, outgoing and just plain fun! When the territories were reconfigured, they sent us to a different congregation that was mostly white. I found it to be the complete opposite and hated it!
I agree with your post 100%.
i had a flash back yesterday.
my non jw husband and i went to disneyland and bought my young daughter a set of 7 dwarf toys.
after a few months i felt guilty and threw them away, thinking they were demonized.
I have tossed out a few things, much to my embarrassment.
A full boxed collection of the Harry Potter book series..
A magazine some Muslim men 'placed' with my husband
A sweater i was given that had some flags on it from several countries.
How foolish to think these inanimate objects would haunt me or come alive.
on page 25 of the new release, "your family can be happy" the illustration of the young boy being baptized looks between the ages of 9-12.. thoughts?.
My nephew --9 1/2 yrs old- was baptised at the Ford Field this past June. It's disgusting!
it is unkind, premature and even irresponsible to label people with whom we disagree using pejorative names.. for example, labeling a movement as a cult.. consider this example:.
sociologists d. bromley and a. shupe once described what they called the tnevnoc cult.
membership was open only to women, who were required to shave their heads, change their names, and wear specific clothing once they had entered the group.
JUST GOOGLE TOP 10 CULTS JW'S ARE USUALLY TOP 3
i talked to my brother today who is still a practicing jw (i've managed to fade) .
we were talking and suddenly he asked me if i thought satan could read my mind.
and he said "yeah i though the answer was yes and then i found out that satan cant read my mind".
Even if Satan existed and could read minds, why in the Hell would he bother to read MY mind? It's ironic that a organazation that prides itself on humbleness is also arrogant enough to feel at the center of a cosmic struggle of good and evil!
If he existed and could read minds he would most likely pick a world or religious leader.
Always curious about this, has anyone ever PERSONALLY experienced demonic activity?
some names have been changed or removed to protect those in the family who would not want their names known, or are still active jw's.
ruth .
a mothers regret for a religious devotion.
This is one post that needs to be bumped!!!
I read Balsalm's story again and it made me cry. How gut-wrenching for her and her family! I hope time has brought her some peace and the ability to remember the good times with her son.
This is the reality of no blood transfusions!
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focus.
("armageddon" class).
didn't they already address this with the overlapping generation doctrine?
Something about people that knew some of those born in 1914 and heard their testimony could be considered a overlap generation. Which of course adds at least another 100 years!
I think I heard this somewhere. If not I'm sure they will think of some new kool aide for the r and f to drink
'the terrible persecution of jehovahs witnesses by hitler, worse than that he inflicted on the jews, took place.
'' wt 1966 15th oct page 635.
you never knew about the jw's plight in nazi Germany?
You should have grown up in my house! My mother read me experiences (horror stories to a kid like me). About the jw's back then. They were published in what I think was the old yearbooks back in the 70's and 80's. She read them to me daily at breakfast. Right before I was off to school to face the flag salute issue. LOL
Does anyone else remember those comforting stories?
some souls here may feel i was a little harsh.
if so, i am deeply sorry.
i was abused by a handful right from the start, presumably on the basis of the avatar picture (and 2001 vintage).. when visiting dubland, i often find that others start fights with me - for whatever reason, and i provide quite a supply of them - and when it doesn't quite go the way they expected, they cry persecution.
one of the very best nonfaith building post I've ever seen !!!!! Thanks!!
Wish all my kool aide drinking buddies could see this. The funny thing is I've ran this idea through my mind since I was old enough to reason on my on. Still a question no one could answer for me effectively. I believe every jw wonders about this on occasion
and by the way, she will be unfaithful.
believe it was god or satan???.
the book of hosea.
didn't think make him a pimp?!!!!!!
And why wasn't her or her "johns" destroyed? Remember the KIDS that got eaten by bears for laughing at a prophet?
Judgement was so arbritrary in the bible
