as far as i know, in the usa, service year begins in september.
i was wondering, is it the same as worldwide?.
To JWs, that the service year starts in September doesn't matter as September is the same as August or any other month. Meetings and field service, the same old same old.
thats true. the only little effect it has is on regular pioneers since they have a yearly quota to reach. the ones who boosted it early in the service year tend to take it easier in august, perhaps taking some weekends off. those who slacked off earlier have to push for extra hours in August.
people usually start relationships with the posibility of lasting,,,,, my question is, if a person would die/travel/ get too sick, in a short period , lets say 1 or 2 years, would you still date him/her?.
that's an interesting question, but it depends entirely on the situation, the reason it can't last, who the person in question is, what kind of relationship you're looking for and what the other person wants.
i've noticed there are a few excellent threads on here about sunday's 9/11 watchtower study.
my own analysis of its more blatantly farcical claims (including that of apostates being "mentally diseased") can be seen here.. what i really wanted to know is - what has the fallout been?
has it created any horror-stories within people's families or homes, etc?
Sounds like the GB have built up th efear of 'apostates' to such a high degree it's become a non reality. The term is now so mystical that it has no substance in reality.
thats true. i was talking with an uber-dub once about this guy we both know who left the "truth" and is quite open about talking with others about what we'd call here, talking about what's wrong with the religion. right away the dub warned we should stay away from him because "not only did he leave the truth, he's BORDERLINE APOSTATE!!!"
i've noticed there are a few excellent threads on here about sunday's 9/11 watchtower study.
my own analysis of its more blatantly farcical claims (including that of apostates being "mentally diseased") can be seen here.. what i really wanted to know is - what has the fallout been?
has it created any horror-stories within people's families or homes, etc?
nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was this last sunday?!?!??!?!??!?
I MISSED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
I REALLY wanted to be there for that one... but i forgot! had been looking forward to it for months!
recently stopped studying, and stopped in the street to talk to a jw i met during my time studying.
we were sorta friends (well, in the small way jw's and worldlies can be) and here's how it went:.
him: "did you have a problem with someone?
awesome!
also good on you for mentioning the specific website. hopefully it will linger in his mind until curiosity takes over.
i have only been mentally out for just over a year and i find it difficult to live this double life, ( ex-elder/reg pioneer).
i'm still in for probably the same reason as most who post here=.
a wife that i cherish= who would be destroyed and kick me to the curb.
i'm in a similar situation, and speaking from my own experience, i would say that faking it whilst you know what you know about the "truth", becomes impossible after a while as your heart just isn't in it anymore, and that eventually becomes apparent to those around you.
in my experience, i'd say this makes it get easier in certain aspects. for example, expectations of me got lower, and they eventually give up hassling you about missing service, you don't get asked to do as many "privileges", stuff like that.
it does get harder too, in that with time you just get more and more fed up with being at the meetings and dealing with the social pressure, and some friends start to seem more distant.
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this afternoon the song music box dancer came on the radio and i was instantly transported back to 1978 when my best jw friend got married.. this was "their" song ,, they are now divorced and one of them left the religion and is remarried.. another song that makes my skin crawl from a jw standpoint is mambo # 5.. there was an elder from my old hall, j. renfroe who always was telling the young people what music was acceptable for them to listen to.. and this guy was just so opinionated regarding everything.. so one time at a wedding this song comes on and he starts dancing almost uncontrollably.
it was agony to watch, and i ( and many others felt embarrassed for him because of how he was dancing and how his self rightous opinions seemed to be thrown to the wind this evening.. any other examples of music that became tainted from a jw experience ?.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywWolXGIx8&feature=related
always made me think of service
questions from jwn readers.
1914 is a date that many people question.
this is equal to 3.5 lunar years of 360 days.
great article! i give it facebook style "like" thumbs up. :P
the sad part is that if this was really in the WT, the majority of jdubs would probably accept it as deep, well-researched spiritual enlightenment! (except maybe the sentence about historians, archeologists, and astronomers pointing to the factual evidence of 587)
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as always, right click on image if you wish to copy image or hyperlink for email.. cheers, len..
nice, just toobad it says "you're" instead of "your"
trying to work with jw's and their cd i notice that the harder i push their beliefs the more likely they are to hit back with some werid version of jw belives that exsists only in their own head.. its almost like they listen to the bs from the platform, run it through their head and then process it through their own filter and end up with a bastardised version of "the truth" that they feel comfortable with.. .
anyone else encountered this?
and whats your theory about it?.
yep, definitely agree with this thread. i think in part it's to do with the fact that these days official doctrine is hard to come by in the magazines or at the meetings. now it's all about christian qualities, (but that's a different topic).
when i was still mentally in, i often thought and said it too, that there may be things that don't make sense or seem contradictory, but that Jehovah doesn't ask of us that we need to understand or agree with it all, just that we do his will. gradually i became less vocal about it when i started seeing Adam and Eve as a symbolic account while still believing we had the Truth. i just thought we had certain details wrong but still had the right "big picture". :P
