many, if not all, of the witness weddings i attended in the last few years had the 'tradition' of the bride and groom and members of the wedding party lined up to greet the guests into the reception room.. it was also a faily common practice to kiss the bride.
congratulations and thanks were exchanged.
the usual pleasantries, thanks for coming etc.. well here is a quote i just found from the watchtower 15th may 1952 page 319-320, questions from readers.
And we can be sure that he did not get in any line to kiss the bride either-so we leave such woman-exalting practices back in the creature-worshiping world, where they belong
oh man, this line cracked me up! woman-exalting practices!!!! congratulating her on her wedding??
"and we can be sure jesus did not get in any line"... HOW?????? were you there?? what if i'm NOT so sure about that??
if you are an elder or an ex-elder please add a comment.
i hope that the governing body will see this.
it is too bad it has to be on an anonymous forum.
and in my answers in the meetings before that Babylon fell in 587 BC - nobody even responded, the elder said "Good Answer"
what?!? hahaha - i'll have to try that one day.
if you are an elder or an ex-elder please add a comment.
i hope that the governing body will see this.
it is too bad it has to be on an anonymous forum.
bttt. -> any more interesting replies Anony? anything further from the Society?
when i was studying in the truth book i laid aside quite a few questions, feeling that i was learning something important, and that those "nagging questions" would be answered in due course.
most of those questions have gone unanswered because i was led along, like a stupid pig with a ring in his nose, by other pseudo-questions of, really, non-importance.
i've had problems with conforming, if that is the word, with "correct speak" in the organization, and it has been apparant to most of the people i've known over the years.
for me a big issue on the back burner (but that eventually got the ball rolling) was the idea that all non-jws would be destroyed, but particularly in conjunction with the fact that i was feeling that nobody actually truely chose to reject jehovah. i was always somehow able to see things from the householder's perspective, and i thought turning down a magazine about poverty or whatever from a teenager at your door because you're trying to sleep in, does in NO WAY amount to the same thing as rejecting Jehovah as the supreme ruler of the universe. yet that is what they say "we give everyone a fair chance by going to their doors.. when Armageddon comes they'll cry out 'We should have listened!!'"
add to that the fact that people from the Middle East, Asia, etc that don't already have a christian background are tremendously less inclined to become witnesses because they don't have the bible as common ground, and i felt that god was damn prejudiced.
i resigned as an elder some time ago, have been working on fading, the wife is getting used to the new 'me' (not stressed, better husband and father, etc.
), been missing a lot of meetings... even received a few statements such as: 'hi burnedout, it's good to see you!!!
last sunday, i took my one of my sons to the local dragstrip to show him the races, oops missed the meeting.
burnedout, any updates on this? what are you deciding to do?
i don't want to give a full synopsis of saturday's drama, for fear of inducing stupor among this thread's readers, but.... .
the drama deals with a jw family with 3 kids, 2 of whom are in various stages of rebellion against all things jw.. the older brother is one of the "rebels", while the younger brother is a thoroughly annoying piece of brown-nosing crapola, completely buying into the jw mindset.. anyways, the younger brother is asking the older brother about why he doesn't want to attend the family study any more.. the older kid's rambling answer touches on something along the lines of "i'm learning things in school about how life really came here.
it's not as simple as you think!".
no room for george.. do you have a new picture every day?
i don't want to give a full synopsis of saturday's drama, for fear of inducing stupor among this thread's readers, but.... .
the drama deals with a jw family with 3 kids, 2 of whom are in various stages of rebellion against all things jw.. the older brother is one of the "rebels", while the younger brother is a thoroughly annoying piece of brown-nosing crapola, completely buying into the jw mindset.. anyways, the younger brother is asking the older brother about why he doesn't want to attend the family study any more.. the older kid's rambling answer touches on something along the lines of "i'm learning things in school about how life really came here.
it's not as simple as you think!".
yes! i totally noticed that during the drama as well! my first reaction was to think "how strange that they would mention that so precisely, now people will research more about it!" but then i remembered... witnesses do not do research!!! two minutes into the next talk they wouldn't even remember the word "endo-symbiotic" anymore, if they even thought about it at all.
also i think, as some posters have already commented, that it's to give a sense of "oh we already learned about that" if ever it comes up.
also, if a young j-dub would start mentioning such topics, they could refer to that drama and caution him that he's falling for the same traps as "the young brother in the drama"
super cool!
all of us who have any ties to the jws know that they have their own vernacular, their own slang.
sure, there are formal titles that we can't really get away from: pioneer, ministerial servant, elder, ______ overseer, governing body, the (watchtower) society, etc.
but there are plenty of other bits of parlance they use that i can do without.... for example:.
oh i agree with SO many posted here already! i can never get myself to call it "the truth" again.. it just souds TOO wrong! also, who ever actually considers a "priviledge" to be a Priviledge?? their vocab is completely saturated with heavily skewed expressions that only support the brainwashing.
the only one i wanted to add to the list is their specific use of appropriate/inappropriate. it gets used arbitrarily concerning anything the WTS is presumed to approve/disapprove of, into the most insignificant details.
well i have been lurking for the past couple of weeks and have finally decided to create an account.
just wanted to introduce myself and relate my life story in the borg, specifically from the past few weeks- which i think has been a lot easier than many on the board.
anyway, my mum began to study when i was 10 (2005) and since then has been babtized; she strongly believes it is the truth.
hello, and welcome to the forum!
as a sidenote, if someone could PM me the .pdf copy of CoC please, that would be GREAT!
