18 if you face a similar situation, please remember that jehovah sympathizes with you.
by cutting off contact with the disfellowshipped or disassociated one, you are showing that you hate the attitudes and actions that led to that outcome.
however, you are also showing that you love the wrongdoer enough to do what is best for him or her.
Got it in one Jambon.
But why do the WT society want emotionally blackmailed hostages? They'll just end up with a load of apathetic, non-contributing, depressed / medicated individuals who constantly need to be exhorted to do more and only stay through fear of disfellowshipping.
Oh wait - that's what they've got already.
andre, who had served jehovah for years, had the bitter experience of being led astray.
by apostate thinking.
he felt that having a quick look at an apostate web site would not be dangerous.he recalls: initially, i was attracted to the so-called truths that the.
Maybe we should put together an Apostate Agument 101 for all the newbies who will be turning up here when this article is studied in March...
borean bill here.
looking forward to sharing jw experiences and working towards shutting down the wt society..
Welcome Bill!
does anyone remember the rationale that was used in rebranding "back calls" as "return visits"?.
while on the subject does anyone else remember any theocratic name changes like,.
district assembly to district convention.
Congregation Book Study,became congregation bible study. Everyone still calls whatever we study 'the group book'
Company Servant became Congregation Servant became Presiding Overseer became Co-ordinator of the Body of Elders.
New World, New Order, New System seem to be on a 15 year rotation.
What a priveledge we indeed do have to be speaking the Pure Language as truth our hearts is reaching.
Obeying grammatical constructs in melodies of Kingdom songs, satanic it is.
does anyone remember the rationale that was used in rebranding "back calls" as "return visits"?.
while on the subject does anyone else remember any theocratic name changes like,.
district assembly to district convention.
Anyone remember the field service white slips on which you would record your not-at-homes?
When I was a kid I thought the slips were called essates. But really they were form "S-8".
As in "Sister, did you return last week's S-8s with the not at homes? I need to give that territory to Sister X for this morning's service, and I think there's a do not call on it"
You know you were a witness if you understood that.
satan and nvl recommended that i start this thread.
i'm not sure anyone will have interest.
but one of the things that proves to me that the bible is accurate is the prophecies that were written before the fullfillment, in detal.
nb - I hope Brother Dan comes back. But I understand how painful it is to have your cherished 'proven' beliefs shaken - don't we all!
satan and nvl recommended that i start this thread.
i'm not sure anyone will have interest.
but one of the things that proves to me that the bible is accurate is the prophecies that were written before the fullfillment, in detal.
Leolaia thanks for your posts here. It's so helpful to look at Daniel through a different interpretive lens than the WT one.
maybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?
in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.
one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.
On the rare occasion doctrine is discussed among my JW friends, the attitude is "I've never cared about / understood the chronology stuff". Usually followed by:
"We're the only ones who preach/ don't believe the trinity / it's still God's organisation"
I think the society can do what they like doctrinally, as long as they don't take the paradise away.
if you were even born into a religion, would you feel that you had to get out?
( the only religion that i know of where people get out and often never go to any other religion is the jw religion)..
Unitarian Universalist if I absolutely had to join something
it's no good just to go through the motions.
to achieve jehovah's blessings, the brothers and sisters must have the right heart motivation; to conduct their work in joy and love and remind themselves that the load is not burdensome.. but what if the work is boring and burdensome?
what if in the organization and scheduling of "god's organization", the spirit of the law has been lost?.
Quoting debator Watchtower style "Is it boring(?) ... definitely" .
Absolutely agree.
