it came today, the dreaded envelope containing my personal copy of "return to jehovah" from my elderly, desperate mother.
it included a small note asking me to read it over and to let her know what i think.
she got it at her assembly.. firstly, i'm angry that she continues to push her religion on me, given that i stopped attending meetings over thirty years ago, and very offended that she assumes that i still want to be a witness, which is her choice of religion, not mine.
I wonder if a bit of you is a bit like me. I have some resentment that my parent was daft enough/self absorbed enough to become a witness. That God was going to bail them out and let them see all their dead loved ones and live forever.
And so as a kid I got swept along ...
Only it took me 40 more years to realise it was all a load of nonsense. And I feel daft too.
this is a bizarre story.. there is a woman who is the local leader of the naacp who is obviously trying to mislead people into believing she is black who is actually white.
very white.. she obviously gets a tan regularly but looks more orange.
yes, orange really is the new black!.
She has kids??? Tragedy.
this is a bizarre story.. there is a woman who is the local leader of the naacp who is obviously trying to mislead people into believing she is black who is actually white.
very white.. she obviously gets a tan regularly but looks more orange.
yes, orange really is the new black!.
She's a fruitloop plain and simple. Just be thankful she hasn't got kids. A prospective Munchausen woman if ever there was.
It's all about her. Here is my Psychobabble diagnosis.
In her twisted mind "Mommy and Daddy adopted black kids. She wants the attention they get; after all Mommy and Daddy chose them there kids but got lumbered with her..."
Dangerously twisted.
i know you all are aware of how little knowledge people have about jehovah's witnesses and topics men like bob bowen and women like barbara anderson tried to raise the level of public awareness that "the jehovah witness coming to your door might be a pedophile or child molester!
" what's gone wrong, has the society outsmarted the media or do people not really care what happens to young children?
if you took a survey trying to ascertain how many people walking through the grocery store, a target or upper class stores nordstroms, your going to be shocked how little people know.. if it's about the catholic church, those numbers shot through the ceiling, is this because there is no problem in the new world watchtower order or their better at damage control?
@cofty
30 years ago the usual method of dealing with a reported child abuse situation was disbelief, minimizing and if believed to be true "think of the reproach on Jehovah if this gets out" ran through all dealings.
just heard the stupidest thing ever on this weeks service meeting: it was regarding the volunteers for cleaning the stadium before rc.
they are not allowed to wear shorts or printed t-shirts .but hey its summer!
its gonna be warm!
one or two of you have noticed that i use derogatory terms when talking about matters religion.
i offer no apology.
you do, however, deserve an explanation.. my father, bless him and now dead, was a survivor of belsen, the german concentration camp.
Hello Dolt,
Assuming your father was at Bergen-Belsen because he was Jewish, why did he convert to a Christian faith?
Just wondering.
Freddo
wt is insinuating, worse yet, blaming senior jw parents for there not being more younger brothers reaching out to be ministerial servants and elders.
page 11 paragraph 9 reads as follows: .
"elders in affluent lands may face an added challenge: how to motivate baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to get involved in congregation activities.
Yeah who are these "experienced elders" they asked?
1. Bethelites who depend on their masters for board and lodging.
2. Brown-nosers who measure spirituality by assembly platform assignments and strutting around being career christians.
GB Flunky: "So Bro. Brown-noser why do these young men in their 20's and 30's become disengaged?"
BB: (wringing hands) "because their parents didn't encourage spiritual goals." (real reasons - they see through the BS/ They want out but do enough not get booted. If their parents didn't encourage them to buy the bullshit hook line and sinker it's because they didn't get to realise the promise of petting lions in their waterside properties while feeding John the Baptist outsize fruit.)
assuming you are still sitting there because of circumstances.
why do you still give/don't give talks?i ask this because i have to give talk no.
3: love and obedience bring happinessnwt p. 26 4-6 (5 min.
Put in a sentence or two about how we must obey God's word the bible rather than man. So obviously if someone were to keep asking for us to send money for a new headquarters we might think of not building bigger store houses or that Jesus had nowhere to lay his head. We might even think of Ananias and Sapphire who were deceitful about their financial affairs and tried to look good before men.
Don't think you'd have to do any more talks after that ...
from my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.
's, here are my conclusions:.
's are very rapidly falling into two distinct camps -.
I would love to see a crumbling and withering of congs. But now with the "great expansion" of building ... I mean ... scrapping kingdom halls I think there will be amalgamating of congs. In larger towns and cities every 3 to 5 average congs can easily be made into 2 or 3 larger congs. That means less platform work for the Elders and MS's, less CO's needed. So the desperation for "brothers reaching out" is reduced in the short term.
Imagine 3 congs with a total of 20 elders - well that can be two congs with 10 in each.
The good thing is more chance for faders to go less noticed under the radar while the elders fight it out for the prominent jobs and take a while to settle in..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eueuwshs1cg&feature=youtu.be
I wish that would go viral.
That is how to do it. Dress fairly smartly - No shouting, no screeching, no banner waving - just a puzzled look and a mild manner and "not understanding" the (lack of) response.
