you might be a jehovah's witness if .
you know when nisan 14 is but you forget you own birthday.
you wash windows for a living but you own five suits.
You Might be a Jehovah's Witness if you constantly feel the urge to underline the main thoughts no matter what you're reading.
You miss the first 10 min of any sporting event trying to avoid the national anthem.
You're afraid to talk to worldly people of the opposite sex cause you think they will demand sex from you....the horror!!
You believe everything you're told.
i thought it would be interesting and informative to create the following survey.. please cut and paste it in the 'post' section and type in your reply under each question.. .
let the survey begin 10 questions.
1.rate on a scale from 1-10 the postive impact (10 being absolutely positive) of jehovahs-witness.net on your life.. .
1.Rate on a scale from 1-10 the postive impact (10 being Absolutely Positive) of Jehovahs-Witness.net on your life.
8
2.Rate on a scale from 1-10 the negative impact of Jehovah's-Witness.net on your life.
4
3. When you are in close proximity to Jehovah's Witnesses what actual, palpable emotion do you feel?
Anger/anxiety
4.On a scale from 1-10 (10 being Absolute confidence) how confident are you that the Bible is an actual source of Divine Truth?
is 0 a choice?
5.Current active believing Jehovah's Witnesses, if approached the right way, under ideal conditions can be convinced to question their own beliefs.
True or False? (Remember, this is YOUR opinion.)
True
6.Which best describes how you feel about youor current position on religious matters?
C. I don't think anybody has any supernatural revelation. It is all self-delusion.
7.Name three writers who have done the most to get your attention and cause you to question IF you are right. (Any authors)
Raymond Franz; Paul Grundy(JWFacts guy); one other that I don't remember the name of, his story led me to CoC.
8.What is your greatest personal fear?
That I die prematurely and my daughters get indoctrinated in this bloody cult!
9.What is your greatest person source of Joy?
My 2 daughters
10.If you could wave a magic wand and go back to any year of your life, any age, any place, any time---what would it be and why?
14 years old, the day I told my unbelieving father that I wanted to attend the meetings regularly with my mom. Why didn't he stand his ground the way he had up to that point to my mom?
whatever else you may think about jehovah's witnesses, what they think about their own "trained christian conscience" is an absolute.. the governing body feeds them what they should think and say and do; they obey.. conversely, what they must not think and say or do must be obeyed absolutely as well.
agreed?.
by internalizing these instructions, directions and taboos all jehovah's witnesses become tuned in to the collective authority of jehovah's "arrangement.".
I always found the conscience issue very strange, especially when there were consequences handed down by the org for following your conscience. For example, a few years ago, carrying a firearm was made mandatory where I work. So being the good JW that I was, I researched the WT publications to see what "god's" view on the matter was.
Well much to my surprise, as evil as the WT made it out to be, they conclude the article by saying that carrying a firearm as part of one's employement is a conscience matter. However, the article also says that if a brother who holds a high position of responsibility in the congregation decides to do it, his ability to carry out those priveleages should be reviewed by the elders of the congregation (we all know what that means).
But that's just one example, there are probably hundreds just like it. They say let your conscience guide you, listen to your conscience, but we all know that every JWs conscience is the GB.
chock full of jehovah's witnesses.
with the exception of my wife and my best man, they're all jws.
jws who probably despise me.
What a coincidence. Just this past weekend I was converting my wedding video from VHS to DVD, and unfortunately there is no short cut, you have to make the video play in its entirety to capture the video on your computer. So I ended up watching pretty much the whole thing, and I too had very mixed emotions about the whole ordeal. My wife and I are still very much happily married after 13 years, but it was sad to see all the people I was so close with, now out of my life.
The whole talk is taped, and it almost made me gag. I didn't realize then how little the talk was about my wife and I and how much of it was a witness to non jws.
I was also reminded of when the entire dancefloor of about 100 people cleared within 4 seconds when the DJ played YMCA, after being repeadedly told not to prior to the wedding day. I can laugh about it now......not so funny then.
i am picketing the assembly....i know many on here think that is nuts.
but at 84 i can do what i ruddy well like.12 noon i will stand with another bloke.
whos wife is a jw & it is destroying their marriage...the kitchener auditorium.
That's too bad. This weekend is the DC we were supposed to be at, but we've already decided not to go.
I would have loved to see you in person, and maybe sneak you a wink when no one was watching. But I just can't bring myself to sitting and listening to drivel for 8 hours and driving an hour and a half to do it, no offence Mouthy...lol!
Good luck with the protest, I hope you manage to plant many seeds.
hope this works, i've never posted a link before.
interesting article on religion and personal income, not that any of it comes as much of a surprise.
i apologize if it's already been posted.. http://www.ktxs.com/news/28138610/detail.html.
Hope this works, I've never posted a link before. Interesting article on religion and personal income, not that any of it comes as much of a surprise. I apologize if it's already been posted.
victorian sky has a great thread on music.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/57646/1.ashx.
it got me thinking, about tv shows, anything in particular you were told not to watch, being a little kid in the 70's i do remember hearing shows from the platform that we should not watch.
Happy Days was banned in my household because they used the phrase "sit on it".
Also; Three's Company, All In The Family, anything with magic or sorcery i.e. Smurfs, and Wrestling was a big no-no, mainly because we imitated the wrestlers.
this weekend watchtower study at the kh had included a picture on page 31 (watchtower march 15).. on the picture a sister is speaking / testify at a court.. at the wall of the court chamber, there are 2 pictures of imaginal political leaders.. am i wrong, do i see a joke of the wts graphic department?
because they are very similar to 2 governing body members.. fun ?!
?.
A heck of a lot of media covering this story....lol!!!
10. have the coboe greet everyone at the door dressed as the easter bunny.. 9. wine for the anointed and beer for the great crowd.. 8. bland unleavened bread replaced by hawaiian sweet rolls.. 7. memorial talk replaced by live local congregation production of "jesus christ superstar".. 6. kh library reserved to commemorate buddha for those of the "reincarnated class".. 5. no brothers passing the emblems, instead will be single sisters in bikinis.. 4. inactive ones issued complimentary marijuana joint to help them cope with being dragged back to the hall again.. 3. suit and ties forbidden, replaced by t-shirts emblazoned with "jesus is my homeboy".. 2. raffle to win copy of "crisis of conscience" autographed by the governing body.. 1. guest appearance by jesus himself, but only in brooklyn.. .
JimmyPage, I like number 5.....I would comment a hell of a lot more if they used it for mics as well.
last night, completely out of the blue, my 6 year old daughter, asked my wife and i why we don't go to meetings anymore.
she actually said that she misses them.
i know, where have i failed!!!.
Yes Blondie, she is an absolute social butterfly. She makes friends everywhere. We have kids from the neighbourhood over all the time. She attends all the parties she's invited to.
I suspect the question was prompted from something my mom or my wife's mom may have said to her, a concern I expressed on a previous thread. Or it may be the increased number of visits we've been getting from elders, expressing how much they miss us and inviting us to the memorial. Or it may have been something we said to trigger her memory. In any case, other than last year's memorial, it's been almost 2 years since we attended meetings.
