Posts by believingxjw

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Why it's Dangerous to Associate w/ Jehovah's Witnesses-Barbara Anderson

by flipper in

barbara wanted me to post this info she shared recently at a speech she gave at a seminar.

all comments welcome.

peace out .. .

believingxjw

Old Hippie, thanks for your view on things. It's always good to hear a wide variety of views rather than just one.

It's been my experience that local elders do have much influence on how Watchtower policy/advice is applied. In my last congregation there were 3 young adults attending college, 2 pioneered while doing so. In the congregation I attended before that one they probably would have been ridiculed for going to college.

There are more liberal congregations and the ultra controlling ones as well.

I appreciate your comments, thank you.

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November 15 Watchtower (Study Edition) - discourages showing affection to your spouse

by CrazyBlonde in

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another gem from the same edition - article to be studied december 28 - january 3 (which most will miss lol coz of summer vacation) entitled "what do your prayers say about you?

" page 6 para 19 reads:.

19 when we are being represented in public prayer, we need to display reverential "fear of god.

believingxjw

The Governing Body treats the publishers like Barbie and Ken dolls to with what they please.

Every Watchtower study edition should have a Barbie and Ken at the top: Latest instructions for Barbie and Ken.

Latest ways to dress Barbie and Ken. Latest things Barbie and Ken cannot do. How Barbie and Ken should raise their children. How Barbie and Ken

should think.

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Reform, can it be?

by jookbeard in

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i like lists.

believingxjw

The Governing Body is a spiritual corpse. Their spiritual insides are rotting and cannot be reformed or revived.

Poor Governing Body. They keep looking up for God's help and never get an answer.

Maybe this board is their answer from God.

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Could God create a rock so heavy He could not lift it?

by nicolaou in

one question that stretched theologians during the middle ages was; could god envision or make a four sided triangle or a three sided square or some other atrocity.

at first the problem seems foolish, but it really is an instance of a more fundamental problem: is god bound and limited by the laws of reason and logic or not?.

i've had this conversation on jwd before but i was never satisfied with it.

believingxjw

"Could God create a rock so heavy He could not lift it?"

No. Jesus could not create a rock so heavy that God could not lift it.

John 1:3 "All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being."

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Who is your Spiritual Guide?

by Butterflyleia85 in

come, now, you who say: today or tomorrow we will journey to this city and will spend a year there, and we will engage in business and make profits, whereas you do not know what your life will be tomorrow.

for you are a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

instead, you ought to say: if jehovah wills, we shall live and also do this or that.

believingxjw

Science changes just as much as many claim the Bible does.

I put my faith in what Jesus taught and I also enjoy the sciences as well. Truth is not limited to one field, whether secular or religious truth is there to be found.

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Who is your Spiritual Guide?

by Butterflyleia85 in

come, now, you who say: today or tomorrow we will journey to this city and will spend a year there, and we will engage in business and make profits, whereas you do not know what your life will be tomorrow.

for you are a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

instead, you ought to say: if jehovah wills, we shall live and also do this or that.

believingxjw

Jesus is my only spiritual guide.

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Armstrong, WWCOG and Ray Franz

by kurtbethel in

i saw this on a yahoo group.

this is an interesting speculation that ray franz would have caused a schism in 1980 if he had prevailed.

likely bogus, as there is no clear parallel.

believingxjw

He wanted to get rid of all the teachings that make us different from Christendom, 1914, last days, blood transfusions, house to house ministry, disfellowshipping, shunning of DFd relatives.
The Witnesses are obsessed with being "different" instead being what Jesus taught us to be.

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"Pioneer Syndrome" - Pioneers from the 1990's are getting very sick in 2009! Theories?

by Witness 007 in

just heard sister g______ is very ill and not looking good at all.

shes in her 40's and looks like an old lady!

very tired she can barely manage to work a day or two because she has to...i myself crashed with glanduar fever and was tired for 4 years...still others have developed "pioneer syndrome" tired, always ill with no cure, increased need for sleep.

believingxjw

The Watchtower trains the publishers to believe whatever they're told. The Awake magazine's health articles cause a convenient self-hypnosis in some that affords the publisher or pioneer the emotional support they lack from their high stress religion. The expectations for women are high in the Organization:

be submissive to your husband

keep a model home

be a model mother and wife

support your elder husband don't make too many demands on his time

be a model publisher or pioneer

working women are expected to do all of the above

believe everything the Watchtower men tell you because they are appointed by Jehovah to care for you

keep your children in the truth or they'll die at Armageddon

don't speak to your disfellowshipped son or daughter

always remember that you are a woman and not entitled to teach even your own unbaptized teenage son without a headcovering

if you truly love Jehovah you would all of the above if you're not doing all of the above then perhaps you should study more and go in field service more in order to appreciate all that Jehovah has done for you

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The Watchtower abuses its women.

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Yay for Womanhood! Female Min.Serv's under consideration.

by cattails in

the "priscilla" deliberations.. gb subcommittees now re-considering role of women in the organization.. example of phoebe as "diakonos" revisited.. could women be appointed to ministerial servant positions in view of the need in congregations?.

what's your take on latest rumors?

http://www.extjforo.com/foro/showthread.php?t=14821.

believingxjw

The Society changes when it is forced to, as we all know. If they should allow the use of women in ministerial positions this is only because they are hurting real bad in many congregations. If that is so that would mean the younger generation of male JWs is either leaving or not interested in positions of responsibility. As usual then, the Organization is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they use women in more traditional male roles they lose the fertile ground, the ministerial positions, in which they have grown their future elders. If they do not use the sisters they drive what elders they have further into the ground.

If they are contemplating using more sisters they will probably create a new category of service specifically for the sisters. It seems they are already trying hard to shore up the younger generation and using sisters may be an avenue they could use to shame the younger men into standing up for Jehovah.

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Yay for Womanhood! Female Min.Serv's under consideration.

by cattails in

the "priscilla" deliberations.. gb subcommittees now re-considering role of women in the organization.. example of phoebe as "diakonos" revisited.. could women be appointed to ministerial servant positions in view of the need in congregations?.

what's your take on latest rumors?

http://www.extjforo.com/foro/showthread.php?t=14821.

believingxjw

Using sisters as ministerial servants would be an extension of a practice the Society has had in place for decades. In congregations that have too few brothers the sisters have been used in minor congregational roles traditionally given to men. For instance the accounts servant years ago could be sister if enough brothers were not available. The sister assigned to this role would give the accounts report at the podium just like the brother would but she had a head covering. Using this model there is no reason why sisters could not handle literature and other ministerial responsibilities.

I welcome this change, if it should be correct, but it is not so much a new change but rather an extension of what they have already been doing for years.

believingxjw