an ex-jw friend of mine once agreed with me that the letters in the "questions from readers" section in the wt/awake!
were all made up by the wbts.. does anybody have any evidence either way?.
has anybody had their "question" published?.
I've always felt that these "questions" have a made-up feel to them. Also, I'd like to see how many real questions never make it to print. I'm sure they get a lot of real stuff that they don't have the courage to touch with the proverbial ten-foot pole.
Another guess is that the questions may be culled from a number of queries received on a similar topic.
did your hall ever organize times for the congregation to do activities?.
about every 6-9 months, mine would have a congregation picnic.
people would bring food, and we would play a softball game.
This was such a back-and-forth topic locally. Witnesses would have congreagtion picnics, then one time the CO came through and said no to "large gatherings" due to the chance for 'wrongdoing' to take place among a large number of people.
Then, the green light seemed to be given some years later, and now, picnics are back in vogue. My family was not invited to the last one - I guess making one-two meetings per week was not good enough.
I would have to agree that such gatherings were, overall, discouraged. It would be frustrating to try restricting association to Witnesses only, then finding that crowd size was also a restriction.
a few days ago minimus posted a thread on flame wars at: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=39526&site=3 ... in it i commented about tina & julie, who posted here until about late february or early march, and acknowledged that i could and should have acted as a friend toward them rather than being like a lawyer ... being right or fighting over what seems right is not always as important as concern for people and what they are going through.
i failed them in this regard.
a couple of people shared my comments with them, and both tina and julie responded right away in email to me.
Well, I'll say it again - Amazing, you're a stand-up guy for making the effort at reconciliation and admitting that some mistakes were made.
As for Julie and Tina (both of whom I do not know at all, even in an online sense) both of you are stand-up gals.
This is nice stuff to read and hear about.
i was watching vh1 tonite and saw the new faith hill song, called "cry".
the lyrics to it blew me away as it said the things i wish i could say to a few people who have decided to throw me away.
mainly my dad, as many of you know.
((((((((((Dede)))))))))
Good post, though obviously a very sad one. For him to consider you and your sister as "dead" to him is very sad indeeed. We can only hope that one day the hard attitude of such people will soften.
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im a huge cowboy fan but i dont think they will make it to the super bowl, damn sure would love to be wrong.
ok here is who i think as of right now pittsburgh stealers and san francisco 49ers and god i hate them both, well thats my pick how about you?
Since there was some talk here about the Dolphins.........The last time the Dolphins won a Super Bowl was Super Bowl VIII, a 24-7 win over Minnesota. It was Miami's second straight Super Bowl win, and their third straight appearance (they won SB VII the year before, beating Washington 14-7 to complete their "perfect"* 1972 season. They had lost SB VI to Dallas 24-3).
Miami also appeared in SB XVII, losing 27-17 to Washington. They lost to San Francisco 38-19 in SB IXX, after the 1984 season.
* As each NFL season begins, members of that 1972 Dolphins team chill a bottle of champagne, to be opened when the last unbeaten team (this year it was the Raiders after a 4-0 start) loses their first game of the season.
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here is my latest carving, i thought about leaving it on the porch at the kingdom hall with a candle tomorrow night!
really liven up the co visit..
oh man, that is TOO funny!
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im a huge cowboy fan but i dont think they will make it to the super bowl, damn sure would love to be wrong.
ok here is who i think as of right now pittsburgh stealers and san francisco 49ers and god i hate them both, well thats my pick how about you?
Hey WT, I said I'd try to revisit this thread when some games had been played in the NFL season, and I remembered.
Gutlessly avoiding the preseason predictions, I am now going to post my Super Bowl pick after half the season has elapsed.
Though gutless, such an approach is prudent. After all, look how many teams have alread run into problems this season after being touted as Super-Bowl shoe-ins.....the Rams, Patriots, Raiders, and Titans, among others.
My picks - Eagles and Broncos to play in the Super Bowl.
BTW, congrats to Emmitt Smith.....if I needed to win a game, I'd want him in my backfield, taking handoffs from Joe Montana.
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let's talk about this.. i have lots of friends on this board.
so..........can we still be friends, if i disagree with you?
Hey, Jesika, I can relate to what you said. I have a "rule" that I had to make up for myself - never write and e-mail or respond to a thread or start a thread while I am in a state of emotional upset, or, believe it or not, when I have had too much caffeine or I have one of my tension (TMJ) headaches, which tend to make me very uptight.
I have failed to adhere to my own rule on a number of occasions. I feel like slapping myself upside my own head for that. Ouch, that hurt....but now I feel better.
Edited by - jack2 on 31 October 2002 8:48:49
elders were told, a few years ago that it is better to be merciful and err in the way of giving the benefit of the doubt than to disfellowship a person that was truly repentant, even though you had some reservations.
then, a sudden shift from the society was given.
if you weren't 100% sure that the person was truly sorry, and if you had some reservations, just disfellowship the person!
Min, thanks for the response. I must have been snoozing during those meetings.
Like I said, I don't doubt it at all - it would be par for the course.
elders were told, a few years ago that it is better to be merciful and err in the way of giving the benefit of the doubt than to disfellowship a person that was truly repentant, even though you had some reservations.
then, a sudden shift from the society was given.
if you weren't 100% sure that the person was truly sorry, and if you had some reservations, just disfellowship the person!
Then, a sudden shift from the Society was given. If you weren't 100% sure that the person was truly sorry, and if you had some reservations, just disfellowship the person! And the reasoning was that even if the elders were wrong, it would show whether the wrongdoer was truly repentant or not. I wonder how many people got disfellowshipped because the faithful slave got a new whim - Min, may I ask where this is printed? Though I don't doubt it, when I was an elder I saw no shift in emphasis toward dfing. That was a couple years back, so I may not be up on the latest. But perhaps you can show why you say the above. Perhaps it's unwritten, and it is something that is being said at meetings with the CO or something. Whatever the case, elaboration would be appreciated. Thanks.
