as you may have heard if you attended recently, social networking is of the devil and many have been 'lead astray' by website supposedly set up for jw.
whatever, you heard it before about rock, hard rock, hip hop, rap, gangsta rap, tv, werewolves .... anyway you may have heard of the recent elder school where basically there were the proverbial tongue lashings about not having social networking sites.
here is the skinny on recent developments:.
MLE, they really do ask if you have ever been a pedophile? Does that include rape? domestic violence?
Yeah its true. They ask the question when they ask you whether or not you'll accept the invitation to be an appointed man. They'll ask whether or not there's anything that would prevent you from serving, and also more specifically if you've ever been convicted of pedophilia. No questions on rape or domestic violence.
as you may have heard if you attended recently, social networking is of the devil and many have been 'lead astray' by website supposedly set up for jw.
whatever, you heard it before about rock, hard rock, hip hop, rap, gangsta rap, tv, werewolves .... anyway you may have heard of the recent elder school where basically there were the proverbial tongue lashings about not having social networking sites.
here is the skinny on recent developments:.
- Elders, servants and pioneers (anyone with a position of some sorts) are not ALLOWED to have SN pages. They will be removed if they have public pages. It has actually become one of the questions before you are accepted into any of these positions (besides: are you a child molester)
Ok, I'll play along. When's this supposed to kick in. We just appointed a M.S., and we asked him the dreaded former pedophile question. So now we're to start asking if they have Face Book pages? Do you realize how unbelievable that sounds?
djeggnog invited me to start a new thread about the blood doctrine, which i am happy to do here.
his objection was my statement,.
"i've seen the blood video, a deceiving mix of scripture, fearmongering and pseudoscience, with plenty of lab coats in view.
I'll bring the lederhosen!
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shameless bump for the immature of us here on JWN.
this from channel c..... .
"a nice older lady dropped off a couple of magazines the other day.
i hadnt read wt material recently, so decided to have a quick read of the march 1/11 wt, the good news of the kingdom what is it?.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Something about reading that and speaking it out loud with the image of that monster i my head made me laugh.
To me the tell tale sign of how bad the WT's material is, is that they have to "encourage" their own to read it. They have to encourage you to keep up with the magazines, or the latest book. If the material was so good, wouldn't people just gulp this stuff up anyway? I used to be hooked on The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and a couple other news mags. I could read that stuff all day and all night. I couldn't wait until the next issue of any of those magazines to come out. I still get them occasionally, but time restraints make it difficult to fit them in. Nobody had to encourage me to get any of those magazines. The magazines sold themselves. It's the exact opposite with the WT's literature. The worldly folks aren't salivating for the latest WT and Awake magazines. Considering how much the WT has to encourage The Friends to keep up on the magazines, apparently the average JW isn't salivating for them either.
djeggnog invited me to start a new thread about the blood doctrine, which i am happy to do here.
his objection was my statement,.
"i've seen the blood video, a deceiving mix of scripture, fearmongering and pseudoscience, with plenty of lab coats in view.
Give you guys/gals a heads up. EggNogg just PMd me to let you know he's not going to be able to discuss the blood doctrine at this time. He's on his way to Japan to encourage all of those affected by the earthquake with Memorial Invitations. The Society gave the ok to start distributing the invitations two weeks early considering the tragedy. He sends his love to JWN, Agape, Eggnogg.
well this past weekend was pretty much as predicted, the demonstrations were probably the worst i have ever seen.
you know the ones i mentioned on a post last week where in the middle the participant has a sudden epiphany!
here is a sampling of just a few.. .
Our's was a few months back, and I'm starting to get flashbacks of those soliloquies. Stereotypical scenarios of nonJW families, or spiritually weak families and individuals with unrealistic outcomes. Its hard to even take them seriously anymore.
michelle rodriguez on growing up a jehovah's witnessmarch 13, 2011 06:10 pm edtmichelle rodriguez is said to be one of the fastest rising female action stars in hollywood, and is often compared to angelina jolie.
she has many hit films under her belt, such as, avatar, the fast and the furious, and swat.
in a recent interview, the beautiful actress spoke about her childhood, and growing up as a jehovah's witness.. .
Wow, that is one bad woman. Its good to be a man.
michelle rodriguez on growing up a jehovah's witnessmarch 13, 2011 06:10 pm edtmichelle rodriguez is said to be one of the fastest rising female action stars in hollywood, and is often compared to angelina jolie.
she has many hit films under her belt, such as, avatar, the fast and the furious, and swat.
in a recent interview, the beautiful actress spoke about her childhood, and growing up as a jehovah's witness.. .
I don't know why some the ex-jw celebs don't pick-up the cause of exposing the watchtower, they could be so effective in bringing awareness to the cause.
MTM
I wonder at times if its better that they dont. The WT loves to paint ex members with such a broad brush. They love stating that ex JWs are immoral, or don't want to live a wholesome, God fearing life style. Her comes Michelle Rodriguez to aid our cause, the R rated action vixen who on her off time has a lesbian relationship with another actress who also is an R rated action vixen. I don't know if celebs like her would be effective for our cause. Granted, any publicity is good publicity, but we're talking about the WT. They would surely manipulate a situation like this as all the more reason for their publishers to "stick with Jehovah", printing an article along the lines of, "see this is what happens when people don't want to serve Jehovah!"
my ex husband who is a jw just sent me this:.
"the world is on the precipice of a major multifaceted crisis.
the great tribulation may have just started.. .
Every year we have some major disaster of epic proportions, and every year JWs speculate on whether or not this is it. Last year it was Haiti, couple years before that it was Katrina, before that it was 9/11, its always something. Always, and yet life goes on, the world rebounds, and its back to business as usual.
