another example of jehovah protects his people except when he doesn't.
https://www.wifr.com/2023/02/12/rockford-police-54-year-old-man-shot-killed-vehicle/.
The shooter was a 15 year old kid. Still on the run.
Now what You make a good point about Watchtower not helping the widow or orphan. They are commanded to, as well!! With their billions of $$$$$.
There's also the nasty, cruel insinuation that any witness harmed like this probably has a "secret sin", since Jehovah didn't protect them
i thought i’d shear this with you good people.
the cognitive dissonance is just breath taking.
i over heard this comment at a relatives family dinner the other night.
Wozza And yet many elders have a moustache ,now that's what I call Pharasaical.
They were forced into accepting moustaches because in many regions of the world a man without facial hair - a moustache at minimum - is viewed with suspicion!! Think Turkey, the middle east, even Mexico etc
Fooley Beth Sarim- I had all the qualifications as an Elder but I have a skin condition that makes shaving not practical or healthy for me. " Sorry, can't make you an elder because of the hair on your face." Who cares about your book smarts and teach
I know I've mentioned it many times before, but my best friends dad had a beard when he was baptised in the 70s. They used him to the fullest extent in every way - doing accounts, carpentry, building, designing, advice etc you name it. He designed aircraft for British Aerospace and tested them out so really smart.
I believe he got baptised to please his wife, a modest man he had no ambitions in the cong. Elders tried to get him to shave but he refused, rightly stating if it was good enough when he got baptised it's good enough now. He was never an elder but otherwise would have qualified. Perfect JW family & wife a pioneer almost from baptism until the day she died, supported financially by him of course
i wonder how many jws will squirm watching the upcoming 3rd season of mandalorian in which out of compassion he was obliged to break certain rules of his religion and is now labeled an apostate.
awkward!.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ye7fue220.
ThomasMore - “… they throw the word around like abaseballgrenade…”
Vidiot Fixed that for ya.
That sounds like something the REAL Thomas Moore would have said. Then I realised that would have made him a prophet :)
Either way it should be a famous quote!
i am a pimo, inactive, parent of an underage child.
i was wondering what rights i have in regards to avoid that my child will be baptized when still underage, not having read the entire bible and before being able to clearly evaluate all the alternatives and consequences (like it happened to me) whereas the other pimi parent has all the rights to do it.
any experiences about children in a pimi vs pimo parents situation?
Fisherman You can tell your kid that you want him to wait until he gets older. And you can tell the elders that you don’t want him to get baptized until he is of legal age because that is your decision.
I agree with The Fisher one it's really as simple as this. Just explain. The elders won't baptise a minor if a parent doesn't want them to until they're of age. (not sure your sex) If you are the father I can absolutely guarantee they won't go against your wishes as 'head'(if you're divorced, head of the child at least, if not it's mother)
mark jones, a witness for over 30 years describes what jws call bible studies offered to the public.. .
"they (jehovah's witnesses) offer you a free home “bible” study - which turns out to be a study of a watchtower publication with the bible brought out as an afterthought to try and prop up whatever current idea the governing body are claiming is “the truth” this week.. i think it’s underhanded.. when my parents became jehovah’s witnesses and they offered people a free home “bible” study, this is what they brought to study with them:.
what, did you think they were going to study the bible with you?.
That's an excellent point Mark makes. He's on this site by the way as Emperor something or other. This was the book that sold me their false promise. Again no longer in print.
god did not take the lives of the wicked contemporaries of enoch, instead he took the life of enoch.
and that seems like a great injustice to deprive innocent enoch of life instead of killing the wicked.
—i said seems.. a man goes to get surgery but first they give him an opiate like narcotic and he falls asleep gladly and with pleasure and euphoria.
Punk 😂😂😂 he's not⤴️😵or ⤵️😵
He's gone to ➡️➡️➡️🤓😎🥸
original reddit post (removed).
There's no way on earth Dijana would go back to being a witness. You treat her like she's daft in the head. I don't know if she's an atheist. I'm pretty sure she's not a believer in the Bible, or rather at any rate she's conversant with the anachronisms because she's mentioned some.
why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
WokenfromJWcult My thoughts are that their leadership has taken GRACE out of their bible and replaced it with Undeserved Kindmess, and this alone perverts their attitude toward forgiveness.
Van (Charlie Ryde)They consider it a strength to discard their child like trash.I am an Apostate. I work in healthcare. We take in the "Mentally Diseased" and try to help them cope. The Watchtower Organization is so afraid of their member’s weak faith, and they should be. The false prophecies continue to stack up. Time continues to tick tick tick into the future that should never have existed.I am an Apostate. I hope to save someone from having their life stolen by this controlling cult. I will accept the hatred of the many for the sake of the few.
Lady Lee When leaders dehumanize a group of people, it can give you permission to treat them as if they are nothingWow There's some incredibly insightful commentary on this thread
why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
Reason no. 1 is incredibly powerful and counts for most of it. Finding faulty Watchtower logic or bringing out hypocrisy - such as the UN membership, feels like a personal attack.
Many people say it's gotten worse and in the old days witnesses didn't have this rude attitude. I'm not so sure. I think it's more that people are more aware of Watchtower history and are better equipped to counter poor Watchtower doctrine/flip flops/failed prophecy etc these days, than they could in the past
looking forward to the first episode of this new computer-game to tv-show adaptation that airs this sunday.. it has pedro pascal from got and the madalorian plus bella ramsey, also from got, who played the bad-ass lady mormont.. lots of it was filmed near us, some right round the corner (there's quite a few productions film around here, we get ice-cream near where they filmed scenes from interstellar).. this show is a post-apocalyptic zombie series and early reviews are that it's awesome, so i'm hoping for good things, especially since walking dead jumped the shark a few seasons ago and we gave up on it.. anyone else planning to watch?.
IIuBrevlis2000 Yes, very thought provoking that question about Henry's choice! I mean she wasn't wrong, was she?
On the other hand, if we don't value the individual and instead always put the 'Greater Good' (her brother, the saintly leader in this case) above all else, we end up with a regime like the Jehovah's Witnesses - where the individual's needs & family bonds count for nothing!
Terry Where oh where has there ever been such heartfelt humanity in a zombie script?
Have you ever seen "Train to Busan" Terry? Bloody good film.
