the society has improved their game.
i just got home from the regional assembly.
it was a well-choreographed, technically excellent affair.
Do you mean they tickled your ears?
2 tim 4:3 - You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages.
the introduction & conclusion to this video is in german, but david splanes' words are loud and clear in english - get your kid baptized asap!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33pwdsuvlq&feature=youtu.be.
.
If the organization really wanted to stick to the Bible, they would NOT be baptizing minors.
Acts 8:12, shows "Men and Women" not " Boys and Girls" getting baptized. And of course Jesus who set the perfect example for us and was baptized at the age of adulthood back then - 30 years old.
But they are a CULT and if they don't get them young, they will not get them at all. It is better to have a few drops sprinkled on your head as baby - infant baptism, but without any consequences.
"If you judge your success as a religion by the number of baptisms performed, and the group with the greatest percentage growth in baptisms is kids who aren’t old enough to know what the hell they’re doing, you should crawl into a corner and rethink your life’s work."
i can honestly say that although still in, i have lost the fear of wts dooms day version and in all sincerity i don't care what others inside the cult think of me.
at first i was mad of being lied to, i was sad that paradise is not coming, and i felt fear of death.
i happy to report, that i am now at peace with my eventual mortality and i am enjoying every second i have while i am alive.. .
Atheist with complete closure - online mainly to help others.
did you loath them?
did you feel it was a "privilege" to have the elders care deeply about your spiritual well being?
if you were an elder or ministerial servant, did you enjoy going to the homes of the sheep?.
In all my time as a JW (almost 40 years) I can recall three shepherding visits:
1. To discuss my questionable choice of music and my attending a hard-rock concert and subsequently deleting me.
2. To instruct us to keep our child quiet at meetings and instruct us to not spare the rod - we told the elders to leave.
3. During our fade to understand why our meeting attendance was minimal and why we had become inactive.
There were kind and loving elders, but as we were generally the average family without problems, I understood that they had their busy lives.
i recently did just that and had an unexpectedly uplifting experience.
whilst on vacay i was informed by my jw friend (only dimly aware of my faded status) that wed be visiting the local kh .
so there i was, far from home, not been to a kh in over a year and heading to the sunday meeting.
Interesting about the IPads. One of the last CO talks when I was still in, was a half hour listening to why we were not supposed to have printouts of scriptures at the meetings - though writing them in the WT was okay. We were supposed to use the NWT (now no longer valid if it is not silver) at all times. What a BS...Must have been a surreal experience.
had a vacation planned for august, but got the rug pulled out from under my feet.
hubby said he wanted to go in september, but gave me no reason.
i finally told him i knew he had to pioneer in august.
30 hours of knocking on doors with nobody at home - as they are all on vacation.
It would actually be more effective to give some informal witnessing on your vacation address - not that people are waiting for that...
i didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.
and apparently a video was shown too on it.
we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.
Sunday Morning 09:40 Anticipate Future Kingdom Blessings
VIDEO (on screen): Daughter watches mother die in hospital. She then reflects on pictures and memories she had. Then it shows the future when she is resurrected. Delight to know there will be welcoming home sessions in store in paradise for our loved ones.
i'm pretty sure it is, just wanted to confirm.
this would be someone who went once and only looked....
Brazen Conduct
i heard something about the memorial to cease soon.
not anything to do with jesus returning but rather that the number of folks partaking is increasing and the gb can't explain it since it should be decreasing or staying the same.. has anyone heard of this?
.
I do not see this ceasing and think it is a misunderstanding based on the hype of it maybe being the last with Armageddon so near.
Mind you, for years the Bookstudy was referred to as the most important meeting and now it is long gone. Young baptismal cadidates will not even remember it.
Time will tell.
someone suggested i post an introductory thread.
i am a married, rather young grandma of four precious rugrats, ages 2-9. i guess our only child son and his only child wife didn't want their own kids to be "onlies".
my other half and i married rather young (18 &22) and will be celebrating 31 years together this summer.. i am sort of add, keep thinking i am still 28, love my husband now more than ever, and am so glad i woke up and left the crazy cult.. my husband and i began studying months after marrying and then decided to take the dunk.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful success story...and what a magnificent quote indeed. Congrats on living your lives.
