You got it, girl! Your Mom taught you well. And don't worry about Jesus':"By their fruits you'll recognize them", he evidently meant the "spiritual" fruit.
Hortenzie
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Pot Calling the Kettle Black
by babygirl30 inreading another post on here about 'association' and how home jws brag about their accomplishments and how spiritually great they are, yet their lives are bull-ish and the 'fruit' they produce is fake as hell:.
a couple in my cong where the husband was gunning for 'elder' over the years and the wife regular pioneered.
he doesn't work claiming he is disabled (yet he can play basketball with the brothers every week) and has no pride - he will ask for money outright for whatever necessity they have.
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Pot Calling the Kettle Black
by babygirl30 inreading another post on here about 'association' and how home jws brag about their accomplishments and how spiritually great they are, yet their lives are bull-ish and the 'fruit' they produce is fake as hell:.
a couple in my cong where the husband was gunning for 'elder' over the years and the wife regular pioneered.
he doesn't work claiming he is disabled (yet he can play basketball with the brothers every week) and has no pride - he will ask for money outright for whatever necessity they have.
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Hortenzie
Their life has nothing to do with their spirituality. There is a precedent for it: Both, Russell and Rutherford, had less than exemplary family life and Jehovah chose them as his representatives here on earth. So if God doesn't judge them and His Holy Spirit chose them and (your) elder to lead his flock who are you to be saying things like that?
(I hope you can hear the sarcasm in my voice)
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Hortenzie
Why don't we get all together and CELEBRATE!!!!!
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Hortenzie
"When I did search, one of the things I found was that the JW's are like just about every other sect of christianity, LOST." But I got reinstated! Hurray!!! Now it makes even less sense to me... But to each his own. By all means.
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Lesson in Brainwashing...
by Albert Einstein injw have much to learn yet.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq4dzmdar8i.
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Hortenzie
WOW!
Another story. This time from Russia. During the time of Stalin children at schools were put through this exercise: They were told to pray really hard with their eyes closed and ask God for a candy. Of course, nothing happened. Then they were "praying" to Stalin... and when they opened their eyes Behold! - Each of them had a candy in front of them!... Well, you can imagine what effect it had on those little impressionable children.
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Hortenzie
I don't understand this... When you start to fade you will cause your family pain again... I don't belive in false hope... I don't believe in living a lie...
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I need some FaceBook help
by mrsjones5 intalked to my dear cousin today (she's a jw).
her hubby (nonjw) and brother (jw) just got her on facebook.
she knows i'm on facebook and wants to add me on her friends list.
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Hortenzie
Can you set up two accounts? Use one with your cousin and the other in apostate groups...
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Do you hold any ''responsibility'' for the believing the WTS?
by RULES & REGULATIONS injehovah's witnesses are the only people that will inherit life on paradise earth.
only jehovah's witnesses have the ''truth''.
the wts is the only ''channel' 'to jehovah.
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Hortenzie
No. When I became a Witness I was in a communist country, it was before the Internet, I believed it because the teachings were shown to me straight from the Bible, and my brother just passed away...
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"It is our Personal Responsibility to Turn In People who are Sinning"
by WalkTall inat the last two meetings i have been to, two brothers mentioned in their parts that we have a personal responsibility to turn in someone we know who is involved in wrongdoing.
they both said we need to do this out of love and because we could also lose our own relationship with jehovah if we fail to do so.
it struck how odd this all is.
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Hortenzie
Terry - I made the same connection - In Nazi Germany it was your duty as a citizen to report on your family members and your neighbours. As it was in Communist countries. My grandparents lived through the first one, my parents and myself through the second. When I started to feel that the organization is becoming more and more totalitarian I got this really bad feeling (kind of deja vu) and left.
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Does anyone here ever feel that they don't fit in
by cantleave inyou no longer fit in with the jw's and aren't yet accepted by those outside either?.
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Hortenzie
I'm fine now but I never felt like a fit among JWs - They (most of them) were so annoingly "perfect" and uniform. I like people with personality.