I've been invited to go to Central America for a week on a global village project.
Are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?
i've been invited to go to central america for a week on a global village project.
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are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?.
I've been invited to go to Central America for a week on a global village project.
Are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?
i am starting this topic because i was wondering, i see many who leave "the truth" are glad because they can finally have a beard.
is having a beard really a no go in congregations?
how is / was it in your congregation?.
I was hauled into the back room and pretty well ordered to trim, thin, and shorten my mustache, or else.
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You should have come to the next meeting with a hitler stash and see what those bozos would say.
i just read about this on the ex-jw subreddit.
link to the video (10m06s).. skip to 7:35 where he says: "another way we can contribute to the oneness - rejecting false stories that are designed to separate us from jehovah's organization.
as an example, think about the apostate-driven lies and 'dishonesties' that jehovah's organization is permissive toward pedophiles.
when elders want to meet with an inactive person to encourage them, what does this really mean?
encouragement is a term thrown around by the organisation.
does this encouragement usually consist of prying into the inactive one's lifestyle?.
Encouragement (n) -
1. Passive-aggressive social pressure intended to get you to become more involved with the cult.
Yepduring the many years of being a jw, i could never really bring myself to be exited about the co's visit.
this has been an issue that always kept me wondering back to religions.
why could not feel the same happiness that made everyone around me cry during the sunday service?
i always took issue with the idea of no one knowing why a person got df.. i know im not alone.. i complained to my mother about this when i was younger, explaining that how do we know what it is that gets a person df if no one knows what they did?
my moms answer was , .
'if people knew a persons personal faults and what they did , others would not be so forgiving when they were reinstated, because we'd always view them with that view, so in other words, if when so n so, committed fornication, and the whole cong would know it, if they announced from the platform then his/her reputation would be permanently stained' .
, 'bro poorhouse is DF because hes a hoarder'. [yes i know someone who was DF for having a 'dirty' object packed house. they died being DF.]
Disfellowshipping someone with a mental illness related to OCD. What's next disfellowshipping because a person is in a wheelchair?
i understand that warwick is to be the new world headquarters of jws, patterson is an educational complex, and walkill is a literature production center.
will patterson continue to be used as it is now after the completion of warwick?
if not, what will happen to it?
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Thank you blondie. As usual watchtower puts the onus and blame on individual publishers.
"university and college campuses are notorious for bad behaviordrug and alcohol abuse, immorality, cheating, hazing, and the list goes on.
watchtower2005 oct 1 p.28.
having been to university and a jw..it made me think about their logic....... "jehovah's witness congregations are notorious for bad behavioralcohol abuse, immorality, cheating, domestic abuse, child abuse and the list goes on.
Vidiot
Problem is, they'd end up with a worldwide body of illiterate morons.
If they keep printing simplified watchtowers it will happen