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Elders Can Hide their Own Sins from the Past-Yet Continue as Elders? Read
by flipper in
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2. friends
i was shocked ( though i probably shouldn't have been ) when reading the new elders manual concerning whether elders have to confess up about former sins from a few years earlier.

notice this on pg.

38 , paragraph 19 : it states, " if it comes to light or an appointed brother confesses that he has committed a disfellowshipping offense years in the past : the body of elders may determine he can continue to serve if the following is true : the immorality or other serious wrongdoing occured more than a few years ago, and he is genuinely repentant, recognizing that he should have come forward immediately when he sinned.
daringhart13

Ah yes.......the infamous OCTOBER 1972 QUESTION BOX in the KINGDOM MINISTRY
That is where that is lifted from. Almost NO elder....NONE.....even know of it......or they wouldn't deal with people the way they do. They would turn publishers way due to how 'long ago' there sin was........
I used this ONE reference a million times..........with other elders.........they would be astonished........they knew NOTHING about it. And it was highlighted at KM School and in a BOE letter. I know.....I taught it.
No double standard, right? These same guys would then DF someone for fornication from the 1980's.........it is one of the single most disturbing references that moved me to the door..........
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this weeks watchtower---Please Comment
by TheLoveDoctor in
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2. friends
unity identifies true worship........ comments on these 3 paragraghs.

7 the one source of spiritual instruction first-century christians enjoyed unity because they all received encouragement from the same source.

they recognized that jesus was teaching and directing the congregation through a governing body, composed of the apostles and older men in jerusalem.
daringhart13

WOW.....those are some ballsy quotes in this weeks WT. Thanks for posting...........I plan on sending these to a couple of 'on the fencers'......
Does this mean everything they have been wrong about was actually Jehovah that was wrong????
Wow.
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Has Anyone Seen the Cover of Weezers New CD?????
by daringhart13 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
is it me..........or ............uh........wth?????.

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daringhart13

I'm just wondering if anyone knows if one of the band members has a history with JW's...... this is an obvious shot
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Has Anyone Seen the Cover of Weezers New CD?????
by daringhart13 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
is it me..........or ............uh........wth?????.

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daringhart13

Thanks Open Mind.....I'll read that now......wow
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Marital Due and the KS
by yknot in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just did a 'quick' search and 'marital due' doesn't appear to have made the 'list' of issues addressed in the ks!.

did i miss something?????

shouldn't the blantant repeated refusal (not justifiable under illness, ability, or discernable reason) be an issue addressed?.
daringhart13

2 Corinthians 7 is one of the most widely ignored chapters by JW's..........'sisters' can just stop having sex with their husbands without any recourse......no one will touch it with a ten foot pole.
Then they wonder why the other party cheats or gets involved in porn. Then the sister shows up at meetings crying and everyone feels sorry for her. Meanwhile, very few publishers know that the guy have been in a sexless marriage for many years.
Oh well........its all Bible Ala Carte.....choose what we want, ignore what we don't. In my opinion, the JW's biggest sin by far....
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When a person gets disfellowshipped, why do the elders say no longer one of JW's.
by Joliette in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've been meaning on asking this, and i forgot to post it when i first joined this website..
daringhart13

All legal.
And as a former elder it immediately made me laugh my ass off. A typical judicial committee goes something like this:
"Have you stopped doing that bad, bad thing?"
Now if you are NO LONGER ONE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES WHAT DOES IT MATTER WHAT YOU WERE DOING BEFORE YOU APPLIED FOR REINSTATEMENT???????? WHY CAN'T PEOPLE TREAT YOU AS THEY DO EVERY OTHER NON-JW........TALK TO THEM, WORK WITH THEM, ETC.??????
They completely shot themselves in the foot.
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Has Anyone Seen the Cover of Weezers New CD?????
by daringhart13 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
is it me..........or ............uh........wth?????.

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daringhart13

Is it me..........or ............uh........WTH?????
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Interesting Tidbit in the New Flock Book concerning Child Abuse
by Momma-Tossed-Me in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
flock book pg.

38 para 20 last sentence:.

for example, the sin may involve past.
daringhart13

uh yeah...........hey everyone, trust your children, your family, your marriage to the window washer, janitor and sheet rocker......they are qualified to protect you.
Good god.
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Not surprisingly, the rumor mill has started...
by SweetBabyCheezits in
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2. friends
my wife and i have not even been df'd for a week and an old friend on fb (an inactive jw who has active jw friends who used to be friends of mine) says there's a rumor going around that i'm gay.

wow.

really jws?
daringhart13

Oh yeah...its JW 101..........I used to give a talk where I asked the audience if they knew the difference between adultery and slander.....I would pause....and then say ....." a comma"
It took them a minute, but they got the point.
I've never been in a corprate environment that is worse than JW's..........they slander, lie, embellish, invent, etc.....like no other collection of people I"ve ever seen.
And they are so creative.
Oh......and I'm 'apostate' and banging women every hour on the hour......
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Disappointed by JW Visit
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
okay, i wanted to know more about the jws, so i went to the website and filled in my name and other info.

i was finally contacted, set up an appointment and visited.

the first two people came and they were nice, but one of the fellows looked uptight and avoided eye contact.
daringhart13

That isn't surprising to me at all.
The vast majority.....like 95% or more couldn't tell you anything about the Bible or their own religion's history. Its shocking....and deeply disturbing. They get in that pool and get baptized knowing almost NOTHING.....
Those I love are still practicing....and admit to me they know 'nothing about the Bible'......
I just sit there with my jaw on the ground