i believe the organization is already easing up on disfellowshipping people for apostasy.
they know most doubters just want to be left alone.
disfellowshipping them turns them into martyrs.
It won't ever happen.
They KNOW DFing is wrong...they've known for a very long time.
The problem?
People have killed themselves over this 'doctrine'.... to go back on it will invite lawsuits and a major league defection.
It won't happen.... it's their only weapon.
in the last 6 months my family and i have stopped attending cold turkey.
it is incredible to me to see how our so called friends have dropped us like we were a snake covered in spiders.
we actually havent really said anything to anybody about why we stopped.
You saved your children. You sir, are a great man.
after the 1975 "we did not say point blank armaggeddon was coming we only suggested it might come" fiasco what is the new date jws are "hinting" at for armaggeddon?
i know now they do not point to any specific date but hint that maybe it might occur such as before 2000 the preaching work will be finished.
this is a suggestion not a prediction so they can wiggle out of this one.
LOL....hey Data Dog....ME TOO
I remember panicking at the end of Empire Strikes Back and telling my Book Study Conductor that I was worried I wouldn't get to see if Han Solo got our of the permafreeze Jabba the Hutt put him in.
I wish I was joking......I'm not.
That is truly one of the most disgusting and disturbing things that organization has ever done.
Evil.
it was entitled earth's new ruler - who really qualifies?
given by brother mark neumeyer*, "who has been a full-time servant for nearly 35 years, and is a helper of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
" it was his second talk of the convention.
"we want to tell you that we love you"
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
today's cnn news has an article that consists of some of the fugitives in the us.
frederick mcclean is among them.
he was a witness and "evidently" was molesting the children, big time.
Likely serving as a 'missionary' on a remote island
a minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.
(not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.
what do you make of that?.
It doesn't matter if they ever allow them.....anyone with a brain would wonder "why were they ever disallowed?"
Then again, they attract people that love a good 'concession'
so, the round of "regional" conventions has been going on for a few months now.
for those that attended, or those that got transcripts of the parts,.
what was the most absurd thing you heard at yours?.
Oh my god....reading these first two posts......did they really do that??? That was from the stage???
It will never stop amazing me that those actually listening believe this crap
yes, the jws continue to bleed their young ones, so far in my local kh 3 were dfd, one girl just turned 18 this month and packed her bags and said goodbye to the cult and her cultish parents, another young 18 year old man decided to have a non-jw girlfriend and decided to stop attending and is no longer a witness.
they continue to leave and wt leaders dont give a damn.
they dont do anything to help kids be successful and live a healthy life.. .
....this all started with these youths with a Sparlock toy
from the 2013 new world translation 2 tim.
all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, so that the man of god may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.. .
as jw's we must have read that scripture a thousand times.
This is the ONE and ONLY question I ask a JW these days....if they believe every word of that scripture.
they of course say "yes"
Then I ask them 'well why are you a Jehovah's Witness then?"
Cue the stammering
