my wife received a letter in the mail from a jw she had known from school.
we have seen this sister about twice in the last ten years; the last occasion was 4 years ago.
she lives in another congregation a few miles away.. this sister heard that we had been "recently discouraged" - those were her words.
TS,
I almost threw the letter away thinking it was junk mail till I saw the name of the sender
Isn't this a perfect example of why we shouldn't read carefully and pay too much attention?
Had you followed the directions of Mother, this letter would have been discarded and case closed
the new yearbook is ready....with new memorail partakers numers: increase again: 11824 (last year was 11202).
Paul,
If you cut the Y-axis of your graph @8000, it will look even more impressive. Statisticians do it all the time, why can't us, regular folk, do it too...
i just got my offical grades from my school.
for the first time ever in my life i earned a 4.0 gpa for this last semester.
i made the dean's list again for the fall 2011 semester.
Not the works of the Debil thems higher ed institutions, huh?
Great! I hope you continue blazing through and be absolutely proud of the accomplishments achieved by using your God given (or not ) potential.
one thing i regret, is not listening to the questions in my head whilst a jw.
one i didn't ask until years after leaving was....who designed disease?
of course the first thing to realise is the complexity of disease, the histology, pathology and aetiology.
S&R,
Your answer above is a shining example of why the WT strongly discourages higher education. Even a Biology or Pshycology 101 class at a local college is extremely dangerous....let alone the in depth studies yous Docs go through.
Mad respect for anyone who can study and absorb for at least a decade such complex matter (<---this is my shout out to all the MDs out there)
who is the governing body?.
put simply, the governing body purports to be a small group of anointed men (currently numbering 7) who represent a much larger group (numbering the thousands) of anointed individuals living on earth today.
in nearly every reference to their position of oversight over the worldwide brotherhood, the governing body refer to themselves as being representatives.... .
[edit post: I posed this question to a close family member who is an elder only a couple of hours ago in a phone conversation, and despite the flailing around in an attempt to find an answer, I could tell that it completely stumped him]
Cedars, please keep us updated if he comes back with an answer. It would be nice to see what a reply from a "real" JW would be.
On the other hand, I wish you not only stumped him but flatout STUMBLED him
-Yan
we miss you, hope to see you soon.
your dad will be wondering where you are at the resurrection.
love, bro.
Sorry for your having to endure this mindless d!ck's manipulation.
A possible reply, just to shake his own self-righteousness: "What makes you think you will be there to see my dad ask about me?"
what saying made it all around the country?.
the ones that were passed around, word of mouth.. for example.
"donations basis proves jehovah is behind the work!".
"He/she got themselves together" - meaning gave into the emotional blackmail/guilt trips/got sick of being shunned by family and reluctantly went back to the Cancer to have some resemblance of a relationship with family
i know no one has brought this up publicly but with the watchtower teachings of death it brings up a valid point.
when anyone dies they dont go to heaven.
they stay in the ground.
arko_n9ne, it's Pandora's box you are opening here....
The Almighty can't, for example, kill himself. Then, is he Almighty or ALMOST Almighty (since there is obviously an exclusion)?
anthony daniels, a psychiatrist and writer whose pen name is theodore dalrymple wrote this line about north korea.. does it remind you of anything?.
Uhm, yes. The totalitarian "Land of Roses" I grew up in during the 70's and 80's....
I know what you mean, though
"thank god that the end did not come in 1914!
yes, because if it had arrived in that year none of us would be here.
jehovah is giving more people time to come to his organization.".
So Jehovah has to kill about 3 billion more now in order to save about 5 million more JWs. I guess he is bad at math.
Of course the flip side to that "reasoning" is, the longer Jehovah waits, the more babies he'll have to kill at Armageddon.
You both don't get it . It's called Collateral Damage.
