Posts by ambersun

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Why are men not allowed to do the bible study parts at the service meeting?

by garbonzo in

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i know why they do it, because the women would complain, but it's not logical, the men need to be trained on how to conduct a bible study with a student, also.

if it doesn't matter, why are the sisters doing it?

just to give them something to do?

ambersun

I dropped out because I didn't like the company of these sisters inflicted on me. It was nothing but a nuisance and stress over something I could do without.

Oh how I can relate to that, LongHairGal! It was bad enough having to write a play for two people every time I got an assignment, but my householder was quite often someone I hardly knew and had nothing in common with, who lived so far away from me that it was a nightmare arranging to meet up and practice the talk before the meeting. I had one once who was barely literate and unable to read or understand what I had written for her to say and then became scared speechless as soon as she stepped onto the platform. I lost count of the number of times I had to ad lib on stage to cover for my householders.

I used to envy the brothers who could just write a straight forward talk for themselves alone. At the end of the day, it is all to do with control, the women being given subservient parts to remind them of their place.

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Can the Bible be proved wrong?

by The Quiet One in

ambersun

For one thing, could anyone from the medical profession say whether or not it is possible for a human being to live for over 900 years? If so, why has there never been any evidence found of ancestors who lived for hundreds of years?

Also, at the time of the flood the entire vegetation of the world was completely covered in salt water for months. The roots would have all rotted and there would be nothing left. How did all the plants grow back? How did all the thousands of species of insects survive on the ark? There was only limited space and surely they would have munched their way through all the fresh vegetation taken on board the ark in no time!

Except for the termites who would have had an adequate supply of food

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Very interesting article- Jehovah's Witnesses among the lowest earners.

by JWinprotest in

hope this works, i've never posted a link before.

interesting article on religion and personal income, not that any of it comes as much of a surprise.

i apologize if it's already been posted.. http://www.ktxs.com/news/28138610/detail.html.

ambersun

only 9 percent of its members have a college or post graduate degree

We contacted the local kingdom hall of Jehovah's Witnesses for comment but received no response.

I really do hope they persue this right to the top and don't give up until they get an answer, as I would be most interested to hear how they explain why, throughout the whole of the last century up until today, they have always instilled a need for their young ones to devote their youthful energies into peddling WT literature from door to door rather than waste time getting themselves properly educated with decent careers.

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The Generation(s) That Wasted Their Lives

by undercover in

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growing up as a jw, you see the world differently than most everyone else.

you see the world as something that is going to end very soon.

all that we know will be gone by the time we're adults.. when we were young, we were living in the last days and were expecting armageddon before we grew old.

ambersun

How sad to see people in their twilight years still expecting some miraculous event to transform them back to what they can never be again...

I agree, it is really sad. I knew a JW who had devoted the best part of her life to the WTS and it hit her like a ton of bricks when one day she woke up in the 1980s to realise she was now an elderly widowed lady, and she was still waiting for armageddon to come. She looked me straight in the face one day and her exact words were "if armageddon does not come soon, it is going to be the biggest con of the century!"

Cognitive dissonance set in and she carried on attending meetings but a bitterness had come over her that she could not hide. The century passed and she lived long enough to see 9 years of another century. She died still waiting.

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Who wrote the May 22, 1969 Awake article "What Future for the Young"?

by VM44 in

does anyone know who wrote the may 22, 1969 awake!

article, "what future for the young?"?.

i wonder if they still are at bethel.. .

ambersun

If you were a high school student and thinking about college in 1969, then you're about 60 years old.

Yup, that's me - 60 this year. Do I feel angry and bitter about it? You bet I do

That magazine article, short though it may have been, had a huge effect on my parents, along with other articles at the time advising parents that as long as their teenage kids had two legs to walk about on we had absolutely no excuse whatsoever not to pioneer with any old part time job to help pay for our keep.

Thus, at an age when we had the world at our feet and when we should have been making full use of our individual skills and talents in order to follow our career dreams, the boys usually became window washers and the girls did menial cleaning jobs while we trudged round the streets knocking doors and peddling WT literature.

By the time those of us who were concious enough to think for ourselves realised we had been lied to, it was far too late for many of us to do anything about it since by that time we were married with homes and children to care for.

By the way, that fateful magazine article is part of a bound volume still sitting on my mother's shelf to this day.

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Astounded Newbie Here...Waves Hello

by mummatron in

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all i can say is "wow!

" in the 10 years i've been out i had no idea that forums like this existed.

a tad naive-sounding for someone with a background in it, i know, but it's taken me this long just to feel comfortable enough to type 'jw' into google.

ambersun

Welcome mummatron

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How to identify a JW from a distance

by Bungi Bill in

much has apparently been said in recent years about how a "good" jw should be dressed and groomed, so as to be easily identified - even from a distance.. yesterday, while driving through town, i did see two people the distance:.

- and certainly, by the way they were dressed, my suspicions were aroused.. - however, what confirmed their identity was not their dress and grooming.

rather, as i drove up closer, i noticed both of them doing the "pioneer shuffle" up somebody's driveway:.

ambersun

I had that pioneer slow shuffle walk off to a fine art, yet whenever I was out shopping or doing something else other than fs, people found it hard to keep up with me and kept asking me to slow down

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Damn you Kingdom Melodies! Damn you to hell...

by unshackled in

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i haven't been anywhere near a jw meeting or convention in at least 8 or 9 years.

but this afternoon, i'm doing some weed trimming and suddenly realized i had this lyric playing in my head...over and over.... .

"ours is the god of true prophecy,.

ambersun

One of the first Kingdom melodies I ever heard was "Be Like Jeremiah", which still comes into my head from time to time. It made me laugh because I had a tortoise called Jeremy and used to imagine being like him, sticking my head inside my shell and ignoring people. Within a few years I started to wish I had, indeed, followed the good example of my tortoise

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According to WT 8/11: YOU MIGHT BE MENTALLY IMBALANCED IF YOU PROFESS TO BE ANOINTED!!!

by JustHuman14 in

according to the august 2011 watchtower magazine:.

memorial partakers.

this is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the memorial worldwide.

ambersun

lol at sizemik

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According to WT 8/11: YOU MIGHT BE MENTALLY IMBALANCED IF YOU PROFESS TO BE ANOINTED!!!

by JustHuman14 in

according to the august 2011 watchtower magazine:.

memorial partakers.

this is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the memorial worldwide.

ambersun

I don't know for how long this insanity by the GB will go on, but they have lost control complete. They don't know the number of the anointed ones, plus they are claiming that this a personal issue between Jesus and the annointed persons, end on the other hand they are telling us that those persons might be crazy!! !

In my opinion, feeling you of of the anointed class is equivalent to becoming a born again Christian in other churches. I really feel that the WT's constant brain washing and pushing the r&f to do more, be more zealous, show more love for Jehovah etc etc, has created this out of control situation with members genuinely feeling they must be of the anointed class due to the intense emotions they are experiencing. It is a wonder the number is not actually much higher than it is!!

To accuse them of being mentally unstable is the same as a church leader constantly whipping his congregation up into a frenzy of devotion then when they claim to feel 'born again', accusing them of being mentally unstable and over-reacting.

I can remember back in the 60s there were several members of the congregation I attended (one just a teenager) who started partaking of the emblems and it caused an outcry. A brother was sent from HQ to come and sort it out and left with a flea in his ear as he was told by the ones in question that he had no business interfering. Nothing more was ever said on the matter, and they are still partakers to this day as far as I know. Quite amazing !!