what happened to jehovah’s witness young men and why did it happen?______in the 1960s men of draft age were called upon to either serve in the military (during the vietnam war) or to comply with the alternate service option: serving in a hospital or community in need.. non-jehovah’s witnesses were faced with only one refusal: military service.jw boys and young men were instructed (in private) to refuse the alternate civilian service as well.
the superior authorities had made this exemption for people of conscience.the law was clear on this.
if we worked in a hospital community we would be free to go about our witnessing ministry - if we double-refused: we would languish in prison.a no-brainer to them.
At least at one point, if a judge sentenced a JW to probation with community service work instead of prison for refusing military service, they could accept that, but they weren't allowed to tell the judge that they would comply with such a sentence in order to avoid going to prison.
In other words, the WT sacrificed them so the organization could claim persecution by the evil government.
governing body member jeffrey winder on jw dot org:“we are not embarrassed about ‘adjustments’ that are made; nor is an apology needed for not getting it ‘exactly right’ previously.
we understand: this is how jehovah operates.”
1952 no wt 6/1/52 p.338 1965 maybe they will be resurrected .
So Jehovah is responsible for all their errors and flip-flops?
Who is bringing reproach on Jehovah's name?
an announcement to all congregations those with legal experience please come and work for free to cover up child abusers.. i mean what else would it be for?.
the cheek of it.. so the direction was always don’t go for advanced education and careers but now they are looking for such ones to give if their time and education for free?.
After lambasting the Catholic church for covering up pedophilia, the WT rushes headlong to emulate them.
our son joined the wts 20 years ago.
we, his parents and siblings are not jws.
he is now 41. he knew we were "opposers" from the beginning, and so we were pretty much shunned by him.
Our advice is contained in the comments above in this thread.
the watchtower—study edition | december 2023. study article 52. young sisters—become mature christian women.
18 you may choose to get married.
the qualities and skills that we have discussed will help you to become a capable wife.
Jhine,
Evidently, the WT considers the instructions for being a good husband to boil down to "be a good organization man."
our son joined the wts 20 years ago.
we, his parents and siblings are not jws.
he is now 41. he knew we were "opposers" from the beginning, and so we were pretty much shunned by him.
I think you are wise at this point not to ask about the religion.
If he has left, he will probably tell you what happened in his own good time.
i wasn't around when the sparlock thing hit about 11 years ago, but it became such a meme that that debacle still gets mentioned from time to time.
one thing that came up in conversations of the time was about how dumb the name was; that someone in bethel could have come up with a less lame name.
i think that that bethelite was trying to be clever by using "warlock" as the stem and dropping the "w".
I assumed it had something to do with its similarity to "Spock."
2023-10-13-announcements (reporting field service).
page 1. https://imgbox.com/96lgsfw4 .
page 2. https://imgbox.com/zynoa02m .
I also noticed that the announcement talked in terms of JWs no longer being "asked" to report their hours of field service.
Maybe that just means the elders will be "expected" to offer each publisher more "encouragement."
this is a little out of date.
i found it earlier deleting some emails from a good few years ago:.
feel free to add new lines to this old list!.
You are puzzled when someone talks about a recent teaching as "new light" because you no longer remember the organization ever teaching anything else.
hi all.. i've posted this in humour given that most of jw doctrine changes and flip flops are just so.. as stated, if there is now to be a 'last minute redemption'.what happens to the aforementioned folk?.
cannot wait for a explane-ation.
am i the only one giggling at this??
I loved the video comment to the effect of "we mustn't be dogmatic."
Since when?
