A JW told me that as a child entering school, he would look for the biggest kid in the class and make friends with him. It served him well all through elementary school.
Vanderhoven7
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Bullied At School
by Lost in the fog injust curious about the rest of you.
i was bullied quite badly throughout my school years because of being a witness and not participating in religious holidays, sporting celebrations, assembly (worship), and the like.. it was mostly from other pupils but there were a couple of teachers who definitely treated me badly.
that was back when uk teachers still caned pupils or were allowed to hurl the heavy wooden blackboard duster across the room at them.... i still have ptsd flashbacks on some of those events even after 50 years!
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Latest Watchtower tells THE TRUTH!!
by BoogerMan inthe sheeple have always been indoctrinated to think of themselves as witnesses for jehovah.. but the 8m followers of the jw governing body are now told a biblical truth - that they are witnesses for jesus!.
december 2022 study watchtower, p.21, par.
17 = "one of the primary reasons why satan wages war against god’s people is that they “have the work of bearing witness concerning jesus.” (rev.
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Vanderhoven7
December 2022 Study Watchtower, p.21, par. 17 = "One of the primary reasons why Satan wages war against God’s people is that they “have the work of bearing witness concerning Jesus.” (Rev. 12:17)
At last Watchtower is getting it right. It won't be long before the GB will fulfill scripture....that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Jehovah. Mark my words.
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Follow to previous post,re:My niece
by Captain Schmideo2 ina few weeks back, i posted this:https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6246845349625856/never-thought-would-see-this-my-family-circle.
so, in latest developments:there was a court hearing, in which a continuance was granted for two weeks, as my bil has pleaded not guilty.
which is, in my opinion, very bad legal advice from his lawyer.
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Vanderhoven7
Well if you are looking for fellowship, you might want to try a Bible Student Church in Lombard. They are open to JWs and Ex-JWs
Address: 535 E Maple St, Lombard, IL 60148, United StatesYou can check them out at https://bbschurch.org/I co-authored a paper on 'The Rich Man and Lazarus' with one of the elders there (Larry Urbaniac) -
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Follow to previous post,re:My niece
by Captain Schmideo2 ina few weeks back, i posted this:https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6246845349625856/never-thought-would-see-this-my-family-circle.
so, in latest developments:there was a court hearing, in which a continuance was granted for two weeks, as my bil has pleaded not guilty.
which is, in my opinion, very bad legal advice from his lawyer.
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Vanderhoven7
Biahi
Are you anywhere near Lombard Ill?
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Avoiding Temptation As a Young Elder
by TMS init was the summer of '72.
i was 24 but had been the presiding overseer or congregation servant of a small congregation in the county seat of an arkansas county for about 3 years.. my regular pioneer wife of nearly four years was big and pregnant, with our attempts at birth control unsuccessful.. one of my wife's several bible studies was with a young woman named brenda whom my wife had encountered in door to door work.. brenda had two young children she could barely handle and was married to a very countryfied arkie named henry who worked as a chicken catcher, one of the most difficult jobs at the local chicken plant.. brenda eventually revealed that she'd been raised as a jw, but was never baptized, having left home to marry henry at age 14. she spoke of her family in texas, mentioning her mother and two older sisters, all jws she said.. one morning, just before the meeting for field service, we noticed a small car in kingdom hall parking lot.
my wife and i were parked to one side of the hall in our aluminum nashua house trailer.. two young women got out of the car and soon joined us for the meeting for service, identifying themselves as brenda's sisters from texas.. the two girls, ages 17 and 20, were distractingly beautiful, with the eldest decked out like a magnificent southern belle including hat and heels, her high-end clothing accentuating her very obvious curves.. with no one else showing up for field service, it ended up just the four of us in the car group with the two texas girls in the back seat.. starting our time at a not-at-home, the 20 year old asked if she could accompany me to "hear my presentation.
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Vanderhoven7
@TMS
You are a blessed man.
I wouldn't want to imagine your life now if you had slipped up at 24.
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Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?
by Roger Kirkpatrick inthesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
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Vanderhoven7
Who else could it be?
No, Jesus wouldn't have chosen them according to Mark Jones.
- He questioned those claiming to be Jehovah’s representatives and criticized their interpretation of scripture.
- He sought out sinners and mixed with them.
- He ate with tax collectors and sinners, and even made one of them an apostle.
- He befriended a prostitute.
- He conversed with Satan himself.
- He called out the pharisees for practicing disfellowshipping and shunning.
- He called out the Pharisees for adding laws upon laws.
These are the things Jehovah’s Witnesses are told NOT to do,
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Why are so many Jehovah’s Witnesses Angry and Rude?
by Vanderhoven7 inwhy do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
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Vanderhoven7
I find that many Witnesses have a very thin veneer of patience which is easily penetrated when their beliefs are carefully questioned. That is when the ad hominem attacks are launched.
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Avoiding Temptation As a Young Elder
by TMS init was the summer of '72.
i was 24 but had been the presiding overseer or congregation servant of a small congregation in the county seat of an arkansas county for about 3 years.. my regular pioneer wife of nearly four years was big and pregnant, with our attempts at birth control unsuccessful.. one of my wife's several bible studies was with a young woman named brenda whom my wife had encountered in door to door work.. brenda had two young children she could barely handle and was married to a very countryfied arkie named henry who worked as a chicken catcher, one of the most difficult jobs at the local chicken plant.. brenda eventually revealed that she'd been raised as a jw, but was never baptized, having left home to marry henry at age 14. she spoke of her family in texas, mentioning her mother and two older sisters, all jws she said.. one morning, just before the meeting for field service, we noticed a small car in kingdom hall parking lot.
my wife and i were parked to one side of the hall in our aluminum nashua house trailer.. two young women got out of the car and soon joined us for the meeting for service, identifying themselves as brenda's sisters from texas.. the two girls, ages 17 and 20, were distractingly beautiful, with the eldest decked out like a magnificent southern belle including hat and heels, her high-end clothing accentuating her very obvious curves.. with no one else showing up for field service, it ended up just the four of us in the car group with the two texas girls in the back seat.. starting our time at a not-at-home, the 20 year old asked if she could accompany me to "hear my presentation.
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Vanderhoven7
You did dodge a bullet my friend. The man of God is instructed to Flee fornication. Wise advice in my books. Many men of God might also be tempted to fantasize about these kind of experiences after the fact.
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Romans 10:9, 13 Identifying Jesus as Jehovah?
by Daniel Michaels inthe use of the divine name in the nwtcgs
romans 10:9, 13
identifying jesus as jehovah
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Vanderhoven7
You are right...."Jehovah” Is not found on the lips of Jesus in the New Testament. Jesus addressed God as Father and instructed His disciples to do the same.
Jehovah's Witnesses will say that Jesus must have spoken the name Jehovah because He made His Father's name known. The question is, how did He make His Father's name known … by teaching people how to spell and pronounce God's name correctly or by demonstrating His Father's love, character and person through teaching, healing and sacrificing His iife for sinners.
The Pharisees knew and used God’s personal name, perhaps incessantly, but it did them absolutely no good because they did not know God as Father, nor Jesus as Lord and Savior.
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Why are so many Jehovah’s Witnesses Angry and Rude?
by Vanderhoven7 inwhy do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
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Why do you think many JWs are hostile and rude? Or is that just my imagination?
Mark Jones writes: The vast majority of Jehovah’s Witnesses are nice people. They strive to be honest and try their best to do what they’ve been told their god wants them to do.
The angry, hostile and rude Jehovah’s Witnesses you find on forums are not representative of the whole bunch. They’re not even supposed to be on here as their leaders forbid it. They’re often committing a disfellowshipping offense by communicating with former members - the irony is lost upon them.
The reasons they’re rude is due to one or more of the following factors:
- Critiquing the organization feels like a personal attack. This is common of cult members.
- They know it’s not the truth. But they’ve invested so much time, energy and effort into it that they’re playing out a sunk cost fallacy. If they leave, they have to acknowledge that they’ve wasted their lives and achieved nothing in all that time.
- Jealousy. We’re living happy, fulfilling lives and they’ve been told to wait until after Armageddon before they get to live their lives.
- They believe themselves to be intelligent but passed up going to University because Armageddon was supposed to have come by now. "
- Other?