one of my best friend's, who is an ex elder had two elders visit him at his home yesterday to invite him to the memorial.
he was cordial to them because they were'nt over the top.. so far, i have had no invites, thank god..
I have't but I wasn't expecting an invite anyway.
A friend of mine who is disfellowshipped is desperately upset she hasn't been invited. Her next door neighbour, never a jw and never will be has received 2. She is planning on going although she has no desire to be re-instated nor does she believe she has to be to survive armageddon. I wish she would do research but she won't because she is still so trapped mentally by it all :(
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
That form is the exact one I filled out over 10 years ago.
It was to pay for our brand new kingdom hall because we had previously been sharing with another congregation a few miles up the road.
We were also encouraged to make these monthly donations by direct debit.
do you have questions about or want to understand evolution?
it is a difficult concept to communicate and so if it is not explained well , it is understandable that we would dismiss it.. i sincerely want to talk with people who want to learn more or see what all the fuss is about.
we are all learning and increasing our knowledge all the time and it is good to go over facts with critical eye.. evolution we can discuss, looking at the foundational facts and evidence, one at a time for you to go and check, agree or disagree with and return.. no pressure to accept it, you can decide for yourself, also no mocking etc of what you have to say.. .
I only have to look at my 2 axolotls Carlos and Caspar to understand how evolution makes more sense than creation and happened over millions of years of time when I have these amazing creatures in my own home.
i was wondering why they're so uptight about magical things (cough cough sparlock cough) and was just remembering some quotes in the publications about demons and stuff i saw on another thread and i seriously think that they believe this stuff is real.. once i asked my mum why previously she said not to watch magicians because they're bad blah blah when it wasn't real, hence the term magic trick.
she admitted that while most of them are probably innocent, she still thinks some of them (anyone heard of dynamo?
) have some demonic power behind them.. i seriously wanna hear some other views on this .
One of "the anointed" in our cong. said we shouldn't watch David Copperfield because they only way he could make a plane disappear was with Satan's help!!! Thinking back, she must have believed it did actually vanish. Lol
i was just thinking about how humans being imperfect and satan's influence was the root of everything bad that anyone has ever done.
well i know that apparently everyone is vulnerable which got me thinking about what "bad" things people have done while they were a jw.
i'll start it off.
Went to gay bars
i was just imagining, what if a group started their own congregation, with all of the wackiest teachings.
can you imagine what that would be like?.
the library would be full of 1800s-1980s publications.
It could be done like the contradictory scriptures quiz on youtube with the correct answer being the wrong "old light". It could be really funny.
didn't see any other threads, apologies if one already exists.
apparently died of a massive stroke this morning.. r_o.
(completely unconfirmed.
A severe stroke I was told.
a contribution from one of the members who doesn't get to post very often.. ... .......... ........................ ......... ..........atlantis
These are before my time so I will enjoy reading them.
Thank you Atlantis. I always appreciate your posts and information. x
hello jwn!
i don't get to check in here or comment as often as i would like because i have been working so hard at school...but i just have to share my news in hopes that newbees can see that taking the leap to enroll in higher education is worth it-.
i am graduating this spring with a bachelor degree in art history, minor anthropology...many people (including nonjw's have given me flack for choosing a "dead end" career path) but since leaving the watchtower organization's group-think mentality and "leaning on my own understanding" instead... i decided to say fuck everyone else's opinion...i am going to pursue my passion to work in a museum as a curator or archivist-.
Your news has made my morning. Thank you for sharing such amazing news. I am so happy for you it has brought tears to my eyes.
Well done and congratulations!
why does the watchtower place a harsh burden on it's low-paid and low-skilled army of witnesses?
the district conventions don't really add much value, you have witnesses making minimum wage with both husband and wife working while the elite witnesses can afford to burn a ton of cash making the poor witnesses feel worse about themselves.
i remember, some of the really poor witnesses would bring their own "cooker" to the motel to make "top ramen" and mac&cheese" while the company men had the elites take them out for "surf and turf" and other great feasts, the poor witnesses get the shaft was they are told how lucky they are to financially struggle to afford to pay for their hotels.. .
When Jah didn't give me the opportunity to earn the 600 euros I needed to fly 3 of us to Tenerife our nearest assembley that summer and we didn't make it I started asking why?
The conclusion I came to was that He didnt' really want me or we would have been able to afford it and gone. That was when my depression spiralled out of control and I ended up in hospital and the witnesses were too busy to help me when I came out so left it to my lovely kind and caring but non English speaking, non-witness neighbours to look after me even though most of the witnesses had to drive past my house to get to the KH.
It was the start to me waking up.
