on my other post 'thinking of becoming a jw' people mentioned that once i was baptised i would be told / given rules of what i can / cant do, things like: how i act, dress, how i can have sex with my husband??
what i can and cant eat ( according to some research ive done).
i would be really interested to hear as many of these rules now - as i think its too late after one is baptised.. i would be grateful of as many as possible about anything any topic even thouse i havent mentioned.. thanks x.
You can eat whatever you want....you can eat so much that you weigh 400 pounds ( as long as there is no blood in your food ) rare steak is ok
But if you smoke you will be kicked out . JW's love to eat !!!! Smoking is as bad or worse then raping a child !!!!It's a drug to them.....
coffee is ok though......it gets confusing but they have the answers for everything. Just turn your brain off, and let them do all your thinking.
NOT lol
in aragon's thread which has reached 6 pages a couple of points were touched on that i wanted to bring out but thought these points deserved a whole thread to dissect and discuss them.. first off : there seems to be a total hypocrisy , arrogance, or typical speaking out of both sides of their mouth when the wt instructions in the letter says :.
" the branch office, not the local body of elders, determines whether an individual who has sexually abused children in the past will be considered a ' predator ' .
then this quote from the 1997 wt instructions : " and the congregation cannot read hearts to tell who is and who is not liable to molest children again.
It's like saying " You know that 16 yr old boy that had sex for the first time, well.... . he MAY never have sex again (right lol).... 99.99999%
of the time he will at some point be having sex.
Child molesters like sex with kids, they will keep doing it if they can...
It's nuts to think that elders at the branch would have a better grasp of the situation then the BOE in the congregation ( like stillin said )
The only possible reason is to COVER THEIR ASS !!!!!
i was just thinking and a new major flaw in the new lite sprang into my mind.
one of the ways the governing body justified its existence is saying that there was a governing body over 1st century christians based out of jerusalem.
now i know they dont have any real proof of this, in fact evidence is the opposite of this, but lets say for arguments sake there was a gb in the 1st century.
I guess they would say the GB and the FS are two different things . They would say there has always been a GB but they were not appointed over all the belongings untill after the last days stared....Just a guess....who knows what a crazy explanation they will come up with .
jehovah's witnesses do not break up families.
members who refuse to become or remain jehovah's witnesses... break up families.. really, you apostates have such a distorted perception of reality.. .
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Members who refuse to become members........are you kidding ? lol you are soooo funny.......lmao
i'm flyin' high right about now !
my san francisco giants came back beat cincinnati 3 games to 2 after being down 2-0 and tonight they came back and beat st. louis 4 games to 3 after being down 3-1 !
and we had tornados in northern california in a powerful storm while this was going down tonight !
GO TIGERS
http://www.katu.com/news/local/report-holt-heichel-were-members-of-same-church-175169201.html.
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how sad......
Wasn't there pics of holt getting married in the KH? Do they marry irregulars at the KH ?
so we all know the jw vocabulary is a weird one.
what words or phrases bugged you the most?.
a few of mine:.
Bad associations spoil useful habits ( must have heard it 1,000000000000000000000000000000 times when growing up )
What Nugget said.........You've got to make the truth your own ( heard that one 1,00000000000000 times ) NEVER DID !
i know a brother who went to the most recent annual meeting.
older brother, non-annointed, elder, wife a pioneer, and overall a pretty good dude.
he let me take a peak at the new awake dropping in 2013, which by the way i have to give credit where it's due as i like the new 16 page format.
I also remember someone posting that it must be the GB as a group, not as individual GB members ...So doesn't that rule out Knorr ???
i know a brother who went to the most recent annual meeting.
older brother, non-annointed, elder, wife a pioneer, and overall a pretty good dude.
he let me take a peak at the new awake dropping in 2013, which by the way i have to give credit where it's due as i like the new 16 page format.
James Woods ,I had the same question a couple days ago.........posted a topic titled......governing body as a group.......not one reply to my question
??? If the GB are the FDS now , but only as a group...............didn't that start in the early 70's ?????? Before
that there was only one man.....Knorr .....who had the say about everything......there was no REAL GB untill then right ???? Only a fake one
for legal reasons.
Don't know how to make the post I started clickable.... I thought for sure someone else would have thought the same thing ( GB, 70's )
i'm sure i've seen such a quote..
I don't think the WT ever really talked about the power struggle in the 70's. but Ray Franz talks about it in C of C . How the power
was taken away from Knorr (one man ) and given to a group . So from that time on they (GB) really started to govern. Before that
time they had no say . Knorr made all final decisions.
