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?
Reminds me of a quote from I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales of a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing about the #3 talk:
"Facing the congregation = uppity and sinful.
Ninety degrees clockwise = making Jehovah's heart smile."
(pg. 13)
LOL, so true. LOL Wow!! It's such a joke LOL You know its actually embarrasing when you really get down into it. LOL
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?
That is so ridiculous, what is that based upon, Paul's words about women not teaching? Ridiculous. I know sisters that write their husband's talks. Who's teaching then? Women do the bulk of field service, the bulk of pioneering........but don't let them fact the audience while using a microphone!!! Jehovah's gonna be mad then!!!
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often times, i read in the magazines that only among jehovahs people will you find true friendship.
At the local KH, it's standard procedure to not hire other witnesses or have business dealings with "fellow believers". The track record is terrible for witnesses not getting along.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
she told me she is methodist.
for some reason the methodist religion does not appeal to me at all.
do you have any positive or negative things to say about the methodist religion?.
Tell us about her. How does she dress for church?
she told me she is methodist.
for some reason the methodist religion does not appeal to me at all.
do you have any positive or negative things to say about the methodist religion?.
The thread title in itself made me cringe. Dating a Methodist girl? That just sounds real awkward and diffucult.
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.
I was watching a documentary on an integrated prom in Mississippi I want to say? Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the prom if it was integrated. I didn't finish the whole thing, but while all the racial angles were being discussed, I couldn't help but think to mysef, "at least they get to go the prom." Going to the prom, playing sports, heck even having nonJW friends I had to keep hidden my folks. Anything resemebling normalcy was not an option back then. All because of these freaks.
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.
LOL Outlaw! LOL
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?
Actually, I thought that was changed within the past couple years? Someone correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not a School Overseer, but the school schedule for the year which comes with directions, I could have sworn its been changed that the #3 and #4 are up to the Overseer's direction, and also the possibility exists that the brother could end up with a part similar to the traditional #3 talk for sisters? I could be wrong as I largely don't pay attention to that. He hands me slips occasionally for the Highlights, or the #3 formerly known as the #4, or the reading? But I could have sworn its possible for brothers now to have school assignments similar if not the same as the sisters?
christians = only jws.
what if other jws take us too seriously?.
christian life = only jws are true christians.
The mention of fathers being ridiculed and disrespected by the entertainment industry was a classic case of the WT not following their own advice on seriousness. I'm tempted to write a letter to them in Bethel just to say, "you're not supposed to take television sitcoms seriously idiots!!" The WT using the entertainment industry's depiction of fathers in comedy sitcoms as detrimental to our views of the family head, is the equivalent of Godzilla being detrimental to the views of pet lovers who own lizards. Ridiculous.
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often times, i read in the magazines that only among jehovahs people will you find true friendship.
Good thread topic. Sometimes I wonder when looking at all the debates and discussions we have on this forum about "true Christians", if we're looking at it too hard? I say that because we'll examine in depth and discuss debates for multiple pages on subjects such as 607 vs 587, or the Trinity, or fractions vs whole blood, etc.., and I wonder if we're making a bigger issue out of this than necessary. The reason I say that is because Jesus said His disciples would be recognized by the love they had amongst themselves. It doesn't get much simpler than that. I don't want to generalize JWs as not being loving, or incapable of true friendship, because I know plenty of JWs who would break their necks for you and give you the shirt off of their back.
At the same time, I know plenty who I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw them. When dealing with an elder body, its similar to being in the mafia. Much of that is the end result of the culture that the WT encourages amongst congregations with statements such as, "keeping the congregation clean", "don't offend the conscience of others", or "are you doing enough." In that same order the WT has created an atmosphere of suspicion, competition, and anxiety. Another thing is JWs are so busy with field service, and keeping up with their study, and meetings, that its hard to build relationships that are worth anything as you just don't have time. I got asked to play basketball this weekend, but I just don't have the time and I'd love to go. Being amongst JWs is like having a job that you hate and working for an overdemanding company with serious implications for not keeping everybody happy and playing your political cards right.
The best friendships I've had with people have been with nonJWs. They didn't judge me, didn't expect anything from me, and they didn't view life as a neverending task.
