If their getting baptized, they've been in FS. The ministry that Jesus taught were 30 something adult leaders in the faith.
But, not mothers, children, or immature adults that fecal the need to prove themselves worthy to a "religion"!
Its just an other example of the WT's using young, or anyone for its own glory and advantage.
And, doing so regardless of the harm caused to children, or other disadvantaged adults.
.. *** w98 3/15 p. 22 par.
15 living up to christian dedication in freedom ***.
15if a witness makes decisions on the basis of bible counsel offered by the governing body, he does so of his own volition because his own study of the bible has convinced him that this is the proper course.
If the GB was a counseling facility, their counseling license would have been revoked many decades ago.
Where-as for it's recent activities, they'ld be sued by the country's counseling board.
There would be a long record of offenses the GB committed, posted on the board's site.
this works well for elders who are cowards and want you out but dont really have a dfing offense to hang on you...even if you make no statement written or oral that you no longer want to be a jw they can say you quit jw.
they can say that some actions of yours indicated to them that you have disassociated yourself and when that happens they are not even required to tell you there is a committee formed...so there is no reason to tell you a letter is going to be read and so you have no two week period to challenge their decision...but they do not even have to tell you why they reached the decision that something you did that made them conclude you have disassociated yourself.
in fifty years i have never even known anyone who disassociated themselves...and have never even heard of anyone disassociating themselves without even knowing it!!!!
A new book is out about The Church of Scientology. That they practiced pursuance
in the court systems of their former members, who have exposed the Church's
unethical behavior. Please see; Is Scientology Going the Way of WT? thread.
our dc coming up this weekend, i hated them and the only thing that kept me going ,was the reward of booze at the end of each day.my then wife,zelous judgemental pioneer, you know the type,not only droned on about my drinking, but about everyones drinking, a real barrel of laughs not.
anyway, one year we went to another dc, in newcastle, all seemed to be going well, until lunch.we went over to a hotel for lunch,i ordered my fresh orange and food, a few minutes later, the local jw,s arrived for lunch, they had all pr-ordered drinks,alcoholic drinks, and not one drink but many !!!
they were buisy getting boozed up for the afternoon session,way to go, i was about to join them, when my wife told me " dont even think about it ", anyway she was outraged, but there they were ,with thier little convention badges, men and women, young and old, getting merry, they dont even do that here in scotland, !!!.
Here in The States it was announced throughout the convention days.
At the outset of the sessions the speaker would say: "Do not bring alcoholic beverages to the
convention site during the sessions." Before dismissal for lunch they announce: "Do not order
drinks that contain alcohol during the noon break." Then at the end of each day said: "Please
exercise caution when consuming alcoholic drinks at restaurants", and to "not over drink at
your Hotel's bar, or back at your hotel room." Scriptural quotes followed these "admonishments",
and they became part of the basic announcements around the year 2007. While standing,
a lot of those/us in attendances would jest or point at one another jokingly.
the matrix - "do you want the blue pill or the red pill?
", "all i offer you is the truth", "ignorance is bliss", "the matrix is all around us".
shutter island - creepy, is it real or isn't it, it turns out the whole thing is a dream.
In the movie: "Lost in Space", You have two corporations=Catholics, Protestants.
They engage in a race to populate new space=spread religion to the "new world".
The more competitive (Protestant) org. is sabotaged=corp. influence, by the other.
It's flag ship=WT&BTS, is isolated=rejects (Protestantism), with an infiltrator=GB elites.
The infiltrator collaborates with space spiders=demons. This leads to the
(mother) ship being lost further into deep space=WT's "far out" beliefs of present!
or at least that's what my super jw ex-roommate told me when i try to have an adult discussion w her about the importance of a higher education... according to her (a girl that never finished hs because it was not necessary) she has a better education than any college graduate because the jehovah has used the borg literatrash to teach her many many important things.... she says her knowledge of the "truth" is the equivalent of my 4 years of college education..... .
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is there a cure for stupid???!!
Several elders in our area obviously agree to some extent with these reasonings.
Thats because they have sent their sons not to WT service, but to 4-y. colleges! T
wo stepped down as elders to accomplish it. Another's son was taking "Mythology,"
and lastly; one elder's family was keeping the education a secret from the Congo?
These examples are taken from only two Congos.
how true is that the circuit overseer's arrangement ends in 2011?.
At least two couples per Cong. of elders and wives (in those districts) with/without grown children were interested in this. - 2008-10
They were talking often about "downsizing (work/possessions)", "increasing (in) the ministry", "serving Jehovah/the brothers."
Most of these were full time poi. or PO families, and many were franticly competing in FS while the CO was visiting them.
It was a hypocritical bonanza, as some of the most hateful and snobbish ones joined in, "walking the walk, talking the talk." Gross!
The majority of these types, were obsessed with position, power, privileges, parts at assy's,
and some had visible control issues (bullying.)
or at least that's what my super jw ex-roommate told me when i try to have an adult discussion w her about the importance of a higher education... according to her (a girl that never finished hs because it was not necessary) she has a better education than any college graduate because the jehovah has used the borg literatrash to teach her many many important things.... she says her knowledge of the "truth" is the equivalent of my 4 years of college education..... .
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is there a cure for stupid???!!
The mags. are designed; with all their color and wide variety of topics, to appeal to the public
in order to strike up a conversation, and bate the householder for a return visit.
The WT writing committee makes sure that there are a few intellectual points per article, to impress.
The publishers are pumped up with scriptures that describes them as the apostles, "unlettered men",
and that college's training is as Paul's "refuse." However; the articles are not equivalent to a
college coarse, and the poor JW's come off sounding like "jack's of all trades, masters of none."
how true is that the circuit overseer's arrangement ends in 2011?.
Some in our family have had elders fill-in for CO's for decades.
But around 2008, One elder fill-in was telling the publishers that:
"The Society wants the congregations to have three circuit overseer's visits per year."
Also that that Congo. "hasn't had three visits for a quite some time" and that
"the purpose in this is to not neglect the brothers needs."
He also told them that they, [their Congo.] "need(ed) to hear the "third (set of)
talk(s) for 'being built up'." Furthermore, he and his wife were looking forward to
being excepted by the GB for the future work as a CO couple. Yet; they weren't
making any plans to move or end work, just using two vacation days per Congo.
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...that if i'm interested in someone, i read through their posting history to see what kind of people they are.. .
there.
I've checked my posts to see how buried some of our threads have gotten over the weekend!
Thursday was at 10196 and today (Tuesday), okay five days. Now it's at 10207.
