feels real strange typing this.
i was what you all call born in.
i was happy growing up.
Welcome, you're obviously no longer Comatose, but waking up.
This will likely be a disorienting experience as you try and figure out what to believe and what to discard. It's a process, but it's yours.
Welcome to owning your own mind and your own life.
christ jesus used illustrations constantly to help people reason on the truth.
following his example, i give an illustration here to put the spotlight on a disgusting, illegal, and unscriptural practice:.
brother org-love discovers to his horror that brother longserve has been interfering with his little daughter.
You're trying to make sense of nonsense.
The GB just doesn't get it!
that seems almost redundant to me.
isn't all family business important and necessary?
having a meal with your grown, disfellowshipped child seems to me necessary part of having raised a decent, family-values sort of child.
They go talk to strangers about "God," but shun their own family members.
could all of you please visit my mother's funeral tribute page and say something genaricly nice with perhaps a reference to how happy you are that she found christ.
say nothing about the jws, but something that referernces that she accepted christ in the last two years.
the website is:.
Marking for later
that seems almost redundant to me.
isn't all family business important and necessary?
having a meal with your grown, disfellowshipped child seems to me necessary part of having raised a decent, family-values sort of child.
What could be more necessary than having regular communication with your family and showing them love? Nothing.
It's weird that the WTBTS frames it as "business," isn't it? They really are modeled as a business masquerading as a religion.
now that my mother has been laid to rest and i have no worries about the jw in the slightist, here is one funny..... in 2006 i obtained conservatorship over mom because she wanted to give all her money to the printing company.
she had made a pledge of sorts to the "building fund" for $5000.
well she found some of her old checks that were not attached to any account as i had opened a conservator account.
Roberta804: 1
WTBTS: 0
some readers may recall a thread about my old dad coming to live with me.. after a short time he had to be hospitalised--and now he is in a care home.
ive taken over all his financial affairs--including selling his house.. ive been clearing out the house--and--needless to say--came across tons of wt books--years of old magazines--1000's of them--plus bound volumes going back to the year dot.
i asked him what he wanted me to do with them--and he said dispose of them!.
You honored your father's request: Right thing done!
just wondering what wt issue has actually put it down in print.
i know that some of my jw frineds already know about it, but they didn't tell me if it was an announcement at the hall or actually in the wt..
Bobcat, great analysis and great questions!
just wondering what wt issue has actually put it down in print.
i know that some of my jw frineds already know about it, but they didn't tell me if it was an announcement at the hall or actually in the wt..
Yes. It's official!
From the jw.org website:
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
“Who Really Is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?”
The evidence points to the following conclusion: “The faithful and discreet slave” was appointed over Jesus’ domestics in 1919. That slave is the small, composite group of anointed brothers serving at world headquarters during Christ’s presence who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food. When this group work together as the Governing Body, they act as “the faithful and discreet slave.” - [Emphasis added]
Note: Keep in mind that this doctrinal change relies on the same kind of "evidence" that brought us the "Overlapping Generation" doctrine.
But if you mean, has this been published in a WT, then I believe the answer is still, "No."
Apparently Holy Spirit has directed that only people with the internet--that evil instrument of Satan's--shall have access to this New Light.
If you already know about his change, then the illustration in the WT April 15, 2013, page 29, does imply it, but it is NOT explicit:
Neither "The Faithful and Discreet Slave" or the anointed are mentioned at all. Probably because they don't really matter.
It appears to be deliberate obfuscation on the part of the GB/FDS/WT Writers. Either that or plain ol' sloppiness.
For those that haven't already seen it, Cedars started are really good thread based on this picture here:
this is a sincere question.
do you worry about offending active witnesses?
Why should I, they don't care about offending me!
