though he is a typical wt slave, we are like david and jonathan.. in my most intimate conversation with him, i asked him:.
how do you manage serving an organization built on inherent contradictions?.
he said: organization helps people to grow spiritual, like any other religious organizations do.
In the meantime he is continuing to live a lie and a pretense. Also, the fact that he remains in a position of authority influences others to remain part of the organization, an organiztion he apparently knows to be filled with contradictions and false teachings.
This is just wrong
This is also me... I confess. I keep telling myself its for my family that I stay. However it is really out of fear and cowardice.
i've seen brothers related or who are friends of elders who get appointed after only 6-12 months as an m.s.
while they were other brothers slaving away for years.
elders also who promote their sons and basically say to other young brothers "to heck with everyone else".
Nepotism sure, but one thing that I know for a fact is that Holy Spirit plays absolutely no role. I know because I was re-appointed after moving back in 2006....4 years after joining this forum. lol.. I guess GOD missed that one.
there always seemed to be a level of unspoken competition within the congregation.
wether it be between elders, ms, pioneers, etc... who's kids are doing more, who gets more hours out, who comments the most or the best, who gives the best parts, whos kids are the best, who has the better car, who has the better house, who has the better job and so on... it's not openly discussed but you can discern it through conversations, sometimes you can hear undertones of jealousy or meddling in others business, this always bothered me!
if this is gods organization whats with all the jealousy and competiton, i would see other religions or organizatons with less of these issues and question it!.
current. I am like the gay men who hate gay men... self loathing. In for family, hate it and am probably destroying my mind slowly
when i see them on chia pets, i'm thinking--- has the world gone mad?.
not in the least, barely enough to look at this post but ehh...it was in the news this morning
do you prepare for meetings?
if i go i spend a few minutes underlinging my books/watchtower.. i have noticed that those who do the micks especially notice when your stuff is not underlined, and comments are made after the meeting, not so gentle hints, about study and preperation!
in other words i am being told off, its usually the ones who are highly critical of everything i do, sometimes their whole family seems to be straining to see if my stuff is underlined, i know this because i heard the daughter to family wisper her watchtower is not underlined!.
The underlining or highlighting of a study lesson is evidence of a work you did to show your righteous spirituality to others
Yes exactly. I sit in on elders meetings where this topic is brought up periodically "the spirituality of the cong is down....mid week service not supported....nobody prepares for meetings (how do they know? oh they don't underline anything)" It is so stupid to assume that just because someone didnt mark or underline the material in some way they did not read it. JWs are judgemental and hypocritical for sure.
love is a stupid bunch of chemicals released to ensure that we have kids so believe many an evolutionist (god delusion).
whilst i dont believe in a god i find that reasoning hard to believe.. .
what do you think love is?
I think love is different from a man wanting to frack every woman he sees. I think there is a lot of confusion over caring for a person's well being and choosing to live with them and raise a family and wanting sex to pass on genes which is mostly chemical and hormonal in nature. This is why men, whilst happily married, still have the desire to have sex with every hot woman he sees. Come on men, confess, the desire is in all of us. Fortunately most men dismiss the thoughts.
my son told me the local needs item.
we have a new cong forming in the circuit.
my address is slap bang in the middle of the new map.
WT is increasing due to birth's and foreign speakers in Western lands not from over zealous pioneers or publishers. Also new cong's can be formed when they disolve and condense.
i have been noticing in recent threads that people have been observing that the zeal has been waning among r+f jws.
i have observed that most zealous, die hards have gone to foreign lands, or foreign language congregations, leaving the others in the stagnant english congregations.
when you think of it, if you cared at all about bringing people into the cult, you probably would be preaching where it is fertile, the foreign field.
This religion needs to become more "mainstream" to keep its adherents. Times have changed, its not the late 1800's-early 1900's anymore. Nobody really cares about religion anymore particularly here in the U.S. I still go out in the ministry (I know, I know how can I..) and based on most reactions that I get from people they could care less about doctrines or for example Christmas being unscriptural (everyone knows that already), or Jesus is god or isn't he (besides pentacostals). Religion is a joke now, its 2014 people care about so many other things nowdays. They need to cut down the 1 weekday meeting that they have now or eliminate it and make Sundays 2-2.5 hrs and incorporate some of the TMS and Service meeting. People would be much, much happier. If they do this I think people might be ok so they are a little weird but mostly like us.
in order to "scripturally justify" j.f.
rutherford's rebranding of the bible students by the creation of a designer name which made them stand out from other bible students, the nwt deceptively misuses a verse to perpetuate the falsehood of the unscriptural name, "jehovah's" witnesses!.
(james 2:7) "they blaspheme the fine name by which you were called,* do they not?".
(Acts 11:26) "and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians."
Wow.... WTF? I never noticed that before. They use Isaiah to back up the name JW's but insist that they are modeled after the First Century Congregation.... CALLED CHRISTIANS! Holy Siht. Good catch, seriously.. WTF
