just finished the chapter in ray's " christian freedom " book on " misuse of disfellowshipping .
i highly recommend anyone reading it as it has numerous experiences of individuals who were mistreated so unjustly by the wt society's rigid rules - many in spite of 40, 50, or 60 yrs.
of faithful alleigance to the wt society's rules.
" If people do not want to stay they are free to leave.... I cannot understand why those disagreeing simply do not leave quietly . "
Yeah, just like people who become JW's quietly leave their old religion, without condemning or criticizing or knocking on the doors of people who still belong to that religion to tell them that they are wrong...
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10 Signs You Are an Unquestioning Atheist(I found this on another discussion board and thought it fit just fine here) | |
| 1 You think the statement “My linage derives from evolved lizards” is more logical then “A higher intelligence created intelligent life on earth, according to their kind.” 2 You don’t accept the idea of God, but you talk about him more then most religious zealots 3 You despise the idea of faith, but you have a hyper-abundant amount of trust in “time and chance” 4 You despise organized religion by being a part of an organized religion against organized religion. 5 You claim that religious people are brainwashed, but you spout off quotes from renowned atheists to defend your beliefs. 6 Your best defense to the idea that religious people cram their beliefs down people’s throats is to cram your beliefs down people’s throats (Richard Dawkins) 7 You say the Bible is utterly made up non-sense, then use stories from it to condemn God…who you claim doesn’t exist. 8 One of your favorite arguments against believing the Bible is that it was written by men, but you unquestioningly believe science text books…written by men 9 You get stark raving mad when someone says God (who doesn’t exist) will send you to Hell (a place that doesn’t exist), and use that as “evidence” that God doesn’t exist. 10 You deny the testimony of countless millions of believers, but trust the research of a few hundred atheist...and call that being "open-minded" | |
of course not.
no one forces you to do that, it's totally your decision.. lol remember that!
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Though it's arguable, the scriptures certainly tend to support the idea of door-to-door evangelizing. After all, how can you shake the dust off your feet at an unwelcoming house if you never approach any houses?
(Matthew 10:14) Wherever anyone does not take you in or listen to your words, on going out of that house or that city shake the dust off your feet.
I think it's a bit much to read door-to-door evangelism into that text. The fact that they might have gone to some homes hardly implies that they would pick a street and systematically call at every house. I'm not saying it couldn't have been that way, just that you can't make a strong case for it from the Bible.
Even if you could establish with certainty that the early Christians preached from door to door, that wouldn't mean that it is the best or only system to use today. Christians back then rode mules and wore sandals; things are different now. There are much more effective ways to spread a message than trudging from house to house, especially in a society where unsolicited calls at the homes of strangers have fallen out of favor.
there was a letter posted on the congregation bulletin board.. it said that one can plan and put an application to rent brooklyn rooms for up to 3 days?.
anyone know the details?.
is contribution necessary?.
there was a letter posted on the congregation bulletin board.
Ahem. You mean the information board, brother.
friends,.
i've been doing research and can find almost nothing on this in the research aids.. my question is this.
at the end of the system, the calamity of the coming destruction will be enough to destroy most of the life on this planet.
This shows the tendency among JW's to think of God as less than almighty, as being bound by physical laws that somehow exist apart from himself. That isn't the description of the Bible's God, who can do all things, who established the physical laws and can supersede them as he sees fit.
"umm, excuse me, do you have this shirt in branch-dividian-brown?
jehovah's-witness-gray is so 2009.".
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Shouldn't it say, "Proud to be ONE OF Jehovah's Witnesses"?
not the www.watchtower.org one, not searchable by word or phrase..
Possible, pm me with an e-mail address and I'll send it. The file is the NWT exactly as the printed copies, so the name "Jehovah" appears in the NT where they have inserted it.
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when i was a kid and on vacation in florida about 20 years ago, my dad had mentioned about an "apostate group" in florida and that it was called "jehovah's christian witnesses" supposedly they even had their own kingdom halls, how many others here are aware of this group and do they even exist still?
dave
Randy, do you know who flew the plane over Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh during the 1978 International Assembly?
not the www.watchtower.org one, not searchable by word or phrase..
I have a NWT module for the OLD version of e-sword, if that would help.
last week, my coboe, formerly known as the po, read a letter from ny giving directions on how to handle cases of "sexting" in the congregation.
i've vaguely heard of sexting in news articles.
i'm thinking though, the branch isn't going to send out a letter unless there's a trend.
In some areas, teens involved in "sexting" are being prosecuted as purveyors of child pronography (in some cases, teens have been prosecuted for sending pictures of themselves nude - see "Legal Cases" on the Wikipedia article about Sexting). That's probably why elders are required to contact the Legal Dept. if teens are found to be involved with this activity. With so much uproar among the "worldly" media, it was inevitable that the Society would feel the need to take a strong stand on the issue.
Was this letter read to the congregation, or was it a confidential Body of Elders letter?
