1974 - can divorce your marriage mate if they insist on oral / anal intercourse.
1978 - can still divorce your marriage mate if they insist on oral / anal intercourse.
1983 - cannot divorce your marriage mate if they insist on oral / anal intercourse.
1. How would you feel if you were disfellowshipped for divorcing a mate, only for the teaching to later change so that you would no longer be disfellowshipped?
Except that you would still be disfellowshipped because you didn't obey the organization at the time, and in order to get reinstated, you would have to repent of doing something that is not now prohibited, so if you did it now, you wouldn't have to repent but because you did it then, you need to repent...
HUH??
hi all - sure sure, you can call me a troll or brainwashed cult member.
i am totally interested in how your answers to these questions.. .
do you find yourself ignoring anything that jehovah's witnesses bring out in regards to their former status as an ngo?.
As far as the topic at hand, if a JW were to join the YMCA 'just to use the swimming pool,' not because he really agreed with the aims and principles of the YMCA, do you think it would really matter what kind of membership he bought? Or would the mere fact of his taking any sort of membership be enough to get him into a JC meeting?
hi all - sure sure, you can call me a troll or brainwashed cult member.
i am totally interested in how your answers to these questions.. .
do you find yourself ignoring anything that jehovah's witnesses bring out in regards to their former status as an ngo?.
The OP was cut and pasted from http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/knowyourngos.html. Just sayin'. Typical JW lack of ability to generate an original thought.
so i have a question that's been bothering me for years.
i know this is extreme but i think you'll see where i'm going with this.
so ex-jw's are evil we're on "satan's side" as my dad told me and we aren't worth a hello.
So, wait...you're complaining that the organization isn't restrictive enough?
okay so i think it might be the concussion making me go on this rant...not too sure.. the girl scouts started selling their cookies yesterday and for the first time in my life i will be ordering cookies.....i mean wtf is so wrong with ordering cookies from them?
i love the thin mint's and guess what?
you can only buy them from girl scouts!!!!!!.
Actually, the position is that boy and girl scouts are paramilitary organizations, and that supporting them would be a violation of neutrality. You need to go back to the Golden Age of May 22, 1935 to read the details, but there has never been a revision of the teaching. As you note, most JWs follow the rule but have no idea why.
i think i heard that the wt recently announced that the fds is really the gb alone.
is this suppose to be brought out at the convention?.
any other new light coming out that anyone is aware of?
I've seen speculation in at least one pro-JW source that there might be a new revision of the NWT coming this year; apparently the NWT has gone out of print in some branches.
Also, the discontinuation of the Trinity brochure might lead one to believe that a replacement is coming soon. It really is out of print, as I visited Wallkill Bethel recently and picked up copies off the 'discontinued items' shelves.
she was prevented from going to the authorities?
details of the policy have been published in jehovah's witnesses' publications and press releases issued by their office of public information.
if there is evidence to suggest that the alleged perpetrator did abuse children, congregation duties are suspended.[8].
I dunno guys but IMHO Wikipedia begs to differ and seems much? more objective and fair in their point of view, just Google "jehovah's witnesses sexual abuse" and check out the first link to Wikipedia. Pretty clear there is no cover up and a lot done to protect kids.
The only thing that a JW considers "objective and fair" is if the organization is painted in glowing terms, with no negative information whatsoever.
she was prevented from going to the authorities?
details of the policy have been published in jehovah's witnesses' publications and press releases issued by their office of public information.
if there is evidence to suggest that the alleged perpetrator did abuse children, congregation duties are suspended.[8].
If an accused individual denies wrongdoing, but later due to evidence presented in a court of law, it is proven that he or she was involved in child abuse, the individual is disfellowshipped.
Is this true? Conviction in a court of law means automatic disfellowshipping?
i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.
as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?
surely education should come first.
I graduated high school in 1969, and of course, Armageddon was coming by 1975. Now I'm 61, and while I've always done OK, I've never had a really satisfying job or an especially well-paying job as I could have had if I had gone to college. My wife, who was never a JW and went to college after high school, has always made more than I do.
you may recall a poor fellow was put to death for.
gathering sticks on the sabbath.
numbers 15:32 the lord.
Just ran across this on one of the blogs I follow:
