i have had time to think about this........... i was an attendent for many years.......... and looking up and down the rows at every family that was seating there in the khs........... no one was happy!.
i think of my mother (who brought this religion into our house)......she was one of the most unhappy and miserable people you would ever meet!
she was a spiritual orphan with few friends and no real family to speak of.. she got the "good news" back in 1950, that "the world" was a bad place and god, would soon be killing most everyone......she was thrilled!...............
Not only unhappy, but predominately poor or lower economic class, with very little hope of improving life status.
Almost always uneducated, and low information people. Thats what I have noticed in the past 10 years.
I don't know 1 college grad with a decent career who has converted in at least the last 10 years in my area.
this weeks meeting under the section - living as 'christians', starts off with 'repentance makes a difference', which is a talk given by an elder taken from w06 11/15 27-28 par 7-9. in a nut shell it discusses those who have been disfellowshipped and then show repentance.
it then goes on to discuss reinstatement and how a certain amount of time must pass by before this can take place.
it makes the following point in the paragraph.. 'a disfellowshipped person is not automatically accepted back into the congregation after a certain amount of time has passed.
So far I see no correlation to the CLAM with how to actually follow the lifestyle of Jesus. Do any of you?
i read on a jw forum that jw's came in for disapproval if they drove either sports cars or 2-door cars.
the reasoning was that a driver couldn't easily take fellow dubbies out preaching in such a vehicle.
was that ever official policy or just local nonsense from a grumpy po?.
ever noticed how co's and ex-do's never say thank you for the hard earned money they get from the friends?
they truly believe they are entitled to live an easy life at the expense of others.
this makes my blood boil!
it's up to some 800 zillion dollars now and hasn't suckered me in yet.
i've been out of watchtower for some 38 years now and i suppose the lottery is one of their nonoze.
i have nothing morally wrong against it or anyone who enjoys doing it.
Odds are about 250 million to 1 of winning - which by the way is MUCH greater than Armageddon ever coming:)
here's the backstory: a jw posted a thread in /r/debatereligion basically allowing the community to ask him anything.
things got realer than he expected, i think.
someone brought up the failed predictions and asked if they would qualify as false prophecy(1 john 4:1).
i know the proclamers book is studied but i would like to know how the bible is broken down into parts for study.
i know theres a complete reading of the bible by time written, antitypes, bible law but how else is it broken into parts?
The proclaimers book was never "studied" at the congregation level. And now the GB pretends it never existed. We have a new mini size one with all the info "we" need about the history.
ok so most of you guys know already that i am going through the reinstatement process for my parents but i do have a partially sinister plan which i will not mention here since someone told me that there are b-lites that read boards like this.
last night and it was the funniest experience i have ever seen.
besides that the brother doing the sound and video screwed up the whole thing when showing the videos and it took 3 brothers to fix it after 10 minutes, the whole thing was a joke.
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The Snake Handling is Next Month:)
have you got a cow that you could sell for the gb they really really need the money
Man I wanted to scream and laugh at the same time. What a JOKE!
Im sure the dad signed up - hoping he could scrape the travel money together some how.
Dad "man how am I gonna pay for this? Maybe one of my kids will sell their pets! I will pray to jah about it"
