here's my list of jw no-no's as i recall: .
1. no giving or accepting valentine candy for students.
2. no going to home coming football games.
My mother was baptized in 1942 and was severely critisized by her schoolmates for not saluting the flag. She was kicked out of school everyday and was one of the "Kingdom Kids" that had to be homescholled during the landmark flag salute case that went before the Supreme Court.
It was just all for show, creating martyrs for publicity stunt artists. She would turn over in her grave if she saw this now.
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here's my list of jw no-no's as i recall: .
1. no giving or accepting valentine candy for students.
2. no going to home coming football games.
Here's my List of JW No-No's as I recall:
1. No giving or accepting Valentine Candy for students
2. No going to Home Coming Football games
3. No School Sports
4. No friends that are not JW's
5. No birthdays
6. No Mothers Day or Father's Day
7. No Thanksgiving Day
8. No Christmas
9. No voting
10. No Military Involvement
11. Cannot be a Police Officer
12. Cannot be a community leader or run for office
13. No dating Christians or anyone not a JW
14. Cannot sing the National Anthem
15. Cannot celebrate Veterans Day
16. Cannot say "Bless You" when someone sneezes
17. No garage sale shopping because items might be demonized
18. No blood transfusions
19. No giving to charities
20. No partaking of the New Covenant bread & wine "for the forgiveness of sins) Mt. 26: 27-28
21. Cannot preach the ministry of reconciliation since that supossedly ended in 1935
22. No beards allowed.
23. No smoking
24. No working for a Christian affiliated organization like the YMCA
25. No communicating with those who leave the Watchtower for Conscience Reasons (Mentally Diseased)
26. No college or university education
27. No praying to Jesus
28. Cannot worship Jesus
29. No school prom attendance
30. Cannot salute the flag of your country
31. Can...(Cannot)... Can...Perform Alternative Sevice In Place Of Military Service.
32. Cannot own a gun (Hunting Bow and Knives Are OK)
33. Cannot personally accept any of the promises in the New Testament (only for the GB - the remnanat of the 144K)
34. Cannot study bible with friends apart from a Watchtower service.
35. Cannot accept Jesus as your Mediator
36. Cannot give your spouse a gift on Mothers Day or Fathers Day
37. Cannot sing or listen to any gospel song
38. Cannot attend ANY Christian event
39. Cannot Celebrate Christs' Birth
40. Not allowed to be class president as a student
41. Not allowed to join a political party
42. Not allowed to have a personal relationship with Jesus.
43. Not allowed to sing to Jesus or talk to him in anyway.
44. Not allowed to change to a different church.
45. Not allowed to participate in most extracirricular activities at school
46. Not allowed to thank military verterans for their service.
47. Not allowed to read anything critical of the Watchtower
48. Not allowed to read Christian essays or commenrtaries.
49. No baby dedications
50. Not allowed to get baptized until fully indoctrinated into Watchtower Ideology
51. Cannot listen to Contemporary Christian Music
52. Cannot watch church services on TV
53. Cannot attend family reunions with Non-JW relatives
54. Cannot watch movies with A Christian moral theme like "Miracle on 34th Street"
55. Cannot say "amen" if in a situation when a Christian prays
56. Not allowed to give to charities like Red Cross in times of disasters
57. Cannot marry anyone not a JW
58. Not allowed to critisize the Governing Body in anyway.
59. Not allowed to engage in "Independent Thinking"
60. Not allowed to use the word: Grace
61. Not allowed to "Come to Jesus" so he can give you rest.
62. Not allowed to wear casual clothes to services
63. No Resurrection Day services
64. Not allowed to wear or own a cross.
66. Not allowed to say God Bless You.
67. Not allowed to sing Star Spangled Banner
68. No Christmas carols allowed
69. No telling the truth "to those not entitled to it".
Can you remember anything else we weren't allowed to do?
i have heard it said [numerous times] that jws live their life according to the bible.. i have also heard [numerous times] that jws have restored the correct christian practice following the great apostasy [?which is a different topic].
my question is 'is there any proof anywhere in history where jewish or christian people lived their life according to the scriptures?".
ttwsyf.
We can be certain that the books of the bible were regarded as such since the begining.
The Muratorian Fragment lists 22 of the 27 NT books as canonical. It dates to 170 AD.
The document is called a fragment because portions of the document have been torn off. The well known biblical scholar Westcott states that the missing books were probably included initially because the document is torn where they should have been listed.
i think it's been a while since this was asked.
tell us your hobbies, interests, pastimes, whatever you find enjoyable as a diversion from work and school.
i am lucky enough to live in a small cabin on a lake, i enjoy rowing my old boat and fishing, i play with car projects, and we travel as much as we can.
Gotta man cave out in the woods. Dogs love it. Kids come with their friends sometimes.
sort of a hobbie property.
the watchtower—study edition | december 2022.
6 jehovah has created us to find enjoyment in our work.
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Filling those needs will mean a lot of rewarding work. Just as Adam and Eve were to cultivate their garden home, we will have the privilege of cultivating the Paradise earth.
Why not just get some training and do your hard work now instead of then? Then, you can get that lake-front property the old-fashioned way - Earn It!
Poor JW's - enslaved to greed, incompetinence and ignorance.... all fed by a steady diet of lies.
It never dawns on them that their slavemasters living in a resort on a picruresque lake in upper NY state are liviing it up at their expense now. .
What an ego trip these guys are on.
what this guy publicises many russians will believe is solid truth.. i wouldn't want to be a jw in the former ussr countries these days.. https://bitterwinter.org/russia-sensational-revelations-jehovahs-witnesses-prepare-an-anti-putin-coup/.
anti-government/terrorist activity in Russia includes the messages about Armageddon they’re spreading to which they are terrorizing their believers and children
Yes, its pretty hard core mental abuse just as they say. Kids are forced to grow up as pariahs in their community and be force-fed a diet of images of death and destructiod upon everyone who isn't a JW.
first time celebrating halloween.
guess my costume!.
pretty scary huh?.
Is that really you?
a specific “day,” or period, when particular groups, nations, or mankind in general are called to account by god.
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“i solemnly charge you before god and christ jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,”- 2 tim 4:1. seems like sins are not paid by dying or the ransom if there is a judgment in-spite of it.
Clear as mud Smiddy.
So should God JUDGE/punish evil or not?
a specific “day,” or period, when particular groups, nations, or mankind in general are called to account by god.
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“i solemnly charge you before god and christ jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,”- 2 tim 4:1. seems like sins are not paid by dying or the ransom if there is a judgment in-spite of it.
Baskets of puppies are also among the top philosophical reasons to reject atheism IMO:
it-1 p. 524 covenant - the purpose of the new covenant requires that it continue in operation until all of the “israel of god” are resurrected to immortality in the heavens.. it-1 p. 525 covenant - the covenant remains operative between jesus christ and these associate kings forever.. w80 7/1 p. 31 - likewise, the new covenant will come to its end when all the anointed ones are resurrected to heavenly immortal life.. w79 4/1 p. 31 - the new covenant will terminate with the glorification of the remnant who are today in that covenant mediated by christ..
The Watchtower doesn't know the bible very well:
Hebrews 13:20-21
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The terms of the agreement for "the forgiveness of sins" (Mt. 26: 27-28) in the NC are perpetual.
