well well am3 made it to norweigian media with hsi rant about religouse persecution.. hereis the link.. share your thoughts.. ble nektet statstøtte: jehovas vitner vurderer juridiske skritt – vårt land (vl.no) .
Problem watchtower has is they can not remove DF arrangements. They be sued all over the world by ex jws.
I just had this discussion with someone. If this is what dictates the decision, then you can NOT be a good person or organization. You quite literally have become the "evil slave"
let me start with a couple of distinctions.. first century christians:.
1. baptized military personnel.. 2. baptized men with political authority.
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6. Ate meat sacrificed to idols
7. Wore beards
yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.
jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.
as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.
How about the article in support of obeying caesar's law when it comes to interacial marriage and dating?
how many of you would have spent the hours "pioneering" if it weren't for the pats on the back and being looked up to as someone special in the congregation?
i will admit that back in late 1970's i attempted to aux pioneer during a campaign because it was promoted and seemed the right thing to do,but i didn't get the hours and it was stressful trying to...and i didn't feel like a cheerful giver.
i never attempted it again.
I did it cuz it was the "right thing to do". My parents pushed it hard. I was a year or two late on the softening of the college WT article.
I did two years as a regular auxiliary. I rarely hit my hours- No one worked past 3pm. No pioneers took me on a bible study. It was hellacious. There werent even any cute girl pioneers.
i was brought up as a born-in(tm) here in the uk.
it wasn't until i was 50 that the scales fell from my eyes, i woke up, got da'd from the cult and my wife was advised to leave me by the elders whom i had served with on the boe.
one of which i know wanted to schtupf her.
i too am 50. I've really come clean with my waking this year, but it did begin as long as 10 years ago.
I dont know how much time has past since 50 for you, but it does seem like you are carrying a lot of anger. Perhaps that is when you are making a point, or and need to get your feelings out. I feel like i am moving past it already. Do you feel like your feelings have improved at all since waking?
since a previous thread is getting comments that this guy may become a new gb member, the topic above is worth pursuing.
here's what i found out by searching so far---in other words, not much.
surely others must know something about the guy.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198944/1/william-malenfant-learn-from-me-mp3-trinidad-2010-zone-talk.
Wasn't Gillies "embarrased" as part of some sort of court record or lawsuit?
in two child abuse cases litigated in a us district court in montana, plaintiffs recently filed identical motions for sanctions against watch tower pa, philip brumley (general counsel for whq/wt) and joel taylor (associate general counsel for wt), accusing them of lying to court and vexatiously delaying the case:.
here, with the hope that the court would dismiss plaintiffs’ cases against wtpa, in-house counsel brumley signed affidavits that were materially false and intentionally misleading.
doc.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17122535/1/rowland-v-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-of-new-york-inc/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17099295/caekaert-v-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-of-new-york-inc/
Looks like sanctions were awarded in two different Montana cases yesterday
in two child abuse cases litigated in a us district court in montana, plaintiffs recently filed identical motions for sanctions against watch tower pa, philip brumley (general counsel for whq/wt) and joel taylor (associate general counsel for wt), accusing them of lying to court and vexatiously delaying the case:.
here, with the hope that the court would dismiss plaintiffs’ cases against wtpa, in-house counsel brumley signed affidavits that were materially false and intentionally misleading.
doc.
Anybody with a link to the Court's ruling on this? O'Donnell has referenced sanctions were awarded.
obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.
and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.
in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.
That is not a new concept. But part of the original definition of generation taught by wt in the early 1900,
i call BS. There is not definition of generation that includes two people from disparate times that simply overlap lives. Apparently the last veteran of the American Civil War died in 1956. As my dad likes to say, "Does that make me a part of the Civil War generation?"
what was the standard of quick builds.
did they cut corners, ignore building regulations, were they unsafe .
ive asked the same question; when are we having the undedication ceremony? More importantly, if we dont support Babylon the Great, maybe we should demolish the building, and sell it as undeveloped land. After all, the building has been bought and paid for and not by WTBTS
