Happy@last, welcome! Sorry to hear of your bad experiences. I know of several people that had similar experiences. This is a question I posed to an elder. How many that have been affected by paedophiles, i.e., victims and their families, would remain a JW or come close to becoming a JW? What about the thought at Matt. 18:6 where Jesus mentioned that if one stumble even a little one, "it is more beneficial for him to have a millstone around his neck." He came up with the standard answer, "they have to wait on Jehovah." I made it clear that that wouldn't cut it for me. And then he had the gall to say that Jehovah's spirit was involved in the appointment of elders and the sorting out of problems. I assured him that Jehovah's spirit was definitely not involved with any unrighteousness. His answers disgusted me.
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41My introduction/experience
by happy@last ini have only just recently found this site, in fact only recently gone online to do research of my own about jws.
before i left i had only gone on my gut instinct, not even realising i was not alone with my feelings.
the week i was appointed an elder some 11 years ago, i had had to write to a congregation many miles away from me about how unloving they were (more details below).. not long after i started to have concerns about jws, expecially as the message of 'following the bibles message' subtly changed to 'follow the fds', this did not sit well with me.
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is there a danger in being financially secure?
by hoser inthis question keeps repeating itself within myself.
why is the watchtower so hell-bent on keeping jw's undereducated, underemployed and under financed?.
is it a control issue?.
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Vidqun
I read an article on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. He viewed himself as a new Cyrus and as the Lamb of Rev. 5. He was allowed to eat steak, but his male followers had to go on a vegetarian diet, including popcorn. He would annull all the marriages in the compound, allowing him to to cohabit with any female in their community (as his spiritual wife), from the young to the old. A male follower on a diet of popcorn would not be able to put up much resistance under these circumstances. Is the principle not the same? The GB of JW does not like competion. They will do the thinking, the R&F must follow. Popcorn = Koolaid. In such a case least resistance will be encountered by those followers with under-developed brains.
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On the road to becoming a crazy cat person
by wha happened? inok, now that my household has been over-run by two kittens.
two kittens that have me running to the pet shop almost daily, i'm becoming a crazy cat person.
be prepared for a plethora of cat links.
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Vidqun
That's why I had to invest in a double bed.
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On the road to becoming a crazy cat person
by wha happened? inok, now that my household has been over-run by two kittens.
two kittens that have me running to the pet shop almost daily, i'm becoming a crazy cat person.
be prepared for a plethora of cat links.
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Christ's 'silence' on slavery.
by tec inone of the accusations against christ that some people make to me from time to time is that christ never spoke out against slavery, and so he must condone it.. i would submit that slavery (the forcible enslaving of your fellow man)... is not the root problem.
it is merely a symptom of the root problem.
christ came to deal with the root.
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Christ's 'silence' on slavery.
by tec inone of the accusations against christ that some people make to me from time to time is that christ never spoke out against slavery, and so he must condone it.. i would submit that slavery (the forcible enslaving of your fellow man)... is not the root problem.
it is merely a symptom of the root problem.
christ came to deal with the root.
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Vidqun
Maisha!
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Christ's 'silence' on slavery.
by tec inone of the accusations against christ that some people make to me from time to time is that christ never spoke out against slavery, and so he must condone it.. i would submit that slavery (the forcible enslaving of your fellow man)... is not the root problem.
it is merely a symptom of the root problem.
christ came to deal with the root.
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Vidqun
Tammy, I with you here, but let’s leave love out of the equation. What was the purpose of Jesus coming to earth first time round? Jesus was not a social reformer. He did not involve himself with the politics of the day. The fact that he used slavery in his illustrations does not mean he endorsed it. He used every day things to illustrate matters. People of his day could not even imagine a world without slaves, something we take for granted. In fact, slavery was abolished just the other day. 1) He came to do his Father’s will. 2) He came to declare the truth. 3) He came to fulfill prophecy. He will fix all the social problems second time round when he’s the king.
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Patterson on the line: Watchtower claims that paying cash bond would cause immediate irreparable harm and hardship
by cedars ina new article for those who are interested.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/patterson-on-the-line-watchtower-claims-that-paying-cash-bond-would-cause-immediate-irreparable-harm-and-hardship.
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Vidqun
Cedars, unfortunately on every schoolyard is a bully, right you rightly said. And if he puts his sights on you, he/she is determined to make you suffer. Best for your blood pressure is to ignore him. Now you know what King Solomon did during his early years. I'm glad I wasn't in school alongside him.
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Please read
by JeffT inmy father passed around 9 this morning.
he'd been in poor health for some time, but it still comes as a shock to have him gone.
we are going to miss him terribly.
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Vidqun
Sincere condolences. What a man. How we all wish to have an obit like that when we die!
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Elders, Ministerial Servants & Pioneers That Should Not Have Been Appointed or Should Not Have Remained In Their Positions
by minimus inwere there a lot of elders, ms's and pioneers that should not have had those titles?.
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Vidqun
One of my favorite Bible characters is Ezekiel. He had some interesting things to say on the subject. First of all, it applied to Israelite shepherds, but perhaps the modern day shepherds should take note.
15 I myself shall feed my sheep, and I myself shall make them lie down, is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.
16 The lost one I shall search for, and the dispersed one I shall bring back, and the broken one I shall bandage and the ailing one I shall strengthen, but the fat one and the strong one I shall annihilate. I shall feed that one with judgment. (Eze 34:15-16 NWT)
20 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said to them, Here I am, I myself, and I shall certainly judge between a plump sheep and a lean sheep,
21 for the reason that with flank and with shoulder YOU kept pushing and with YOUR horns YOU kept shoving all the sickened ones until YOU had scattered them to the outside.
22 And I will save my sheep, and they will no longer become something for plunder; and I will judge between a sheep and a sheep. 23 And I will raise up over them one shepherd, and he must feed them, even my servant David. He himself will feed them, and he himself will become their shepherd. (Eze 34:20-23 NWT)
