well in order to shun someone you must dehumanize them much like what occurred in slavery.
dehumanizing someone now allows you treat them worst then an animal.
and now you can justify ignoring them there not human anymore.
I have an uncle who was removed as an elder years ago, because he expressed quite strongly that he felt (and still feels) that DF'ing and shunning is over-used and for too many minor things.
It doesn't bother him enough to leave the religion, though.
the news had macy's or some higher end store showing hijabs.
i made the mistake of showing wife.
her only comment was it was about time they made some modest clothing.
A garment that has only one purpose - the subjugation and oppression of women, with a long and bloody history, which women are dying over and being beaten for all over the world on a daily basis?
Good gawd, I hope it NEVER becomes fashionable or cool in the West.
the news had macy's or some higher end store showing hijabs.
i made the mistake of showing wife.
her only comment was it was about time they made some modest clothing.
Modesty is a quality. Not a garment that you put on.
curious what the canadian take is on all this .
i also understand he compared islamic state terrorists to greek, vietnamese & italian migrants?
that one i haven't confirmed yet but sounds wacky if true.
If he interrupted her to say peoplekind instead of mankind, I think he was showing poor manners - I mean, peoplers. Seems like he was trying to manipulate - I mean, peopleipulate - the conversation.
jehovah himself gives the saying "the women telling the good news are a large army" psalms 68 : 11 coupled with the fact that a good portion of women partake of the emblems and wine at the annual memorial celebration.. identifying themselves as part of the 144000 that are taken from the earth to rule with christ jesus in the heavens.. isn`t it about time they were recognized for their contributions and given the fact that gods word the bible clearly states that 144,000 of anointed are to be taken from the earth which many women are a large part of.?.
revelation ch.14 :4 could be argued that they are not lesbians { "these are the ones who do not defile themselves with women ,in fact they are virgins, etc,etc.}.
i wonder just how many men who claim to be of the anointed have not defiled themselves with women and are virgins.?.
I read on here somewhere.....someone told of a congregation in Canada that their body of elders removed all the ministerial servants from their positions and gave the jobs to women in the congregation. Women were put behind the literature counter, were doing the accounts, conducting the second schools.
I don't think this is normally done, but it did happen, according to someone on here.
9 days to go until i hand my d'a letter in.
its extremely short, as in one sentence long.
i'm not giving them a reason coz i don't need to coz it's my life and my choice and i don't have to answer to the boe or gb.
Good for you! They only have power over you if you give it to them.
Wishing you all the best!
i know this is kind of trivial but i don’t want to partake in something that might have connections with something that jehovah disapproves of.
i checked the watchtower library and i didn’t find anything on gingerbread man cookies.. .
good lord...how incredibly stupid and helpless are jdubs getting?
Good lord...how incredibly stupid and helpless are JDubs getting? I know...I know. I was there once too. Never able to use the God given ability to reason for myself!
Hahaha! I can just imagine the panic:
"OMG! OMG! Gingerbread men! I don't know what to do about them! Do I eat it? Do I burn it with fire? What if they're in the coffee room at work? Help me, Governing Body! You're my only hope!"
something just dawned on me today as i processed my assimilation into the real world (thanks to our new poster, @jester, giving me a major throwback to my first post).. when you're a jehovah's witness, you really are in some sort of la la land.
things which are perfectly normal are acts of eating from the table of the demons.
things which are horribly grotesque and extremely unjust are branded as "righteousness".
The entire set up demotes us human beings as some scummy slaves who need to EARN their right to open their mouths when in the presence of others.
Unless you're a female, then you NEVER get that right.
Good post
2 pioneers of the opposite sex.
the brother is in his mid-20s, sister is in her late 20s.
both are alone in car as the only 2 out in field service.
Newly married young JW couple in their early 20's, she gets pregnant right away. They move in with her parents to save up some money and the young JW husband/soon-to-be father starts banging his pregnant wife's 13 year old sister. The police are never called.
The husband and the 13 year old are both DF'ed. The preggo wife has the baby, then starts banging a different married man in the congregation. They get caught, both are DF'ed and she is reinstated in 3 months. He gets reinstated in about a year, they get married and the whole congregation goes to the "wedding".
so this is just a general question.
call it curiosity.. what sort of phobias do we have?
heights?
Definitely spiders.
I once tried to jump out of a moving vehicle because a large Jamaican spider crawled out from under the visor and made it's way to the backseat where I was.
Fortunately I was with freinds who restrained me.
