i have heard of this happening before, but how often?
its pretty rare it seems.
i have often wondered if the elders would go this route with me since they knew i was actively sinning, but as far as i know, no jc was ever formed.
This is a classic case of control. You cant leave even silently. Because they'll just hold a JC with you not even there, DF you and announce you from the platform.
From what i remember from the elders guidebook, an inactive one turning up to a JC is taken as "respecting the authority of that body"... of course the poor inactive person isnt told that. He could be turning up to be polite.
After 6 years i'd say your safe. I know people who've faded less than a year and are left alone.
the latest featured video from everybodys favorite child indoctrination cult: see yourself in paradise.
watch the video here: https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/see-yourself-in-paradise/.
few problems here that the little kids wont have figured out:.
Cant believe i was ever in this cult. Looking at it now only 14 months since waking up and it's just so culty!!
chapter 31. murder suicide and death at the big house.
the people at bethel were killing us spiritually and sometimes they killed us physically too.. many of the old timers were in the infirmary laying there just waiting to die of natural causes.
some had served there for over fifty years.
It sounds like a prison camp. So glad i never did go to Bethel. I did go to the "bethel" meeting at one of the conventions with my then girlfriend.
there was an explosion on a london tube train at parsons green station at 8:20 bst this morning.. there are pictures online of a plastic bucket that seems to be the source.
witnesses are reporting seeing a large wall of flames coming through a packed train carriage.
people are now being taken to ambulances with significant burns..
Why is England such a frequent target for terrorists?
I think Paris is worse.
one or two notable points from chapter 18 of "god's kingdom rules.".
“it will never beg nor petition men for support”.
7 brother russell and his associates refused to imitate the money-raising schemes so common in the churches of christendom.
Does anyone else remember about 2014/2015 being handed a slip of paper in the hall asking how much you can send the org per month? I do. Even then as a believer i thought "this isn't right".
nk has fired another icbm over japan.. the missile flew 2,300 miles at an altitude of 480 miles.
a korean spokesman has said about japan, “the four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of juche.
japan is no longer needed to exist near us”.
Really hope this mess gets sorted within my lifetime. I'd love to see Kim Jong Un get owned.
What we need is a high ranking member with no family (nothing to lose) who can walk up and blow him away or garrott the fat bastard in his office.
there was an explosion on a london tube train at parsons green station at 8:20 bst this morning.. there are pictures online of a plastic bucket that seems to be the source.
witnesses are reporting seeing a large wall of flames coming through a packed train carriage.
people are now being taken to ambulances with significant burns..
I was there only 5 days ago.
Wonder if "the religion of peace" was responsible?
i was told this when i was an aspiring jw, aka unbaptized publisher.
the above explanation didn't make sense to me then and it never did make sense throughout my jw career.
over time, it appeared to me the real purpose of field service time reporting was to gauge one's spirituality and for the ceo *cough* co to make sure the elders were on top of things during his visit..
Was i the only JW that found the ministry a compulsion? A drudge? Waste of time and a burden?
Walking past the 2nd school on a Sunday where all the elders and their families were eating lunch, hoping i could walk past quick enough that they wouldnt shout "why arnt you going out on the ministry?"
when i woke up i got my critical thinking i lost it when i was five and now i have it at thirteen oh and how i missed it.. something i noticed is how with the hurricanes hitting yes do say "oh u feel bad for the people there".but i hear is "we know this is just a sign of the end.when i'm over thinking i wish i could help but nope it's just a sign of the end.
A hurricane is just a sign that a hurricane formed ... like they do pretty much every year.
Correct. A lot of humans seem to think this world belongs to them, when in fact we're just one of millions of species that are living on it for a time. Eventually humans wont exist and the world will still be here and there will still be earthquakes, hurricanes and tidal waves. From natures standpoint it's neither "good" nor "bad". Nature is cruel. Nature is beautiful. And Nature doesn't care.
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
You only have to take a look at Mike & Kim's website to see how, although well intended, nutty they come across. Imagine sending this video and letter to colleges and universities unsolicited (like they encourage you to do):
http://www.watchtower.exposed/higher-education-packet-to-send-to-colleges-universities/
YOU'D be the one coming across as a nut. And your letter and DVD would end up in the bin.
