do you ever test the water and see if your relatives or friends still feel the same way?
i don't have mobile phone numbers or email addresses for my family because we left a long time ago.
long before facebook.
A fun way is for those that haven't unfriended you on FB,instagram etc. is to wait until they post something you can counsel them on from the WT, such as violent sports, video games, concerts, clothing, or whatever it may be. They'll unfriend you real fast that way :)
Someone had posted about their favorite football team winning so i just quoted the watchtower about shunning competitive sports.......didn't take long to get unfriended after that lol.
a new letter was posted in jw.org to the elders who are under the brazilian branch:.
january 25, 2016to all bodies of eldersref .
: clap when given a readmission addear brothers:we would like to inform you about a recent adjustment.
l have observed the types of people attracted to the sect are many times unbalanced,unstable,emotionally insecure types.the jdubs seem to home in like vulchers circling the prey ,preying on the vulnerables.they tried it on me when my father who was an elder died.promising that if you become a dub you will one day see him again.l said how can you promise that when you keep making false misleading predictions.l was wondering if others have observed this phenomenon.
while attending a week long training class for elders in patterson, bro losch gave the concluding talk about loyalty to the borg, which i was in awe of(i went more in detail in a recent post about a s.a.d.
where losch was the speaker).
at the end of his talk, here's what he said: .
I hate how they just never come out and say directly what they are talking about... egg shaped ball? pads and helmets? Hitting and hurting each other? Just f'ing say you are talking about football instead of sounding like a complete moron and describing it. The september watchtower of 2015 is the most recent occurence that i noticed of their distaste for sports..
‘Does my conscience move me to shun sports that are aggressive, competitive, nationalistic, or violent?
First of all, all sports are competitive or it wouldn't be called a sport, and they are wanting people to SHUN competitive sports which most of us here know how severe shunning is. Although most jw's find shunning humans much easier than shunning their favorite sports. Bunch of f'ing judgeMENTAL hypocrites is all they are.
it's amazing how the expression "the truth" has become such an ingrained term used by witnesses.. "we have 'the truth'".
"is he 'in the truth'?".
most here have found out so many facts about the organisation, and felt the effects of being "gut-punched" as we realised these facts.. so how do you feel about the expression "the truth" now?.
what were some of the derogatory things you heard or said about house holders?
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i was taught that if they didn't answer the door & you knew they were in it was always that they had a guilty conscience..
they brag about the fact that they the don' t baptize their babies because "how can a baby 'know' what religion it wants to believe in the rest of it's life!".
but a 14 year old does?.....they put so much presure on their children to get dunked, that if your not baptize by 18 years old there is something really "wrong" with you.. so the poor kid does it, just to get everyone off their backs.
legally a minor can't be held to a contract if they are under 18 years old and why?
when i was a teenager, i was told by an elder that because i smiled a lot and was known for my good sense of humor, that i should come across as "more serious".
so before i was appointed a ms, while in my late teens, i transformed myself into a much more "serious" brother.. were you ever told that you needed to work on something that you knew was stoopid?.
some of the earlier watchtowers were really loving in their speech about df'd people
"we must hate the disfellowshipped person in the truest sense, which is to regard with extreme active aversion, to consider them as loathsome, odious, filthy, to detest" wt 1952 oct 1.
There are a few others also, but pretty hard to believe Jesus would ever say anything like that.
[note: copy/pasted this with permission from reddit.].
once each year, the governing body writes a direct letter to the congregation members included in the yearbook.
in his annual message to the catholic faithful (urbi et orbi) delivered on christmas day, the pope spoke about world peace, terrorism, and the refugee crisis.
