Do Jehovah's Witnesses do anything useful for the community???
They dust off door bells.
i know they never gave a helping hand to anyone but their own in the past.
do jehovah's witnesses do anything useful for the community??
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses do anything useful for the community???
They dust off door bells.
i was raised a jw and am currently pioneer in a foreign language congregation.
i have been unhappy on and off with my involvement in this religion and am ready to step back again.
growing up i was always active but extremely reserved and a low hour publisher.
Welcome! (better late than never). Quite some listening ears over here right? A good thing.
Hope all the advice and experiences will help you to come to the right conclusions and decisions.
Greetings from Holland!
just stopping by to share this... .
after seeing a watchtower representative paste the same thing over and over, about jw.org being available in 850 languages.... we all know how the watchtower loves to boast about the number of languages it translates into.
what are the facts?
Interesting, thanks. Facts can hurt, right?
Lol lol lol You brought tears to my eyes again man! Would be perfect for a JW calender.
hello every body!.
it's my thirst time here.
i'm verry glad to tell you my resignation as an elder in my local congregation.
Welcome to this forum, so much good news here lately and always tons of good advice! When I resignated at age 48, I was the youngest of the b.o.e. The rest is grey, tired, aging fast, some sick and one already deceased. Future not looking good for the Borg. If I may ask, how old are you? Were you a young member of the b.o.e. too?
dear friends, we were so touched by your warm welcome and all of your comments to my ballroom dancing post.
thank you so much for your kindness.. i have more to tell you, but i wanted to share this with you.
we have a son that has been disfellowshipped for 18 years for smoking.
Great story, this site has zillions of them and the openness of many can be so touching, refreshing and encouraging for others. Like others, I'm looking forward to the next story!
just wanted to say hello and thank you for all of your comments.
when i finally figured out this was not the truth it was nice to know i wasn't the only one - it was a surprise to learn how many there are.
february was my last month of service after 43 active years.
Wow, great story and welcome on the board.
What I was very disturbed about was the change on typical/antitypical. It was obvious I had been lied to.
One of the reasons that made me realize something really was wrong, deep spiritual food (proof of Jehovah's blessing) was swept from the table with one stupid WT article!!! Together with the abuse scandals, the overlapping generation doctrine and their lying about 1914 it become too much too bear anymore. You hear many such stories here. Can you imagine how the Borg has shot themselves in the foot by these ridiculous changes?
circuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.
and everything is caught on video!.
kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.
Konceptual99 > I think Kevin's cart work in reverse witnessing was far more potentially productive than starting a prayer in the hall and being out of there in 60 seconds.
I agree. I also think his activism will last much longer this way. On the other hand, it's a matter of time before all California knows him, several elders and others (both in the KH and on the street) already took pictures from him. Truly an Apostate-Rockstar ...I'm jealous!
circuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.
and everything is caught on video!.
kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.
Thank you for the confirmation about O'Hare and added links darkspilver. I've never heard of Shaunie Chalk, the news is from 2009, must have missed it while still being in the Borg but from what I've read, she seemed to display more of some typical teenage-psycho behaviour.
konceptual99 > I did watch a few of his hall antics and some did make me smile a little but ultimately I can't see them having much of a positive effect.
You'll never know if someone has the guts to visit jwfacts or fact-check ARC at the privacy of their homes. Witnesses don't care if most people reject their kingdom message, they just go on, repeating lies that come directly from their GB. With all respect, why then should activists who tell the truth quit just because others don't see enough benefits compared to the costs?
he is simply nuts.
He probably is, but "Kevin" isn't and that's why I put him in a different, more moderate league of activists.
circuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.
and everything is caught on video!.
kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.
intropist > Is that kind of activity in CA apparantly illegal?
Intropist, I don't live in the USA, but witnesses invite the general public to visit their meetings, especially the public talk. In one of Kevin's video's one elder says to him that in his case, the invitation to visit the KH is withdrawn. It will take some time and a lot of effort to permanently keep off "Kevin" by law. I believe Derek Ohare is such a person that actually is banned from KH's in the UK, but "Kevin" is a saint compared to him. Let's wait and see...