I have shunned people I never knew and regretted it. When I was a youngster there was a Holocost survivor speaking at my school and I missed a chance to talk to him because I had heard he was disfellowshipped. I wasn't baptized and not even sure where I heard that he was disfellowshipped but I missed out on a chance to meet someone very interesting because I shunned pro-actively.
wisdomfrombelow
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Have you ever shunned someone and then later regretted it?
by 00DAD inlately, i've been reading a number of thread lately that deal with this topic.
one particularly poignant experience came from simon.
in simon's story he shares: .
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Your Take On 30 Hour Pioneering
by jw07 inthe gb has magically reduced the hours sufficient for being an auxillary pioneer for march and april to 30.. this is my take:.
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wisdomfrombelow
I never really understand the difference between someone who gets pioneer hours and a pioneer. With the except of the status and required approval of the body of elders, it is just someone doing a certain amount of time in the field ministry. Since an elder or ministerial servent should, by station of their title, already be "exemplary", if they as a regular publisher reach the required hours for an auxiliary pioneer for a particular month shouldn't they be considered an auxiliary pioneer even if it is retroactive? If you think too much about it then you'll realize just what it is--a title which means very little and you can create your own titles to mean whatever you want and apply them to yourself and get as much or even more benefit.
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Confidential Document Email Hijacked!
by Atlantis indear friends:.we are under attack by email hijacking and someone is using our email address to send out spam.
it has to be because of the confidential documents that were going out in the emails.
i will have to discontinue the emails and go back to posting the documents on jwn..this is an example of just how badly somone wants to keep these documents out of the public eye.
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wisdomfrombelow
I saw the spam but couldn't it have just been a virus? In any case I appreciate your efforts in speading this information.
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the dumbest thing a CO ever said
by nowwhat? in"if it was'nt for the preaching work there would be millions more witnesses" - he was saying jehovah wants quality not quantity.. si i'm thinking, what's the difference as long as he has a people that live by bible standards and are moral.
maybe sharing their hope and faith with friends and relatives on a casual basis?
how backwards is that?.
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wisdomfrombelow
One CO said to me "Why don't you quit school, pioneer and become a circuit overseer like me"
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Is it ethical to confess extramarital sex to your spouse
by Most Noble indurex's global sex survey has found that 44% of adults worldwide have had one-night extramarital sex and 22% have had an affair.according to a 2004 united states survey, 16% of married partners have had extramarital sex, nearly twice as many men as women, while an additional 30% have fantasized about extramarital sex.
there were also studies that have shown rates of extramarital sex as low as 2.5%.as many authors conclude, these kinds of estimates are probably understated because extramarital sex is commonly disapproved.. .
what do you think is it ethical to confess an extramarital affair?.
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wisdomfrombelow
If you are man or woman enough to have extra maritial affair then you should be willing to accept the consequences. One night stands don't only have the possibility of death and disease they also can create children. Confession is really hard but not confessing can be much harder.
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Contributions For Local KH VS. World Wide Work
by turtleturtle inseriously, if i am going to stay a jw for now, is there anything wrong with donating all for local kindom hall purposes, and simply not donate to the world wide work (wt)?
i mean, won't the local money just go to the kingdom hall expenses (among some other expenses)?
i'm telling you right now, the wt ain't getting my $ until things change!.
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wisdomfrombelow
I don't think in all my over 25 baptized years as a JW I ever donated a total of $500. The lesson I learned from Ananias and Sapphira is that it is ok to keep your own money and not give it as a donation.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-25-2012 WT Study (CONGREGATE)
by blondie incomments.
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wisdomfrombelow
I would have loved to have someone mention at the 1919 convention the Golden Age magazine was introduced and then to highlight some of the information that magazine included. That would be very educational indeed.
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My introduction at the Kingdom Hall
by wisdomfrombelow inon sunday i was attending the kingdom hall and some visiting jw or a new jw in the area introduced himself to me.
he obviously didn't know i was disfellwoshipped so i introduced myself to him, shook his hand and smiled.
i wasn't particularly interested in a conversation but i wasn't about to start of saying "i'm disfellowshipped" because it was none of his business.
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wisdomfrombelow
I have been DF'd over two years now. I have my reasons for attending but being reinstated isn't one of them. I am not hostile and have family still in so I sit quietly and attend most meetings. In those 2 years none of the elders has come up and talked to me to inquire anything about my status or reasons for being there. I just sit and smile.
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My introduction at the Kingdom Hall
by wisdomfrombelow inon sunday i was attending the kingdom hall and some visiting jw or a new jw in the area introduced himself to me.
he obviously didn't know i was disfellwoshipped so i introduced myself to him, shook his hand and smiled.
i wasn't particularly interested in a conversation but i wasn't about to start of saying "i'm disfellowshipped" because it was none of his business.
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wisdomfrombelow
On Sunday I was attending the Kingdom Hall and some visiting JW or a new JW in the area introduced himself to me. He obviously didn't know I was disfellwoshipped so I introduced myself to him, shook his hand and smiled. I wasn't particularly interested in a conversation but I wasn't about to start of saying "I'm disfellowshipped" because it was none of his business. I wonder if they'll make a local needs talk about my brazen behavior.
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Your reaction if they drop the shunning policy?
by jam inhow would you react toward those family members that.
have treated you like you had leprosy.
for years didn,t.
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wisdomfrombelow
I remember back in the 90s when they changed the policy on shunning those who weren't baptized. It used to be that unbaptized "approved associates" were to be shunned once they became unapproved. This meant a lot of teenagers who engaged in "teenage behavior" whose parents were baptized were shunned. When the change in policy happened, people were were shunned for years were suddenly spoken to. Very strange indeed. I can imagine that happening again but I wouldn't expect it to unless legal pressures made them change their behavior. I choose my friends carefully but I would not be rude if someone who didn't speak to me decided to start talking to me again. I might just speak back and say something eye-opening.