Posts by Rather Be the Hammer

234

New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

by ttdtt in

https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

disgusting!.

Going to meetings to "save face."

by Darkknight757 in

going to make this short and sweet but i need some advise again and i kinda need to vent a bit so sorry.😢.

so it has been weeks since the wife and i have been to meetings.

it has been nothing short of wonderful!!!

This all sounds so familiar. I am like Hadriel, i go to meetings, and use opportunities. And I know they are afraid of me. They know I will not be quiet if they ever would annoy me. Last year october an elder asked (for the first time in years) if i would like to have a conversation. Like a shepherd call (I have declined shepherd calls to our family for ten years now! it's my house, too, so I have the right not to have elders over!) but only HIM.

I asked him if he was sure he really wanted to talk to me.

He was surprised and asked why, and that he would like to hear my side of the story. I said: 'You don't want to make things worse for DH, don't you?' (I mean, now I am going to meetings and my husband has a 'normal' life, how would things work out for him when they have to df me?!)

'are you afraid of me?' He asked , and i said, 'no, but i know that you could be forced to do something with things you hear. That's how the rules are.'

That was in october. He never talked about a visit again 😊

Everyone has his/her own way to cope. I am not a black and white person, I can live with being in the KH sometimes (however it's getting harder!). if you can't, quit.

55

Just wondering who on this board has a spouse that is fully in and your awake?

by goingthruthemotions in

i am just curious who on this board is in the same situation has i am?

a spouse that is fully brain doogled in and you are awake to ttatt.. without going into serious detail and no names are given.

i would like to possible talk with one of you all, it's just so helpful to communicate with someone in the same situation as me.. i am located in the southwest united states..

Rather Be the Hammer

Me. I'm totally awake. Husband is totally in.

22

Special Talk from the GB?

by punkofnice in

a current jw told me there was going to be a special talk (tm) from the governing body(r) next month.

apart from the usual hilarious jw tv stuff, i haven't heard of anything.. any info any one?

the jw didn't seem to know much either.

Rather Be the Hammer

In the Netherlands we had a special talk from a Helper (Kenneth Flodin) last sunday. It was streamed to all congregations. No special info. Some jokes. A bad translator. (Said 'Jehovah' instead of 'satan' in the final prayer to do a last attack 😳)

3

New video at meeting this week . . .

by neat blue dog in

there was a new video shown at the meeting this week not available to the rank and file, about a cart witnessing campaign.

usually these things are leaked well ahead of time, was this an exception?

Rather Be the Hammer

Do you mean the one about Sail Amsterdam?

We had an announcement before the video that every three months 'local needs' will be a video about donations and what the Borg is doing with all the money.

local needs= give more money 😡

28

So who attended the memorial and why?

by atomant in

this should be interesting.

Rather Be the Hammer

I went for the same reason I attend the meetings: out of respect for my husband. However, I very much dislike memorial evening. It's like alle crap packed together in one stupid puppetshow. Crap: Jesus only mediator for 144000. Paradise on earth (where does the bible speak of this?) 144.000. Annointed. FDS. Partakers Numbers going up and they still believe their own prophecies.

Attending was down, I think. 74. (Some years we had 110!). The brother who did the talk said: nobody here is going to partake, we all have a hope for paradise. HOW WOULD HE KNOW?

46

THOUGHTS ON UPGRADING TO (Free) WINDOWS 10

by Terry in

jw
friends

i've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.

it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.

for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!

Rather Be the Hammer

@ Anders Andersen, you leaving Linux is even more shocking to me than you leaving the Borg. What Happened!? Did new light come in through the Windows?

34

WATCHTOWER LIBRARY 2015

by adamluis in

we have ours.

i have attached pic.

waiting for my copy.

Rather Be the Hammer

I remember when we studied the revelation book for the fifth time or so, stickers with changed text were handed out in our congregation, so we could stick them over the "old light" in the paragraphs. I thought it was weird, that there were SO MANY changes!

Also, regarding changes, in the yearbook 2016 is a list of recent changes. I think the r&f can't keep up with all the flip-flops any more.

63

Tight Pants

by pixel in

today is friday.

so let's see something refreshing on the new june 2016 study wt.

tight pants!.

Rather Be the Hammer

I'm technically still in...and I didn't believe the picture was actually from the WT. I thought it was made up by Outlaw. 😳 I checked it and am flabbergasted that this was really taken from the WT. What's wrong with the suit?!

24

WT March 15, 2016 - Kids pressured toward baptism again

by Designer Stubble in

the study wt of march 2016 is up on jw.org and is the standard article around this time of year...pressuring young kids to dedicate their lives to the organization again.

this wt will be studied during may, so just in time to pressure them into baptism at the regional conventions this summer.such articles really upset me, as the realization of how many young promising lives will be destroyed.

how many families will be broken up, when the child who got baptized as a minor (ages 6 and up are mentioned in the literature) decides as a young adult that his/her conscience no longer allows him/her to be part of such a destructive cult.

Rather Be the Hammer

@ sugar shane.

When I learned ttatt ten years ago my children were 12 and 8 years old. My VERY JW husband and I had a rough time for quite a while. One thing that I thought to be very important to have an agreement on was to NOT push the children (or have any elder push them or ask them or whatever) towards baptism before the age of 18. (I figured by then they would be wise enough to choose otherwise.)

I told him that Jesus was 30 when he got baptised, so there was no 'biblical' reason to hurry. That, and the fact that we had seen so many young people being baptised only to be disfellowshipped later, and the pain their parents live in, was enough to convince him that baptism should not be hurried.

Both children are not (and will not be) baptized as far as I can see. They are 22 and almost 18, and indeed they know better now. :-)