Posts by sarahsmile

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A Saturday Knock on the Door & the JWN Forum
by kepler in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is, of course, a recurrent topic that's made possible whenever a kingdom hall decides to march out on your neighborhood and street.. today it happened again in my neighborhood as a drum up for the memorial observance scheduled for monday the 14th of april.. why christ's passion and death should be observed on a monday of holy week i failed to ask this morning.

perhaps someone else might like to volunteer, but it seemed just another reason to be sceptical about the whole thing, though hardly ranking with changing ancient chronologies to get jerusalem's temple destruction 2520 years before 1914.. anyway two gentlemen in white shirts and ties greeted me politely enough at my door and presented me with a flyer about an event which they described as momentous.

they asked me if i had ever intended one and i assented.
sarahsmile

Good job!

The Memorial is not bibical.

Celebrating Jesus death is all messed up.

Somethings wrong.
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Meeting after meeeting
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just got information that there is going to be a short 10 min meeting.

with elders and ms after the first meeting of the week during the co visit.. this is in addition to the usual elders/ms meeting.. it might just be for my congregation, but is this something new?.

i wonder why.. .
sarahsmile

Ten minutes sounds like something minor. Sounds like something that every member should have the right to hear! Donation come from the people!

Ekks it seems like many here have been getting knocks on the door or phone calls.

Trying to mark apostates!
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Scriptural Grounds for Divorce - Unbelievable story
by Comatose in
1. jw
2. friends
i personally know the individual involved closely, this is not a rumor.

this is what happens when you let three unqualified guys decide whether or not you get to ever date again with jehovah's blessing.. a young man finds out his wife is cheating on him by seeing texts on her phone.

he knows the person she is cheating with.
sarahsmile

I am just curious, Where does the son live?

Also why not just get a divorce first without spiritual grounds!

Spiritual grounds just means he can not get remarried but he can get a divorce.

I noticed JWs moms love to be in the center of negative attention. Just part of the dysfunctional group.

I would have left a momma boy!
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Please...I need your help
by Strawberryfieldsforever in
1. jw
2. friends
my heart is heavy as i write this letter.

i have been trying to live my life as best that i can since leaving jehovah's witnesses.

my dad was not a witness and was my rock when i left the religion.
sarahsmile

Just noticed your letter,perfect!
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Need advice for asking a girl out
by DuvanMuvan in
1. social
2. relationships
well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.

we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.
sarahsmile

Sounds like you will never ask her for her number.

Imagine what is the worse thing that she could say. No, right!

You need all the practice you can get. And lots of rejection. It is the expected answer.

Good news someone will say yes!
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yhwh
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
we have been told that this yhwh is the symbol for gods name and that they the jews didn't use his name because it was so special.

history shows that the name was banned for a time before the maccabees and after it was to sacred to say.

there is a problem with this idea though and that is, in older writings of the name dating back to around 1400 bce in egypt the name yhw was found and yhwh was also found on a moabite stella also very old.
sarahsmile

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Golem.html

Love the Golem story it might have some truth.

That is why they stopped calling on the name of God so certain ones could have the power. Some thought they could raise the dead with the name.
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What do you think are the future doctrine changes will be?
by thedepressedsoul in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the whole organization is going through huge and big changes.

it can be seen by names of departments, to how things function and teaches.

my questions to you is, what do you think the future changes will be, both in teaching and organizational matters?.
sarahsmile

Well if donations are only a dollar a month they can give members a slip to donate like tithe! But call it contribution slips.

Debit cards or visa accounts. A set donation.

Also the SDA pass a bag around before book study.

Maybe that could be one of the changes. Less books and pass the plate.

It is all the same.

They could opened the doors for coffee time at their inside book stores. Put some sofas in a room. Give people a place to gather with a donation by the coffee pot or pass the bag around. People will be giving all the time!
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What do you think are the future doctrine changes will be?
by thedepressedsoul in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the whole organization is going through huge and big changes.

it can be seen by names of departments, to how things function and teaches.

my questions to you is, what do you think the future changes will be, both in teaching and organizational matters?.
sarahsmile

In some strange odd way but fun,apostate will be re evaluated and placed into catogories: Thinkers,doubting Thomas,and prophets. Make a sub division after Thomas that meets on different days or nights.

That includes exJW that are now Atheist.

Honestly not everyone can think the same! Did Jesus shun people no! Only Satanic ones!

Now they have double their money.
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What do you think are the future doctrine changes will be?
by thedepressedsoul in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the whole organization is going through huge and big changes.

it can be seen by names of departments, to how things function and teaches.

my questions to you is, what do you think the future changes will be, both in teaching and organizational matters?.
sarahsmile

Your on to something.

Make the public WT every three months. Sunday study WT on line and studied on a big screen.

Sunday talks will be done from GB building. People viewing on Sunday will see a big screen.

They will need to handle sex JC cases differently. Warning that they need to report crimes.
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Profiling of an apostate
by joe134cd in
1. jw
2. friends
i must admit when i was in, the idea i had of an apostate, was an angry bitter person who would picket out side a convention.

i was looking on jwservey and found on the respondents to a servey that 54% were either active members or fading members.

this made me wonder is the organisation underestimating the extent of apostasy.
sarahsmile

I am just a sinner! :-)