if it is illegal for minors to get married, enter into contracts, drink, and smoke, why is it legal for them to enter into lifelong religious contracts they can not break without family shunning and community ostracism????
how religious shunning ruins lives.
a form of institutionalized estrangement, shunning hurts health of the excluded.. updated march 27, 2024 |psychology today magazine.
I've always thought it would be better for the Org to require a minimum age for baptism. Whatever age that you legally become an adult in whatever country you live in. It's a major adult decision & life long commitment.
Hopefully this will be one of the new changes coming down the pike.
y'all i am an unmedicated bipolar.
i had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world.
i am pregnant from this.
I'm 90% sure will be DF. They can't sweep it under the rug because you have the pregnancy as a public announcement that you committed fornication. Even if you say you're sorry they will still DF.
I was DF in Dec 2022 because my then husband and I had sex before marriage ( he is also a brother & was DF as well). It didn't matter that we were now married, it didn't matter that I was sorry, it didn't matter that no one else knew about it.
i found this while googling.
i thought elders and/or high rankers don't get paid.
is there something i don't know?
I found this while googling. I thought Elders and/or high rankers don't get paid. Is there something I don't know? See screenshot.
you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!
the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.
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So the JW's in my congregation ( regarding the new dress code) are saying things like "When persecution comes we will not stand out when going to the meeting dressed in slacks like we would in a dress or skirt. The governing body is preparing us for something to come in the very near future."
during lett’s announcement that beards are now allowed he elaborated at some length how brothers ought to feel and react to the change in policy.
he warned brothers not to resent not being able to grow beards earlier if they had wished to do so.
he also warned brothers who supported the old policy not to allow themselves to wonder what the point of doing so was now that it has changed.
The weird thing is that now 90% of the men have beards! Just because you CAN doesn't mean you Should.
I just find beards to be slovenly, untidy & lazy looking. But it's funny how now everyone has one.
i am sure we were all shocked at the governing body update #2 with the unusual and impulsive changes set forth.. i am an insider at whq, and when i was on reddit and in communication with avoidjw i explained to the best of my ability that the approach on disfellowshipping was going to change based on the new light at the 2023 agm, that the jubilee rumor was false, and there were going to be changes on how jws approached disfellowshipping in response to the norway situation if it didn't turn out in watchtower's favor.
the decision came because of a legal blow to watchtower, not because "holy spirit" wad directing a faithful slave, who is going to become the "evil slave", more explanation on this soon.. everything i stated came true.
i left reddit exjw community due to the immature and mentally unstable nature there, and yet as has been the case my words came true.
I don't know its hard to believe honestly. But time will tell.
this was posted on jw leaks.. my truth's | dad seeking truth.
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Can someone post bullet points or the cliff notes version of the new changes? There is no way my eyes can read all that small print, plus it's a long document.
Thanks.
so there is going to be a big elders meeting for all body’s of elder this week to go over the changes.
i would imagine a great deal of the elders book is now obsolete and it would be too big a deal to update so much, maybe they will just make a new one?.
by the sound of it there are some more very large changes on the way anyway.. adjustments to handling serious wrongdoing in the congregation (s-395): a new document entitled adjustments to handling serious wrongdoing in the congregation is available in the "forms" section of the "documents" tab on jw hub.
Okay I had a good laugh on this one! I'm American & the term jumper here is short for jumpsuit which is a one piece pantsuit that only women wear. I had no idea Europeans call sweaters jumpers until I just googled it. Lol so I was over here laughing at the thought of the men wearing women's pantsuit at the meetings!
This is an example of what American's call jumpers. In no way shape or form would we ever call a sweater a jumper - under any circumstances.
i know they're panicking and trying to gain favor with governments, former members, prospective converts & those who are teetering, all for financial worries.
still, the latest update in some ways made things worse, and if there's any jws watching it who are beginning to wake up it should be very disturbing.. starting with dress codes: they say that suits, ties & skirts are no longer required, but in so doing they admit that they were required, something not often appearing as an explicit command in print.
(similar to how lett referred to the "policy on beards" in his video, even though this direct policy wasn't made available to rank and file.
I'm American. Here we call them pants or slacks ( pretty much the same meaning of those two words, except to say slacks maybe nicer than pants and less casual). We don't really use the word trousers much at all.
So pants are more casual like kakis or black work pants. Slacks are more formal and more like business attire.
watchtower other sheep.
and other sheep i have, which are not of this fold: them also i must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
(john 10:16).
I've never clearly understood the distinction between the 144K & other sheep other than the 2 different final destinations ( heaven/earth).
That and only 144K could partake in memorial. Mainly because as a rank & file you're attention is on other things- raising a family, living a clean Christian life, preaching etc.
