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  jw's view of wordly people - hipocrisy

  by spirituk in

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  i was wondering how a baptised jw see wordly people?

  i mean what do they think of people who arent jw ?

  do they think we will die forever and that we are controlled by satan?

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  cobaltcupcake

  JWs are constantly warned of the danger of associating with worldly people. They use the scripture, "bad association spoils useful habits."

  They must have some association with them during work or school hours, but they avoid unnecessary association with them after hours.

  They view worldly people as essentially "unclean" and as a threat to their spirituality and relationship with God. However, they also view them as possible converts to whom they are obligated to preach so that they have an opportunity to learn "the truth."

  Since they are not worshipping Jehovah they are serving the interests of the Devil, but they aren't necessarily Devil worshippers.
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  How to choose your religion

  by Skbj in

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  it's old so you probably have seen it but i was doing some cleaning up of my inbox and found this that my husband sent me a while back and still made me chuckle.

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  Love it!
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  JW.org on Twitter ??

  by Poztate in

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  is this legit or is someone playing games.

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  https://twitter.com/jworg.

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  So who mans the Twitter Desk in the Writing Dept?

  
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  Email RE "Sandy"

  by stuckinlimbo in

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  dear brothers and sisters:.

  subject: quick overview of storm damage.

  subject: disaster relief update .

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  cobaltcupcake

  Since I've moved to the Bible Belt I've discovered that Christendom has the Dubs beat when it comes to acts of charity and kindness. All of the larger local churches in Charlotte send out teams on "missions" every year to some disadvantaged neighborhood to do exactly the same work that the JW's do after a disaster. They run food pantries and soup kitchens. They have projects going all the time to help individual families (not necessarily members of their church) who are in need.

  I only found this out because one of my coworkers belongs to one of these churches, and she mentioned that her husband and teenaged daughter were going to be gone for a week on one of these mission trips, and they go every year.

  The test of loving your neighbor as yourself is not running to someone's aid after a huge disaster but in day-to-day kindness and charity.
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  Do you think those at the top realise that it's their fault - suicide as a result of being disfellowshipped?

  by jambon1 in

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  i have been stunned to hear of two suicides in our area recently.. this adds to the other 3 that i have known of from the past.. the two recent suicides resulted from 1-the person being gay & hearing a horrific talk at the kingdom hall & 2-the person with problems who was disfelloshipped & then took his life the next week.. it astonished me that jw's in general don't rebel against this sort of thing.

  it's an appalling lack of support which leads people to feel distressed, abandoned & unloved.

  how the witnesses in the locality can just sail on without giving the cruelty of these measures serious though is beyond me.

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  They take the comfortable position of blaming the victim.
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  TIME FOR A MIND EXPERIMENT

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  try this "mind experiment".. there is a very large sports stadium the size of texas.

  inside this stadium there are four enormous crowds of people.

  they are all believers in jehovah god and think of their religion as the truth exclusively.. group number one are all the people who read and believed the teachings of charles taze russell.. group number two are all the people who came along after judge rutherford became president of the society.. group number three are the jw's under nathan knorr up to the year 1975.. group number four are all the jehovah's witnesses post 1975 up to today.. .

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  They'd all scream "apostates!" and trample each other to get out of the stadium.
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  Deluded Cult Speak By Jehovah's Witnesses

  by BlindersOff1 in

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  please give any examples you've heard of jws verbalizing cognitive dissonance , delusional reasoning .

  in other words crazy jw logic .like.

  one jw mother recently told her son " even if you did have proof it wasn't the truth, i wouldn't want to read it".

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  "Even if the New System were a lie I would still serve Jehovah." That from an "anointed" one.
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  Whats your opinion of the WTS. apologizing now for its past wrongful teachings ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something happened recently by the wts.

  that doesn't rarely often and that is the wts.

  executive editors apologizing for the organization's past mistakes and proclamations.

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  cobaltcupcake

  That article is on par with "If I ever did anything that hurt you I'm sorry."
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  May 15 2013 WT: "REAL elders skip meals and lose sleep!"

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  finally we have the society's expectations of elders in print.. this is from page 9 of the may 15th study edition.... "as indicated by the experiences of the apostle paul, our ministry may result in sleepless nights and times without food.

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  6:5) these expressions paint a vivid picture of self-sacrifice and may well remind us of pioneers who give their ministry first place in life while supporting themselves financially.

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  Despite the many negative reports we read here about abusive elders, there are some who are genuinely sincere. My ex-husband was one such. While he was still an MS he and I were assigned to assist a sister who had 5 kids and a husband in rehab. We got a call at 2:00 in the morning that one of her kids had been in a car accident, and she needed our help.

  We launched out of bed and drove 20 miles to the hospital where she handed me her baby and a diaper bag and handed over her 3-year-old as well. We never did get back to bed but babysat those two kids for the whole day. (I should add that we didn't have kids, nor had either of us ever even changed a diaper.) My husband ran out to the store and bought a whole bunch of toys. By the end of the day I was in tears and trembling with stress.

  After he was appointed we took a huge financial hit to move to where there was a need for elders, and he actually started the shepherding program in that congo. I remember finding him at his desk in the middle of the night doing research for a judicial case.

  Inevitably, he burned out and resigned. The man had a lot of other issues that caused me to leave him, but I still admire his willingness to assist the congregation members at a great cost to himself.
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  my worst fears were realized

  by magotan in

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  2. experiences

  im on my phone, so im really limited.

  i came out to my family about my doubts and my sexuality.

  shit hit the fan.

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  Magotan - I just want to add to the cascade of support you are receiving here. Big hugs. I hope you find a good living situation soon.