holidays.
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-celebrate-holidays/ .
"regarding other holidays, each witness makes his or her own choice, striving “to maintain a clear conscience before god and men.”.
Holidays
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-celebrate-holidays/
"Regarding other holidays, each Witness makes his or her own choice, striving “to maintain a clear conscience before God and men.”
Until recently, I was PIMI for 40 years.
Could someone please tell me what "other holidays" I could "make my own choice" to openly celebrate?
i think there will be a change in the 144000 belief.
too many witnesses think they have a heavenly hope.
maybe 1914 will be discarded too.. what is your watchtower prediction?
Government Taxation (persecution)
Child abuse court cases gain publicity traction (persecution)
this sundays 11/18 wt p.18 pp.3.
/ happy are those who serve "the happy god".
"stressful events-such as when a loved one dies or is disfellowshipped...".
This Sundays 11/18 WT P.18 pp.3. / Happy Are Those Who Serve "the Happy God"
"Stressful events-such as when a loved one dies or is disfellowshipped..."
Thank you F&DS @ the Watchtower! Thank you! Thank you!
This one sentence sealed the deal for my wife to for the first time verbally declare "death and disfellowshipping the top two stress triggers? these people are sick. OMG this is fear mongering. I have been spinning my wheels for nothing for almost 40 years."
She read it on her own, she reasoned on her own, then voiced it out of the blue. Twas like a light bulb went off.
God I'm going to sleep good tonight.
how many here have been active here on this site in the the last seven days?.
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before i left the organization, i remember having this thought go through my mind, it was not something that i dwelled on too much.
i was thinking of an interesting way i could get away with something, especially with my anal jw relatives, my brother-in-law was the worst.
i didn't have this idea pop in my head until after i had moved into a duplex, and then it went off like a light bulb.
A crazy THOUGHT to:
...wire up the sound and TV system at every KH in the world in such a way that couldn't be disconnected by anyone and in the middle of the memorial play a thought provoking power point presentation including Geoffrey Jackson saying under oath at the Australian Commission "it would be presumptuous to say we are the only true religion..."
...mail to every JW household in our region copies of the child abuse documents including perps info I accidentally kept on my computer before stepping down.
...wake each GB member up at 2am and tell them, "too bad there aren't 2 witnesses here to testify to what I'm about to do....."
...redirect jw.org to jwfacts.com
i tend to think that many jws who joined the religion in their later years feel foolish or are embarrassed by their decision to become one of jehovah’s witnesses.
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i’m not embarrassed by my years “in the truth “ because i was raised from infancy to believe everything was god’s word and who are we to question jehovah and his organization?
I became an ordained JW minister at 8 after a rigorous study of the bible for the previous 7 years.
Born In: Indoctrinated from birth. Totally thought/action approval dependent on organization. Robbed of the ability to accept and solve ones own life situations and/or problems which translates into being emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually immature.
Converted: A JW knocked at a moment of ones duress, with low self esteem, and/or being vulnerable and offered emotional, psychological, and/or spiritual shelter.
7 years ago i had my last conversation with the toxic jw that mostly raised me.
every conversation was toxic for my entire adult life with her.
the last time we spoke was right before the memorial 7 years ago and she was laying on the usual heavy guilt and fear mongering about how jeho counts his people at the memorial.
"Well OK then, but I still love you Mom"
lm getting conflicting advice.ls it the 144000 or jesus.l was always under the impression it was jesus.lf its the 144000 then when they pray the jw;s should be praying through the remnant not in jesus christs name but in the 144000;s name..
Bible = 1 Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"
From the JW Insight Book = He (Jesus) mediates the new covenant between God and those taken into the new covenant, the congregation of spiritual Israel (144,000).
What does this circle of logic mean? The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society has set itself up as the mediator between man (any member of the great crowd) and God. This is in direct conflict with what the bible teaches on all levels! To JW's Jesus mediates the new covenant between God and only the 144,000 anointed JW's.
So how does that make you JW's feel to have the WT remove Jesus as your mediator between you and God?
At your next meeting at the KH look over at that bat shi$ crazy anointed brother/sister and know that Jesus IS his/her mediator and NOT yours....and do this while reading John chapter 10.
for years , we were told to wait until 1975!.
the end was coming and we better be ready—or else!.
were you around during this “momentous “ time??
Yes. Truly an "exciting and momentous time" culminating into sheer let down that woke many up. Kind of like the internet does today.
So funny how the air at Brooklyn was caustic in 1976 from the failed expectation murmuring, leading to so many asked/made to leave, leading to GB on multiple times insinuating it was a purge from Jehovah. In morning worship, they used the Biblical example of skimming off the "scummy dross", that they in effect knew of the murmuring and intentionally gave it time to rise to the surface.
These memories are like scary clowns peeking out of a port-a-potty.
I need to go find my happy place.
so i had a chat with a pimo elder who lives down in georgia usa.
he said meeting with the co included direction for at least 12 congregations to be evaluated for dissolution in the near future.
i thought the bible thumping southern us was a jw hot spot?
So I had a chat with a PIMO elder who lives down in Georgia USA. He said meeting with the CO included direction for at least 12 congregations to be evaluated for dissolution in the near future. I thought the Bible thumping southern US was a JW hot spot?
