Yeah, but then I married a "sugar momma" and now everything is good!
RR
that because i joined in 2002 , all the while, see-sawing back and forth between staying and going.
right now, i'm just about out the doorbut i hnag on because of my mother.
she lives in another state,but she is all the family i have, as i am an only child.
Yeah, but then I married a "sugar momma" and now everything is good!
RR
back in the early 1980s i was visiting my aunt in gresham oregon, a suburb of portland.
she was worldly but being a good witness that i was i picked up the yellow pages to find the location of the local kingdom hall.
well, i found it but i also found a listing for "jehovah's christian witnesses".
back in the early 1980s i was visiting my aunt in gresham oregon, a suburb of portland.
she was worldly but being a good witness that i was i picked up the yellow pages to find the location of the local kingdom hall.
well, i found it but i also found a listing for "jehovah's christian witnesses".
In the Bronx, we had a listing for "Jehovah's Christian Witnesses". In fact the Society used the term in the Watchtowers.
*** w68 1/1 pp. 14-15 par. 27 How Great a Witness? ***
The
WatchTower not only is being distributed but will surely continue to be so, unless the authorities take the matter in hand." Despite these troubles and many more in other countries, Jehovah’s Christian witnesses stuck to their Kingdom preaching activity.
***slchap.14p.249par.21WhenMan’sOldOrderMakesWayforGod’sNewOrder*** Jehovah’s Christian witnesses, both the remnant of spiritual Israelites and the "great crowd" of sheeplike companions, are the ones that, since 1919 C.E., have got out of Babylon the Great, in order to prove themselves to be Jehovah’s "people."
*** yb71 p. 73 Country Reports (Part One) ***Jehovah’s Christian witnesses in the United States have had their best year as to time spent in the field and as to the placement of bound books and magazines.
not that any of them would post, but do you think that they have people who they secretly have visit anti-jw sites and forums like this just for the purpose of seeing what people are saying about them and what their current members might stumble upon?.
if you google jws, the first couple are official, the next two are wikis, then you have an anti-jw site and then there's this one.
any current or potential member that is looking for more information than is published by the wbts will be directed to these sites.
Do you think the Society has spies on sites like this?
Most definitely. In fact, I know they monitor the Bible Students Forum, as there has been an increase of activity by xjws to investigate the BIble Students. A high ranking Bethelite once told my mother-ion-law in private that "Rolando is a formidable apostate". I feel honored!
RR
i remember the jw view of martial arts being cemented in my head when i asked my mother at the age of 6 if i could take karate.
the look of horror on her face.
she told me it was violent and jws could not practice violence.
Before my Witness years, I studied Tae Kwon Do for 7 years, a year before I became a Witness I studing Wing Chung Kung Fu, and gave it up when I was told too by the elders.
My daughter who is 11 was a brown belt before she lost interest. My Son who is 4 1/2 wants to be a Power Ranger when he grows up, so he will be starting Tae Kwon Do in the summer.
While I don't study anymore, I still practice my katas every morning, just to keep in shape.
RR
imagine sitting thru the watchtower study on a sunday with your 6 year old and 9 year old kids....the topic "fornication" the discussion explains how oral sex and touching of genitals is still fornication...why do kids have to sit thru this??
or the bible reading is about lot having sex with his daughters....this type of thing is not for kids!
and why should kids be forced to sit quietly while someone drones on for 2 hours?.
Most churches have Sunday Schools, even Bible Students have Sunday Schools for the kids, and even summer camp. I think there should be special meetings like most churches have addressing certain nmeeds, like marriage, raising kids, datings, women studies, men's studies and youth groups. Of course, with all the meetings the JW's have now, I don't know how that would be received. Then again, the Society would NEVER do this.
RR
my brother is 14 years old.
he has been held up by three guys brandishing knives.
he had to hand over what little valuables he had on his person.. i'm shaking my head here in absolute disbelief!!!
Brother Just got Robbed by Three Guys with Knives
Oh "guys", I thought you said "Gays". Sorry my bad!
RR
it was 1969 when i answered that first knock.
1970 when i got baptized.
it was suggested that i write a letter to the catholic chruch where i was baptized and disavow my baptism,that i no longer considered myself a catholic.
Yep, the brother I studied with suggested I write a letter. In fact in the OM book, there was a form letter one can use. I sent it in to the Catholic church I was a member of.
RR
seeing how child abuse has affected many people here, i am hoping for some advice.
we have friends of our family that have it on good authority that a father is abusing his four year old daughter.
he's always seemed rather creepy to me, which is a bit of the problem.
How do you confront someone abusing their daughter?
With a baseball bat!
RR
okay, here is a pdf version of the pastor russell biography publioshed a few years ago.. charles taze russell: messenger of millennial hope - http://www.biblestudents.net/downloads/messengermillenialhope.pdf.
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Hey Nat, my library is open to anyone!
RR