one thing that bothered me was at the convention they had these witnesses up on stage giving their life stories, well if its their life stories why do they ned cue cards?
i know where i was born and raised, and how i became a jw, i don't need cue cards to remind me!.
people who want to share their religious views with you almost.
One thing that bothered me was at the convention they had these WItnesses up on stage giving their life stories, well if its their life stories why do they ned cue cards? I mean c'mon! I know where I was born and raised, and how I became a JW, I don't need cue cards to remind me!
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an e-mail i recieved:.
dearbrothers.
i got the following experiences from a brother who.
Who makes up these stories? I'm serious! Ever noticed all those life stories of JW's, "As told by ...." and they all sound the same.
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ever look at the lyrics to the jw songs?
what a riot, i can't believe i sang them, although i can remember laughing at the meetings while singing some of them.. iknow that in this crucial hour.
my faith will yet be tested.. around me swarms the devils crowd.
Ever look at the lyrics to the JW songs? What a riot, I can't believe I sang them, although I can remember laughing at the meetings while singing some of them.
Iknow that in this crucial hour
My faith will yet be tested.
Around me swarms the Devil’s crowd
Like bees that were molested.
[Song 125 'Jehovah Is on My Side']
Hey, that's a classic!
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this is an email i just received.
i feel like posting the senders name and email, but i'll refrain for now.. you are a coward like all of you on that 'jw' board you cant say these things .
when we talk to you cause you dont want to hear the truth................you .
Disgruntled JW ...
i'm mailing all of you cause you are like sheep without a shepherd
Now I'm upset, I just checked my mailbox and I didn't get one!
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when viv mouritz , former branch coordinator in australia, addressed the special meeting of sydney and surrounding area congregations at the superdome last weekend, he blamed the young witnesses who were leaving "the truth" for the drop in numbers in australia.. at the service meeting this week in one sydney congregation it was announced by a bethel elder that the elders have been told (as if they didn't know already!
) that 2,000 have left "the truth" in the past two years in australia.
this typical congregation of 120 publishers has lost 19 inactive since 1999.. the march 2001 issue of kingdom ministry (australian edition) gives the number of publishers for december as 58,426, pioneers 3,315 and 19 baptized.. in dec '98 there were 58,706 pubs,and in dec '99 there were 58,000.. with 1,600-1,800 being baptized each year, there is indeeed a 2,000 shortfall.. so, who's to blame?
There is definitely a decline and the Society is scrambling to recoup the losses, this is not just in your area but also here in the USA.
I have been in touch with many Witnesses and this is definitely a trend and the thought is that something big is about to happen, but no one as of yet can put their finger on it!
This reorganization has left the Society open too so many problems, and with the GB having no REAL authority other than spiritual, what is to stop anyone of the newly formed corporations from retiring them of even spliting?
Three things can happen, the Society tightens its reign, it stays the same or it goes mainstream ala Worldwide Church of God, wither way schisms are bound to happen.
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i'm getting a kick on the wol board, there is a post there that's too funny.. apparently one of the witnesses went on a return visit with an elder and the guy they came to visit was "un-witnessable.
well, apparently he had the same beliefs as they did, so how do you witness to someone who agrees with you?
so the frame of thought from the replies is pretty much, if he has some truths, he must be an apostate, or perhaps he studied one of our publication.
No, just a coincidence. In fact I did get on WOL once and lasted about seven postings before I was banned for life, they have my isp number and everything else to identify me, so I can't rejoin, have tried but to join you now have to give them your life story and they do check. I think I've exhausted all my e-mail addresses ... lol
I use to be on greatcrowd.com also, I was banned there as well as a few other witness boards. I don't know why I bothered, they don't listen. The ones on WOL are real hard core JW's, faithful to death!
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i'm getting a kick on the wol board, there is a post there that's too funny.. apparently one of the witnesses went on a return visit with an elder and the guy they came to visit was "un-witnessable.
well, apparently he had the same beliefs as they did, so how do you witness to someone who agrees with you?
so the frame of thought from the replies is pretty much, if he has some truths, he must be an apostate, or perhaps he studied one of our publication.
I'm getting a kick on the WOL board, there is a post there that's too funny.
Apparently one of the witnesses went on a return visit with an elder and the guy they came to visit was "un-witnessable." How? well, apparently he had the same beliefs as they did, so how do you witness to someone who agrees with you?
So the frame of thought from the replies is pretty much, If he has some truths, he must be an apostate, or perhaps he studied one of our publication. Apparently because this fellows only disgreement was the fact that Jehovah has a visible organization, so they left him for dead as bird food at armageddon.
Geez, since when did the Society have exclusive rights to the truth? Because someone or group have similar beliefs they MUST be apostate, ludicrous! They fail to remember that C.T. Russell borrowed much of his theology from the Adventist, even in a past issue of the Watchtower they admited that George Storrs and Henry Grew had similar thoughts, of course nothing was mention of Storss being Russell's mentor.
It just never ceases to amaze me how the Witnesses think!
Here's the link: http://www.witnessesonline.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000142.html
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talking to my cousin just now, she has been inactive for years.... she told me she just started going back to the meetings, hard!!!
i asked her a one-word question--"why?".
she immediately flipped out on me, and said because she doesn't want to be responsible for her children's death at armageddon (of course).
I recall having a conversation with a Witness about all the changes it went something like this:
RR: What about all the chnages?
JW: The light was getting brighter
RR: What if one day you opened you Watchtower and there was an article supporting the trinity doctrine what would you do?
JW: Then Jehovah has corrected our view of the nature of God, he always corrects his people with new light.
RR: YOu mean you would accept it after all these years of being told the trinity was false and pagan?
JW: Yes, Jehovah works through his faithful and discreet slave class.
RR: And what if the Society began teaching orthodoxy?
JW: Then that too is of Jehovah, correcting his people!
RR: So ... what would be so special about the Society, if they taught the same things as Christendom, what would happen to "Jehovah's Organization" if they teach like everyone else?
JW: <pausing for a moment> Two things, our worldwide brotherhood and the preaching work!
I just shook my head in disbelief and ended it there! Now I realized that this is extreme, but I have met many who believe this way.
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Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill on the same night.
talking to my cousin just now, she has been inactive for years.... she told me she just started going back to the meetings, hard!!!
i asked her a one-word question--"why?".
she immediately flipped out on me, and said because she doesn't want to be responsible for her children's death at armageddon (of course).
When I asked her what I had said against Jehovah, she replied "Jehovah's Organization IS Jehovah!"
It never ceases to amaze me the way Witnesses view the Society. And yet it is not their fault, this is what has been drummed into their heads year after year, meeting after meeting. It is so sad that people will put an orhganization on the same level as the Great Jehovah God or in some extremes, above Him.
And yet they have the nerve to condemn others for the same actions, e.g. Catholic and the Popes. Sad indeed!
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two jw's knocked on my door peddling the watchtower and awake.
i was still in my satin pj's and had a tiara stuck on my head as i was playing make believe with my five year old.
i forgot i had it on, and they didn't seem to find that strange, lol.
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Two JW's knocked on my door peddling the Watchtower and Awake. I was still in my Satin Pj's and had a tiara stuck on my head as I was playing make believe with my five year old. I forgot I had it on, and they didn't seem to find that strange, lol.
You should have told them you were anointed and referred to the tiara as proof!
Actually, I have never been visited by JW's, perhaps because we're never home, however I have spoken to JW's in the area and believe that I have been branded as a "evil slave class" member.
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