to give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
Maybe tell your dad that if he's been praying for a solution and he gets a job offer, why does he attribute that to Satan and not Jehovah?
Some were apostles, some teachers, some had other gifts. Maybe God doesn't want your Dad pioneering - there may be something else for him down the line.
But I agree. Watching people avidly pursuing hardship is difficult to do.
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"it's the intent that counts not the result.".
i have been out of the jw organization for some 22 years now and i sometimes get a reminding jolt out the hoops that some will jump through to make their religion make sense to them.
the first line in this post is what a jw on the street here in salinas told me on saturday when trying to justify the society's history of false prophecies.
i cant figure out when the auntie and uncle thing started or why.
it sure is a peadophiles dream to have a kid they dont know call them uncle!
they are now in a special relationship.
to give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
When the cash has run out, BU2B, they will look to you to support them.
The CO's that have advised them will be long gone, and the congregation that applauded them will tell them they have family (you) and you should now pay for them.
You will become their "provisions from Jehovah".
Just to forewarn you about what the future holds.
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here they are straigt from the presses of bethel.
a new publication for those trying to date and get that young sister to pay attention to him.
here are the top 10:.
im sure you all have heard at one point or read that being an elder or ms isnt a position higher up but rather that you work under the congregation.. anthony morris just threw that out the window!
i have privileges in the congregation and even i was offended and felt bad for anyone who was 23 or older and not a ms!.
he goes on to tell this story of how a sister wanted to marry a brother and that anthony morris discouraged it because he was 23 and not an ms yet.
thedepressedsoul Anthony Morris just put being a MS or higher up on a pedestal
By this logic, AM 3rd is super, duper, mega, uber spiritual, because he sits at the top of the tree!
It is his position, not his works, that make him sooooo spiritual.
It would be interesting to know if any of the GB, dead or alive, were unappointed at 23 years old.
Were any of these recently convicted pedo's elders or MS's?
If so, they were obviously very spiritual pedo's, since they had such a high position in the congregation.
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when i am3 was going to speak i was ecstatic to hear this lunatic embarass himself.
after the propaganda indoctrination session, a relative asked me what my spiritual goals were, i told em i want to become a servant before i turn 23 so i could get laid.
lmfao.
george smith pulls into the kingdom hall parking lot one sunday morning.
he is excited because today, for the first time, he will handle the mikes.
some days the visiting speaker asks questions of the audience.
the borg has many inconsistencies, when the topic is helping humble and honest people achieve their full potential.
consider a working man who works 40 to 60 hours a week and still manages to show up to all the meetings, participate, do all of his assigned work within the kh, but his ministry has slipped to 8 hours per month.
this same man is working hard to move up within the ranks only to get shut down without even knowing.. .
These men are afraid of doing wrong so crave rules for themselves. Without rules they would be out of their depths, lost.
Because they have given their mind's away they think everyone else needs nannying too.
Let them get on with it. The only one who can change their minds on this (actually give them different rules that they will love) is the CO.
Stop being a man pleaser, you owe them nothing!
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this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.
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Gustv Of course! All things progress. Things become so much clearer as the sun progresses. Keep up y'all!!!
So what is it called when you change your mind BACK to something you USED to teach, but had since 'thoroughly disproved'?
Is that progress? Regress? Madness? Source of stress? Implausibleness? Stupidness? Gullibleness?
What it means, Gustv, is that you will personally believe whatever you are told to believe, because you have given up your own thinking ability and handed it over to somebody else to think on your behalf.
Your beliefs can be changed again at a moments notice. You will say "Oh, that makes sense!"
Then they will change back, and you will say "Oh, that makes sense!"
There's a name for vacuous people like you.
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