okay, i haven't been to a meeting in over 17 years and i don't live anywhere near the place i grew up.
i have had minimal contact with my jw family, essentially just occasional phone conversations.
i think they could easily guess that i'm inactive but they pretend not to know and they've never shunned me.
If your mother finds out and threatens to shun you, point out that you've not been to a meeting in 17 years and during that time you have not done anything 'apostate' to endanger her, neither will you do so in the future.
If she realizes that you are not the danger that the WT portray you to be she may yet be reasonable.
back in the first century we read that the apostles would "lay their hands" on someone and the holy spirit would be imparted to that one.
appointments of older men were made in this way - at that time.
in modern times the wts has claimed that their own elders ,min.
“gifts in men” include... ministerial servants.
the latest awake (no 3 2020) on jw.org is just breathtaking, it's about prejudice and gives the following 3 examples which i will one by one attemp to debunk.. awake - some employers have mistakenly believed that women are unqualified for scientific or technical jobs.. erm... women are not only forbidden from elder or m/s appointment, they're not even considered qualified enough to adjust the height of a brother's microphone, you were saying?.....
awake - in medieval europe, jews were falsely accused of poisoning wells and spreading disease.
during nazi rule, jews were again slandered.
Just to add to your first comment:
Awake - Some employers have mistakenly believed that women are unqualified for scientific or technical jobs.
Golden Age (previous name of Awake!) 1937 27/1 p.259-260
"God made man to perform the most intricate and difficult tasks in life; his wife to be a help, suitable to her
less exacting sphere. It is no reflection upon the fair sex to record the simple truth that the finest surgical
work is done by men. ... At Sanford, Maine, is a factory for the making of the finest, most costly, most
luxurious velvets... No woman has ever been able to qualify for the job."
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vwxeenkkoary-efyhnt75iqmagx0yywf.
f. w. franz "times in which we are particularly interested" may 11, 1975. ;introduced by kenneth a. little, a much younger man than now for sure.. the clip is 8 minutes.. unfortunately, some idiot recorded over part of this day many years ago.
i am hoping to find another copy in the box..
so we binge-watched the waco mini-series on netflix.. wow, what a powerful and enlightening programme!
even if you think you know what happened, it gives you extra context to it all.
it's very well done even if you just want a great drama series, but it's way more than that.. there are of course some dramatization and slight historical inaccuracies for the purpose of story-telling but it was very informative.
Simon - The one thing I hate about Netflix is how everything is regionalized. That and the auto-play of previews.
You can turn off auto preview in the settings!
who is hosting who here?.
https://jworg.zoom.us/.
our kh zoom meeting invites are now coming in from jw.org, but are still hosted by the local elders.
I found that adding a couple of entries into the routers blacklist stopped all the privacy concerns.
it's been an emotional few weeks going through old watchtower literature, i mean old.
i have saved many things, some you have never seen.
particularly related to 1975, i have wts literature, even a big newspaper article about the 1975 prediction.. today, i started going through the reel to reel tapes.
It sounds like you struck gold!!
Can’t wait to hear this.
“jehovah's witnesses' ever-changing teachings: the most important changes in the doctrine of the watchtower society in the year 1879-2015” by włodzimierz bednarski and szymon matusiak..
https://www.amazon.com/dp/b084p2dxl1.
Similar to that book I spent some time compiling a list myself which I shared a few years back.
Take a look at how WT can never make up their minds on just about every teaching they ever had. I’ve put the flip-flop document in here for posterity
it's been an emotional few weeks going through old watchtower literature, i mean old.
i have saved many things, some you have never seen.
particularly related to 1975, i have wts literature, even a big newspaper article about the 1975 prediction.. today, i started going through the reel to reel tapes.
jehovah`s witnesses make a big deal about the 2 or 3 witnesses in judicial decisions yet they ignore that evidence when it suits them.. firstly :.
regarding the length of a generation matthew ch.1:17 gives a strong clue ,their are 3 lots of 14 generations mentioned which equal 42 generations from the time of abraham to jesus .. watchtower publications give abrahams birth as 2018 bc......they also give jesus birth as of 2 bc a period of 2016 years .
2016 yrs.
Good grief, have I really been on this board for so long !?!
