many years ago, in the congregation i attended at the time, there was a brother who had endured bad health over many years.
as result he underwent a number of operations - a couple being life saving operations.
at one or two circuit assemblies he was interviewed on the platform where he related how he endured ill health.. for me, i felt very uncomfortable listening to his experience and, i actually felt embarrassed for him because i have never been one to speak of any health issues i had, let alone publicise it from the platform.
What I think would be uncomfortable, but maybe necessary, might be for somebody to open up on the platform how they were abused by an elder as a little girl. And how the elders wouldn't listen because there weren't two witnesses and told them not to go to the authorities. Now that's an uncomfortable story people in the audience need to hear.
If only that could happen! Maybe some prayers for that to....oh shit...nobody listening...forget that idea.
i guess it would depend for me.
some of my family i would take out bill boards pointing to them.
many of the elders it would be he is over there and set off a neon sign.
@punk
I am with you on this one. I only wish I could give more than one thumb up.
i was shocked recently to see on social media a couple pictures of jw sisters at a convention working as parking "attendants".
i put that title in quotation marks because they still don't get the official attendant badge like the male parking attendants do, only the reflective vest.
has anybody else heard of this .
so close to the car next to yours that your car party had to exit via the sunroof!
Or as I had to do when I took my elderly parents who were both handicapped to the Big Hoopla in 2014...made us park one-half mile (US) away from the building in the middle of a field! Every single designated handicap parking space in the lot next to the building had been taped off and reserved for...YOU GUESSED IT...the big wheels on the CONvention!!
Probably illegal, and these days I would photograph it and file a complaint with the American DOJ for an ADA violation.
what is the difference (if any) between being guided by holy spirit and being inspired by holy spirit?
is it just semantics?.
As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
one thing i don't miss about being a jobo, is those families that ruled the congregations.. i've seen how the elders protected their own using our old friend, nepotism.. eg.
the son of an elder that stole a car and was prosecuted but 'let off' because it was kept secret and all his relatives were elders in the same congregation.
it certainly went on when i was an elder but i wasn't one of the 'in' crowd.
I don't think you have the full story. Unless you were on the Judicial Committee there is no way you could. Confidentiality is of paramount importance, and he cannot foll Jehovah's Holy Spirit. No one can!
First of all, the word is FOOL (you should know that from looking in the mirror!) not FOLL.
And second, if someone claims there is not nepotism in congregations they are either naive, or they are a liar! Which are you?
the guy everyone loves to hate, bob, has come up with a classic:.
redefining the concept of "critical thinking" when it comes to jws.. he quite correctly states the need to use critical thinking when reading the bible, yet we all know that pimi jws don't have the first clue what "critical thinking" really means, especially on a thread fawning over how great the gb are and guessing who will be presenting the next jwb!.
the link to the actual comment is:.
Never thought i'd say this, but i think i hate Bob just as much as Tony Morris.
Bob, JWHess, and Trottigy all should be dropped out of an airplane at 30,000 feet with only two chutes and let them figure out who would sacrifice themselves for the other two.
i could barely stand listening to it.
watching the jw pushers at the same time was too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgix-5pfwf4.
My thoughts exactly. Why is that tub-o-blubber not booted for gluttony? He surely cannot have a genuine metabolic disorder!
i think he is.
if you don’t want to put reasons for your yes or no, it’s ok. .
your vote,please?
Anyone who can protect the children must be good.
It must be true, here is a picture of it.
dear michelle, .
just one qucik letter to let you know i miss you.
like everyone else i am concerned for you; but dont worry im not going to lecture you.
but dont worry im not going to lecture you.
If t hey had an ounce of intelligence that is where they would have stopped writing.
not quite a week ago, @lost in the fog created a thread entitled: do you have this illness?.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5187824140681216/do-you-have-this-illness.
in my year of being on this forum, i have browsed many a disillusioned thread of ex-jehovah’s witnesses expressing similar symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder when detailing their awakening - my own story included.
Jehovah’s Witnesses have been groomed to possess inherently lazy thinking abilities.
So very true! I saw first hand evidence of that over on another site where the Dubbies spout off mindless drivel about everything they are told with never a thought about it. And anyone that expresses a different thought is pretty well dog-piled on. Even a very cautiously worded comment about being "confused" by the pretzel logic of the overlapping generation get private P.M.s galore. "Brother, you must not think so much! The governing body has it right. We just need to wait on Jehovha!"
