can anyone give difference between cross and pendant with jw.org logo?.
further this logo has become the main identification of a kingdom hall.. can someone give bible reasoning behind this?
against or favour..
The CO's wife turns up wearing those earings and sets a trend? Hmm no. I can't even imagine a CO's wife wearing those earings. Maybe they'll get worn by one of the shadow characters on a demo video.
I think they'd love the pens though. Brolly, yes. Mouse mat - yes. Face mask - not sure. Might be ideal for a Zoom talk - sis appears wearing JW facemask and pretends to witness to someone working in a shop.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
You feel free to be pedantic Slimboy. I stand educated and enlightened on the subtlties of spelling.
I can be pedantic too - I insisted to the GB that the number 3 really, really was the number 3. I got thrown out for that.
I also had an issue with the number 2 - if you put a 0 after it, like this 20, it changes the value by 18.
can anyone give difference between cross and pendant with jw.org logo?.
further this logo has become the main identification of a kingdom hall.. can someone give bible reasoning behind this?
against or favour..
Would you get df'd for using their logo as a tattoo? Please, no one do this.
Oh I supposed you'd be marked! :D
can anyone give difference between cross and pendant with jw.org logo?.
further this logo has become the main identification of a kingdom hall.. can someone give bible reasoning behind this?
against or favour..
A guess - being allowed the right to sell these goods with the logo on enables well behaved ex-Bethelites or similar to make a living perhaps?
Oh wow - earrings.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
Because there are several ways of getting to Venice on the Orient Express. So, say you go by the route of being a pioneer or an elder, missionary, Bethel worker, Governing Body member or whatever - you are prominent. Therefore, you get to Venice being prominent.
But not everyone can do these things. If you cannot do these things, you have to get to Venice by a different route. You'll get there ok but you'll have to clean the toilets. That's the other route, the toilet cleaning route. If you don't get to clean the toilets, don't worry there's plenty of other non-prominent tasks that'll get you to Venice.
They put a map up showing the two different routes.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
Yes they are guilty. The final talk I went to was about how being in the 'truth' (cough, splutter) is like being on the Orient Express.
But, in Agatha Christie's book, The Orient Express, all on board were murderers.
Guilt by association. If you are in it you are supporting it. My suggestion - get off at the next stop.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
One who used to be in an Italian congregation told me about a sister who's husband was very cruel to her. He was being groomed to be an elder. So the other elders protected him.
The sister turned to the elders for support but they gaslighted her - effectively telling her she was imagining it all, she was not perceiving things correctly.
She was not allowed to talk about it. But the one from Italy told me that her eyes kept looking at him pleading, yearing and in earnest as if saying 'these people are mad.'
He did not know how to help her. He was still new to it all, and did not stay for very long. But he recognized that look. He knew something was seriously wrong.
To this day the memory of her eyes remain with him. She killed herself.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
Yes and you have to ask apostate to what?
By WT's standards Jehovah is the biggest apostate closely followed by Jesus Christ.
And if you get df'd for sticking to God's Word - you can only return IF you repent.
According to J Schnell who wrote 30 Years a Watchtower Slave they only use a very small percentage of the Bible on which to base their doctrine. You question the way they have cobbled together their values, identity and authority and you are out.
sex issues seem to be the number one reason but apostasy is right up there too.
even if you weren’t disfellowshipped , do you know why some people you know were disfellowshipped?
?.
Nitty-Gritty
This is me interviewing the sister who got disfellowshipped for asking the elders about child abuse. Her name is Christine - she did nothing wrong. She is a genuine Christian who was concerned about wrong doing. Her conscience was troubled by the thought that she was part of an organisation that was covering over child abuse.
My view is that the screws are being tightened. Anyone seriously questioning the GB, their integrity and identity, is being put under pressure to neither listen to criticism nor express criticism of them. Those who are not afraid to express the concerns they have about the GB are removed.
