why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
They are vindictive.
They feel the need to justify themselves as being the ‘only true Christian’s’ on the planet, consider that the rest of us are misled and need converting or that we are incorrigible and deserving of destruction, - either way it makes them feel better to tell us about it.
The principles laid down in the sermon on the mount are totally lost on them!
And they can also count time, perhaps?
yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.
jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.
as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.
FedUpJW -
A hat tipping article is to be found in W52 4/15 p.255/256 under ‘Questions from Readers’ on JW website.
Thinking about things, the stuff about ‘No females to wear jeans etc’ and ‘No riding of horses by females’ was probably local to the U.K., - can’t imagine anyone in USA, Canada, Australia and the likes and living/working on a ranch or farm would swallow that line of reasoning. However, being in my teens and being that the wonderful worldwide web had not yet been invented, I miserably had to endure the naggings.
yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.
jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.
as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.
Well I came on here a bit depressed today, but you lot have certainly cheered me up and made me smile.
They did a similar article on cats, I remember, and didn’t they say not to let pets in the room if a book study group was in session?
I just know I should have gone then, or before in the 60’s when they said females wouldn’t be allowed to wear jeans or ride horses in the ‘new system’
(Big animal lover here.)
💣.
we know what mentally-in jws believe they are doing when they "love one another"... and many of us here formerly participated in that culty love bombing behavior.. why?.
It’s because love-bombing makes them feel good about themselves, also because they perceive it to be a good advert about themselves, as M.M.M says like the McDonalds adverts.
this week's bible stories, temple dedication, key text .
prayer to the father; "-- [even] the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you.--" comment from a sister i missed, would have given if permitted: .
given that jehovah was alone, with absolutely nothing else around him, when he made the heavens,(including his firstborn), fashioned the universe, it could have only be inside him, with no outside existing.
Oh yes, can creator be described as unisexual or bi-sexual, because such did not exist before he created it?
An amoeba, for example, reproduces itself asexually. - (Anyone who does not know that fact will have to Google it, I’m too old and possibly senile to start explaining the process.)
this week's bible stories, temple dedication, key text .
prayer to the father; "-- [even] the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you.--" comment from a sister i missed, would have given if permitted: .
given that jehovah was alone, with absolutely nothing else around him, when he made the heavens,(including his firstborn), fashioned the universe, it could have only be inside him, with no outside existing.
I came to this conclusion too, a few years ago.
When I tried explaining it to people (JWs), they just looked at me like I was mad. Perhaps because infinity it is beyond the imagination of many people, that this fact has not been mentioned before.
All that exists must exist within him, otherwise it is bigger than he is?
i know who won't be saved according to witnesses and that includes just about everyone alive at armageddon who is not a jehovah’s witness.
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others who are permanently lost include adam and eve, those who died in the flood, people of sodom and gomorrah and apostates to their one true religion..
Sea breeze
I love your reasoning on this subject, although I completely have faith in God, personally I find it hard sometimes to believe Yeshua would want to save me, - but what you say is logical, and very helpful to me.
Many thanks.
J.
by patrick haeck any comments on article?.
Long Hair Girl, I believe you are absolutely correct on this one. No-one can force someone to not shun another person, deep emotions, whatever they are, are certainly involved.
After 60 years of being one of JWs, (was not born in either), I have observed that many if not most Jehovah’s witnesses see a disfellowshipped person as one who ranks alongside Judas Iscariot, - a traitor to the cause, - as someone who has walked away from everything that is true, noble upright etc, to go pursue their own selfish course in life. Someone who has betrayed them and their god.
For the record, I never ostracised or shunned anyone in my life, it never seemed a Christian thing to do, and I know there were others that felt the same as myself including some very old-timers who were from the Bible Student era.
Now that I no longer associate at all, I find myself tending to shun them, I am gradually albeit if slowly, building friendships with people that seem more kind and charitable than most Witnesses I have known in the last few decades. (Elderly husband still in, sadly)
However, publicity about their shunning practice cannot go amiss as it will hopefully alert any prospective Bible studies before they commit themselves.
the wt study for this week is all about disfellowshipping.
in an early paragraph it said "think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!".
however when you think about it, when this happened according to the wt teaching, jehovah still engaged with satan in the heavens (book of job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.. so why do the wt org practice shunning when jehovah god obviously didn't?.
CJAsher, Welcome !
Like yourself, many on this website have been suicidal in the past, and no doubt there will be some to reach out to you to offer helpful advice, comfort and encouragement.
Please tread carefully whatever you do next. You are probably both in a fragile state of mind, and need to find a sense of calm before making decisions that may affect your lives in the long or short time. The reaction from your relatives and ‘friends’ among JWs may be far from helpful at this time. Be clear in your mind about what you hope for in your future.
You do not mention the adversity that brought you to this situation, if you feel the need to speak about it, please do, if not, then don’t. Do whatever feels comfortable for the present.
be assured that there are people out here among non and ex-JWS that will do the best they can for you both, just hold on to your sanity and know you are doing the right thing in trying to get help.
Wishing you both all the best!
do you think the tower is getting money from the government for encouraging people to get vaccinated?
or is there just too much lemon in my tea?.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/27/biden-harris-admin-provides-121-million-in-arp-funding-to-local-communities-for-covid-19-vaccines.htmlbiden-harris administration provides $121 million in american rescue plan funds to support local community-based efforts to increase covid-19 vaccinations in underserved communities.
Watchtower is very clever at inventing corporations and the like for specific purposes when money is involved.
what’s to say they have either asked for anonymity or applied for it under a pseudonym or some such thing?
