Get them while they're young, W.
Empty that piggy bank into the Contribution Box™! You may not be able to buy anything with all those pennies anymore, but Jehovah can use them!!
Get them while they're young, W.
Empty that piggy bank into the Contribution Box™! You may not be able to buy anything with all those pennies anymore, but Jehovah can use them!!
i'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.. i'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' studytm, and the order in which they are studiedtm.. anyone still on the inside, can you help me?.
Thanks, rip van winkle. I knew about "What Does the Bible Really Teach?"
I was wondering about the next one in line, the one leading up to Baptism™ or just following Baptism™?
I'm looking at "Come Be My Follower" (published 2007) and "Draw Close to Jehovah" (published 2002).
i'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.. i'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' studytm, and the order in which they are studiedtm.. anyone still on the inside, can you help me?.
http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20130829/jehovahs-witnesses-bring-millions-of-dollars-to-long-beach#comments.
go to the website to read the comments by xjws.. jehovahs witnesses bring millions of dollars to long beach.
jehovah's witnesses hold a series of regional conventions in long beach every summer, bringing some 150,000 witnesses from across the southland over the course of 15 weekends.
the organization boasts some 17 million participants internationally
Really? They are using Memorial Attendance™ numbers to "boast" about non-existent growth now?
so i was helping some friends move and it came time for a break, i took my kids to mcdonalds.
we're sitting there and there's a family across from us, man, wife, 2 kids under 4. in the next booth is this older guy, maybe late 60's.. i'm not really paying attention, but then this older guy says something to the family about everybody being "me-first" these days.
so that caught my ear.
He said it's a comfort to me. Me: "huh"? He repeated that it's been a comfort to him and that it's kept him faithful.
Just like the sword of Damocles, I suppose. This guy looks pretty comfortable, doesn't he?
*** lv pp.
220-221 the bibles view on divorce and separation ***.
willful nonsupport.
These conditions are mainly geared toward a JW Sister™ separating from a non-JW husband.
The JW husband is supposed to be presiding over his family appropriately, providing for them, etc. If the wife's spending is out of control or their financial situation deteriorates, he is expected to take charge and find a way to provide for his family within his means. It could require moving to a less expensive home, selling a vehicle, taking the bus to work, spending less on material things, working overtime (provided it doesn't interfere with Meetings™ and Field Service™), etc.
If his JW wife is unwilling to cooperate, the Elders™ will consider him unfit for Privileges™ because he is not "presiding over his family in a fine manner". If he were to separate from her it would reflect poorly on him, not on her.
I think a staunch JW husband would rather move his entire family in with his mother-in-law before admitting that he cannot get his JW wife to be In Subjection™ to his Headship™.
years ago you read my horror stories about being raped by a jw.
i was nine years old when this took place, now the man has been getting all his works in order.
what do i do to stop the seventy-year old pedophile from getting his position back?
Bubblegum:
"How do I know he is going to be made one?" Two elders have been trying to talk to me over the last two weeks, they want to know if I am still hurt emotionally. Would it trouble me if I saw him giving a talk at the Assembly or reappointed? What do I tell them? One had the nerve to come to the house my house and others are ringing my phone off the hook. What do you think they are going to ask me next?
Tell these idiots that if he is appointed, you will go to the media and expose the lot of them. Tell them that if he is appointed, THEY will be bringing reproach on Jehovah, not you - you're trying to protect vulnerable children from being abused the way you were. Tell them that more kids will be at risk of being harmed by him. Tell him that you will tell every parent in the circuit and district what he did to you.
It isn't "slander" if it's true. He confessed. They know what he did. Damn right you're still hurt by what he did. How can they DARE to call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses, when they knowingly appoint CHILD RAPISTS to positions of authority. How are they any better than the Catholic Church who just moves priests around from one parish to another when they've been caught molesting kids?
years ago you read my horror stories about being raped by a jw.
i was nine years old when this took place, now the man has been getting all his works in order.
what do i do to stop the seventy-year old pedophile from getting his position back?
In my revenge fantasies, I would do a Lisbet Salander move on him:
Tattoo 'I rape children' on the f*cker's forehead. Then tell him to Wait On Jehovah™ to get it removed.
did jw's predict the world would end in 1984?.
the september 21, 1984 issue of chrisitanity today on pages 66-67, ran an article entitled: "do jehovah's witnesses still hold to their 1984 doomsday deadline?".
that's as far as my search has gotten me and it isn't on chrisitanity today's web-site.. can anyone find this article for me?.
Hi tijkmo,
Long time no see! How are you?