Posts by Scully

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Top 10 Signs that Jehovah's Witnesses Want to Disfellowship You:

by OnTheWayOut in

i've posted these years ago and was reminiscing, so i thought i would share the laugh with you again.. top 10 signs that jehovah's witnesses want to disfellowship you:.

10. there's two guys in suits staying all night outside your home in a four-door sedan.. 9. an elder you spoke to on the phone calls and asks you to repeat what you said the other day, but asks you to speak slowly and clearly.. 8. suddenly, jw friends stop by and ask an awful lot of the same questions.. 7. your laptop computer was moved, left on, or is missing.. 6. you left your car unlocked, it was thoroughly searched by someone but absolutely nothing is missing including your gps which was searched too.. 5. your boss asks if you are in trouble with the law or someone, stating some really polite men were asking about you and left some "tracts.".

4. someone picked up the cigarette butts around your back porch.. 3. the bartender at your favorite nightspot asks if you have ever before seen the guys in the corner booth that have been ordering "cokes" all evening and pulling out a camera everytime you order a beer.. 2. you receive registered mail and you already served on a jury this year.. 1. your jw mother who finally had accepted that you will never go back starts begging you to either go back to the kingdom hall or move with no forwarding address.. .

Scully

You haven't been to a Meeting™ at the Kingdom Hall™ in 10 years, and out of the blue you get a visit from an Elder™ and Circuit Overseer™ asking if you 'consider yourself to be One of Jehovah's Witnesses™".

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I tried to make an elder feel guilty for shunning his 2 children.

by Jeannette in

i ran into an elder the other day at walmart.

he's a fairly good man and has a wife that is very sickly.

so sickly in fact i don't know how she's holding on.

Scully

Here's the quote for you Cofty:

If members of the congregation are known to have undue association with disfellowshipped or disassociated relatives who are not in the household elders should counsel and reason with those members of the congregation from the Scriptures. Review with them information from the "God's Love" book, pages 207-208; The Watchtower of April 15, 1988, pages 26-30; or the article "Display Christian Loyalty When a Relative Is Disfellowshipped" in the August 2002 Our Kingdom Ministry. If it is clear that a Christian is violating the spirit of the disfellowshipping decree in this regard and does not respond to counsel, it may be that he would not qualify for congregation privileges, which require one to be exemplary. He would not be dealt with judicially unless there is persistent spiritual association or he openly criticizes the disfellowshipping decision.

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I tried to make an elder feel guilty for shunning his 2 children.

by Jeannette in

i ran into an elder the other day at walmart.

he's a fairly good man and has a wife that is very sickly.

so sickly in fact i don't know how she's holding on.

Scully

I would assume that visiting and helping out an ailing parent would qualify as Necessary Family Business™, especially since the Congregation™ almost never steps in to do it, insisting that this role is the family's job, not theirs.

On the other hand, perhaps the shunning of the DFd children has created a rift that is beyond repair. It might be a good idea to get their input in case they want nothing to do with parents who put their belief system ahead of family.

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Couple questions....like if JW's not the right way then what is?

by world in

jw
friends

new member here so don't attack :d here is a couple questions i have been contemplating lately.. .

if jw isn't the right religion, then which one is?

or is it basically believe in god, the bible and you'll be fine?.

Scully

The best belief system will teach you how to think, rather than what to think.

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Why JW marriage is a huge problem for the organization.

by kneehighmiah in

jw
friends

the difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.

but i would say it's hard for brothers also.

i was talking to a jw last night.

Scully

Perhaps your JW "friend" should take a trip to the Philippines or Japan and meet some Sisters™ there. I understand the women are petite, attractive, and really dig Submissiveness™. /sarcasm

PS Your friend is an asshole and I wouldn't wish him on anyone, not even a dog.

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Want to email a bunch of local JW's something about TTATT anonymously but don't know their email address?

by EndofMysteries in

post a cl add looking to contract some window washers and house cleaners, 98% of the 200+ respondents will be your local jw's.

Scully

We all know from personal experience as JWs that attempts to "educate" active JWs is likely fruitless in 99.9% of cases. The WTS admonishes JWs to pay no heed to unsolicited Apostate™ material, to just toss it out or delete it. They also advocate the idea that unsolicited Apostate™ material is a form of Persecution™, validation that their beliefs are The Truth™.

Why anyone would want to feed those delusions and further entrench someone in the JW belief system is beyond me.

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AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

by raymond frantz in

aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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Scully

I'm of the opinion that if you are going to stir up a hornets' nest, you have to expect you'll get stung.

These tactics almost always fail with JWs because they feed the persecution complex that JWs have had trained into them, and it ends up reinforcing their delusion that they have The Truth™.

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Mommy says no Christmas

by Anony Mous in

daughter is 3 now, that's a little less than i've been on this forum.

you can find my life story in earlier posts.

enough to say that i have a generous amount of visitation with her.. i picked her up and was talking about the lights some of her neighbors had.

Scully

It's really hard for a 3 year old to be in the middle when parenting conflicts like this arise. Be prepared for repercussions such as attempts at limiting visitation or finding yourself DFd and then having your daughter told "no daddy".

I don't want to rain on your parade, but it can be very confusing for your daughter. Obedience to her mom and her mom's belief are very often co-mingled with love for her mom, and she may feel that by observing Christmas with you that she is going to make her mom (and Jehovah) sad, because that's how we were trained to teach our children about Christmas and birthdays when we were JWs.

I've mentioned the following podcast a couple of times before, it's regarding raising children in a mixed (religious and secular) family. The guest on the show is Dale McGowan who's written a book called Parenting Beyond Belief, which I think is a must-read for anyone who has left the JWs but has a spouse or ex-spouse who remains in the JWs and wants to co-parent effectively. He also runs a website and has written books dedicated to raising children so that they know how to think rather than what to think.

http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/podcast/secular-parenting-with-dale-mcgowan

http://parentingbeyondbelief.com/

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