apparently, i am so out of the loop and did not know bill bowen has been disfellowshipped from jwn.. could someone kindly give me the short version or post a link that lays out the narrative so that i can understand what happened with him .
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I participate in a couple of other discussion forums that would never tolerate much of what is allowed here. Non JW/XJW posters get warned and/or banned all of the time, without all of the whining that goes on this forum when it happens here.
IMO the 'Your just like the elders or JW' card gets over played on this forum.
... and i'm cooking dinner and planning a nice evening at home.
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what are you planning to do tonight?.
I went to the hall, there was less people there than last year (dont know the exact amount but it was significantely less),
It would be great to start seeing the numbers to this event start trending downward.
about twelve months ago i came to the realisation that i am an alcoholic.. for the past year i have been having breaks from the drink of about a week at a time but as i cannot deal with stress well i always seem to turn to alcohol as an escape.. i have realised the last few weeks that i need help to stop drinking but do not want that stigma of attending aa meetings or getting counselling for my addiction.. yesterday i decided to phone the aa and so attended a meeting last night where i found to my surprise many people who were going through the same process as me but had decided not to carry on turning to drink.. i dont know if many in the us understand the culture of drinking and pubs in britain?
but it is an integral part of uk society, friday and saturday nights are all about going out and having a good time drinking as much as we can.
so for an alcoholic it can be a nightmare.. i just wanted to share this with and would like to continue to post in the future about it.. yours paul.
You have to respect other religions opening up their doors to groups like AA & NA. If you struggle with a problem like this with the JWs all you get is kicked to the curb.
This was one of the early signs to me that JWs were not true christians. They are more worried about their own image than to help hurting souls.
i have read a lot of posts regarding spouses turning the other in to the jw police.
if it happened to me, i don't think that i could forgive my husband if he did this.
i would never do this to any member of my family, especially my husband.
Wife = Rat = Divorce
the may 2011 km has an article on page 2 entitled, "could you share in the ministry on sundays?
1. it was the sabbath, a day when most jews in philippi rested.
paul and his companions were visiting the city during one of their missionary tours.
4. If we use a portion of Sunday for the ministry, we wil still have time to get the rest that we need.
Statements made by people who;
1. Don't have to clean their house.
2. Don't have to prepare or cook meals.
3. Don't have to clean up the kitchen after meals.
4. Don't have to wash, dry, fold laundry.
5. Don't have to do any lawn care.
6. Don't have to give attention to children, or help with school assignments.
Just because they would not have anything else to do on Sundays but sit on their thumbs, doesn't mean that people in the real world do. Nice of them to let me know how much rest I need.
Out of touch morons!
i was just reading of a dude who is going back to the matrix.... to save his wife?
to meet a wife?
to divorce scripturally his wife?
Because my spouse will not put out otherwise.
Because I love wearing cheap suits.
i've seen a few threads/posts where some of y'all have heard from jw contacts and how they've stepped up their 'the end is close' rhetoric because of the earthquake/tsunami in japan.
i usually take those things with a grain of salt.
there's always some jw whose cheese has slipped that reads prophecy into every little thing that happens.
'2012 ain't here, yet. It will prolly be totally boring, after all the excitment of 2011.'
Maybe the Mayans failed to account for no year zero?
i've seen a few threads/posts where some of y'all have heard from jw contacts and how they've stepped up their 'the end is close' rhetoric because of the earthquake/tsunami in japan.
i usually take those things with a grain of salt.
there's always some jw whose cheese has slipped that reads prophecy into every little thing that happens.
When the first gulf war broke out, I still attended meetings. It was amazing the people who had not been to a meeting in years, began coming back and professing their fail. But after some time, these same folks stopped attending again.
These events today, will boost meeting attendance in the short term. When nothing comes to pass, the hard core JWs will revert back to the brain dead state of waiting. The weak will stop attending meetings again.
Same story, different year.
it might make you feel better but praying will do them no good at all.
please, please consider donating to a legitimate disaster relief charity.
here in the u.k. i'd recommend shelterbox, perhaps some u.s posters could suggest other credible american organisations?.
That's the cool thing about Jesus. You can shit on him all you want and he will always take you back, even without a public apology.
For JWs, just a little taste of how things will be when Jehovah unleashes his wrath on this wicked world.
It's a time of Joy!
No need to help other during this tragedy, Jah's kingdom will sort all that out.
