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  Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Ever Do Anything For Anyone But Themselves?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking of how witnesses were always admonished to take care of their own before they should ever help a worldly neighbor.

  i don’t think they ever do anything for the community unless it’s a benefit to them..

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  The G.B. / Jehovah`s Witnesses claim they are not a charity and that it is the responsibility of family members to look after the elderly or infirm Jehovah`s witnesses and not their job to do so.

  Failing that they will tell you to use the Government sponsored programs and Churches as well as the local community to get the needed help .

  Funny how "The God of Love" Jehovah`s chosen people fail to help their aged loyal servants who for many years into old age spent their lives in the service to the organization that now rejects them in their time of need ,

  and are told to rely on what they term as Satan`s system of things ,Govts ,Churches ,health Care ,etc.while they WTB&TS turn a blind eye and offer no help whatsoever .

  And all the while the WTB&TS claim and get Charitable status around the world ?

  My mind boggles.
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  Baptised 52 years today!

  by Phoebe in

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  january 29th - my baptism date.

  can you remember how you felt at your baptism?.

  i got baptised because my dad kept frightening me.

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  I`m pretty sure it was Nov.12th 1959 when I was 20 years old and my GF was 18 yrs old we got dunked at the same C.A. in St.Albans a suburb of Melbourne Australia .

  I was surprised that I didn`t feel anything "special" at the time and I remember feeling very uncomfortable going D2D and not feeling any "Holy Spirit" on us.

  Like most of us here I put it on the back burner and didnt wake up till 33 years later .

  I`ll be 80 yrs old in July this year .
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  Shunning Hath Begunith

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my spouse assumed that being honest would feel liberating.

  appointments were made with pimi parents to let them know of the decision to no longer be a jw.

  before the tall nonfat latte at starbucks was half drunk and after her parents asked several direct questions, they stood up, hugged her and said "well this is goodbye, return to jehovah and we'll pick up right where we left off, we love you," and walked out the door.

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  olzhenitsyn

  I feel for both you and your wife buddy,its no fault of you or your wife she just has to realize and accept that her parents have made that choice and the onus is upon them to heal the breach .

  And that you both are their for them if they ever wake up to the real "truth"
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  Remembering SuziDrums

  by 3rdgen in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello friends,.

  i don't post here much anymore but still check in to read from time to time.

  yesterday i thought i would send a fb msg.

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  My condolences 3rdgen I know the pain of losing someone close to your heart .
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  Is this the most awkward and forced kiss in cinema?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  right after rose smashes into finn's speeder, she practically sexually assaults him (#finntoo) .

  besides, i thought finn had the hots for rey.

  as soon as he woke up from his coma at the beginning of the film, he was like: "where da white woman at?

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  I`m lost ???
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  Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Ever Do Anything For Anyone But Themselves?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking of how witnesses were always admonished to take care of their own before they should ever help a worldly neighbor.

  i don’t think they ever do anything for the community unless it’s a benefit to them..

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  In their mind why would they ?

  Unless your a JW your going to be destroyed by Jehovah/Jesus at Armageddon because your a part of Satan the God of this system of things world .

  If a JW helps a non witness who has shown no interest in becoming a JW then they would be considered helping and supporting Satan`s system of things of this world that is lying in the power of the wicked one .

  In contrast to this though is this .

  How many aged and infirm Jehovah`s Witnesses do you know personally that are no longer cared for by family ,and certainly not by the Organization of Jehovah`s Witnesses and are in Church funded , or Government funded institutions and cared for by these institutions that they considered a part of Satan`s system of things or Babylon The Great ?

  I know a few.
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  Article: D.C. Attorney general proposes making clergy ‘mandated reporters’ of abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-attorney-general-proposes-making-clergy-mandated-reporters-of-abuse/2019/01/23/2a8f8f72-1f35-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.1c7f810d688b.

  d.c. attorney general proposes making clergy ‘mandated reporters’ of abuse.

  by fenit nirappil and.

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  Clergy of whatever denomination should be mandated to report abuse whether it be sexual or physical abuse against minors or adults ,including domestic violence in the home and for that matter any crime that has been committed by a confessor to a clergyman .Elder ,Pastor or any other person who has heard of a confession of a crime in a religious setting.

  It should be Mandated reporting and penalties applied for not doing so .

  It should be a no brainer ?

  JW`s claim they have no clergy yet claim clergy penitent privilege in a court of law .? Go figure.
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  Prayerfully Considering or Seeing What Sticks

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
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  tony says the magical words “prayerfully considering”.

  presumably, this has been done many times even when they have gotten things wrong.

  have a urim and thummim method of knowing the correct interpretations?

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  I sincerely believe the Bible is an instrument that you can play any tune on to suit your own particular beliefs.

  I know this is not original but it is a tune I subscribe to .
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  The King of the North has now entered into the 'land of decoration' (the Spiritual Estate of Jehovah's People) - Annual Meeting

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the final part of the october, 2018 annual meeting has now been released of jw org tv.the following includes a transcript of mark sanderson's speech for those that don't want to listen to the broadcast.. we have long held that the land of decoration is the "spiritual estate of jehovah's people"... now brothers what can we say about all these events that have taken place (referring to recent events in russia) in such a short period of time?

  well, truly, if you're a student of the history of god's organization, you can say these events are unprecedented in our history.

  we've never seen a country or a territory with 175,000 witnesses of jehovah go under ban.

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  Pay attention, the annual meeting is not yet over. By the end of this meeting you will have the answer to that important question.

  And the answer is ????

  And did they give an answer ? or did they leave that up to the brothers and sisters to draw their own conclusions whereby the GB can say at a future date the bros and sisters went ahead of Jah`s celestial chariot .
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  Just peeking in for a bit...

  by Jidders in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i rather apprehensively would like to say hello.. i've been raised somewhat in the truth,one of my parents is rather rather strong in the beliefs but could honestly be considered pomi with how active they are and their side of the family comes from a line of witnesses, the other parent was but faded a long time ago.

  as such i was taught quite a bit of jw teachings between family and off and on again bible studies.

  recently i had a serious emotional break down over a few months after said pomi parent had advised me that they would not attend my wedding should that day come (i also had recieved a text from my bible teacher i hadnt heard from in a year or two giving a scripture) and it sorta all sank on me that my activity over the last few years was not really jw material.

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  Welcome kevinbothma I look forward to hearing more of your story / experiences .